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- SENTANI: Flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province have killed at least 77 people, the disaster agency said Monday as it raised the death toll from 58. More than three dozen people remain missing, while scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain and landslides. “The death ...
- COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that — despite being one of the top students in his class — he had been expelled.A government investigation had outed ...
- COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Sixteen-year-old Kefayat Ullah walked to his school in southern Bangladesh in late January, as he had done most days for the previous six years, to find that — despite being one of the top students in his class — he had been expelled.A government investigation had outed ...
- LONDON: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the government would file a legal case in Iran against US officials who imposed sanctions on the country as a precursor to action in international courts. Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television that US sanctions had created ...
- ALGIERS: Thirteen independent Algerian unions have refused to back the newly-appointed prime minister’s efforts to form a government he hopes will placate protesters who are pressuring President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his inner circle to step down. “We will not hold discussions with this system, we belong to the people and ...
- ALGIERS: Thirteen independent Algerian unions have refused to back the newly-appointed prime minister’s efforts to form a government he hopes will placate protesters who are pressuring President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his inner circle to step down. “We will not hold discussions with this system, we belong to the people and ...
- CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand: A Christchurch gun shop on Monday acknowledged selling guns online to the 28-year-old white supremacist accused of killing 50 people in mosque shootings that have upturned New Zealand’s reputation as among the world’s most tolerant and safe nations.At a news conference, Gun City owner David Tipple said ...
- MOSCOW: Russia on Monday will mark the fifth anniversary of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, condemned by the West but celebrated by most Russians.President Vladimir Putin will take part in celebrations in the Black Sea peninsula, where he is also due to launch a new power station, the Kremlin ...
- LAGUNA BEACH, California: Police in a seaside California city have alerted local schools to two “virtual kidnap” cases in 24 hours.Laguna Beach police say victims received phone calls claiming their daughters had been kidnapped and would be harmed unless money was wired to a Mexican bank account, the Orange County ...
- SYRIA: The Syrian crisis enters its ninth year this month, leaving in its wake a trail of death, destruction, destitution, displacement and division. The war has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced at least 12 million, and left the country’s economy and infrastructure in ruins. Syrian President Bashar Assad said ...
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New Zealanders pay tribute as terror attack victims’ families anxiously await return of dead
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Around 35 tourists believed trapped after landslides in Indonesia’s Lombok
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