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UK political shock as Zuckerberg spurns parliament
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» LONDON: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday turned down a request by British parliament members to appear before them to respond to concerns about data privacy as the European Union set a deadline for the US social media giant to respond to its own questions.
Earth-bound Chinese spacelab plunging to fiery end
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» PARIS - An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
More countries expel Russian diplomats
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2018
» LONDON: Two dozen countries including the United States and many European Union states, have announced they are expelling a total of more than 130 Russian diplomats, in a show of solidarity with Britain over the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England.
Lebanese suspect charged with murdering Filipina maid
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2018
» BEIRUT: Lebanon's state-run news agency is reporting that a Lebanese man has been charged with murdering a Filipina maid whose body was found stuffed in a freezer in Kuwait.
Britain hails 'turning point' after Russian spy expulsions
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» LONDON: Britain Tuesday hailed the mass expulsion of suspected Russian spies around the world as a "turning point" for the West's attitude to a "reckless" Russia, as Moscow prepared its response.
Putin blames 'criminal negligence' for fire that killed 41 children
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blamed the mall fire that killed at least 64 people in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on "criminal negligence" as he visited the site two days after the tragedy.
Dozens of Chinese navy ships drill in South China Sea
Reuters, Published on 27/03/2018
» HANOI/HONG KONG: Dozens of Chinese naval vessels are exercising this week with an aircraft carrier in a large show of force off Hainan island in the South China Sea, satellite images obtained by Reuters show.
For exhausted Ghouta evacuees, a long bus ride out of 'hell'
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» QALAAT AL-MADIQ (SYRIA) - As the bus sets off, a young Syrian girl glues her face to the window to watch the ruined buildings of her hometown in Syria's Eastern Ghouta slip by one last time.
Cambodia's leader says no negotiations with opposition
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's leader has rejected the idea of reconciliation talks with the country's only significant opposition party, which was dissolved by court order last November.
Two charged with anti-Semitic murder of elderly French Jewish woman
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» PARIS - Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said Tuesday.