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Japan hangs 6 more members of cult behind subway gas attack
Published On: July 26, 2018 12:48 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TOKYO, July 26: The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.
Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan holds general elections
Published On: July 25, 2018 08:22 PM NPT By: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, July 25: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into people waiting outside a busy polling station in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing at least 31 and casting a dark shadow on what was to be a historic day for the country as Pakistanis cast ballots to elect their thirds consecutive civilian government.
Pakistanis voting for 3rd straight civilian government
Published On: July 25, 2018 09:15 AM NPT By: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, July 25: After an acrimonious campaign, polls opened in Pakistan on Wednesday to elect the country's third straight civilian election __ a first for this majority Muslim nation that has been directly or indirectly ruled by its military for most of its 71-year history.
1 dead, dozens of hostages freed after Los Angeles standoff
Published On: July 22, 2018 05:39 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, July 22: A woman was shot and killed when a gunman ran into a busy Los Angeles supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage for about three hours Saturday before handcuffing himself and surrendering to police. No hostages were seriously hurt.
Administration Releases Wiretap Documents on Ex-Trump Adviser
Published On: July 22, 2018 10:25 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 22: The Trump administration on Saturday released a set of documents once deemed top secret relating to the wiretapping of a onetime adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
More than 300 older children split at border are reunited
Published On: July 20, 2018 11:07 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, July 20: The Trump administration said Thursday that it has reunified 364 children ages 5 and older with their families after they were separated at the border, still leaving hundreds to go before a court-imposed deadline a week away.
EU fines Google a record $5 billion over mobile system
Published On: July 18, 2018 06:22 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BRUSSELS, July 18: The European Union’s antitrust chief has fined Google a record $5 billion for abusing the market dominance of its Android mobile phone operating system.
Tokyo Olympic venues make progress with 2 years to go
Published On: July 18, 2018 12:37 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TOKYO: July 18: The Japan Sports Council gave a progress report on the new National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, saying the project is 40 percent complete with two years to go before the opening ceremony.
Nowhere to run: Rohingya hunker down as monsoon arrives
Published On: July 17, 2018 04:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
UKHIYA, July 17: The hill on which the young woman’s shelter is being built is so unstable that the earth crumbles under your feet. The threat of landslides is so dire that her neighbors have evacuated. Though living here could spell doom as the monsoon rains fall, she will live here anyway.
Putin arrives to go 1-on-1 with Trump at Helsinki summit
Published On: July 16, 2018 04:34 PM NPT By: Associated Press
HELSINKI, July 16: President Donald Trump blamed the United States, not Russian election meddling or its annexation of Crimea, for a low-point in U.S.-Russia relations hours before a summit with Vladimir Putin that played out against a backdrop of fraying Western alliances, a new peak in the Russia investigation and fears that Moscow’s aggression may go unchallenged.
Djokovic wins 4th Wimbledon by beating Anderson in 3 sets
Published On: July 15, 2018 09:35 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, July 15: Novak Djokovic is back at his best and the Wimbledon champion for a fourth time, grabbing a lead right away against a weary Kevin Anderson in the final and winning 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Sunday.
What Trump and Putin hope to achieve at Helsinki summit
Published On: July 15, 2018 03:50 PM NPT By: Associated Press
HELSINKI, July 15: The outcome of the first summit between the unpredictable first-term American president and Russia’s steely-eyed longtime leader is anybody’s guess. With no set agenda, the summit could veer between spectacle and substance.
Israel exchanges intense fire with Hamas militants in Gaza
Published On: July 15, 2018 09:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press
JERUSALEM, July 15: The Israeli military carried out its largest airstrike campaign in Gaza since the 2014 war Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel throughout the day, threatening to trigger an all-out war after weeks of growing tensions along the volatile border.
French military parades for Bastille Day, gets budget boost
Published On: July 14, 2018 05:03 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PARIS, July 14: France’s military had something extra to celebrate Saturday as it showed off its might for Bastille Day celebrations: a budget boost from President Emmanuel Macron.
Scarlett Johansson pulls out of trans drama after backlash
Published On: July 14, 2018 10:34 AM NPT By: Associated Press
Scarlett Johansson on Friday withdrew from the film "Rub & Tug" after her plans to portray a transgender man prompted a backlash.
132 die in Pakistan election violence ahead of Sharif return
Published On: July 14, 2018 08:59 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LAHORE, July 14: The deadliest attacks in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign killed at least 132 people, including a candidate, on Friday just before the arrest of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif upon his return to the country.
Johnson & Johnson told to pay $4.7 billion in baby powder lawsuit
Published On: July 13, 2018 10:55 AM NPT By: Associated Press
The company was sued by more than 9,000 women who claimed asbestos in the talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer.
Federer stunned in Wimbledon QF; Nadal, Djokovic, Isner win
Published On: July 12, 2018 05:19 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, July 12: Roger Federer was a point away from a rather tidy, straight-set victory in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. One lousy point.
Amnesty urges ‘war crimes’ probe on UAE-run prisons in Yemen
Published On: July 12, 2018 11:47 AM NPT By: Associated Press
CAIRO, July 12: An international rights group on Thursday called for an investigation into alleged disappearances, torture and possible deaths in detention facilities run by the United Arab Emirates and its allied militias in southern Yemen as potential war crimes.
Reunited immigrant children scooped up into parents’ arms
Published On: July 11, 2018 09:05 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, July 11: Lugging little backpacks, smiling immigrant children were scooped up into their parents’ arms Tuesday as the Trump administration scrambled to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families at the border.
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