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Malaysian news portal ordered to pay damages to Australian miner in defamation case
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court on Friday ordered news portal Malaysiakini to pay 550,000 ringgit ($132,179.76) in damages for in a defamation case filed by a now-defunct Australian ...
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Mitsubishi Electric apologises for falsifying train equipment inspection data
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Electric Corp's CEO on Friday apologised after the company said it had falsified inspection data, stretching back more than three decades, for air conditioners and brake c...
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Olympics-True heroes in Tokyo will be medical workers, says pilot from 1964 Games
By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - A national hero in Japan who drew the Olympic rings with precision in the sky to mark the start of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics said today's heroes are medical workers...
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Malaysia’s AmBank pays $432 million in 1MDB settlement – finance ministry
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday said it had received the first payment of 1.8 billion ringgit ($432.38 million) from banking group AMMB Holdings Berhad (AmBank), as part of a settlement de...
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Number of foreign tourists to Spain jumps in May as restrictions eased
MADRID (Reuters) - The number of foreign tourists visiting Spain rose to 1.36 million in May, up from virtually zero who came in May 2020 when the country was under a strict lockdown, the National Sta...
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Dutch criticism of Hungary over LGBT rights reeks of ‘colonial’ past -Orban
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Dutch criticism of Hungary over a new law on LGBT rights reeks of a moral supremacy rooted in a colonial past, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. EU leaders las...
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Cambodia reports record daily number of COVID-19 deaths
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia reported 32 deaths from the coronavirus on Friday, a record daily increase, as authorities warned of the risk of a new wave of infections driven by the Delta variant. T...
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Opposition in Armenia contests PM Pashinyan’s vote win via court
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's opposition alliance, led by former president Robert Kocharyan, has asked the constitutional court to overturn the results of a June 20 election which it lost, the TASS new...
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Search resumes for 145 missing in rubble of Florida condo
By Katanga Johnson and Francisco Alvarado SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) - The grim, painstaking search for victims in the rubble of a partially collapsed Miami-area condominium complex, briefly suspended o...
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Israel strikes Hamas site in Gaza over fire balloons – military
TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel's military said on Friday. T...
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