Protests drive record 70 percent poll turnout in Hong Kong
by Yan ZHAO / Xinqi SU HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Hong Kong's voters turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday…
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Hong Kongers vote in record numbers as democracy camp seeks to send message
by Yan ZHAO / Xinqi SU Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Hong Kong's voters turned out…
4 years ago
Israeli PM Netanyahu defiant after corruption indictment
by Joe Dyke and Steve Weizman Agence France Presse JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday became the…
4 years ago
Fury as Singapore hangs Malaysian ‘drug mule’
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) -- Singapore hanged a Malaysian heroin trafficker on Friday, despite appeals from his homeland to stay a…
4 years ago
South Korea ‘to extend’ military pact with Japan: media
NAGOYA, Japan (AFP) -- South Korea will extend a critical military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, Japanese media reported on Friday,…
4 years ago
ChickTok: Indonesian kids given pets to wean them off smartphones
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AFP) -- Officials in one Indonesian city has hatched a plan to wean children off smartphones -- by…
4 years ago
China wants US trade deal but ‘will fight back’ when necessary: Xi
BEIJING, China (AFP) -- President Xi Jinping said Friday that China wants to reach an initial trade deal with the…
4 years ago
Israeli PM Netanyahu defiant after corruption indictment
by Joe Dyke and Steve Weizman JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) -- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday became the country's first prime…
4 years ago
Buildings in Bangkok shake during 6.1 magnitude quake in Thai-Lao border; tremor also felt in Vietnam
Buildings shook as far away as Bangkok after a shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake that hit northwestern Laos near the Thai…
4 years ago
Saudi king urges Iran to quit ‘harmful’ expansionism
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Saudi Arabia's King Salman urged arch-rival Iran on Wednesday to abandon an expansionist ideology that…
4 years ago
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