BOGOTA, (APP/AFP): Colombian police have seized eight tons of cocaine from the country’s main organized crime ring, the largest ever haul in the nation’s history, the president said Sunday. “Congratulations @PoliciaColombia: operation in Turbo have seized the largest amount in our history. A crushing blow to the criminals,” President Juan Manuel Santos said on Twitter. […]
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Colombia nabs record-breaking eight tons of cocaine
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A determined Clinton woos wary voters: blue-collar whites
PADUCAH, United States, (APP/AFP): No Democratic presidential candidate has won Kentucky since 1980 except Hillary Clinton’s husband Bill, but she is treating the state as an opportunity to appeal to a demographic that has consistently snubbed her: working-class white men. The Bluegrass State holds its Democratic primary on Tuesday, and Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders is […]
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UN chief calls for family care-giving on int’l families day
UNITED NATIONS, (APP) : On International Day of Families, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on governments, businesses and institutions to recognize that care-giving is an essential part of family life. “Everyone needs care from family members at some point in their lives – and all should be able to provide that care when the […]
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US, S. Korea, Japan to hold joint drill against N. Korea
SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – South Korea, Japan and the United States will hold their first anti-missile drills together next month to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, a Seoul official said Monday. The drill will be held in the waters near Hawaii on June 28, said an official at the Seoul’s defense ministry, ahead of […]
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Azerbaijan, Armenia leaders meet in bid to ease Karabakh tensions
YEREVAN, (APP/AFP): The US and Russia will push the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia to shore up a fragile truce when the arch-foes meet on Monday for the first time since a surge in violence over the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region. Four days of fighting in Nagorny Karabakh in early April killed at least 110 […]
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Philippines’ Duterte says communist leader welcome home
DAVAO, Philippines, (APP/AFP): The leader of the Philippines’ communist insurgency will be welcome to return home after nearly three decades in exile and participate in peace talks, president-elect Rodrigo Duterte has said. Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison wrote in a Facebook post last week he hoped to come home following the […]