Boat from Myanmar with hundreds of migrants capsizes off Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (AP): A boat carrying about 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized last week in the Indian Ocean close to the border between Thailand and Malaysia, with at least one body recovered floating in the sea, 10 rescued and dozens missing, officials said Sunday.The timing and the exact...
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Russia won't drop core conditions for ending Ukraine war
MOSCOW, Nov 09 (Reuters): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that he was ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio but that Russia would not abandon its core conditions for ending the Ukraine war.U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to broker an end to the Ukraine war,...
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Philippines braces for 'super typhoon' Over million people evacuated
MANILA, Nov 09 (BBC/AFP): More than a million people have been evacuated and at least two people killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Super Typhoon Fung-wong's expected landfall on the east coast.The storm, which comes just days after another typhoon ravaged the country, will slam into...
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Will meet Trump today
NEW YORK, Nov 09 (BBC): Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa has arrived in Washington for an official visit, just two days after the US formally revoked his status as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.The former Islamist militant will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, 11 months...
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Japan sees tiny tsunami following 6.7-quake
TOKYO, Nov 09 (AFP): Japan said Sunday evening tiny tsunami waves hit its northern Pacific coast after an offshore 6.7-magnitude earthquake.The first tsunami hit Miyako, Iwate, at 5:37 pm (0837 GMT), but it was so small that the Japan Meteorological Agency said it could not measure its size. Two minutes...
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Tanzania charges more than 200
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 09 (AFP): Tanzania charged more than 200 people with treason, a lawyer and judicial sources told AFP, with the opposition saying Saturday yet another of their leaders had been arrested.President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the October 29 poll with 98 percent of the vote, according to...
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