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Brazil’s ‘last samurai’ has no plans to stop making katanas
CURITIBA, Brazil: From the outside, the modest home of 61-year-old Edson Suemitsu looks little different from others in this middle-class neighbourhood of Curitiba, a sleepy city in southern Brazil. But enter the gates and you’ll find a lush garden, overarched
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Hanau attack: Suspected perpetrator found dead at home, 1 more body found
MOSCOW: A suspected perpetrator of the shooting attacks in Hanau, German was found dead at his home today, Sputnik news agency quoted the police of southeastern Hessen as saying. Yesterday, an unknown gunman opened fire at two shisha bars in
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Australia to hold wide-ranging inquiry into disastrous bushfires
SYDNEY: Australia will hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the causes of recent bushfires that killed 33 people and razed an area the size of South Korea, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday. Australia has for months been battling hundreds of
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Rapper Pop Smoke shot dead in Hollywood Hills home
LOS ANGELES: Rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed yesterday in a rented multi-million-dollar home in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, and police said they were searching for several suspects, at least one whom was armed and wearing a mask during
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Bloomberg comes under fire at Democratic presidential debate in Nevada
LAS VEGAS: Michael Bloomberg came under heavy fire at his first Democratic presidential debate yesterday, with rivals leaping to criticise him as a billionaire copy of President Donald Trump who would lead the party to defeat in November. The nationally
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Long-time Trump adviser Stone to be sentenced by judge he antagonised
WASHINGTON: Since his January 2019 arrest, US President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial. Today, that judge will tell the self-described “dirty trickster” how long he
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‘Trump offered pardon to Assange with a condition’
LONDON: US President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he declared that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard yesterday. Assange appeared by videolink from
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Shooting in German shisha bars leaves at least eight people dead
At least eight people were killed in a shooting incident late yesterday in the German city of Hanau, mass-selling Bild newspaper reported, citing prosecutors. Police in Hanau, east of Frankfurt, could not be reached for comment. The motive for the
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China: New coronavirus spreads more like flu than Sars
Scientists in China who studied nose and throat swabs from 18 patients infected with the new coronavirus say it behaves much more like influenza than other closely related viruses, suggesting it may spread even more easily than previously believed. In
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Ex-Aussie PM: M’sia believed MH370 was a ‘murder-suicide’ case
PUCHONG: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott told a news agency that the Malaysian government believed ‘very early on’ that the disappearance of MH370 was a ‘murder-suicide’ case. Speaking to Australia’s news.com.au, Abott said he was convinced in the early
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