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Ride-hailing app Grab expands into lending
Published on 13/03/2018
» JAKARTA: Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab is expanding into financial services in partnership with a Japanese credit card company, hoping to offer credit...
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7 years on, Syria war shifting gears but still deadly
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» BEIRUT - Syria enters its eighth year of war on Thursday, free of the jihadist "caliphate" but torn apart by an international power struggle as the...
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Reports: Bus crash kills 38 in Ethiopia
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» ADDIS ABABA: Thirty-eight people have died after the bus they were travelling in plunged off an embankment in northern Ethiopia, state media said on Tuesday.
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Time to turn Brexit speeches into treaties: EC president
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» STRASBOURG: Britain must "translate speeches into treaties" and come up with a detailed plan for its post-Brexit ties with the EU, European Commission...
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Refugee claims by Venezuelans surging: UN
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» GENEVA - Nearly 100,000 people who fled Venezuela have claimed refugee status since the start of 2017, the UN said Tuesday, as it ramped up response plans for...
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Cabinet to draft law to regulate, tax cryptocurrencies
Published on 13/03/2018
» The cabinet agreed on Tuesday to draft a law to oversee cryptocurrency trading, seeking to tax the largely unregulated market.
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Myanmar says UN findings on human rights lack credibility
Published on 13/03/2018
» Myanmar's government on Tuesday rejected two reports presented to the UN Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably...
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Trump fires Tillerson, names Pompeo new Secretary of State
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the departure of his top diplomat Rex Tillerson, to be succeeded by the current CIA chief Mike Pompeo....
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Greek football club president apologises after gun incident
AFP, Published on 13/03/2018
» ATHENS - The president of Greek club PAOK on Tuesday apologised after storming onto the pitch with a holstered gun tucked in his belt, an incident that prompted...
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Meechai pushes court review of two bills
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 13/03/2018
» Constitution writers will urge the National Legislative Assembly to send the organic laws on MPs and senators to the Constitutional Court, a process that could...