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  • While handing out meals to Hurricane Florence victims in New Bern, North Carolina, US President Donald Trump got a special request — a hug from a young boy who was helping out. Trump obliged.
    Trump tells Carolinas: ‘Washington is with you’
    US: US President Donald Trump toured storm-battered areas of the Carolinas on Wednesday, handing out meals to residents and promising the “100 percent” support of the federal...
  • South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents at a joint signing ceremony after their summit in Pyongyang.- AFP
    KIM TO VISIT SEOUL, SHUT MISSILE SITE
    SOUTH KOREA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make a historic visit to Seoul “in the near future”, he said Wednesday after a summit with the South’s Moon Jae-in in...
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (front R) review honour guards during a welcoming ceremony at Pyongyang airport yesterday. - AFP
    HOPE FOR NUCLEAR TALKS BREAKTHROUGH
    NORTH KOREA: South Korean President Moon Jae-in began his historic three-day visit to North Korea yesterday during which he will seek to achieve a breakthrough in faltering...
  • US-China trade war enters new phase
    US: US President Donald Trump on Monday effectively broadsided one of the world's largest trade relationships, announcing plans to proceed with tariffs on another $200...
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  • Bangladesh to move Rohingya to an island from next month
    BANGLADESH: Bangladesh will next month start moving 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island, officials said Tuesday, despite warnings the silty strip is prone to violent weather.Prime Minister...
  • UN probe wants Myanmar’s army removed from politics
    MYANMAR: Myanmar’s powerful army should be removed from politics, UN investigators said Tuesday in the final version of a damning report reiterating calls for top generals to be prosecuted for...
  • People clean-up debris caused by Typhoon Mangkhut outside a housing estate on the waterfront in Hong Kong on Monday. - AFP
    Massive clean-up in Hong Kong
    HONG KONG: Hong Kong began a massive clean-up Monday after Typhoon Mangkhut raked the city, shredding trees and bringing damaging floods, in a trail of destruction that has left dozens dead in the...
  • A tree that crashed on a house in Wilmington, North Carolina.
    Florence dumps ‘epic’ amounts of rain fall
    US: Authorities on Saturday warned residents displaced by a killer hurricane that its devastation was far from over, as Florence dumped “epic amounts of rainfall” across the southeastern United...
  • Waves slam the Oceana Pier and Pier House Restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina as Hurricane Florence approached the area.
    ‘Catastrophic’ Florence batters Carolinas
    US: Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas early yesterday with howling winds, life-threatening storm surges and torrential rains as it edged closer to the coast in what officials warned is a “...
  • Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the World Economic Forum on Asean in Hanoi on Wednesday. - AFP
    Aung San Suu Kyi defends jailing of journalists
    VIETNAM: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that two Reuters journalists jailed for investigating a massacre in Rakhine state were not convicted because they were journalists...
  • Police cars outside the shooting scene at Bakersfield, California.
    Six dead in Bakersfield, California shootings
    US: A man went on a shooting rampage in California on Wednesday, killing five people including his wife, before taking his own life, a police spokesman told AFP.The shooting in Bakersfield in central...
  • Mamoudou Gassama displays a certificate of courage and dedication. (Left) Scaling an apartment building to save a four-year-old child dangling from a fifth-floor.
    French ‘Spiderman’ becomes citizen
    FRANCE: The migrant hero nicknamed “Spiderman” for saving a child hanging off a balcony by scaling a Paris apartment block with his bare hands has become a French citizen, according to a government...
  • Trump promises a ‘real book’ on his White House
    US: US President Donald Trump says that he will write a “real book” about his time in the White House, as he continued to seek to discredit other efforts to chronicle his chaotic tenure.In a morning...
  • Bhopal tailor admits to killing 33 truck drivers
    INDIA: A tailor in Bhopal admitted to killing 33 truck drivers and their helpers. Adesh Khamra from Mandideep committed the first murder around 2010 in Amravati and the second one in Nashik. Soon he...
  • Hospital staff undergo training on a skiing simulator at the Yanqing sports school in Beijing. - AFP
    Chinese farmers swap sheep for skis
    CHINA: It may be hot outside but that doesn't stop doctors and former shepherds on skis snowploughing on giant white treadmills on the outskirts of Beijing -- part of the battalions of workers...
  • Millions at risk as cyclone hurtles towards Philippines.
    Typhoon Mangkhut bears down on Philippines
    THE PHILIPPINES: A super typhoon roared toward the Philippines on Thursday, prompting thousands to evacuate ahead of its heavy rains and fierce winds that are set to strike at the weekend before...