Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:16:18 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry spoke on Sunday of his sadness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will see him and his wife Meghan exit official roles to seek an independent future. Buckingham Palace and the queen announced on Saturday that […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:18:26 +0000
YANGON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc. on Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr. Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologizing for any offense caused. The error came to light on the second day of a visit by Xi to the Southeast Asian […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:03:00 +0000
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-like virus yesterday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of people move around the country. The new coronavirus strain has caused alarm because of its connection to […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:10:56 +0000
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport yesterday, killing all onboard, state TV reported. The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital when a fire struck one of its engines, said Qassem Biniaz, a spokesman for Iran’s Road […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:13:50 +0000
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran launched a missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq early yesterday in retaliation for the US drone strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani whose killing has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East. Tehran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles from Iranian territory against at least two Iraqi […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:34:56 +0000
BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, United States (AFP) – Donald Trump likes a fight and he likes a show and Wednesday – with impeachment voted right at the moment he was addressing a campaign rally hundreds of miles away in Michigan – he got both things on steroids. By a twist of fate, a long planned Trump […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:19:45 +0000
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – President Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power in a historic vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting up a Senate trial on removing him from office after three turbulent years. By a 230 to 197 vote in the Democratic-majority House, the 45th US president became just […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:12:46 +0000
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Jamaican psychology student Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss World 2019 Saturday at a ceremony in London, with Miss France and Miss India runners-up in the beauty pageant. “To that little girl in St. Thomas, Jamaica and all the girls around the world – please believe in yourself,” Singh, 23, tweeted. […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 09:31:38 +0000
NAGASAKI, Japan (AFP) – Pope Francis yesterday railed against atomic weapons, the nuclear deterrent, and the growing arms trade, as he paid tribute to the victims of the “unspeakable horror” of the Nagasaki bomb. In a highly symbolic visit to the Japanese city devastated by the nuclear attack in August 1945, Francis said nuclear weapons […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:08:21 +0000
ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas (AP) — Two Arkansas college chemistry professors have been arrested on charges of making meth, in an apparent case of life imitating art. The Clark County sheriff’s office says Henderson State University professors Terry David Bateman and Bradley Allen Rowland were arrested Friday on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and using drug paraphernalia. It […]
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