A new Chinese crackdown on online gaming is adding to worries for Tencent. Shares in the top Chinese internet company dropped nearly 5% in Hong Kong on Friday, after Beijing announced plans to limit
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One of China's major moves in the trade war with the United States is in danger of backfiring on its own farmers. They're facing a potential shortage of soybeans, one of China's biggest imports
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DUBAI: The US military released a video showing small ships in the Gulf of Aden smuggling weapons amid the ongoing war in Yemen. The short video, published on Friday, says the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham
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JERUSALEM: Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that Israel will not be bound by whatever agreements the international community may reach on Syria after its civil war. Speaking on a visit to the Israeli
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MOSCOW: Russia will begin a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean on Saturday, the Ministry of Defense announced, a move the Kremlin said was justified by a failure to deal with militants in Syria’s
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Maria* cleans rooms at a large Spanish hotel. She arrives before 8am, changes into her uniform and heads to the housekeeper's office to get her cleaning schedule. "It really depends on the hotel's occupation,
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Former Australian Prime Minister Macolm Turnbull has resigned from parliament after he was removed from office in a bitter conservative rebellion last week. Turnbull, the country's 29th prime minister, who first entered parliament in
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An Australian filmmaker has been sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of espionage in Cambodia. After a six-day trial, Judge Seng Leang on Friday found James Ricketson guilty on two charges
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Bobi Wine, a Ugandan pop star-turned-opposition legislator, has been detained at a government hospital after being blocked from leaving for the United States for treatment on his injuries from alleged torture, his lawyers said.
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The Australian Catholic Church has rejected a recommendation to implement laws forcing priests and other members of the Church to report sexual abuse. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC), the country's top Catholic body,
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