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BSS :Former US president Donald Trump’s legal team on Wednesday dismissed the government’s “unjustified” pursuit of classified documents at his home and said the raid in which they were seized was legally dubious and...
BSS :Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from Thursday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak. China is the last major economy...
BSS :An oil tanker briefly became stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Wednesday night, officials announced, raising fears that last year’s major blockage of the global maritime route could be repeated.The Affinity V “ran...
BSS :Two Japanese trading houses will maintain stakes in a Russian energy project despite Tokyo joining sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine, as the Asian country looks to secure its power supply.Moscow...
BSS :Longstanding Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy will face a French court on Thursday in defamation cases brought against him by top officials in his home country. Rainsy, 73, was targeted with two separate...
BSS : A porpoise found stranded on a Swedish beach in June died of bird flu, the first time the virus has been detected in a porpoise, Sweden’s National Veterinary Institute said Wednesday.“As far...
BSS/AFP : IAEA inspectors arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday ahead of a visit to a Russian-held nuclear power plant, after fresh shelling near Europe’s largest atomic facility.A convoy brought...
BSS/Xinhua : At least 36 people were killed and 1,941 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority...
BSS : Vietnam announced Wednesday it would free almost 2,500 prisoners ahead of the country’s independence anniversary, but the amnesty will be smaller than recent years and exclude activists.Those sentenced for “propaganda” against the...
BSS : Hong Kong leader John Lee on Wednesday cancelled a trip to the Chinese mainland to discuss reopening travel as the coronavirus situation worsened on both sides of the border.Lee was scheduled to...
BSS :Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 39,658 over the past day to 19,445,581, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Monday. A day earlier, 46,857 daily cases were recorded.As many as 1,988 people were...
BSS :Ukrainian forces pressed their counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson, while a team of UN experts were en route to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant which was targeted by fresh...