HANOI – Vietnamese prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed to Truong My Lan, the mastermind of the Southeast Asian nation’s…
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CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON — Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without…
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SEOUL — The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade, lifted by…
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Bangladesh, Pakistan and India remain the world’s smoggiest countries in 2023, air quality data show
SINGAPORE — Pakistan remained one of the world’s three smoggiest countries in 2023, as Bangladesh and India replaced Chad and Iran, with particulate…
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TOKYO – Japan welcomed 2.79 million visitors in February, a record for the month and the most for any month since the COVID-19 pandemic began,…
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HONG KONG – After a pandemic-induced lull spanning more than three years, mainland Chinese are snapping up homes in Hong Kong, accounting for up to…
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The European Union is preparing to levy tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus to placate farmers and some member states, the…
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TELUK, Indonesia – Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn…
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WASHINGTON – Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel said on Monday that the tax agency will need to boost its workforce to over 100,000 people…
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SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called fake news and disinformation based on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology…