A Hong Kong student, who was reportedly detained by police after handing out flyers calling for an independent probe into a fire that killed 146 people, left a police station on Monday. Miles Kwan left the Cheung Sha Wan Division police station in a taxi on Monday afternoon, according to an AFP reporter at the […]
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South Korean prosecutors indicted the mayor of Seoul on Monday for allegedly violating political funding laws. Oh Se-hoon of the conservative People Power Party is serving his fourth term as mayor of South Korea’s capital and has long been tipped as a future presidential candidate. Prosecutors accuse him of arranging for a supporter to cover […]
Read MoreThe toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors. Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week. […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday, seeking to shore up European support as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. US and Ukrainian negotiators held hours of what both sides called “productive” talks in Florida on Sunday on a plan […]
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Australia’s under-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology’s impact on young people, experts say. Those in favour of the world-first December 10 ban point to a growing mass of studies that suggest too much time online takes a toll on teen wellbeing. But opponents […]
Read MoreMia Bannister’s skin is inked with a eulogy to her teenage son Ollie, whose suicide after a battle with anorexia and online bullying pushed her to fight for world-first laws in Australia to get children off social media. From December 10, under-16s in Australia will be banned from social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit […]
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Bundesumweltminister Carsten Schneider (SPD) hat die Pläne verteidigt, die Förderung von Elektroautos sozial zu staffeln. Ihm sei es “wichtig, dass wir bei den Förderungen, ob das nun die Heizung oder das E-Auto ist, zielgenauer vorgehen”, sagte Schneider der “Augsburger Allgemeinen” (Montagausgabe). “Zuschüsse gibt es für die, die es wirklich nötig haben.”Mit Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) […]
Read MoreSobs could be heard across Hong Kong’s Victoria Park at the weekend as hundreds of migrant workers mourned victims of Hong Kong’s worst fire in more than a century and prayed for missing friends. Many found themselves in limbo after the disaster. At least 10 of the 146 people killed in the fire that devastated […]
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