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June 12, 2026 at 7:14 AM
US Park Police opened an investigation on Thursday into giant markings of the numbers “8647” – which have been associated with opposition to President Donald Trump – on the grass of the National Mall. A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior, which manages the National Mall in downtown Washington, described the incident as “deranged vandalism” and said it “will not be tolerated”. “Any threat against the president is taken very seriously by the department, and our US Park Police will...
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Tajikistan News
June 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Sebastien Desabre, coach of theWorld Cup teamfromEbola-hitDemocratic Republic of Congo, said he hoped his team would put up a "good showing" after they wereallowed to entertheUnited Stateson Thursday.Desabre said he hoped the team could bring some pleasure to their beleaguered compatriots.The squad arrived on a flight from Paris after US authorities insisted they serve a 21-dayquarantine periodbefore ente
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Kyrgyzstan News
June 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Sebastien Desabre, coach of theWorld Cup teamfromEbola-hitDemocratic Republic of Congo, said he hoped his team would put up a "good showing" after they wereallowed to entertheUnited Stateson Thursday.Desabre said he hoped the team could bring some pleasure to their beleaguered compatriots.The squad arrived on a flight from Paris after US authorities insisted they serve a 21-dayquarantine periodbefore ente
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Turkmenistan News
June 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Sebastien Desabre, coach of theWorld Cup teamfromEbola-hitDemocratic Republic of Congo, said he hoped his team would put up a "good showing" after they wereallowed to entertheUnited Stateson Thursday.Desabre said he hoped the team could bring some pleasure to their beleaguered compatriots.The squad arrived on a flight from Paris after US authorities insisted they serve a 21-dayquarantine periodbefore ente
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June 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
The Philippines has a rare opening to turn its geography, skilled workers and deepening ties with Japan into a stronger maritime industrial base, but analysts say Manila’s push to make shipbuilding a strategic industry will be judged by whether fresh investment can produce lasting capacity. President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr gave that drive a concrete boost on June 3 when he ordered the addition of 64 hectares (158 acres) to the West Cebu Industrial Park (WCIP), one of the country’s key shipbuilding...
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June 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
A prominent backchannel political figure between Japan and China has died, days before a reported planned trip meant to ease deep bilateral tensions. Yohei Kono, best known for his historic apology on August 4, 1993, to tens of thousands of “comfort women” who were forced by the Japanese military into sexual slavery during World War II, died on Monday. He was 89. Considered a moderate voice within Japan’s conservative ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Kono was the country’s chief cabinet...
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Kyrgyzstan News
June 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
KABUL, June 12 (Xinhua) -- As the international community observes the World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, millions of Afghan children are leaving school to work in brick kilns, markets, construction sites, and workshops, driven by grinding poverty that has upended families across the poverty-stricken country.Ten-year-old Sulaiman's face is covered in dust. His hands are calloused, and his small frame lags
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Tajikistan News
June 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
KABUL, June 12 (Xinhua) -- As the international community observes the World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, millions of Afghan children are leaving school to work in brick kilns, markets, construction sites, and workshops, driven by grinding poverty that has upended families across the poverty-stricken country.Ten-year-old Sulaiman's face is covered in dust. His hands are calloused, and his small frame lags
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Turkmenistan News
June 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
KABUL, June 12 (Xinhua) -- As the international community observes the World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, millions of Afghan children are leaving school to work in brick kilns, markets, construction sites, and workshops, driven by grinding poverty that has upended families across the poverty-stricken country.Ten-year-old Sulaiman's face is covered in dust. His hands are calloused, and his small frame lags
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News - South China Morning Post
June 12, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Ohin Construction, its managing director and several employees were charged on Thursday over alleged lapses linked to the sinkhole that appeared in Singapore’s Tanjong Katong neighbourhood in July last year. The company faces eight charges, mostly under the Building Control Act, Workplace Safety and Health Act and Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) regulations. Its managing director, 64-year-old Ivan Ong Khiaw Yang, and six others were also charged in relation to the case. A car...
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June 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Before Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes last week, he accused CBS’s editor-in-chief of “murdering” the programme he had served for over two decades. For a show that once defined hard-edged journalism, his dismissal raises questions about what institutional independence means. The split followed a tense staff meeting in which Pelley confronted the show’s new executive producer. In a statement after his firing, Pelley said the organisation was becoming more policitised and tried to get him...
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June 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Chinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest “whale-fall site” ever recorded in the Indian Ocean. The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique ecosystems they support, with some fossils dating back about 5.3 million years. Detailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday, the study was conducted by researchers from the CAS Institute of...
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June 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Nearly one in ten people in Hong Kong now live with diabetes, and the city’s burden is growing. An ageing population, shifting lifestyles, and a substantial number of undiagnosed cases have combined to make diabetes an increasingly urgent public-health challenge2,3. For people with diabetes (PwD) the condition is a daily physical reality, but its wider consequences are less visible: diabetes steadily erodes mental and...
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June 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A 25-year-old woman in China has been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis after she followed an extreme weight-loss regime which consisted of eating once a week and hardly eating a thing for the remaining six days. The woman, who uses the alias Qingqing and lives in Hangzhou, eastern Zhejiang province, is 1.55m tall. She previously weighed 55kg, the Xinmin Evening News reported. However, months ago, she made a rigorous plan to get slimmer. This involved eating little for six days a week and...
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June 12, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, the king’s eldest daughter, has died at the age of 47, the royal palace announced on Friday, more than three years after she slipped into a coma following a sudden illness. She was suffering from an abdominal infection and “her condition continued to worsen” until she “passed away peacefully” on Thursday evening, the Bureau of the Royal Household said in a statement. The late princess will lie in state at the Grand Palace in Bangkok and her funeral will be...
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BBC News
June 12, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the king's eldest daughter, collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs.
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June 12, 2026 at 5:30 AM
A sea of 500 tents covered the white sands of remote Ham Tin Wan in Sai Kung during a recent holiday, turning one of Hong Kong’s most scenic beaches into a makeshift campsite for crowds of overnight visitors. Some of the campers had joined tours from mainland China for the Labour Day “golden week” holiday, sleeping in rows of identical tents and gathering around camping tables for hotpot dinners, with ingredients hauled across the border by their guides. By morning, the sink in the beach’s only...
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June 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Electric vehicles accounted for a record 66.7 per cent of new car sales in mainland China during the first week of June, the latest sign that the country’s battery-powered carmakers are benefiting from the global energy crisis. Two out of every three new cars sold on the mainland in the seven days ending June 7 were either pure electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The penetration rate climbed from 62.9 per cent in May as a wave...
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June 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM
China’s ports continued to dominate global efficiency rankings in 2025, with seven Chinese trade hubs placing in the top 10, according to a study by the World Bank and S&P Global released on Wednesday. The latest edition of the annual report comes at a time when ports are playing a more vital role in the global economy than ever, as facilities strive to handle intense disruptions to global supply chains amid the aftermath of the Red Sea crisis and the ongoing fallout from the US-Israel war on...
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June 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM
A spate of agreements Nvidia has reached with South Korean companies presents a long-term road map for the country to expand its role in the semiconductor and physical AI industries, observers say. The most significant deal Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made during his whirlwind three-day trip to Seoul that ended on Sunday was with SK Telecom to build AI infrastructure, including factories. An AI factory is a data centre running an end-to-end operational system that continuously collects and processes...
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