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Facing social unrest, Hong Kong looks to build more housing-
By Associated Press HONG KONG: Land-starved Hong Kong plans to build more affordable housing in response to public demands that ...
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors way of building molecules-
By Associated Press STOCKHOLM: The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max ...
Pope expresses ‘shame’ at scale of clergy abuse in France-
By Associated Press VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the ...
Red Crescent says bodies of 17 people washed ashore in Libya-
By Associated Press TRIPOLI: At least 17 bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants, have washed ashore in western Libya, the Libyan Red ...
China shifts top Tibet official to Beijing ahead of next year’s CPC leadership reshuffle-
By PTI BEIJING: Qizhala, an ethnic Tibetan and Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, has been shifted to Beijing by ...
US woman in Bali ‘suitcase murder’ to be released October 29-
By Associated Press JAKARTA: A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body ...
As Lebanese got poorer, politicians stowed wealth abroad-
By Associated Press BEIRUT: A trove of leaked documents confirmed that for years, Lebanon’s politicians and bankers have stowed wealth ...
Germany expands pensions to more Holocaust survivors-
By Associated Press BERLIN: The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday ...
Sri Lanka Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa asks anti-graft commission to probe people named in Pandora Papers-
By PTI COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday gave a one-month deadline to the country’s anti-graft commission to ...
What’s in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?-
By Associated Press A trove of confidential documents outlining how global elites squirrel away their wealth to avoid tax has ...
