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Japanese authorities’ decision to prosecute a 17-year-old girl who died by suicide, resulting in another woman’s death, has sparked widespread controversy. The tragic accident happened on August 31 at at the NEWoMan shopping complex above Yokohama Station. According to the South China Morning Post, a teenage girl from Chiba Prefecture climbed over a 2.5-meter glass barrier on […]
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Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, right, and her colleagues from Te Pati Maori, talk to reporters following a protest inside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on November 14, 2024 | Photo Credit: AP A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected on Thursday (November 14, 2024) when dramatic political theatre erupted over a controversial […]
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Washington: When political outsider Donald Trump defied polls and expectations to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election, he described the victory as “beautiful.” Not everyone saw it that way — considering that Democrat Clinton had received nearly three million more votes nationally than her Republican rival. Non-Americans were particularly perplexed that the […]
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Christian Petersen/Getty Images As the end of the preseason and the start of the regular season nears for the Los Angeles Lakers, fans have gotten a good look at two key rookies. Dalton Knecht, the Lakers’ first-round pick, has quickly emerged as a player capable of getting regular minutes. He posted his best game of […]
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla will arrive in Sydney on Friday (October 18) for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a trip that has rekindled debate about the nation’s constitutional links to Britain. The Sydney Opera House’s iconic sails will be illuminated with images of previous royal […]
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Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei posted on social media on Saturday (October 12, 2024) that the Italian explorer’s arrival introduced enlightenment to the region. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Argentine claim that European contact brought civilization to the Americas has provoked rebukes from across Latin America, where heated debates often flare up over the era’s […]
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London: The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company’s research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised. Google has been at the forefront of AI research, but has been forced on […]
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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during a presidential debate hosted by ABC as Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters Donald Trump ruled out a second U.S. Presidential debate with rival Kamala Harris on Wednesday (October 9, 2024), hours after Fox News offered to host a […]
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