Drops key ex-junta party from govt

BANGKOK, Sept 04 (AFP): Thailand's new prime minister named her cabinet on Wednesday, dumping an influential military-linked party out of government for the first time since 2019.King Maha Vajiralongkorn officially endorsed the new team of ministers nominated by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of the Pheu Thai party, and she is...

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Trump pleading not guilty to revised 2020 polls charges

WASHINGTON, Sept 04 (AFP): Donald Trump is to plead not guilty to the charges in a revised indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election, according to a court filing on Tuesday.Trump, in a filing with the US District Court in Washington, waived...

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Harris visits New Hampshire to tout her small business tax plan

WASHINGTON, Sept 04(AP): Vice President Kamala Harris is using a New Hampshire campaign stop on Wednesday to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses, a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes.She wants to expand from $5,000...

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US to send more senior official to China military forum

NEW YORK, Sept 04 (Reuters): The United States will send Michael Chase, the deputy assistant secretary of defence for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, to China's top annual security forum in mid-September, a US official told Reuters.The choice of Chase has not been previously reported. He is more senior than the...

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Russia's strike on Lviv kills seven persons

KYIV, Sept 04 (AFP/BBC): A Russian strike on Ukraine's western city of Lviv on Wednesday killed seven people, including three children, the interior minister said.The attack comes a day after missiles hit the central city of Poltava in one of the single deadliest bombardments of Russia's invasion, which has stretched...

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Family of UK aid worker killed in Gaza calls for new probe

LONDON, Sept 04 (AFP): The family of a British aid worker killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza in April on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into his death.James Kirby, from Bristol in southwest England, was one of seven people killed in a strike on a World Central Kitchen...

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UN weather agency warns of 'red alert' after record heat

SINGAPORE, Sept 04 (AFP): Rising temperatures should trigger a global "red alert", the United Nations' weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again smashed records in August.The world saw record average temperatures in August for the second year running, preliminary data from the EU's climate monitor...

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Egypt's leader visits Turkey to mend ties

ANKARA, Sept 04 (AFP): Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greeted Egypt's leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday as he arrived in Ankara to seal their mended ties.The two men shook hands as Sisi stepped off his plane in the Turkish capital, according to images released by the Turkish presidency.After a...

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