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UK seeks stronger powers to stop disruptive protests
LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government will announce new proposals today to clamp down on protests, broadening the range of situations in which police...
Search resumes for 4 missing in Nepal’s deadly air crash
KATHMANDU: Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials...
At least 6 killed as thunderstorms strike Alabama
ALABAMA: At least six people were killed in central Alabama on Thursday as thunderstorms and at least one tornado swept through the region, local...
Library offers refuge and recovery in war-scarred Ukraine town
IRPIN: Hundreds of laptop-toting professionals and students line up outside the public library in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, desperate to get plugged in...
Putin bans oil exports to countries that imposed price cap
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia’s long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude...
Fiji parliament delays sitting to elect prime minister
SYDNEY: Fiji’s parliament has delayed its first sitting, where it had been expected a new prime minister would be sworn in to the Pacific...
Trio sentenced to life in prison for MH17 downing
AMSTERDAM: Dutch judges today convicted three men of murder for their role in the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine,...
Semeru volcano alert status raised to highest level
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted today, spewing hot ash clouds 1.6km into the sky, prompting authorities to raise the volcano’s alert status to the...
Magnitude 6.1 quake rattles Indonesia’s West Java
JAKARTA: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s West Java province yesterday, the country’s geophysics agency (BMKG) said, prompting residents in areas near the epicentre to...
Japan awaits same-sex marriage ruling crucial to future LGBTQ rights
TOKYO: A Japanese court will decide today whether bans on same-sex marriages are constitutional, a ruling that could set the future course of LGBTQ...