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FARMINGTON: She was a budding musician and talented artist, a girl whose death at the hands of a man who authorities say lured her into his van spread grief far beyond her home on the Navajo Nation. More than 3,000 people turned out for Ashlynne Mike’s funeral in Farmington, New Mexico, weeping as images of […]

WASHINGTON: The United States will endorse a tougher tone with Israel in an upcoming international report that takes the Jewish state to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the Palestinians claim for a future state, diplomats told The Associated Press. The US and its fellow Mideast mediators also will chastise Palestinian leaders […]

WASHINGTON: For a lot of angsty conservatives, there’s more to worry about than just Donald Trump. There’s the future of the conservative movement to consider. The soul-searching over what to do with the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee includes a broader debate over who gets to define conservatism. An Iowa talk show host on the […]

PYONGYANG: Kim Jong-Un on Friday opened North Korea’s first ruling party congress for nearly 40 years with a defiant defence of the “magnificent” strides made in the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Hailing the historic test of what North Korea claims was a hydrogen bomb in January, the isolated state’s young leader said it had shown […]

PANAMA CITY: Colombian authorities have arrested a prominent Panama businessman sought by the United States and dismantled an empire of businesses that the US says were part of a top worldwide money-laundering organization for drug traffickers. The coordinated operation was announced Thursday as the US Treasury Department froze US assets owned by 68 companies in […]

BRASILIA: A special committee in Brazil’s Senate voted Friday to approve starting an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, who now faces being suspended from office in less than a week. The committee’s recommendation was non-binding but marked the last formal stage before the full Senate votes Wednesday on whether to put the leftist leader […]

KABAL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a new acting defence minister to replace Masoom Stanekzai, a loyalist ally whom he has shifted to lead the main intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS). The changes, announced late on Thursday, underline the uncertainty at the top of Afghanistan’s security apparatus that has hindered the […]

SHANGHAI: China will take part in a regular US-led naval exercise starting next month, a top US commander said Friday, despite tensions over Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. The United States will host multinational naval drills called the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) — billed as the world’s largest — off […]

NEW DELHI: India’s opposition Congress party staged a show of defiance on Friday, with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi leading a rally and march to parliament to resist what they called Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bid to destroy democracy. The opposition party hit back after facing a slew of corruption accusations levelled by Modi’s ruling party […]

YANGON: Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar protested on Friday against the resumption of operations at a Chinese-backed copper mine, in one of the first tests for the new government’s ability to deal with public anger. The protests have gathered momentum since Wednesday when some people broke through police barriers protecting the mine, operated by Myanmar […]