Egypt(AFP): The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said Thursday they faced “extreme difficulty” refloating it as Egypt temporarily closed one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Salvage…
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Brazil’s daily Covid-19 death toll soared past 3,000 for the first time Tuesday as the hard-hit country struggled to contain a surge of cases that have pushed many hospitals to breaking point.…
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Leaked videos of staff from Australia’s conservative government performing sex acts in parliament, including one man masturbating over a female MP’s desk, left Scott Morrison’s administration facing yet another sex scandal Tuesday.…
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed multiple people Monday, including a police officer, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said. Boulder police Cmdr. Kerry Yamaguchi said…
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Libya(AFP): A decade after the fall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi and the end of his regime’s stranglehold on information, hopes for a free media remain a mirage. With the 2011 uprising…
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Manila(AFP): The Philippine coast guard detected the boats “in line formation” at the boomerang-shaped Whitsun Reef around 320 kilometres (175 nautical miles) west of Palawan Island on March 7, a task force…
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Turkey has pulled out of the world’s first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women by presidential decree, in the latest victory for conservatives in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling…
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US President Joe Biden on Friday denounced the scourge of violence against Asian-Americans, telling a community plunged into grief after this week’s Atlanta murders that the nation must not be complicit in…
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Ranchi(India): When the country is grappling with coronavirus, mafias of Ranchi city are busy in encroaching land. On 20 February, nearly 2.90 acres of land was occupied by a mob of hundreds…
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Georgia(AFP): Eight people, most of them Asian women, were killed in shootings at three different spas in the US state of Georgia Tuesday, with a 21-year-old white man in custody on suspicion…
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