KOLKATA, (APP/AFP) – Two people were killed on Tuesday when the crude bombs they were making exploded in India’s West Bengal, a senior local police officer said. One person was also injured in the blasts which occurred in a village in Murshidabad district, 230 kilometres (193 miles) north of state capital Kolkata. The state is […]
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Homemade bomb kills 2 in India’s West Bengal
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S. Korea imposes fresh sanctions on North
SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – South Korea on Tuesday unveiled a series of fresh unilateral sanctions against North Korea that includes asking citizens to boycott North Korean restaurants abroad. The new measures imposed over the North’s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch also blacklist scores of North Korean individuals and entities and bans vessels previously docked […]
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Homesick’ refugees resettled in Cambodia return to Iran: Australia
SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – Two more refugees resettled in Cambodia from an Australian detention camp have returned home, the government said Tuesday, sparking renewed criticism about the Aus$55 million (US$40 million) scheme. Under Canberra’s hardline policy to stop asylum-seeker boats reaching its shores, those arriving by sea are denied resettlement in Australia even if found to […]
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Fourteen hurt in California commuter train derailment
SAN FRANCISCO , (APP/AFP): A commuter train derailed in a rural part of northern California Monday, injuring 14 people, authorities said. The Alameda County Fire Department said four people suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries while 10 sustained minor injuries when the train derailed in Sunol, with one of its cars tumbling into a creek. […]
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Democrat Sanders wins Maine caucuses
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory over rival Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race for president Sunday, easily beating her in the party caucuses in the northeastern state of Maine. With almost all of the precincts reporting, Sanders beat Clinton with 64.3 percent of the vote compared to her 35.5 percent. It […]
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Women’s participation rate in world’s parliaments slows, despite gains in top seats: IPU
UNITED NATIONS, (APP): Despite an increase in the number of women Speakers of Parliament, the number of female parliamentarians across the world rose by only 0.5 percentage points in 2015, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reports, dashing hopes that gender parity in parliament could be achieved within a generation. In its annual report, Women in Parliament […]