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Bekele’s sister is one of dozens of students from Ethiopia’s Derbak University who have been missing for a week. At the end of the academic year, she took a bus home but never reached her destination. No one in the family had been able to contact her, so when his mobile phone lit up and […]

VIENNA (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the war in Ukraine with Austria, an ally of Kiev that has a policy of military neutrality, on Wednesday, stressing the need for diplomacy, a day after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Modi met Chancellor Karl Nehammer during what he described as the

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Ministry of Commerce announced Wednesday that it will launch an investigation into whether the European Union is engaging in unfair trade practices as part of its probe into Chinese companies. The study will focus on wind energy, photovoltaic energy, security equipment and other issues and is scheduled to be completed by

A Chinese investigation into conditions at sea Scarborough Sandbank found the area in good health – in stark contrast to an earlier assessment this week by Second Thomas Shoal, another flashpoint between Manila and Beijing in the South Chinese Ocean. According to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, a “comprehensive” study of the ecological environment of Scarborough

China has lashed out at the Philippinesand accused it of “deliberately misleading” the international community over their latest spat in the South Chinese Ocean in which Philippine troops claimed that Chinese ships tried to block the evacuation of a sick soldier. In a statement Tuesday, Chinese Coast Guard said it had allowed the Philippines to

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese authorities said they are investigating concerns about the food safety of cooking oils after an investigative report by local media revealed that tankers carrying soybean oil from a major state-owned company were also being used to transport a form of coal. The report by Beijing News, a state-backed broadcaster known for

Social media posts shared in Australia and parts of Europe have exaggerated poultry protection measures announced by the previous UK government in March this year. The posts misleadingly claimed that bird keepers in Scotland would face “six months in prison” or a hefty fine if they failed to register a single chicken. A spokesperson for

DAMASCUS (AP) — Regular flights between the Syrian capital Damascus and Saudi Arabia resumed on Wednesday for the first time in more than a decade as part of a thaw in relationships between the countries, Syrian state media reported. Syria and Saudi Arabia severed ties in 2012 over President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on anti-government

BEIJING (AP) — Rescue efforts began Wednesday for more than 130 people, including tourists, who were stranded in a mountain town in China’s Tibet region after heavy rains and flooding washed away parts of a provincial highway, Chinese state media reported. The detainees also included migrant workers and businessmen, state broadcaster CCTV said. Another 342

It is estimated that there are as many as 400 of these criminal enterprises in the Philippines alone, almost always operating clandestinely and illegally alongside licensed and legal online gaming operations. The proliferation of online scam companies targeting victims around the world is a relatively new phenomenon that exploded in the 1970s. COVID-19 pandemic. The