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SK opposition votes for Park impeachment

South Korea’s main opposition party voted yesterday to seek the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye after prosecutors named her a criminal suspect in a snowballing corruption case. But it remains ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Flight 370 families to search for debris

THE families of those onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said yesterday they would mount a debris-hunting trip to Madagascar to search for clues to what happened to the missing plane. Investigators ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

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Ex-PM Fillon tipped to win French conservative presidential ticket

THE surprise winner of the first round of France’s right-wing presidential primary, conservative former premier Francois Fillon, was the runaway favorite yesterday to win the contest expected to decide ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Terror attack foiled

French police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille, the interior minister announced yesterday, saying authorities thwarted a new potential attack....

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

UN: treatment available to more AIDS patients

More than 18 million people now have access to life-saving AIDS treatment, 1.2 million more than at the end of last year, the United Nations said yesterday....

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Ambushed as Missouri, Texas police officers shot

A police officer was killed in Texas and another wounded in Missouri in apparently unrelated ambush-style shootings, while a third officer was shot and wounded in Florida, US authorities said yesterda...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

India derailed train toll climbs to 146

RESCUERS yesterday ended their search for survivors among the twisted remains of a derailed train as the death toll from one of India’s worst rail disasters rose to 146. Parts of the train were mangled ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Asia-Pacific nations pledge to work on sweeping new free trade pact

LEADERS of 21 Asia-Pacific nations ended their annual summit with a call to resist protectionism amid signs of increased free-trade skepticism, highlighted by the victory of Donald Trump in the United ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Leaders relax as they don vicuna shawls

AS the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this year, Peru has dressed world leaders with shawls made from the fine wool of the vicuna, a mountain-dwelling creature. From Chinese tunics ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Catholic Church says sorry to Rwanda

THE Catholic Church in Rwanda has apologized for the church’s role in the 1994 genocide, saying it regretted the actions of those who participated in the massacres. “We apologize for all the wrongs the ...

November 22, 2016, Tuesday

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