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President Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown linked to officials' suicides PUBLISHED : Sunday, 03 May, 2015, 5:48am UPDATED : Sunday, 03 May, 2015, 5:48am Nectar Gan [email protected] Reports of a third Chinese official committing suicide last month - following news that four other...

Three tonnes of elephant ivory worth millions hidden in shipping container in Thailand PUBLISHED : Monday, 27 April, 2015, 11:19pm UPDATED : Monday, 27 April, 2015, 11:19pm Agence France-Presse in Bangkok Thai Customs officials present elephant tusks worth millionsof dollars that they found...

Indonesia, Thailand, agree to work together on illegal fishing AFP April 23, 2015, 10:08 pm Jakarta (AFP) - Thailand's junta chief Thursday said he would invoke controversial powers to clean up his country's fishing industry after the EU threatened to ban fish imports from the kingdom unless...

Malaysian opposition leader warns against return to ‘dark ages’ after indefinite detention reinstated The government says the new Prevention of Terrorism Act, which also allows detention without trial, is aimed at curbing Islamic militancy amid fears that the Islamic State group in the Middle...

Erdogan meets Turkey captains after Fenerbahce attack AFP April 13, 2015, 6:24 am Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday held a hugely unusual meeting with the captains of all of Turkey's top flight football sides over situation in the game a week after a gun...

Top Silicon Valley firm cleared in landmark sex bias case PUBLISHED : Saturday, 28 March, 2015, 11:27am UPDATED : Saturday, 28 March, 2015, 11:27am Agence France-Presse in San Francisco Ellen Pao, who is now interim chief of social news site Reddit, claimed she was fired for complaining...

China says Muslim Uighurs have joined Islamic State group Mar. 10, 2015 11:22 PM EDT Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang Zhang Chunxian speaks to the media after the Xinjiang delegation group\'s meeting on the sideline of the National People\'s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in...

Suspected gas poisoning kills 1, injures 1 Japanese Central News Agency 2015-03-07 04:04 PM Taipei, March 7 (CNA) A suspected gas poisoning incident in downtown Taipei has killed one Japanese college student and left another unconscious, firefighters said Saturday. As of Saturday afternoon...

Indian rapist blames victim for ‘roaming around at night’ Guilty of gang-rape and murder, death-row Delhi attacker says only '20 per cent of girls are good' PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 03 March, 2015, 10:49pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 03 March, 2015, 10:57pm Agence France-Presse in New Delhi British...

Islamic State struggling with in-fighting among foreign jihadists Islamist group suffering setbacks as tension and power struggles emerge among the ranks of its foreign fighters Mohammed Nahin Ahmed (L) and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, both 22, who have admitted preparing to carry out terrorist acts...

Man allegedly stabs two people at Detroit bus stop after asking if they were Muslims The two men who were stabbed have been released from the hospital Payton Guion New York Tuesday 17 February 2015 A man allegedly asked two people if they were Muslims before allegedly stabbing them at a...

Hunter killed after being mistakenly identified as boar 2015/02/14 20:16:18 Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) A 69-year-old man was shot dead by his friend during a pig hunt in northern Taiwan's Miaoli County after being misidentified as a boar, police said Saturday. The man, surnamed Chen, was with...

Death for Chan and Sukumaran while home-town kingpin gets reprieve Date February 13, 2015 - 6:37PM Michael Bachelard Death: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. It's a tale of two drug rings in Indonesia. The first manufactured kilograms of the drug ice, known locally as sabu sabu, at a...

Japanese scholar alleges errors in Islamic State hostage crisis Islamic expert who tried to join negotiations to free Japanese Islamic State captives says Tokyo disregarded crucial lines of communication PUBLISHED : Monday, 09 February, 2015, 10:50pm UPDATED : Monday, 09 February, 2015...

Tesco shopper arrested for changing demo iPad background to pornography Ceri Morgan is said to have panicked after he could not change the image back Jon Stone Saturday 31 January 2015 A Tesco customer was arrested after setting hardcore pornography as the wallpaper background on an iPad as...

El Salvadorian teenager sentenced to 30 years imprisonment after miscarriage freed Campaigners remain concerned about the fate of 16 further women in prison under similar circumstances Rose Troup Buchanan Friday 23 January 2015 Campaigners celebrated yesterday after a teenage El...

Boko Haram attacks: France can help itself, but Nigeria needs support Date January 13, 2015 - 1:10PM Paul McGeough Chief foreign correspondent A man injured in a suicide blast in Potiskum is taken to hospital. Photo: AFP Ignatius Kaigama, a Catholic archbishop whose Jos diocese is in...

26 men, weeping and protesting innocence, face trial in Egypt over 'gay activities' PUBLISHED : Monday, 22 December, 2014, 1:32pm UPDATED : Monday, 22 December, 2014, 1:32pm Agence France-Presse in Cairo In a related case, eight Egyptian men convicted for "inciting debauchery" over an...

Agence France-Presse December 19, 2014 12:45pm Indonesia closes island airport after volcano erupts Indonesia temporarily closed a domestic airport Friday after a volcano in the country's east erupted, spewing plumes of ash hundreds of metres into the air, officials said. The volcano...

Putin scraps plans to build major gas pipeline to Europe With oil prices down, president says smaller one to Turkey will be built PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 03 December, 2014, 4:07am UPDATED : Wednesday, 03 December, 2014, 4:07am The Washington Post in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin...