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Published by Reuters By Gene Blevins and Jonathan Allen HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) -A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called an environmental catastrophe. The U.S. Coast Guard, heading a clean-up response involving federal, state and city agencies, on […]

Published by Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong’s then-leader Leung Chun-ying sold shares worth HK$2.3 million (£200,000) in a subsidiary of international property services firm DTZ in 2015, whilst he was being investigated by an anti-corruption watchdog over past dealings involving DTZ, according to a report. The previously undisclosed sale by the former chief executive

Published by Reuters MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Rodrigo’s daughter would run for president in next year’s election and her father’s long-time aide, who filed his vice presidential candidacy, would be her running mate, broadcasting firm ABS-CBN news reported late on Saturday. Sara Duterte-Carpio is currently mayor of Davao, the Philippines’ third-largest city, and filed on

Published by Al-Araby Qataris voted on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state’s first legislative elections for two-thirds of the advisory Shura Council, a process that has stirred domestic debate about electoral inclusion and citizenship. Turnout for the election of 30 members of the 45-seat body was 63.5%, the internal ministry said in a statement early

Published by Al-Araby The leader of Australia’s most populous state resigned Friday amid a corruption investigation, leaving Sydneysiders – deep in months of lockdown – without a political leader. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she would leave parliament after an anti-corruption body announced an inquiry into allegations against her. “My resignation as premier

Published by The Daily Scrum News Reading Time: < 1 minute President Biden Addresses the General Assembly of the United NationsBy: Rawan Alshehri In his first UN General Assembly as a Commander-in-Chief, President Biden stated his administration’s position regarding many issues facing the world, as he urges the world leaders to unite and work on

Published by Reuters By Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico’s frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over the treatment meted out to the beleaguered migrants. Up to

Published by Reuters By Oliver Hirt ZURICH (Reuters) – A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), hard-left Linke and environmentalist Greens come to power, the reintroduction of a wealth tax and a

Published by Al-Araby Israeli forces on Wednesday levelled a large patch of Palestinian land to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus while preventing children from going to school nearby. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, said that Israeli bulldozers razed 30,000 square metres

Published by Al-Araby All Middle Eastern and North African countries featured in a newonline freedoms report have been ranked as “partly free” or “not free”, with many experiencing a decline in digital freedoms over the past year. In a ‘Freedom of the Net 2021’ report, written by US-watchdog Freedom House, the MENA region was the