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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — Bolivia’s new presidential palace is certainly an attention-getter, from its heliport to its 29-story tower and its presidential jacuzzi in South America’s poorest nation. President Evo Morales, the Andean nation’s leftist leader, is shrugging off naysayers. This is “wasteful,” opposition leader Samuel Doria Medina claims. The $34-40 million price tag would be better spent on a cancer hospital, he said. Even a Bolivian cardinal, Toribio Ticona, took the time out […]
by Amber Wang TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A samurai sword-wielding attacker carrying the national flag of China slashed a military police guard outside Taiwan’s presidential office Friday, authorities said. The Taiwanese man who was arrested at the scene said he was expressing his political views and had stolen the sword from a nearby history museum, police told AFP. The presidential office in the center of the capital Taipei is the headquarters of Taiwan’s Beijing-skeptic President […]
