HONG KONG, Apr 24 (AP): A court in Hong Kong handed down prison sentences of up to 16 months on Wednesday to eight leaders of massive 2014 pro-democracy protests on charges of public nuisance offences.The sentences are seen as an effort by the government of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory to...
Read moreDUBAI, Apr 24 (AP): Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others.The...
Read moreCHANGSHA, Apr 24 (Xinhua): China aims to build a scientific research station in the south polar region of the moon and realise manned lunar exploration mission in about ten years, said a senior space official on Wednesday.Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration, made the remarks at the...
Read moreDURBAN, Apr 24 (BBC): Floods and mudslides in the South African city of Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal province have killed at least 60 people, officials say.A six-month-old baby and a young child are among the dead.More than 1,000 people have been displaced according to President Cyril Ramaphosa who has...
Read moreNEW DELHI, Apr 24 (AFP): A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh early Wednesday and was felt in neighbouring Tibet.The epicenter of the shallow quake was about 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Along, and 180 kilometres southwest of the state capital Itanagar, according to the US...
Read moreMueller report is beginning, not the end: HillaryNEW YORK, Apr 2: Special counsel Robert Mueller's report is only the beginning of a reckoning on election meddling, not the end, and "raises some serious questions," Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday. The former Democratic presidential candidate stopped short of calling for immediate...
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