VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Monday condemned the “barbaric resurgence” of anti-Semitism around the world, linking it to the rise of populism. Next week’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp should serve as a reminder not to become indifferent, Francis said to a delegation from the human rights and
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WATSONS’ #HappyBeautifulYear 2020 Chinese New Year video is about the importance of respecting and keeping up with traditions besides bridging the gap between the older and younger generations while encouraging all to appreciate each other as well as stay trendy and beautiful during the celebration. The festive video that delivers an underlying messages in a
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Former Bolivian leader Evo Morales announced from Argentina on Sunday the candidates for his socialist party in Bolivia’s May 3 elections, which will serve as a re-run of the disputed October vote and be the first in some two decades without him. Speaking at a news conference in Buenos Aires, Morales
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said on Sunday he was committed to battling corruption after his government ended the mandate of an anti-graft mission in the country backed by the Organization of American States (OAS). Writing on Twitter the day the mandate lapsed for the body known as the Fight Against Corruption
(Reuters) – Iran will review its cooperation with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog over any “unjust” measures, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said after EU powers last week triggered a dispute mechanism under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal. “We state openly that if the European powers, for any reason, adopt an unfair approach in using the
ALOR SETAR (Bernama): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) said Parti Warisan Sabah’s defeat in the Kimanis by-election on Saturday (Jan 18) could be because the voters in that parliamentary constituency had yet to embrace the Pakatan Harapan administration. However, he said that he was confident that people in Sabah, overall, in time will
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a burned-out vehicle containing the charred bodies of 10 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities said late on Friday. Police made the grisly discovery on a country road in the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez after locals saw the vehicle on fire
PARIS (Reuters) – Protesters opposed to the French government’s proposed changes to the pension system tried to force their way into a theatre in Paris where President Emmanuel Macron attended a show with his wife. A crowd gathered outside the Theatre Des Bouffes du Nord on Friday evening after the couple had arrived to watch
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring sides opened a new front in their five-year conflict on Saturday – a battle over old and new banknotes that threatens to create two economies in the same state. As of midnight, the Houthi movement which controls the capital Sanaa outlawed the use and possession of crisp new Yemeni riyal
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban prosecutors are asking for a nine-year prison sentence for one of the country’s top opposition leaders Jose Daniel Ferrer on charges of assault, his wife Nelva Ortega said. Ortega told Reuters she learned the news when she visited Ferrer on Thursday but that he received the documents in his case on
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Twenty-six years ago, Prosper saw Burundian soldiers take away his brother and nephew. Neighbours told him soldiers had also discovered his mother in a house where she had been hiding. None were ever seen again. This week, the government opened a mass grave in his neighbourhood. Families mourning long-lost loved ones were
MIRI: There have been an increasing incidents of road collapse following the aftermath of floods in rural Sarawak. Orang Ulu senior community leader Datuk Ose Murang said the authorities as well as logging and plantation companies must deploy mobile technical maintenance crew into the remote interior to check on the area’s soil stability. Murang, who
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Britain’s 73 EU lawmakers packed up their offices in Strasbourg on Thursday: for some a moment of triumph, for others, disaster. This week marked the last sitting of the European Parliament in the eastern French town before Brexit Britain leaves the bloc on Jan. 31 and all those lawmakers lose their jobs.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – Army helicopters flew rescue missions for the third day running in an avalanche-hit area of Pakistani-Kashmir as the death toll from the disaster rose to 77 on Thursday, officials said. The latest victim of the avalanches in Neelum Valley, in the Himalayan region disputed by Pakistan and India, was a six-year-old
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militants released three aid workers and other civilians in northeast Nigeria who had been held hostage since late December, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Thursday. The people were kidnapped on Dec. 22 by militants posing as soldiers who stopped a convoy of commercial vehicles travelling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury, a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate, paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump. Led by the House of Representatives’ sergeant at arms and the House clerk
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he had previously spoken to Japan’s prime minister about the conditions former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was being detained under. “I told (Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe several times that the conditions of Carlos Ghosn’s detention and questioning did not appear to be satisfactory to me,”
PETALING JAYA: They travelled from as far as Terengganu for the thrill of racing down a highway – only to be arrested at the “finish line”. The fun ended for 10 men from two rival illegal racing groups, aged between 17 and 36, as the law caught up to them as soon as two motorcycle
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian court convened on Wednesday to begin the trial of opposition party leader Kem Sokha on charges of treason in a case that has drawn condemnation from rights groups as a move by longtime leader Hun Sen to crush political rivals. Diplomats packed the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as the
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters outside the country’s central bank on Tuesday evening, clashing with dozens of people who pelted them with stones and fireworks. Protesters threw tear gas canisters back at riot police and some young men, their faces covered, smashed bank storefronts and ATMs, a Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR: The MCA has criticised the government’s incompetence in handling the Influenza A outbreak and says the Health Ministry should have acted quicker to prevent a shortage of vaccines. Although the infection has grown gradually since the outbreak began late last year, MCA Social Development Committee chairman Datuk Dr Lee Hong Tee said the
PHNOM PENH (Phnom Post/ANN): Cambodia exported some 202,318 tonnes of cashew nuts last year to foreign markets, up nearly 100 per cent from 2018’s 101,973 tonnes, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said. Khan Samban, director of the ministry’s Department of Agro-Industry, told The Post that the strong growth in exports is due
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian President Jovenel Moise could be ruling by decree later this week, a scenario he said would help break the Caribbean nation’s political deadlock but which critics fear will undermine its fragile democracy. In the early hours of Monday, the president said the mandates of lower house deputies and most senators formally
VALLETTA (Reuters) – Lawyer Robert Abela, 42, was sworn in as Malta’s prime minister on Monday, succeeding Joseph Muscat who resigned over his handling of investigations into the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Abela was elected leader of the ruling Labour Party in a vote among the party members on Saturday. The son
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s left-wing parties said on Monday they would join forces ahead of a March 2 national election to regain dwindling influence in parliament and pose a fresh challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Labour, which dominated Israeli politics for decades and spearheaded peace efforts with the Palestinians, will join with the veteran
KUALA LUMPUR: World No. 1 Kento Momota (pic), who was involved in a road accident on the MEX Highway early Monday (Jan 13), has been hospitalised and is in stable condition, says Japan’s national team coach. The 25-year-old Japanese badminton player escaped with light injuries and is currently receiving treatment at Hospital Putrajaya. The other
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Sunday it was time for Iran’s allies to begin working to retaliate for the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani though it would be a “long path” to the goal of ejecting U.S. forces from the region. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also denied the Iranian general had been planning
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg told Reuters he is ready to spend much of his vast fortune to oust Republican President Donald Trump from the White House in 2020, rejecting criticism from rivals for the Democratic nomination that the billionaire is trying to buy the U.S. election. Ranked by Forbes
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Jailed Australian Cardinal George Pell, convicted over child sex offences, was moved to another prison last week after a drone flew over the facility where he was being held, local media reported. Pell is the most senior Catholic official worldwide imprisoned for child sex offences. The former Vatican treasurer is serving a
EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s diplomacy was vindicated on Saturday when Iran admitted that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner as Trudeau had suggested, and his handling of the incident may increase support at home, Canadian political observers said. The crash on Wednesday killed 176 people, including 57 from Canada.
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