Nine people have died in a fire at a hospital in southern Taiwan, according to local media. The fire struck the Pingtung county hospital at around 09:40 local time (01:00 GMT) – just as Typhoon Krathon made landfall to the […]
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Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has taken his oath of office, promising to “rewrite history” for a country that is recovering from its worst economic crisis. The left-leaning Dissanayake has cast himself as a disruptor of the political
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a leftist politician, has taken a commanding lead in Sri Lanka’s presidential election. The election on Saturday is the first to be held since mass protests unseated the country’s leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022 after the country
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A man in Singapore who attempted to frame his estranged wife by planting cannabis in her car has been sentenced to almost four years in jail. Tan Xianglong, 37, planted what he thought was more than half a kilo of
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Japan has accused a Chinese spy plane of breaching its airspace, in what would be the first known time that a Chinese plane has directly violated Japanese airspace. Japan scrambled fighter jets after a Y-9 surveillance plane “violated the territorial
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