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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi jailed for three more years, hard labour for election fraud
Myanmar’s deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced by a…
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed president ‘to return home’
Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home…
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Four wins ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’ Ramon Magsaysay award
A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the…
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Four-year-old takes gun to school in Texas
HOUSTON: A four-year-old in Texas brought a loaded handgun to school, officials said, as the end of summer vacation in…
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Three dead of mystery pneumonia in Argentina, six others ill
A third person has died this week in Argentina from a type of pneumonia of unknown origin, with the fatalities…
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Ukraine schools return to sound of war
Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favourite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair and can recite by…
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Biden slams Trump ‘extremist’ assault on democracy
US President Joe Biden took fierce aim Thursday at Donald Trump and his “extremist” supporters, labeling them enemies of American…
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Dollar jumps to 20-year high as data supports aggressive Fed
The dollar index hit a 20-year high on Thursday, and notched a 24-year peak against the rate-sensitive Japanese yen, after…
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Independent journalism under attack in Central America
Central American journalists can pay a steep price for publishing unflattering stories about governments in the region — one with…
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UN: China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims may be crime against humanity
The UN Human Rights Office said it sees evidence of crimes against humanity in China‘s Xinjiang region in an explosive report released late…
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