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    China puts 13 million residents in lockdown ahead of Winter Olympics
    International

    China puts 13 million residents in lockdown ahead of Winter Olympics

    Beijing, Dec 23: China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases. The measure comes just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympics in Beijing, roughly 1,000...
    Landslide in Myanmar mining area leaves dozens missing
    International

    Landslide in Myanmar mining area leaves dozens missing

    Bangkok, Dec 22: A landslide at a remote jade mine in northern Myanmar's Kachin state killed one person and left at least 70 missing Wednesday and a search and rescue operation was underway, rescue officials said. Reports were scant from the area in Hpakant, which is the center of the world's...
    Myanmar court postpones latest Aung San Suu Kyi verdict
    International

    Myanmar court postpones latest Aung San Suu Kyi verdict

    Bangkok, Dec 20: A Myanmar court on Monday postponed the issuing of verdicts in the latest of a series of cases against the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a legal official knowledgeable about the case said. The postponed verdict from the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, is for the...
    Myanmar court postpones latest Aung San Suu Kyi verdict
    International

    Myanmar court postpones latest Aung San Suu Kyi verdict

    Bangkok, Dec 20: A Myanmar court on Monday postponed the issuing of verdicts in the latest of a series of cases against the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a legal official knowledgeable about the case said.The postponed verdict from the court in the capital, Naypyitaw, is for the...
    More than 200 dead after typhoon slams Philippines
    International

    More than 200 dead after typhoon slams Philippines

    Manila, Dec 20: The death toll rose to more than 200 following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year, with 52 people still missing and several central towns and provinces grappling with downed communications and power outages and pleading for food and water, officials said...
    Myanmar public urges gas sanctions to stop military funding
    International

    Myanmar public urges gas sanctions to stop military funding

    Jakarta (Indonesia), Dec 15: The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realised that money from the company she loved was now in the hands of the military leaders she hated. She worked for Total Energies, the French company that operates a gas field off Myanmar's coast with a...
    Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US
    International

    Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US

    Washington, Dec 8: A major outage in Amazon's cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of US companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become. The incident at Amazon Web Services...
    WHO says measures against delta work for omicron variant too
    International

    WHO says measures against delta work for omicron variant too

    Manila, Dec 3: World Health Organisation officials in the Western Pacific say border closures adopted by some countries may buy time to deal with the omicron coronavirus variant, but measures put in place and experience gained in dealing with the delta variant should remain the foundation for...
    Barbados says goodbye to queen, transforms into republic
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    Barbados says goodbye to queen, transforms into republic

    San Juan, Nov 30: Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders and dignitaries, including Prince Charles, attended the ceremony that began late Monday in a...
    Sweden
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    Sweden's parliament approves first female Prime Minister

    Copenhagen, Nov 24: Sweden's parliament on Wednesday approved Magdalena Andersson as the country's first female prime minister, tapping the finance minister who recently became the new leader of the Social Democratic party. Andersson was tapped to replace Stefan Lofven as party leader and prime...
    Video of missing Chinese tennis star posted online
    Sports

    Video of missing Chinese tennis star posted online

    Beijing, Nov 21: The editor of a Communist Party newspaper posted a video online that he said shows missing tennis star Peng Shuai watching a match Sunday, as the ruling party tried to quell fears abroad while suppressing information in China about Peng after she accused a senior leader of sexual...
    Roadside bomb in Afghanistan
    International

    Roadside bomb in Afghanistan's capital wounds two people

    Kabul, Nov 15: A roadside bomb blew up on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, wounding two people, police said. The bomb detonated as a taxi was passing by in the Kota-e Sangi district of western Kabul. The Taliban spokesman for Kabul police, who goes by a single name Mobin,...
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