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South China Sea drills: US, Australian and Philippine forces sink a ship
World
LAOAG, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, ...
Chinese leader Xi visits the French Pyrenees in a personal gesture by Macron
World
TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private ...
May Day 2024: Workers and activists call for greater labor rights
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day with largely peaceful protests Wednesday over rising prices, low wages ...
Lok Sabha election 2024: India votes in phase 2 as PM Modi pushes BJP’s pro-Hindu line
World
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians voted Friday in a moderate turnout in the second round of multi-phase national elections as ...
Lok Sabha election 2024: India begins voting in mammoth polls
World
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians began voting Friday in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist ...
Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people
World
SYDNEY (AP) — Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he ...
US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will stage drills in South China Sea
World
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare ...
Hong Kong: Law giving government more power to curb dissent passed
World
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a new national security law Tuesday that grants the government more power to ...
North Korea resume missile test days after South Korea, US end military drills
U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days ...
Taylor Swift steals the show at the ASEAN summit
Entertainment
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Taylor Swift stole the show at an Asian summit Tuesday when Singapore’s leader defended his tiny country’s lucrative ...