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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho
Macau,
Britain’s largest manufacturing company Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is cutting 1,000 staff at its nylon-fibre producing factories. Six hundred jobs will go at Doncaster, 200 at
CHINA-MALAYSIA Multibillion-dollar China-financed projects in Malaysia have been canceled because they aren’t needed and will saddle the country with an unsustainable amount of debt, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
The Trump administration yesterday came out with new rules scaling back Obama-era constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration’s legacy programs to rein
Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn yesterday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies.
Afghan forces launched a lightning operation in northern Kunduz province yesterday, rescuing 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier, officials
Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 percent — a
A baby boom is brewing at a suburban Arizona hospital where 16 intensive care nurses recently discovered they are all pregnant. The nurses at Banner Desert
The coroner presiding over the “Bloody Sunday” inquest has accused the British army of “sheer unadulterated murder”. The accusation came from the Londonderry City coroner, Major Hubert
MALAYSIA’s leader said yesterday that he hoped China would sympathize with his country’s fiscal problems as he met with the country’s leaders after suspending multibillion-dollar construction projects
Global health officials called for increased vaccination efforts amid burgeoning rates of measles infection in Europe. More people in Europe contracted the potentially deadly virus in the first
When Czech entrepreneur Robert Hasek began jogging with his dog, Darwin, the three-mile runs were making the bull terrier sick with fatigue. Hasek was surprised, thinking
Kofi Annan left the United Nations far more committed than it had been to combating poverty, promoting equality and fighting for human rights — and
Residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima attacked Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local storeowner was robbed, stabbed and beaten in an assault blamed on
It’s been 50 years, but powerful images of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia taken by photographer Josef Koudelka still resonate among Czechs and elsewhere in the
The German government says it has made no preparations for the possibility that aliens might land in the European country. In a response to questions from opposition
At least 30 people died when a pleasure cruiser, packed with young party-goers, and a barge collided on the River Thames. The captain and second mate of
President Donald Trump has acted on a threat to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, citing a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information.
The newest elephant at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has joined the rest of the herd. Video posted by the zoo this week shows Umzula-zuli taking his first
President of the United States Bill Clinton has admitted having an inappropriate relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In a televised address Mr Clinton told the
VIETNAM A court sentenced an activist to 20 years in prison yesterday after finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the Communist government, his lawyer said, in
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