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17 killed, four missing in western Indonesia floods

SIBOLANGIT: Rescuers on Monday found the bodies of 17 people who were among 20 university students and two guides who…

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Philippines’ Duterte vows hangings in war on crime

MANILA: Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-order crackdown that…

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Spanish tyre fire ‘could take 10 more days to extinguish’

  MADRID: It could take another 10 days to put out a huge fire at a tyre dump near Madrid,…

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Global opposition to Israel good omen: Iran

TEHRAN: Iran has welcomed the growing wave of international opposition to the Israeli regime’s continued illegal settlement construction in the…

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Vietnam TV says ‘reactionary forces’ at work in environmental protest

HANOI: Vietnam’s state television issued a warning to the public to shun calls by “reactionary forces” to join protests over…

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Asked about aid, China says Venezuela crisis is domestic matter

BEIJING: An economic crisis in Venezuela is a domestic matter, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, when…

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Sweden sentences man to life imprisonment for genocide in Rwanda

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court sentenced on Monday a 61-year-old man to life in prison for genocide in Rwanda in 1994,…

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London’s new Muslim mayor, already tilting the world’s political chessboard

It didn’t take long for London’s new mayor to make a splash on the world stage: He knocked a fast…

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Is Donald Trump the next Andrew Jackson? Or the next Groucho Marx?

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is being hailed as a “populist.” But Trump is no ordinary political populist…

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Straight-talking Swamy takes aim at India’s old elite

He’s been called India’s Donald Trump: a media-savvy right-wing populist who is unafraid of upsetting everyone from the ruling elite…

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