MEDAN, Indonesia, Oct 17, (APP/AFP): Three Indonesian men have been arrested for allegedly trading in protected species, with police seizing animal parts including a tiger skin, deer genitalia and pangolin scales, an official said Monday. The suspects were caught over the weekend after an undercover police operation at a hotel in the city of Medan […]
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Indonesian police seize tiger skin, deer genitals
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Republican party office in North Carolina firebombed
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (APP/AFP): Police in the southern US state of North Carolina on Sunday were investigating a firebomb attack on a Republican Party office, with the message “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” sprayed on an adjacent building. No one was hurt in the arson attack overnight on the Orange County Republican Party headquarters […]
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Montenegro’s ruling party leads in tinderbox polls
PODGORICA, Montenegro, Oct 17 (APP/AFP): Montenegro’s veteran premier Milo Djukanovic’s party was leading in Sunday’s tinderbox election during which authorities arrested 20 Serbs and accused them of planning attacks and hijacking the polls. Tensions were already high over Djukanovic’s plans to forge closer ties with the EU and NATO and further heightened after the arrest […]
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Ethiopia limits diplomats’ movements, media access
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 17, (APP/AFP) – Ethiopia has banned access to foreign-based opposition media and restricted foreign diplomats’ travel, in new provisions of a state of emergency. The government declared the six-month state of emergency eight days ago, stepping up its response to an unprecedented wave of protests against its authoritarian rule which has left […]
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EU not considering Russia sanctions over Syria: Mogherini
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 17, (APP/AFP) – The EU is not considering sanctions against Russia for its role in Syria but further measures against its ally Damascus are possible, the bloc’s foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said Monday. “This has not been proposed by any member state,” Mogherini said as she arrived for a meeting of EU […]
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Hong Kong mourns world’s oldest captive giant panda
HONG KONG, Oct 17 (APP/AFP): Visitors to a Hong Kong theme park mourned the world’s oldest captive giant panda Jia Jia Monday, a day after she died there aged 38. Jia Jia was put down at Ocean Park Sunday after her health rapidly worsened and left her unable to walk without difficulty, the park said. […]