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Australian arrested at Cambodian rally convicted of spying

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CAMBODIA, August 31:  An Australian filmmaker arrested after flying a drone to photograph a Cambodian opposition party rally last year was convicted of spying and

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Myanmar
Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’

MYANMAR, August 29: Myanmar Wednesday rejected the findings of a UN investigation alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, after the US and other countries joined growing calls for

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Bolivian woman might be world’s oldest at nearly 118

BOLIVIA, August 28: Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite

Videogamers
Videogamer shoots 2 dead, kills self at tournament

August 27: Two people were killed and 11 others wounded Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the

Pope
Pope to hold giant mass in Dublin as abuse victims rally

August 26: Pope Francis will visit an Irish shrine and hold a giant mass in Dublin on Sunday as he wraps up a visit overshadowed by abuse scandals and cover-ups

McCain
McCain dies at 81 after battle with brain cancer

WASHINGTON, August 26: Arizona Sen. John McCain, the war hero who became the GOP’s standard-bearer in the 2008 election, has died. He was 81. His office says McCain died Saturday.

PM
Australia ruling party chooses Treasurer Morrison as next PM

AUSTRALIA, August 24: Australia government lawmakers on Friday elected Treasurer Scott Morrison as the next prime minister in a ballot that continues an era of extraordinary political instability. Morrison defeated

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5 rescued from flooding as hurricane pelts Hawaii with rain

HONOLULU, August 24: Hurricane Lane unleashed torrents of rain and landslides that blocked roads on Hawaii’s mostly rural Big Island on Thursday as residents and tourists in the state’s biggest

Moon
Scientists confirm ice exists at Moon’s poles

August 22: Scientists say they have confirmed the existence of ice on the Moon’s surface for the first time, a discovery that could one day help humans survive there. Signs

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Little damage reported from strong quake in Venezuela

VENEZUELA, August 22: A powerful earthquake shook Venezuela’s northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean but likely caused little damage besides knocking out power in some places and toppling supermarket