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May 24, 2019 World News

Taiwan holds first gay marriages in historic day for Asia

TAIPEI (AFP) -- Taiwan made history on Friday with Asia's first legal gay weddings as same-sex couples tied the knot in jubilant and emotional scenes, the culmination of a three-decade fight for equa...

Cambodia marks genocide atrocities with Day of Remembrance

PHNOM PENH (AFP) -- Black-clad students reenacted the horrors of the Cambodian genocide at the "Killing Fields" on Monday to commemorate the two million people killed by the Khmer Rouge's murderous, ...

May 20, 2019
World News
Netherlands wins Eurovision as Madonna dancers spark flag controversy

The Netherlands won the 2019 Eurovision song contest early Sunday at a show in the seaside Israeli city of Tel Aviv that featured a performance from Madonna, plenty of glitz and some controversy. Th...

May 19, 2019
Music
Taiwan's parliament approves same-sex marriage

TAIPEI (AFP) -- Taiwan's parliament legalised same-sex marriage on Friday in a landmark first for Asia as the government survived a last-minute attempt by conservatives to pass a watered-down version...

May 17, 2019
World News
Unification support falls in S. Korea as talks stall

SEOUL (AFP) - Ever more South Koreans prefer peaceful co-existence with the nuclear-armed North to reunification of the peninsula, a survey found Monday. Despite sharing a common language and ethni...

May 13, 2019
Social affairs
41 dead in Russian plane blaze disaster

Forty-one people including at least two children have died after a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and erupted in a huge ball of fire and black smoke at Moscow's busiest airport on ...

May 6, 2019
World News
Vietnamese woman in Kim Jong Nam murder case freed

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- A Vietnamese woman who had been accused of assassinating the North Korean leader's half-brother was freed from prison Friday, ending legal proceedings over the brazen killing af...

May 3, 2019
World News
End of an era as Japan's emperor abdicates

TOKYO (AFP) -- Emperor Akihito of Japan formally stepped down Tuesday, the first abdication for 200 years in the world's oldest monarchy, as his son Naruhito prepared to take the Chrysanthemum Throne...

April 30, 2019
World News
Kim, Putin vow to seek closer ties at first talks

Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met face-to-face for the first time on Thursday, vowing to seek closer ties as they look to counter US influence. The summit in Russia's Far Eas...

April 25, 2019
North Korea
More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine

More than 50 people are feared killed after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said Tuesday, the latest deadly accident in a notoriously dange...

April 23, 2019
World News
S. Korea to mark summit anniversary, with or without North

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will this week celebrate the first anniversary of a landmark summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- but Pyongyang may not take part, Seo...

April 22, 2019
North Korea
Sri Lanka Easter attack toll hits 290

At least 290 are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war e...

April 21, 2019
World News
All Notre-Dame paintings to be removed as officials head inside

PARIS -- The remaining paintings inside the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris are to be removed on Friday and stored, with fire service officials now satisfied the damaged structure is safe enough to go ...

April 19, 2019
World News
Strong 6.1-magnitude quake hits Taiwan, shakes buildings in Taipei

TAIPEI (AFP) -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, shaking buildings and disrupting traffic. In the capital Taipei, highrises swayed while some pani...

April 18, 2019
World News
Macron to discuss Notre-Dame with Pope Francis later Tuesday: presidency

French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the fire that ravaged the famed Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris with Pope Francis in telephone talks later Tuesday, his office said. "The president has al...

April 16, 2019
World News

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