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August 25, 2019
Australia to block internet domains hosting extremist content during terror attacks
SYDNEY - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events and will consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services, officials said on Sunday.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is in France to take part in the G7 leaders' forum, said the government intended to prevent extremists from exploiting digital platforms to post extremely violent content."We are doing everything we ...
August 25, 2019
200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps
KUTUPALONG, BANGLADESH - Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees.Around 740,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state escaped in August 2017 during the brutal offensive, joining another 200,000 who fled earlier persecution in vast camps in southeast Bangladesh.Children, hijab-wearing women, and men in long-skirt lungis ...
August 25, 2019
Hong Kong protesters regroup under sea of umbrellas
HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong anti-government protesters marched in pouring rain on Sunday, regrouping under a sea of umbrellas after sometimes violent clashes a day earlier that prompted police to fire tear gas for the first time in more than a week.The Chinese-ruled city's rail operator, MTR Corp, suspended some services to try to prevent people gathering but protesters made it to a sports stadium in ...
August 25, 2019
China to fight back against US tariff move
BEIJING - China will fight back against the latest US step to increase tariffs on Chinese goods, the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily said on Sunday amid an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies."China is confident that it will follow its own path and do its own things well, and will never waver in its stand on countering any provocations by the US side," the newspaper said ...
August 25, 2019
Nauru president loses seat in election
WELLINGTON - Nauru's president, a strong supporter of Australia's hardline policy of detaining refugees on the tiny Pacific island nation, has lost his seat in a general election, official results showed Sunday.Voters went to the polls on Saturday and selected two rival candidates over Baron Waqa in his electorate of Boe, ending the 59-year-old's six years in office.His successor will not be known until the 19-member parliament meets to choose ...
August 25, 2019
Expanded South Korean military drills around disputed island draw Japanese protest
SEOUL - South Korean forces began two days of expanded drills on Sunday around an island also claimed by Japan, prompting a protest from Tokyo only days after Seoul said it would scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with its neighbor amid worsening relations.Tokyo and Seoul have long been at loggerheads over the sovereignty of the group of islets called Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo in Korean, which lie about halfway between ...
August 25, 2019
N. Korea's Kim oversaw test of 'multiple rocket launcher'
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher", state media reported Sunday -- further muddying the waters for any resumption of denuclearization talks.Pyongyang fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks in protest at US-South Korean joint military exercises, which wrapped up nearly a week ...
August 24, 2019
Former Indian minister Arun Jaitley dies
NEW DELHI — Arun Jaitley, the former Indian finance minister and one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s closest associates, died in hospital on Saturday, nearly two weeks after he was admitted following breathing difficulties, officials said.Jaitley, 66, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), stepped down as finance minister in January due to ill health, just months before elections that returned Modi’s Hindu nationalists to power.“With the demise ...
August 24, 2019
Hong Kong police use tear gas to counter protest petrol bombs
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police used tear gas to break up anti-government protests in a gritty industrial suburb on Saturday after some activists threw petrol bombs and bricks, as China freed a British consulate worker whose detention helped fuel tension.Four MTR subway stations were closed around Kwun Tong, a densely populated area of the Chinese-ruled city on the east of the Kowloon peninsula, but thousands packed the streets anyway, ...
August 24, 2019
"We are hostages": Two years on, Rohingya still in Myanmar trapped by new war
YANGON - When Myanmar officials toured refugee camps in Bangladesh last month, inviting Rohingya Muslims who fled the country to return, they brought with them pamphlets adorned with cartoons showing hijab-wearing women passing through checkpoints and happily grasping identity cards.They did not mention the new war being waged at home.While the majority of Rohingya residents of northwestern Myanmar were driven out by a military campaign that began in August 2017, ...
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