Between 2002 and 2004, Devender Sharma was convicted of murdering up to seven taxi drivers and sentenced to life in Jaipur, a city in the northern state of Rajasthan. After spending 16 years in jail, the 62-year-old man received a brief probation in January. But when his 20 days abroad …
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At a press conference, Hong Kong Executive Director Carrie Lam said the move to postpone the Legislative Council elections, scheduled for September 6, was the most difficult decision she had made in the past seven months. She added that she had the support of the Chinese central government to make …
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TOKYO (AP) – Asian stocks fell on Friday when reports showed layoffs of US workers persist at high levels after the US economy contracted at an annual rate of nearly 33% in the spring, the worst quarter on record. The earnings reports, an indicator of how well companies are handling …
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Hong Kong, a special administrative region (SAR) of China, has a partially autonomous political and legal system, including a limited form of democracy developed since its days under British colonial rule. Those limits and the government’s inability to continue a transition to full democracy have been criticized by the city’s …
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At least 17 people died Thursday in a car bomb blast in an Afghan city as a crowd shopped for the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, officials and a doctor said. “Seventeen bodies and 21 wounded were taken to our hospital,” Sediqullah, a senior doctor at a hospital in the city …
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