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Foreign athlete arrested for sexual harassment
SEOUL: South Korean police have arrested a foreign athlete competing at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju for suspected sexual harassment at a nightclub, a South Korean police official said on Sunday. An official at the Gwangju Seobu Police Station
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New South Wales – last Aussie state to decriminalise abortion
SYDNEY: Abortion could soon be decriminalised across Australia, with the last holdout state – New South Wales – set to consider a new law this week that would remove terminations from the criminal code. Under legislation dating back to 1900,
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1000 arrested in Russian opposition crackdown
Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power. The detentions came around a protest
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Clean up ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested’ district: Trump to Cummings
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a “brutal bully” who should concentrate on cleaning up his “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” Baltimore district rather than criticizing the work of U.S. immigration
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Dr M: World terrorism ends when Israel’s injustice is stopped
ANKARRA: The never ending Palestinian conflict caused by Israel is the main cause of terrorism, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, reported Turkish news agency, Anadolu. “The main thing that we think we should always stress is the causes
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Bodies of 60 migrants recovered off Libya’s western coast
TRIPOLI: Libyan Red Crescent on Friday recovered 60 bodies of illegal immigrants off the western coast, Xinhua news agency reported. “We recovered 60 bodies of immigrants, including women and children, whose boat sank Thursday off the coast of the city
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“Free Hong Kong” converge at airport
HONG KONG: Several hundred protesters calling for democracy and some chanting “free Hong Kong” converged on the Chinese-ruled city’s airport on Friday as neighbouring Singapore advised its citizens to avoid parts of the territory. Airport authorities said operations wouldn’t be
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Murder conviction quashed because of police informant – lawyer
SYDNEY: An Australian man’s conviction for a gangland murder has been quashed, after a high-profile scandal where his lawyer was revealed to be a police informant. Faruk Orman was freed on Friday after serving 12 years in jail for the
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80,000 tons of recyclables used for Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals
The Tokyo 2020 Medal Project sparked the collection of nearly 80,000 tons of mobile phones and small electronic devices around Japan, which will be used in the crafting of every gold, silver and bronze Olympic and Paralympic medal awarded to
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Echoing Trump, newly minted UK PM says, ‘I’ll make Britain great again’
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised yesterday that Brexit would make Britain the greatest place on Earth, echoing the patriotic rhetoric of US President Donald Trump in his first speech to Parliament as prime minister. Johnson, who was hailed
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