Aussie Labor mulls legal challenge to govt policies
Expulsion of Australian ministers cast doubt over more than 100 decisions made by Turnbull government, says opposition party SYDNEY: Australia’s…
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China agency denies Russian model, 14, died of overwork after taking part in Fashion Week
SHANGHAI: The Chinese agency representing a 14-year-old Russian model who died after taking part in Shanghai Fashion Week has denied…
Philippines police chief hints at possible run for presidency
MANILA: The Philippines’ top police chief who oversaw a bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of Filipinos hinted…
Storm kills at least 7 in Europe, freighter runs aground
BERLIN/PRAGUE: Strong winds battered northern and central Europe on Sunday, killing at least six people in Germany, Poland and the…
Chinese universities start ‘Xi Thought’ institutes
BEIJING: Xi Jinping Thought will now be taught, researched and promoted in universities across China, ensuring that the leader’s eponymous…
HSBC 3Q profits up five-fold to US$4.6 bln on booming Asia
Profits at banking giant HSBC leapt five fold in the third quarter (3Q) to US$4.6 billion, the company said Monday,…
PNG demands clarity from Australia on ‘tense’ Pacific camp
SYDNEY: Refugee advocates warned of an “extremely tense” situation at a Papua New Guinea asylum-seeker camp Monday ahead of…
N. Korea’s Kim tours cosmetics plant with wife, sister
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un took his stylish wife and powerful sister to a make-up plant for a “field guidance…