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Cuba set for farewell for historic leader Fidel Castro

Cuba set for farewell for historic leader Fidel Castro

AFP, HAVANA: Nightclubs closed, baseball games were suspended and booze was banned Sunday as Cuba prepared to send off revolutionary leader Fidel Castro…

UK faces another Brexit legal fight over single market

AFP, LONDON: The British government could face a legal challenge over whether leaving the European Union automatically would trigger a departure from the single market, the BBC reported Monday. The pro-EU think tank British Influence will tell Brexit Secretary David Davis that it will seek a judicial…

S Korea’s Park refuses questioning by prosecutors

AFP, SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye will not answer questions from prosecutors over a snowballing influence-peddling scandal rocking her presidency, her lawyer said Monday. Prosecutors describe Park and her secret confidante, Choi Soon-Sil, as co-culprits in the scandal. They are accused…

Sikh militant chief recaptured after India jailbreak

AFP, NEW DELHI: A top Sikh militant commander was recaptured by police in the Indian capital Delhi on Monday, a day after he was freed in a dramatic jailbreak by a gang wearing police uniforms. Harminder Singh Mintoo, who heads a Sikh separatist group, was arrested on the outskirts of Delhi some 200…

3 UN workers abducted in Darfur

AFP, KHARTOUM: Armed men have abducted three UN refugee agency staffers, including two foreigners, from Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, a local government official told AFP on Monday. Two Nepalese and a Sudanese national working for UNHCR were abducted Sunday in Geneina, the capital of West…

Trump Tower becomes ‘Dump Tower’ on Google Maps

Someone renamed Donald Trump’s midtown Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn’t very flattering reports AP from New York. Instead of Trump Tower, it was briefly renamed “Dump Tower.” Users of the mapping service began noticing the new name for the Fifth Avenue…

Israel orders more F-35 warplanes from US

AFP, JERUSALEM: Israel will order 17 more US-made F-35 warplanes to take its fleet of stealthy Joint Strike Fighters to 50 over the next few years, the premier’s office said Sunday. A statement from Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the green light for the order was given by the security…

Three ministers call for Zuma to resign

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: At least three South African ministers have called for President Jacob Zuma to resign, local media reported Monday, in the most serious challenge to his leadership since he took power in 2009.The News24 news agency, citing sources in the ruling ANC party, said that Tourism Minister…
Iraqi forces try to weed out IS from those fleeing Mosul

Iraqi forces try to weed out IS from those fleeing Mosul

AFP, BARTALLA, Iraq: An Iraqi officer shuffled through identity cards as he sat at a battered desk by the side of the dust-blown highway heading east…
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