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Obama: “Lives have been saved” by US surveillance programmes
BERLIN - Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, United States President Barack Obama today (June 19) defended Internet and phone surveillance programmes as...
Indonesia to use cloud-seeding to extinguish fires
JAKARTA — Indonesia plans to use cloud-seeding to create rain and extinguish the fires on Sumatra island, an official was reported as saying today (June 19).
Malaysia bans open burning activities in three states
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Department of Environment (DOE) has announced an immediate ban against open burning activities in Selangor, Malacca and Johor — three states currently...
UK soldiers’ families can sue over Iraq deaths, court rules
LONDON - Britain’s highest court says the families of several soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them.
Obama to renew call to reduce nuclear weapons
BERLIN – United States President Barack Obama will use a speech today (June 19) to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear...
Monsoon floods kill 86 in India
LUCKNOW - A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern...
Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way the Americans are reaching out to the Taliban...
Global refugee numbers at 18-year high, UN says
GENEVA - The Syrian civil war contributed to push the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide...




