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North Korea fires ballistic missile towards Japan ahead of US-South Korea drills
SEOUL, Aug 12 — North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan early today, Seoul’s military said, just days before the planned start of massive US-South Korea joint drills. “Our military detected at around 6am a ballistic
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Airbus sends experts to India to assist probe into Air India flight’s sudden plunge
NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Airbus is sending experts to New Delhi today to assist investigators probing an Air India flight that plunged dramatically, injuring 17 in terrifying mid-air ordeal, the company said. The probe into the flight comes as “confirmatory”
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Australia to vaccinate birds against H5 avian influenza
SYDNEY, Aug 11 — Australian authorities said today they would vaccinate bird species deemed to be especially vulnerable to the highly contagious H5 bird flu virus. The country was for years the only continental landmass free of the H5 strain,
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Russia bars only anti-war party from elections
MOSCOW, Aug 11 — Russia’s Supreme Court yesterday barred the country’s only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September’s parliamentary elections. The court thereby upheld a suit brought by a pro-Kremlin nationalist party, stripping voters opposed to the four-and-a-half-year war in
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Despite no evidence vaccines cause autism, Trump order pushes for overhaul of childhood vaccine schedule
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — US President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday pushing for a rethink of school vaccine mandates and repeating calls for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to be separated into three individual shots. Many medical
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Trump says will demand conflict compensation from Iran
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — US President Donald Trump said yesterday he would seek conflict compensation from Iran as part of any peace negotiations, citing attacks and killings stretching back decades allegedly backed or perpetrated by Tehran. Negotiations on ending the war
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US judge ends graft case against India’s Adani, who shares lawyer with Trump
NEW YORK, Aug 11 — A US judge threw out a case against Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani yesterday after the Trump administration decided to drop the fraud and bribery allegations against him. Court filings showed Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis
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Four Spaniards held after US$300,000 watch snatch in millionaire playground Saint-Tropez
NICE, Aug 10 — French police have arrested four Spanish suspects after a luxury watch worth around US$300,000 (RM1.2 million) was snatched from a Brazilian tourist in the Riviera hotspot of Saint-Tropez, authorities said yesterday. The watch, valued by its
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Three-hundred-foot plunge, 17 injured: Air India pilot now faces confirmatory drug test
MUMBAI, Aug 10 — India’s aviation ministry said yesterday that an Air India pilot whose flight plunged dramatically in turbulence injuring 17 passengers and crew is undergoing a “confirmatory” psychoactive drug test. The Airbus A320, carrying 137 passengers and eight
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Iran says Khamenei met Pezeshkian — but still offers no glimpse of supreme leader
TEHRAN, Aug 10 — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently met with supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since assuming the post early in the Middle East war, Khamenei’s office said yesterday. “Dr Masoud Pezeshkian met
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