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705Mauritius PM dissolves Parliament, calls for general elections
Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth has dissolved parliament and called for general elections next month. In a video statement, Mr. Jugnauth...
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630Nepal police register FIR against ex-Speaker over rape allegations
Nepal Police on Saturday registered a case against the former Parliament Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who has been accused of raping a...
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714Erdogan renews Syria ‘air and ground’ operation threat
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday renewed Turkey’s threat to launch an “air and ground” operation in Syria against a Kurdish militia...
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556North Korea, US officials to resume nuclear talks after latest missile test
North Korean and US officials on Saturday were set to resume nuclear talks in Stockholm after months of deadlock and Pyongyang’s defiant...
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686Prince Harry sues two UK tabloids over alleged phone hacking
Prince Harry is suing two British tabloid newspapers over alleged phone hacking. British media reports Friday night said Harry took legal action...
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602United Nations human rights chief says ‘troubled’ by Hong Kong violence
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Saturday she was “troubled” by Hong Kong’s increasingly violent pro-democracy protests, and stressed that any...
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651Thai judge shoots himself in court after railing at justice system
A Thai judge shot himself in the chest in front of a packed court after acquitting several murder suspects and decrying the...
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718Violence, rail shutdown hit Hong Kong as govt imposes colonial-era emergency power to ban masks
Hong Kong’s entire mass transit rail system was suspended on Saturday after a night of violence sparked by a ban on pro-democracy...
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646Violence escalates in Iraq amid anti- government protests
Security forces opened fire directly at hundreds of anti-government demonstrators Friday in central Baghdad, killing at least 17 protesters and injuring dozens,...
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597At Fukushima plant, radioactive water poses a ‘million tonne’ headache
In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant’s operators and Japan’s government: tank...
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