Killer storm
A killer storm that left up to 13 people dead weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, but US authorities warned the devastation it caused — including catastrophic flooding — is far from over. Most of the fatalities from Florence, which made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, have occurred...
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Typhoon pounds China
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Malaysia’s Anwar, seeking return, vows support for Mahathir
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$300,000 penalty imposed on US firm for paying low wages to H-1B employees
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Ex-Trump aide Manafort pleads guilty, to cooperate with Mueller probe
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‘Absurd’ to accuse Russia of lying about spy poisoning: Kremlin
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US coast battered by wind, rain as Hurricane Florence closes in
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Workers can’t be fired for anti-apartheid song: S.Africa court
South African workers sacked for singing allegedly offensive anti-apartheid struggle songs during a strike should not have been dismissed, the country’s top court ruled on Thursday. Duncanmec, which makes refuse-handling equipment, fired nine workers who embarked on an illegal strike in 2013 and sang what the company deemed a racist song. The...
Hundreds attend funeral prayers of Nawaz’s wife in London
Hundreds of people attended the funeral prayers of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz - the wife of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - at a London mosque Thursday, as legal formalities were completed to take her body to Pakistan for burial. The funeral prayers at London’s Regent Park mosque, which is separate from...
US Army soldiers march 9.11 miles in S Korea to pay tribute to 9/11 victims
US Army soldiers stationed at a garrison in South Korea undertook a 24-hour rucksack march that stretched 9.11 miles in memory of the victims of the September 11 terror attacks in the US in 2001. The Eighth Annual US Army Garrison Humphreys Memorial Ruck March, which began on Tuesday morning to...
Will not tolerate any form of foreign meddling in US elections: Trump
The United States will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in its elections, President Donald Trump said Wednesday after signing an executive order that initiates actions, including sanctions, against foreign entities who meddle or even attempt to interfere in American polls. “Today, I took action to protect the integrity of...
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Farewell to Kofi Annan at ghana state funeral Accra: World leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty on Thursday joined the family of Kofi Annan, as the former United Nations Secretary General’s State funeral took place in his native Ghana. EU blasts Myanmar’s jailing of reporters Strasbourg (France): The EU’s diplomatic...
UN calls on Syrian rebels to leave cities in Idlib
A UN Commission on Wednesday called on rebel groups in Syria’s Idlib province to leave urban areas to protect civilians from any looming regime assault. The proposal comes after the United Nations’ peace envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, last week suggested a deadline be set for fighters in Idlib to...
Florence’s uncertain track sows fear; 10 million in crosshairs
Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of the Southeast. Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined...
