HONG KONG, Nov 2, (APP/AFP) – British banker Rurik Jutting understood what he was doing and was aware of the consequences when he killed two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment, a psychiatrist told his trial Wednesday, as the defence argued her testimony was “absurd”. Jutting, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two murder […]
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Murder accused Jutting ‘aware of consequences’ of killings
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Journalist killed every 4.5 days, says UNESCO
PARIS, Nov 2, (APP/AFP) – One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by UNESCO on Wednesday. During the last decade, 827 journalists have been killed while on the job, the UNESCO director-general’s report said. The worst hit areas were Arab States including Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. Latin America […]
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Nobel winner Alexievich urges release of Russia activist
MINSK, Nov 2, (APP/AFP) – Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, last year’s Nobel Literature Prize winner, has signed a petition for the release of a Russian activist who says he has been tortured and threatened in prison. Opposition activist Ildar Dadin, 34, alleged in a letter to his wife published Tuesday that he has been regularly […]
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Female student killed in Canada school stabbing attack
MONTREAL, Nov 2, (APP/AFP) – A young man stabbed two female students at their high school in western Canada on Tuesday, killing one and wounding the other, who was hospitalized in stable condition, police said. The incident took place in Abbotsford on the US border, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) east of Vancouver, with the […]
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Russia seeks ‘honest’ cooperation in Syria: Lavrov
ATHENS, Nov 2, (APP/AFP) – Russia seeks “honest cooperation” for a political solution in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday as Moscow declared a brief truce in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo. “We hope our partners will draw (the) necessary conclusions (so that) we will all aim for honest cooperation… for a political […]
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S.Africa’s Zuma drops bid to block graft report
PRETORIA, Nov 2, (APP/AFP): South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday abandoned a court bid to block a watchdog’s report into corruption allegations against him, as calls grew for him to stand down. Zuma’s surprise move came as thousands of people took to the streets of the administrative capital Pretoria to demand that he leaves […]