MELBOURNE: A visa racket to get teenage immigrant girls, specially from Middle East and South East Asia, enter into sham marriages with older men has been alleged by the opposition in Australia who have demanded a government probe. Federal opposition sought the inquiry after reports came to light that hundreds…
DAMATURU: Nigeria was on high alert after the United States warned of fresh attacks following a wave of deadly blasts claimed by Islamists killed 150 people in the northeast of the country. Attacks in the city of Damaturu were among the deadliest ever carried out by Boko Haram, an Islamist…
CHILPANCINGO (MEXICO): Mexican police discovered 19 prostitutes, two sacks of marijuana and 100 roosters for cock fighting in a surprise inspection of a jail in the resort city of Acapulco, authorities said. The discovery came as 500 federal officers prepared to transfer some 60 inmates to maximum security prisons overnight,…
TOKYO: The desperate conditions Tibetans face under Beijing’s rigid controls in what amounted to ” cultural genocide” are behind the spate of self-immolations in southwest China, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said. At least 11 Tibetans have set themselves ablaze this year in a heavily Tibetan part of…
TOKYO: Japanese lawyers launched a legal team to help victims of the Fukushima accident seek compensation from the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, and the national government. About 30 lawyers, mostly based in the northern Fukushima region, announced at a news conference in Fukushima city that they had set…
MOGADISHU: At least 12 people were killed when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib, residents and officials said, as the east African nation’s fights to rid Somalia of Islamist al Shabaab rebels. Kenya moved its troops into Somalia in mid-October in pursuit of Somali insurgents it…
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan’s Moscow-backed prime minister was poised to become president of the strategically important former Soviet republic, with nearly all votes counted in an election set to be disputed by disgruntled rival candidates. The vote is a key test of bold reforms designed to make Kyrgyzstan the first parliamentary democracy…
SAO PAULO: Brazil’s popular former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva started chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer, with his doctors voicing confidence in his chances of being cured within four months. Tests showed the tumor discovered on his larynx was not an abnormal type of cancer and should respond well…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES : She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny , wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. She became a symbol of the world’s population reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet’s future. Danica May Camacho, born…
TOKYO: Japan’s royal palace said Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, had been hospitalized because of a persistent high temperature. The nine-year-old princess has been running a fever since the weekend, the imperial household agency said. She “was hospitalised for examinations and treatment……
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