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Microsoft to create 36,000 data centre jobs in Qatar

LUSAIL, Qatar (AFP) - Technology giant Microsoft announced Wednesday it will create 36,000 jobs in Qatar to boost the Gulf…

Mexico plans to open lithium sector to private investors

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) - Mexico will open lithium exploitation to private investors because there are insufficient public funds to…

Qatar says it will build world’s biggest blue ammonia plant

DOHA, Qatar (AFP) - Qatar announced Wednesday that it will build the world's biggest plant making blue ammonia -- one…

Trudeau to probe allegation Canada spy helped smuggle UK teens

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Wednesday to "follow up" on allegations that a spy working for…

Fighting spreads in Ethiopia as Tigray hit by air strike

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - Fighting in northern Ethiopia between government forces and Tigrayan rebels erupted along a new front…

Queen to receive new UK prime minister at Scottish retreat

London, United Kingdom (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II will receive the new UK prime minister next week at her Scottish…

Thai police hunt YouTuber ‘Nutty’ in multimillion-dollar forex scam

Bangkok, Thailand (AFP) Thai police are hunting a YouTube dancer nicknamed "Nutty", who swindled millions of dollars from her followers…

Japan further relaxes border controls for tourism

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Tourists will be able to visit Japan from next week on package tours without a guide, Prime…

Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’

Manila, Philippines (AFP) A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers…

EU ministers agree to suspend Russian visa facilitation deal

Prague, Czech Republic (AFP) EU foreign ministers on Wednesday agreed to suspend a 2007 visa facilitation deal with Russia but…

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