MEXICOCITY (Reuters) - A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election ... "We will act with total transparency," he said ... "Every single doubt must be cleared up," he said ... ....
Beijing -The US decision to pull nearly half its troops from restive Afghanistan was high on the agenda at a meeting between the Pakistani and Chinese foreign ministers on Tuesday ... Earlier this month, officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and China met in the Afghan capital Kabul to discuss trade, development and regional security issues ... ....
In a joint statement Monday, the Democratic leaders, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep.Nancy Pelosi, said as long as Trump keeps listening to the Freedom Caucus and others on the right flank, there is no easy resolution to the impasse. world Updated. Dec 25, 2018 09.31 IST. Associated Press. Washington... In a joint statement Monday, the Democratic leaders, Sen....
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By Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panarat Thepgumpanat. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand approved marijuana for medical use and research on Tuesday, the first legalisation of the drug in a region with some of the world's strictest drug laws ...Marijuana traffickers can be subject to the death penalty in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia ... ....
The sexual violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military could have led to a surge in abandoned newborns – but it never came On the night Rahima was born, the rain lashed down on Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Inside one makeshift hut, Dildar Begum tried to help a woman in labour ... .......
By Zahra Matarani. CARITA, Indonesia, Dec 25 (Reuters) - It was a solemn Christmas for the congregation in Indonesia's Carita, a seaside town left reeling from the tsunami that has killed over 400 people and devastated the western coast of Java, as many churchgoers have fled the area for fear of further disasters ... ....
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More than 3,000 people living in or near a 36-story apartment building in Sydney, Australia were evacuated early Monday morning after residents reported hearing cracking noises that ignited concerns about the structural integrity of the high-rise, according to The Associated Press... "It's not going to be done in minutes ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody. ....
CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is demanding Egyptians lose weight. In televised comments earlier this month, the general-turned-president railed about the number of overweight people he sees and told Egyptians they must take better care of themselves ... No one disputes that Egypt has a weight problem ... 15 comments ... Security has improved ... ....
ISTANBUL. Turkey and the United States have agreed to complete their agreement on the Syrian town of Manbij by the time the full US withdrawal from Syria is completed, the state-owned Anadolu news agency cited the foreign minister as saying on Tuesday ...Main category....
Rouhani's speech was interrupted by parliament members, who Iranian news agencies said were mostly from the southwestern Khuzestan province and were protesting over shortages of drinking water in their region ... ....
Beijing. Chinese authorities have placed the wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer under de facto house arrest to stop her from attending his trial, she said Tuesday ...One of them explicitly told her not to visit Tianjin, the city where her husband stands trial on Wednesday, she wrote on social messaging app WeChat ... ....
NEW DELHI. Apple approved more than 25,000 government requests to access customer data in the first half of 2018, according to new figures released by the iPhone maker ... The highest number of requests came from Germany, with more than 42% of all requests from German authorities ... ....