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Pakistan PM aims to restart Afghan peace talks
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Suicide bomber detonates inside govt building in east Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s Taliban tells teachers, students to block presidential elections or risk death
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Indonesia’s ‘Good Palm’ drive enflames anger as smoke clouds skies
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Thai MPs call for PM to resign following oath omission
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Saudi Arabia promises 'material evidence' linking Iran to oil attack
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Iran’s Rouhani says Yemenis attacked Saudi oil sites as ‘warning’
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US seeks UN action on Saudi attacks despite likely Russian opposition
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Spanish air force training plane crashes into sea, killing two
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Dutch lawyer’s murder sparks ‘narco-state’ fears
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Singapore probes couple over anti-death penalty shirts
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Fire in Liberia school kills at least 30 children
MONROVIA, Sept 18 — At least 30 children in Liberia were killed in a fire at their school, police said today. “The kids were learning the Quran when the fire broke out,”...
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Risk of no-deal Brexit ‘very real’, says EU’s Juncker
STRASBOURG, Sept 18 — A deal to ensure a smooth British exit from the European Union is still possible but the risk of a no-deal is also “very real”, European Commission...
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UK’s Corbyn suggests will stay neutral if new Brexit vote
LONDON, Sept 18 — Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour party, suggested today he would remain neutral if there was a second referendum on Brexit....
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Russians protest outside Putin administration over crackdown
MOSCOW, Sept 18 — About 200 Russians including actors and musicians staged a protest today outside the presidential administration in Moscow in support of jailed demonstrators...
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Netanyahu, Gantz deadlocked after Israeli polls
JERUSALEM, Sept 18 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz were deadlocked today after an Israeli general election, reports said, raising the...
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India bans e-cigarettes as vaping backlash grows
NEW DELHI, Sept 18 — India announced today a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes, as a backlash gathers pace worldwide due to health concerns about a product promoted as...
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In new ‘technical support’ scam in Singapore, scammers pose as Singtel staff or cybercrime police
SINGAPORE, Sept 18 — The police have alerted the public about a new type of scam, in which scammers pose as technical support staff from Singtel or the Singapore Police Force...
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Saudi envoy says Iran was behind attacks on oil facilities
LONDON, Sept 18 — Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to London said today that Iran was almost certainly behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities. “Almost certainly it’s...
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Paris sending experts to Saudi to shed light on attacks, says Macron
PARIS, Sept 18 — France is sending experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate the origin of attacks on Saudi oil facilities that Washington blamed on Iran, the presidency said today...
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Taliban open to new talks with US after bloody attacks
KABUL, Sept 18 — The Taliban’s chief negotiator has said their “doors are open” to resuming talks with Washington, hours after two attacks by the insurgents killed at...
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Cargo plane carrying four missing in eastern Indonesia
TIMIKA (Indonesia), Sept 18 — An Indonesian cargo plane with four people on board lost contact with air traffic control today, an official said, the latest incident to hit the...
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Pakistan slams India over Kashmir remarks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18 — Pakistan fired back today at New Delhi’s “jingoistic rhetoric” after India’s foreign minister vowed to retake Islamabad’s portion of the disputed...
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S. Korea education row embroils opposition leader with son at Yale
SEOUL, Sept 18 — A scandal over educational privilege in South Korea that threatened to derail the new justice minister’s appointment has spread to engulf the opposition’s...
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Three people injured after car smashes into Trump Plaza lobby in New York suburb
NEW YORK, Sept 18 — A car ploughed into the main hall of a Trump Plaza in suburban New York yesterday night, causing minor injuries to two bystanders and the driver, news media...
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Preferably dead: Philippines’ Duterte seeks freed inmates’ capture
MANILA, Sept 18 — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has renewed an offer of big bounties for hundreds of convicted murderers and rapists set free in a corrections bureau...
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Wary of conflict with Iran, Trump takes go-slow approach to attack on Saudi oil
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 — Known for acting on impulse, President Donald Trump has adopted an uncharacteristically go-slow approach over whether to hold Iran responsible for attacks...
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New EU Commission faces turning climate pledges into reality
BRUSSELS, Sept 18 — The next European Commission taking charge of the EU from November has made an ambitious, global-leading fight against climate change the centrepiece of its...
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Singaporean man with gender identity disorder reoffends, harasses and insults modesty of two girls, one woman
SINGAPORE, Sept 18 — After he was let out of prison in March on remission for good behaviour, Soh Wee Boon could not return to work as a petrol kiosk pump attendant and turned...
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Aussie hiker with ‘snapped’ leg makes two day crawl to safety
SYDNEY, Sept 18 — An Australian bushwalker who tumbled down a waterfall, snapping his leg in two, told today how he managed to crawl for two arduous days though scrub and forest...