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US Mayors Bypass Trump To Back Paris Climate Goals
President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord has triggered a bipartisan push from US mayors to stick...
57 Dead In US-Led Strikes On IS Syria Prison
US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the...
Fears For Three Myanmar Journalists Taken By Military
Fears were mounting on Tuesday for three Myanmar journalists who are being interrogated by the military after they were...
Chinese Passenger Chucks Coins Into Plane’s Engine For Luck
A superstitious passenger delayed a flight from Shanghai for several hours Tuesday after throwing coins at the plane's...
Two Alpinists Go Missing On Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain’
Two alpinists, a Spaniard and an Argentinian, have gone missing while attempting to summit a peak in northern Pakistan...
US President Donald Trump Unpopular Worldwide
US President Donald Trump and his policies are broadly unpopular around the world -- with the notable exceptions of...
Delhi’s Upscale Golf Club Apologises After Dress Row
New Delhi's prestigious colonial-era golf club apologised Tuesday after a woman claimed she had been told to leave the...
From Backwater To Metropolis
Modern-day Hong Kong is best known for its sprawl of skyscrapers, a bustling financial hub off the southern coast of...
Teen Prodigy Awes With Record Japanese Chess Streak
Japan on Tuesday was transfixed by a 14-year-old prodigy who smashed the record for consecutive wins in a chess-like...
$2 Mn Sent To Child of FIFA Member Before 2022 World Cup Award
A sum of $2 million was sent to the 10-year-old daughter of a FIFA official prior to Qatar being awarded the hosting of...
‘Soros Wanted To Topple E.Guinea Leader,’ UK Mercenary Tells Paris…
Former British mercenary Simon Mann, who led a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, has accused US billionaire George...
US Wants To Steer Clear of Syrian Civil War
The United States will not be drawn into Syria's civil war, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said, despite an...
EU Cases Against US Firms
The EU's decision to impose the biggest anti-trust fine in its history on Silicon Valley giant Google is the latest in...
China Lowers Number of Missing In Landslide To 73
The number of people missing from a huge landslide that buried a mountain village in southwest China last weekend has...
Yemen Cholera Outbreak Shows Signs of Slowing
A cholera outbreak in Yemen, which has claimed 1,400 lives in two months, shows tentative signs of slowing as fatality...
British and Irish Lions Test Hopefuls Blow It Against Hurricanes
The British and Irish Lions squandered a 16-point lead as the Wellington Hurricanes roared back to snatch a 31-31 draw...
North Korea Likens Trump To Hitler
North Korea compared US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Tuesday in its latest diatribe, amid high tensions...
China Lodges Protest Over Indian Border Incursion Claim
China has made a formal protest after accusing Indian border guards of crossing from Sikkim state into its Tibetan...
China Swim Star Ning Zetao Fails To Qualify For World Title Defence
Chinese swim star Ning Zetao will not defend his 100m freestyle world title next month after failing to qualify for the...