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Lack of US-China trade deal weighs on Asian markets
Markets in Asia were largely down in morning trade on Monday as the lack of a US-China trade deal cast a cloud over the market. Investors watched the latest developments warily in the trade war between the world’s top two
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Balochistan separatists storm five-star hotel in Pakistan, killing at least one
QUETTA: Three gunmen from a Balochistan separatist group stormed a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday, killing at least one guard and battling security forces inside, officials and the army said. Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah
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Jho Low and rapper indicted for Obama donations
WASHINGTON: Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho – also known as Jho Low – and a founding member of hip-hop group Fugees have been indicted for making illegal contributions to US president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Jho Low, 37, and
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Trump: ‘Nobody’s happy’ about N. Korea missile launch
US President Donald Trump said that “nobody’s happy” after North Korea raised the pressure over the future of their deadlocked nuclear negotiations by launching two short-range missiles. Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in February broke
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Seven Kings Mosque on lockdown after shots fired
LONDON: A mosque was on lockdown yesterday after a man carrying a gun tried to enter it during Ramadan prayers, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting a statement by the police. Metropolitan Police confirmed that a big police presence will remain at
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Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung spews massive smoke and ash
SUMATRA: An Indonesian volcano erupted Tuesday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air, coating local villages in debris. Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island – which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw
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Palestine-Israel to end the deadly escalation
Palestinian leaders in Gaza agreed to a ceasefire with Israel on Monday to end a deadly two-day escalation in violence that threatened to widen into a fourth war between them since 2008. An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the deal,
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Prince Harry ‘over the moon’ as Meghan gives birth to a boy
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to a boy, her “over the moon” husband Prince Harry revealed to the world on Monday in a low-key announcement intended to protect their privacy. Prince Harry said that both mother and baby
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Israel army denies Gaza, mother, baby killed by Israeli strike
Israel’s army on Sunday denied claims from Gazan authorities that an Israeli strike killed a pregnant Palestinian mother and her baby, saying errant Hamas fire was to blame for the deaths. “The terror organisations’ propaganda at its finest,” Israeli army
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Palestinian militant killed in Israeli retaliatory strikes
A Palestinian militant was killed in an Israeli retaliatory strike in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Gazan officials said, in response to rocket barrages fired from the enclave. The Gazan health ministry identified the man killed as Hamad al-Khodori, 34. Hamas’s armed
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