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US Army sergeant wounds five in Georgia base rampage with personal handgun
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — A soldier opened fire at a US military base in the southern state of Georgia on Wednesday, wounding five fellow troops before he was tackled and apprehended, a senior officer said. The attack took place at
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Hezbollah ministers walk out of Lebanese cabinet meeting
BEIRUT, Aug 7 — Hezbollah said Wednesday that it would treat a Lebanese government decision to disarm the militant group “as if it did not exist”, accusing the cabinet of committing a “grave sin”. Amid heavy US pressure and fears
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Fox films ICE agents in cowboy hats ambushing Latinos outside LA Home Depot despite court ban
LOS ANGELES, Aug 7 — Immigration enforcement agents on Wednesday grabbed more than a dozen people outside a Los Angeles Home Depot in a “Trojan Horse” raid, despite a court ordering them to stop using roving patrols that rights groups
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US imposes second 25pc tariff on India over Russian oil imports as first takes effect today
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods over New Delhi’s continued purchase of Russian oil, a key revenue source for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The tariff, set
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How Trump’s love for TV drives his major foreign policies, amid shift in Gaza concern
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — Donald Trump’s sudden concern about starving Palestinians was a major shift for the US president, who had previously ignored the endless cries for help from aid groups. So what changed? In his words, it was images of
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Kyrgyz mothers dying as vital cancer drugs delayed, patients forced to import own medicine
BISHKEK (Kyrgyzstan), Aug 7 — Like many people affected by serious illness in ex-Soviet Central Asia, Almagul Ibrayeva is having trouble finding medicine in her native Kyrgyzstan. “Women are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Ibrayeva, who is in
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Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific unveils deal to buy 14 Boeing jets worth RM34.2b, with option for seven more
HONG KONG, Aug 6 — Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific said today it would place an US$8.1-billion (RM34.2 billion) order for 14 Boeing jets, its first with the US aircraft maker for more than a decade. In a filing to the
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OpenAI eyes RM2.1t valuation in potential employee share sale, source says
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in early-stage discussions about a stock sale that would allow employees to cash out and could value the company at about US$500 billion (RM2.1 trillion), a source familiar with the matter
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Hit by US tariffs, Indonesia plans to sell shrimp to China instead
PANDEGLANG (Indonesia), Aug 6 — At a shrimp farm in Indonesia, more than 16,000km from Washington DC, US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have left Denny Leonardo’s expansion plans in disarray. Leonardo had aimed to add about 100 new ponds
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Israeli defence minister says army must carry out Gaza war decisions despite chief of staff’s views
JERUSALEM, Aug 6 — Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said today that Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir had a right to “express his views”, but that the military would ultimately have to “execute” any government decisions on Gaza. “It is the right
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