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Myanmar leader Suu Kyi defends journalists’ imprisonment
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters news agency journalists convicted of collecting state secrets. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were imprisoned last week after being found
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Bakersfield shooting: Gunman kills 5 in California shooting spree
An unidentified gunman shot and killed his wife and four other people in a series of shootings in California before taking his own life, police said. There was no immediate word on what sparked the
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Explained: EU parliament targets Hungary’s ‘breach of values’
The European Parliament on Wednesday voted to launch punitive action against Hungary for breaching the bloc's core values in a move that might bring unprecedented political sanctions against the Budapest government. It is the first
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California to generate most of its power from renewable energy
A high-level conference on climate change is under way in San Francisco, California, where US states and cities that are defying US President Trump’s retreat on climate policy will meet with representatives of civil
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China holds one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps
Rwanda. East Timor. Myanmar. The world has a cruel habit of ignoring humanitarian disasters until it's too late. Old habits die hard, and the people targeted by state-led ethnic cleansing programs even harder. But
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Unease, anger in Tehran as economy worsens
TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take hold.A salesman who wants to move
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Israeli forces take down protest huts at West Bank Bedouin village
TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take hold.A salesman who wants to move
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Skripal poisoning suspects say they were tourists in UK
Two Russian men accused by the United Kingdom of attempting to murder a former Russian double agent and his daughter have claimed they were in the country as tourists. The men, who identified themselves
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Popularity of candidate Bolsonaro rises after stabbing attack
Brazil's presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro needs more surgery as he recovers from a stabbing attack last week. Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate in Brazil's October 7 presidential election, was attacked in the city of Juiz
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India bans hundreds of combination drugs
The Indian government has banned 328 combination drugs in a blow to both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms, but the ban has been cheered by health activists worried about growing antibiotic resistance due to


