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Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:12:17 GMT
China challenges Australia anti-dumping measures at WTO: govt
China said on Thursday it had filed a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization challenging Australia's anti-dumping measures on a range of goods, marking further escalation in tensions between the two countries. The suit -- regarding Chinese exports...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:56:18 GMT
China challenges Australia anti-dumping measures at WTO: govt
China said on Thursday it had filed a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization challenging Australia's anti-dumping measures on a range of goods, marking further escalation in tensions between the two countries. The suit -- regarding Chinese exports...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:06:20 GMT
Luxury in the clouds: Shanghai opens world's highest hotel
The world's highest luxury hotel, boasting a restaurant on the 120th floor and 24-hour personal butler service, has opened in Shanghai to guests with deep pockets and a head for heights. Elevators whizz guests up the intimidating spiral-like skyscr...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:06:18 GMT
Nanny accused of Pinochet-era crimes loses extradition appeal
A Sydney-based Chilean woman accused of Pinochet-era crimes lost a court appeal Thursday against extradition to Chile to face seven counts of aggravated kidnapping. Adriana Elcira Rivas Gonzalez, now aged in her late 60s, has been fighting extradit...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:58:20 GMT
'It's a plague': Croatian farmers incensed by wolf attacks
The wolf corpse hanging from a road sign outside a small Croatian town warned that farmers had been pushed too far -- attacks on their livestock were driving them to desperation. Nobody knows who strung up the wolf, but the incident in April came j...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:54:19 GMT
Where things stand for Afghanistan as Ghani visits Washington
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani begins a visit to Washington Thursday at a time the Taliban are making huge advances across the country. There are fears that already-demoralised Afghan security forces will be swiftly overrun when the remaining Americ...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:06:29 GMT
Turks defend nature against Erdogan's development push
Lush, thick woodland and green tea fields coat the slopes of an idyllic valley, a slice of pastoral heaven near the Turkish president's familial home that will soon be gone. A government-friendly company plans to extract 20 million tons of stone fr...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:44:18 GMT
Canada finds hundreds of graves at former indigenous school: media
Hundreds of unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic residential school for indigenous children in western Canada, local media reported late Wednesday. Excavations at the site around the former school in Marieval, Saskatchewan began a...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:28:18 GMT
Thai democracy protesters rally against govt despite Covid warnings
Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters rallied in Bangkok Thursday to call for the government's resignation, defying warnings from authorities about the kingdom's soaring coronavirus cases. The marches came on the 89th anniversary of the Siamese Revo...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:28:17 GMT
China's crypto-miners look abroad as regulators tighten noose
When a prefecture in northwestern China's Xinjiang region ordered a halt on cryptocurrency mining projects this month, Chris Zhu scrambled to move clients' machines southward, spending over a week to reassemble in Sichuan. But after the shift, he r...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:24:16 GMT
Mexico president turns on middle class after election blow
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has lashed out at middle-class voters he calls selfish and unscrupulous after losing support in the capital -- traditionally a bastion of his party. Lopez Obrador's Morena party lost its absolute majori...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:16:15 GMT
'Traumatized' Britney Spears urges judge to end guardianship
Britney Spears urged a judge in an emotional hearing Wednesday to end an "abusive" guardianship that gave her father control of her affairs in 2008. "I just want my life back. It's been 13 years and it's enough," Spears said in the 20-minute addres...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 05:02:19 GMT
Philippines' ex-president 'Noynoy' Aquino dies
Former Philippine president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino, the reserved scion of one of Asia's most famous political families, died Thursday. He was 61. Aquino, who was in office from 2010 to 2016, was the only son of the late former president Corazon Aq...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:50:19 GMT
Taiwan's Apple Daily says it will continue operations
The Taiwanese edition of Apply Daily assured readers that its operations will continue as the island's government on Thursday denounced the closure of its sister paper in Hong Kong under a national security law. Hong Kong's most popular tabloid had...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 04:16:28 GMT
White out of France series as Wallaby injury worries mount
Scrum-half Nic White was Thursday ruled out of the Wallabies' three-Test series against France, with concern also mounting over the fitness of experienced backs James O'Connor and Matt To'omua. White, who plays for the ACT Brumbies, suffered a knee...



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