South Korea’s constitutional court has dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting president.
Han took over as acting leader last December when President Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from…
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More than 260 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia
More than 260 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, have arrived in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh after floating at sea for days.
The mostly Muslim ethnic…
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Rescue workers search for survivors after powerful quake strikes Chinas Tibet
Chinese state media CCTV releases images of rescue workers at the site of collapsed buildings and buildings shaking, after dozens of people died following a powerful earthquake…
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California firefighters battling wildfire near Los Angeles
California firefighters battle a fast-moving wildfire near Los Angeles and attempt to extinguish the flames ravaging a house in the upscale Pacific Palisades area.
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Yemen says US aggression against Sana’a killed civilian, injured 13
Yemen’s Ministry of Health and Environment has announced that a US aggression against civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in Ma’in District, Sana’a, killed one civilian and injured 13…
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Search, rescue ops continue in Tibets Shigatse following deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake
Rescue efforts continue in Shigatse region after a devastating earthquake hit Tibet and killed at least 126 people and injured 188 others.
Footage filmed on Wednesday shows…
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Narendra Modi’s hope for a thaw amid uncertain geopolitics between India and China
Michael KugelmanForeign policy analyst
Press Information BureauIndia’s pitch for a close partnership with China has suggested improvement in bilateral ties In a recent interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke positively about India’s…
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‘I scarred my six children’
Madina MaishanuBBC News, Kano
BBCA mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs.
The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all six of her children,…
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Legal battle continues over what constitutes Jamaican rum
Jacob EvansReporting fromBusiness reporter
Getty/Dave BenettRum is one of Jamaica’s biggest exports Rum is a key part of Jamaica’s cultural identity, but what exactly makes a rum Jamaican?
That question is at the centre of a dispute that is…
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Hamas condemns assassination of politburo member as proof of Israeli record of terrorism
The Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the assassination of its political bureau member Ismail Barhoum in an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital, calling it yet another addition to the Israeli…
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