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BERLIN. — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has embraced proposals to create European data networks that would keep e-mails and other communications on the European side of the Atlantic, farther from prying American eyes, and said she would raise the matter this
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BEIJING. — President Xi Jinping yesterday told China’s ministers and provincial governors to sharpen their skills and modernise the government. Xi made the remarks while speaking at a workshop at the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Party School on
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SEOUL. — A resort in the south-eastern city of South Korea collapsed under the weight of heavy snow, burying around 60 university students, a local broadcaster YTN reported yesterday. An auditorium’s ceiling at the Mauna Ocean Resort in Gyeongju, around 370km southeast of
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KABUL. — The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has backed away from a law that would have silenced victims of domestic violence, forced marriage and child abuse, after a campaign by Afghan activists and western governments. The new criminal prosecution code, backed by
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GENEVA. – Ethiopia’s government yesterday named the co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight who hijacked his aircraft, describing him as “medically sane”. Information Minister Redwan Hussein named the hijacker as Haile Medehin Abera Tagegn, and said he had been
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LONDON. — Britain’s Serious Fraud Office yesterday charged three former employees of Barclays over the Libor interest rate-rigging scandal, dealing a fresh blow to the embattled banking giant. The scandal over Libor, an interest rate at the heart of the global economy,
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Six illegal gold miners have emerged from an old South African mine in which dozens more are feared trapped. The men came out when it appeared that the threat of arrest which has deterred others from leaving had abated, said the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko on Twitter.
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The co-pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane flying from Addis Ababa to Rome has hijacked the aircraft and landed in Geneva, Swiss police say.
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JOHANNESBURG. – Over 200 workers were feared trapped yesterday inside an illegal gold mine in South Africa, emergency rescuers said.
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BRUSSELS. – The EU wants to banish the word bankruptcy from the English language because it is too stigmatising, according to reports.
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HAVANA. – Cuba has suspended its consular services in the United States after failing to find a bank to process its diplomatic accounts due to the US-imposed economic embargo.
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LONDON. – Sodden communities along the River Thames braced for more floods yesterday, as Britain counted the cost of a storm that claimed several lives and left tens of thousands of homes without power.
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HAVANA. — The Government of the Republic of Cuba has issued a statement strongly condemning the ongoing attempts to perpetrate a coup d’etat against the constitutional government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as well as the violent incidents that caused
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MOSCOW. — Russia’s foreign minister has accused the United States of using peace talks to seek “regime change” in Syria. Speaking in Moscow yesterday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the issue of a transitional government, a key focus for opposition
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LUSAKA. — Zambian ex-diplomat and son of former president Rupiah Banda was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of corruption.