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New Zealand new cabinet line-up focuses on COVID-19 recovery
WELLINGTON: Experienced ministers will hold key economic recovery and ongoing COVID-19 response portfolios in the new Cabinet line-up announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday, reported Xinhua news agency. “The next three years will be very challenging
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Over 80m vote early ahead of US presidential election
WASHINGTON: Over 80 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of the US’s Nov. 3 presidential election, reported Anadolu Agency. A running tally from the US Elections Project found Thursday that 80,721,858 early votes, with the vast majority – over 52
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French Polynesia President Edouard Fritch tests positive for COVID-19 after Macron meeting
PAPEETE: French Polynesia President Édouard Fritch tested positive for COVID-19 upon his return from France, where he met with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex, Russian state-owned news agency (Sputnik) reported. “The health of President Fritch is not
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Thailand dan China jalin kerjasama bina projek HSR
BANGKOK: Thailand dan China memeterai perjanjian bernilai THB50.63 bilion (RM6.72 bilion) bagi pembinaan projek kereta api berkelajuan tinggi (HSR) antara Bangkok dan Nakhon Ratchasima di timur laut negara itu. Pembinaan landasan sejauh 253 kilometer (km) tersebut merupakan fasa pertama projek
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U.S. warns of threat posed by China, signs military pact with India
NEW DELHI: The United States and India signed a pact to share sensitive satellite and map data on Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of the threat posed by an increasingly assertive China. Pompeo, who arrived in
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Trump: Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire collapse ‘disappointing’
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday the collapse of a recent ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia is “disappointing.” The president said the two countries will “get back together” as violence escalates between the two neighbours regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh area,
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Japan biz world rushing to adapt to net-zero emission goal
TOKYO: Japan’s business world is rushing to take measures to reach the government’s goal to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, Jiji Press reported. Automakers are accelerating their shifts to electric vehicles while steelmakers are
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Turkey slams Charlie Hebdo for targeting Erdogan
ANKARA: Turkey blasted French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo on Tuesday for publishing “loathsome so-called caricatures” purportedly of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu Agency reported. “Charlie Hebdo just published a series of so-called cartoons full of despicable images purportedly of our President.
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US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON: The US Sen ate voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to America’s top court Monday evening, cementing a solid 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority, Anadolu Agency reported. The 52-48 vote saw just one Republican break ranks with the party, Susan
Read MoreOver 60,000 evacuated as California wildfire rages
WASHINGTON: Roughly 60,000 people have been evacuated southeast of Los Angeles, California after a wildfire started early Monday morning in neighbouring Orange County, Anadolu Agency reported. The fire has consumed roughly 4,000 acres, according to local officials who are asking residents
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