Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:15:19 +0000
TRENTON, N.J. — Tens of thousands of utility customers are without power as powerful storms roar through the mid-Atlantic region.
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JUBA, South Sudan – Mia Farrow will never forget the day she watched a baby die in her mother’s arms.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:14:28 +0000
BEIJING — Beijing fired back at the U.S. on Monday after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized China’s role in Venezuela as prolonging the crisis there.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:56:36 +0000
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The corruption trial of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak entered a second day Monday, with a central bank investigator taking the stand in the case involving the transfer of suspicious money into Najib’s bank accounts.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:02:17 +0000
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday a Chinese company building a rail link across peninsula Malaysia will jointly help to manage, operate and maintain the network that will help reduce the country’s financial burden.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:25:05 +0000
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudan’s new military leader resigned on Friday just a day after being sworn in, as the country’s army rulers insisted they would pave the way for a civilian government. The head of Sudan’s new ruling military council, General Awad Ibn Ouf, announced his departure after being sworn in late Thursday following the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:16:30 +0000
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on transgender Americans in the military came into force on Friday following a protracted legal battle that went all the way to the nation’s top court. Trump’s administration has insisted that there is “too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality’’ to allow transgender people […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:12:34 +0000
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is willing to meet with US President Donald Trump a third time if Washington comes to the table with the “right attitude’’, state media reported Saturday. Kim also said he would wait until the end of the year “for the US to make a courageous decision’’ […]
Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:07:42 +0000
The figures involved in India’s general election are staggering: 900 million voters, 83 million first-time voters, 11 million poll workers, nearly 4 million electronic voting machines, 1 million polling booths and 570 special trains for migrant laborers and security personnel.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 07:29:10 +0000
Venezuela’s longtime spy chief was arrested Friday in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a U.S. drug warrant a few weeks after he threw his support behind opponents of President Nicolas Maduro.
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