Deadly Landslide Hits Central Sri Lanka
By NIDA NAJAR
At least six people were killed and around 300 were missing after an early morning landslide set off by heavy monsoon rains.
At least six people were killed and around 300 were missing after an early morning landslide set off by heavy monsoon rains.
James Tien, the head of Hong Kong’s pro-business Liberal Party, was removed from a largely powerless but prestigious organ of China’s government.
Unlike its neighbors, Taiwan has offered workplace protection to gays and lesbians, and activists say legal same-sex marriage is only a matter of time.
Much of the muscle-flexing over disputed waters in the region is political. But China is also interested in the oil and natural gas that might lie below the waters.
Xu Caihou, a high-ranking target of an anticorruption campaign, is described as having taken “particularly huge bribes” in return for promotions and favors.
The reported gesture came amid intrigue over the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, who South Korean intelligence officials said was recovering from surgery on his left foot.
Two agents, who were sentenced to prison, faked Chinese government documents to build a spy case against a refugee from North Korea.
The body found inside the ferry Sewol, which sank in April, would bring the confirmed death toll to 295.
Pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong were disrupted on Friday by groups of men who tried to force protesters from occupation sites.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
Although many people in Bangladesh would deny it, we practice our own form of slavery.
The young protesters want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in how we are governed.
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