KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia’s three-party opposition alliance, once touted as an alternative to the country’s long-ruling coalition, has collapsed over policy differences. The People’s Alliance, led by jailed former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, made strong gains since 2008 polls and won the popular vote in 2013. However, a …
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While religion in China may not be a big topic for discussion during President Hu Jintao’s meeting with President Obama this week, many experts say that an explosive growth in Christianity may be transforming the officially atheist regime. According to China Aid, a Texas-based human rights group, the number of …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it has received allegations that U.N. peacekeepers sexually abused children in Central African Republic, where French troops are also being investigated for alleged sex abuse against boys. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic was …
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul Tuesday, within 500 meters of the American embassy and reportedly targeting an American forces convoy, a source tells Fox News. There were no reports of injuries or casualties, an Interior Ministry official tells Fox News. An American Humvee was …
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BEIRUT – Activists say a bomb has exploded inside a mosque where al-Qaida’s branch in Syria was holding a fast-breaking meal, killing at least 14. Activists say the bombing inside the Salem Mosque in the northern town of Ariha occurred shortly after sunset Friday when scores of Nusra Front members …
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SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. forecasts its second-quarter profit has dropped 4 percent from a year earlier. The maker of Galaxy smartphones said in its earnings preview Tuesday that its April-June operating profit was 6.9 trillion won ($6.1 billion). The consensus among analysts was 7.23 trillion won, according …
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BERN, Switzerland – One of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of an American corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Swiss authorities said Friday. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice didn’t identify the official involved, saying in a statement that he “wished not …
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LONDON – Prince William says he’s nervous but looking forward to getting started as he begins working as an air ambulance pilot based at Cambridge Airport. The second-in-line to Britain’s throne clocked in Monday for his first shift for East Anglian Air Ambulance and checked over his H145 helicopter, together …
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BEIJING – The British Embassy in Beijing says 11 Britons have been detained in northern China and that it is trying to find out why. The embassy cited a British Foreign Office statement that said nine Britons and two dual British-South African nationals had been detained in northern China and …
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A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday. An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said …
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