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Wildfires in Bolivia have torched two million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest and grassland since August, including some environmentally protected areas, officials said Monday. One cabinet minister decried the “macabre game” of fires being put out, then reset behind the backs of firefighters by “saboteurs.” Cinthia Asin, environmental minister for the eastern region of […]

Singapore—The body of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, who died in Singapore on Friday, September 6, is expected to be flown back home on Wednesday, September 11, at 9:00 pm local time. Zimbabwean government officials and close relatives of the deceased African strongman arrived in Singapore on Monday. Mr Mugabe had been travelling to […]

by Jasmine LEUNG / Sean GLEESON Hong Kong’s embattled leader warned the United States on Tuesday not to “interfere” with her government’s response to the city’s pro-democracy movement, after fresh protests called on Washington to ramp up pressure on Beijing. Millions of people have demonstrated over the last 14 weeks in the biggest challenge to […]

North Korea on Tuesday fired projectiles toward the sea, South Korea’s military said, hours after Pyongyang said it is willing to hold working-level talks with the United States in late September. Negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington have been gridlocked since a second summit between the North’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump […]

Reports say China is in the frontline for investment prospects in Indonesian President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo’s push for the establishment of a new capital city in Kalimantan, Borneo. In early September, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, said China was interested in investing in the public transportation sector in the new capital […]

by Catherine TRIOMPHE Jacquelin Febrillet was 26 years old on September 11, 2001 when jihadist hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center just two blocks from where she worked. Fifteen years after the attacks that day, Febrillet, by then a mother of three, was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. The likely cause: a […]

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong said he was making his way to Germany on Monday after he was released from a brief spell in custody following a mistake in his bail conditions. Wong, 22, was among multiple prominent democracy advocates who were detained late last month in a roundup by police as the semi-autonomous […]

by Dmitry ZAKS UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try to save his job and his hardline Brexit strategy Monday when he confronts parliament and his Irish counterpart in another showdown week. The charismatic but divisive British leader finds himself facing a political impasse, just six weeks after taking over from his beleaguered predecessor Theresa […]

Five state universities are collaborating to develop a national electric car known as Molina in a bid to spearhead a new era in Indonesia. Minister of Research Technology and Higher Education Mohamad Nasir said the University of Indonesia (UI), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Gajah Mada University (UGM), Sebelas Maret University (UNS) and the Sepuluh November Technology Institute (ITS) […]

A suicide bomber dressed in a traditional Muslim woman’s gown died after detonating a bomb outside a military camp in the restive southern Philippines, but no other casualties were reported, authorities said. Suicide attacks were once very rare in the Philippines, but since July 2018 there have been four, including the latest explosion on Jolo […]

by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Pro-democracy activists jammed Hong Kong streets in a march to the United States consulate on Sunday in a bid to ramp up international pressure on Beijing, but hardcore protesters later clashed with riot police across the city’s core. Millions have demonstrated over the last 14 weeks in the biggest challenge […]

by Dmitry ZAKS British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a fresh blow Saturday when senior minister Amber Rudd quit her work and pensions post in protest at his handling of the Brexit crisis. Her resignation caps a miserable week for Johnson as he tries to steer his splintered country through its biggest political crisis since […]

by Luc OLINGA Boeing has suspended a test on its new long-haul 777X aircraft, the company said Friday, a setback that comes as it battles to rebound from the crisis surrounding the 737 MAX. The so-called “final load” tests are part of the aircraft certification process, overseen by inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), […]

A new face-swap app has risen, this time allowing people to change faces with their favourite celebrities. The Chinese app called Zao works by superimposing an image of the user’s face onto a character in a video or GIF using artificial intelligence (AI). After backlash from users, it is updating its policies over concerns about […]

by Amir Havasi Iran said Saturday it has fired up advanced centrifuges to boost its enriched uranium stockpiles, in the latest scaling back of commitments under a crumbling 2015 nuclear deal. The country’s Atomic Energy Organisation said, however, that it would honour commitments to give UN inspectors access to monitor its nuclear sites. Three European […]