Hun Sen flashes ‘iron fist’
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen hails the success of efforts to “eliminate traitors” at a mass rally ahead of an election tomorrow.
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Kurds break bread with Damascus
A US-backed Kurdish-led alliance is holding talks in Damascus for the first time on the future of Syria under its control.
Envoy ‘in first Taliban meeting’
The top US envoy for South Asia has met Taliban officials for peace talks in Qatar.
Tariffs send US economy surging
America’s economy grows at the fastest pace since 2014, driven by tax cuts and exporters getting in before retaliatory tariffs.
Whose hair cost more?
Brigitte Macron’s youthful appearance has admirers wondering how she does it. Now we know, but that’s not the biggest surprise.
Now comes the hard part
He may be Pakistan’s new PM but Imran Khan’s image is in tatters. The cricket star now has to prove the doubters wrong.
Zeros cut as currency crumbles
With inflation tipped to reach one million per cent, Venezuela has upped the number of zeros to be removed from its bolivar notes.
‘Tweet cost me everything’
In her first TV interview since her hit show was axed, Roseanne Barr says sorry for an “ill-worded’’ tweet but insists she is not a racist.
Trump ‘approved Russia meet’
Donald Trump approved the ‘Clinton dirt’ meeting with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign, Michael Cohen claims.
Fact checking kills off Goop
Gwyneth Paltrow blames Conde-Nast’s “old-school’’ insistence on fact-checking for the failure of her new-age magazine Goop.
Facebook allows holocaust denial
A series of pamphlets denying the Holocaust were banned by Amazon but they are still promoted on an open Facebook page.
Last sarin attackers executed
Japan has executed six more members of the cult behind the deadly 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway.
Victory for Khan in chaotic polls
Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan claimed victory in the country’s tense elections, following accusations of poll-rigging.
Greek ‘wall of flame’ toll hits 81
At least 81 people have died in huge bushfires around Athens in one of the world’s deadliest fire outbreaks.
Half of Syria victims civilians
The death toll in co-ordinated Islamic State suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 yesterday.
May sells Brexit direct to states
European Leaders plan to let Theresa May sell her Brexit blueprint directly to member states.
Move to impeach deputy A-G
A group of 11 House of Representatives Republicans yesterday moved to impeach Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein.
Imran had his eye on the prize
Wednesday’s Pakistani election represented Imran Khan’s last chance for glory.
Kim set to release US war remains
North Korea will today return the remains of some of the US soldiers killed in the Korean War
Pakistan’s military runs the show
As head of the military, Qamar Javed Bajwa is Pakistan’s most powerful man.
Scramble to get aid to survivors
Rescuers have scrambled to reach those stranded by a collapse dam in the remote southern tip of Laos.
The BRICS in a multipolar world
The BRICS are out to reform the global system, but have yet to reached a consensus about what a new order should look like.
Case against Trump moves forward
For the first time anti-corruption clauses in the US constitution known as emoluments have been applied to a sitting president.
US airlines yield on Taiwan
The biggest US airlines have kowtowed to China in removing any reference to Taiwan as a country from their websites.
Sparks fly over nicotine limit
Experts fear a proposed US plan to radically reduce nictone levels in cigarettes would give rise to a high-nicotine black market.
‘Thanks to God we have won’
Imran Khan declares victory in his Pakistan’s contentious elections, amid growing outrage at alleged military vote-rigging.
Syria death toll in the hundreds
Four suicide bombers struck the city of Sweida, while other IS fighters attacked villages with guns and explosives.
Woman abducted after blast
Video emerges of a woman being dragged off by plainclothes police after sharing explosion footage with journalists.
Heiress in strife over ‘sex cult’
Billionaire’s daughter Clare Bronfman allegedly lent $135 million to a sex cult pyramid scheme that branded female members.
Khan poised for poll victory
Preliminary voting results in Pakistan show Imran Khan is poised to win, but the final count is delayed by technical failures.
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