WELLINGTON, (APP/AFP): New Zealanders will learn Thursday whether a proposal to ditch Britain’s Union Jack from the national flag has been successful, with opinion polls indicating they will stick with the existing banner. Prime Minister John Key has been the main advocate for change, organising a referendum on the issue he describes as a once-in-a-generation […]
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New Zealand awaits flag vote decision
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Lula, Brazil left’s ‘best player,’ seeks to save game
SAO PAULO, (APP/AFP): Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rallied his labor union support base Wednesday against a swelling movement to oust his successor, Dilma Rousseff, and block his own political comeback. With an explosive corruption scandal and a deep recession threatening his party’s 13-year rule, Lula told a packed hall of union members […]
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China mine accident kills 19: Xinhua
BEIJING, March 24, (APP/AFP/Millat): At least 19 people have been killed in a coal mine accident in China, state media and officials said Thursday. The accident happened on Wednesday night at a mine in the northern province of Shanxi owned by Shanxi Datong Coal Mine Group, the official Xinhua news agency said, without giving further […]
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Congo president Sassou Nguesso reelected in first round: official
BRAZZAVILLE, (APP/AFP): Congo president Denis Sassou Nguesso extended his 32 years in power winning elections in the first round with 60 percent of the vote, the interior minister said Thursday. Interior minister Raymond Zephyrin Mboulou announced the results on national television at 3:30 am (0230 GMT) following a tense weekend poll held under a communications […]
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UN urges bold climate action as extreme weather becomes ‘the new normal’
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): Observing the World Meteorological Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that extreme weather events are becoming “the new normal” and bold climate action is needed to “face the future now”. “Only by responding decisively to the climate challenge can we avoid the worst impacts of climate change and lay the […]
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US Navy ship missing for 95 years found near San Francisco
WASHINGTON, March 24 (APP/AFP): A US Navy ship that went missing 95 years ago with 56 aboard has been found off San Francisco, ending one of the biggest mysteries in US naval history, authorities said Wednesday. The USS Conestoga tug boat, which disappeared on March 25, 1921 after departing San Francisco on its way to […]