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At least 26 dead after Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan
TOKYO (AFP) -- At least 26 people were killed by powerful Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported Sunday, a day after the ferocious storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrop...
Oct 13, 2019
Russia will work with Saudi to stabilise oil market: Putin
MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russia will work with Saudi Arabia against any "attempt to destabilise" the oil market, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast Sunday, on the eve of a visit to Riyadh...
Two dead as Typhoon Hagibis batters Japan with 'unprecedented' rain
TOKYO (AFP) -- Powerful Typhoon Hagibis barrelled through Japan Saturday, killing at least two people and lashing large parts of the country with "unprecedented" rain that caused floods, landslides a...
Trump again touts partial trade deal with China
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday touted his partial, unsigned trade deal with China as a major achievement and the best deal US farmers have ever secured. "WOW, the Farmers rea...
Four dead in New York shooting
NEW YORK (AFP) -- At least four people died and three were wounded in a shooting at an unlicensed private social club in New York early Saturday, police said. No one has been arrested over the early...
Germany shooting was live on Twitch for 35 minutes
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- An anti-Semitic attack that killed at least two people in the German city of Halle Wednesday was streamed live for 35 minutes, and eventually seen by some 2,200 people, the onl...
Oct 10, 2019
Lawmakers urge NBA to suspend China activities over boycott
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A bipartisan set of US lawmakers urged the NBA on Wednesday to suspend all activities in China until Chinese firms and broadcasters end their boycott of the league and the Houston ...
China slams NBA, Apple over Hong Kong
SHANGHAI (AFP) -- China on Wednesday slammed NBA commissioner Adam Silver's defence of free speech, cancelling a basketball fan event and lashing him in the state-run press, as Apple was warned it co...
Turkey launches ground offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria
RAS AL-AIN (AFP) -- Turkey launched a broad assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, with intensive bombardment followed by a ground offensive made possible by the with...
3 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos
A Canadian American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved from the Big Bang and the block...
Oct 8, 2019
Trio win medicine Nobel for work on how cells adapt to oxygen
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Three researchers from the United States and Britain on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how human cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, opening ...
US prefers a 'big deal' with China: Trump
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- President Donald Trump said Monday he would prefer to strike a comprehensive trade bargain with China, in comments days before top US and Chinese officials are due to resume trade...
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Three researchers from the US and Britain on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how human cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, opening up new stra...
Oct 7, 2019
To ban or not to ban? Masked protesters in other countries
Hong Kong's government, faced with months of pro-democracy protests that have spiraled into violence, on Friday invoke emergency powers to ban masks from street demonstrations. A look at how some ot...
Oct 4, 2019
Hong Kong leader bans masks in hardening stance on protests
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam banned protesters from wearing masks Friday in a hardening of the government's stance on the territory's most disruptive crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. ...