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Prabowo faces first big test as Indonesians demand police reform after ride-hailing driver’s death
JAKARTA, Aug 30 — Hundreds of Indonesians protested at sites across Jakarta on Friday over the death of a civilian hit by a police vehicle, triggering calls for police reform in the first major test for President Prabowo Subianto’s nearly
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Cambodia passes law to strip citizenship from political dissidents
PHNOM PENH, Aug 25 — Cambodian parliamentarians passed on Monday legislation allowing people who collude with foreign countries to be stripped of citizenship, a law rights groups fear will be used to banish dissent. All 120 lawmakers in attendance at
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Cancelled Starship test flight deepens doubts over Musk’s Mars and Moon dreams
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 — SpaceX cancelled a planned test flight for its Starship megarocket on Sunday, saying it needed time to troubleshoot problems, in the latest setback for Elon Musk’s behemoth after a series of explosive failures. The problems have
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At least 42 killed in Israeli strikes as fighting intensifies in Gaza
GAZA, Aug 25 — Gaza’s civil defence agency reported at least 42 people killed in Israeli attacks on Sunday, as the Israeli army prepared for a new assault on the Palestinian territory’s largest city. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said
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Venezuelan designers turn used garments into avant-garde fashion statements in national competition
CARACAS, Aug 25 — Ninety fashion aficionados showcased lace, denim, cotton, satin and recycled garments in an eclectic “battle of outfits” on Saturday at Venezuela’s National Art Gallery in Caracas, challenging conventional fashion and embracing their “unusual” identities. On a
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UK’s Farage sets out plan for ‘mass deportation’ of asylum seekers
LONDON, Aug 24 —Former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage set out plans yesterday for “mass deportations” of migrants who have crossed the English Channel on small boats if his Reform UK party forms Britain’s next government. In an interview with yesterday’s
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India investigator files criminal case against tycoon Anil Ambani
MUMBAI, Aug 24 —India’s national investigative bureau opened a criminal case against tycoon Anil Ambani after receiving a complaint from the country’s biggest bank alleging fraud, the agency said yesterday. Anil, the younger sibling of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani,
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Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington’s safest sites
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 — Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed for selfies, and treated themselves to ice cream from food trucks on Thursday along Washington’s National Mall, one of the safest
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Trump plan to convert 20 tonnes of Cold War plutonium into nuclear fuel — critics call it ‘insanity’
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 — The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tonnes of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to US power companies as a potential fuel for reactors, according to a source familiar with the
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From Rafales to homegrown engines, India partners French firm to ramp up defences against hostile neighbours
NEW DELHI, Aug 23 — India is working with a French company to develop and manufacture fighter jet engines in the country, New Delhi’s defence minister said. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in May approved the prototype of a 5th generation
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