COURTS & CRIME | WASHINGTON- 30 years in prison for US man who exploited Filipino girls
Pix for representational purpose only/AFPPix . . WASHINGTON: A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for
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HEADLINE-56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting | JAKARTA- ASEAN to review stalled Myanmar peace plan
Get-together: Participants attend the plenary session of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Jakarta on July 11, 2023. Foreign ministers
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HEADLINE | ASIAGEOPOLITICS | JAKARTA- Clear Myanmar road map needed, experts say
Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi delivers a speech during a press briefing ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in
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WATER MANAGEMENT: TOKYO- Concerns linger over Fukushima wastewater discharge despite green lights
A general view shows storage tanks for contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
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CLIMATE CHANGE-EL NINO | UN warns world to prepare for El Niño impact
View of a dead cow in a dried swamp in La Mojana, a region known for its swamps and wetlands,
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Happy 4th of July US Independence Day, Biden denounces wave of shootings
President Joe Biden speaks to guests on the south lawn on July 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Bidens hosted
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WORLD- ASIA AND PACIFIC | World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) calls for release of Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi, Elahe Mohammadi
Journalists Niloofar Hamedi (left) and Elahe Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran on Aug 17, 2022. (Courtesy of WAN-IFRA/Mehrdad Aladin) The
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EDUCATION | WASHINGTON-US: ‘Devastating blow’ to US education
President Joe Biden expressed “severe disappointment . . SUPREME COURT BANS THE USE OF RACE IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS . .
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ESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA | L.A. Times: Reparations and affirmative action: California confronts new questions on race
CALIFORNIA Members of California’s reparations task force gather in June 2022. The group released their final report on Thursday. (Rich Pedroncelli
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CHINA’S 9-LINE | WASHINGTON- US asks Asean claimants to resolve own South China Sea issues before taking on China
Philippine Coast Guard personnel installing navigational buoys in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea. PHOTO: REUTERS .
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