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As top Republican backs Trump impeachment, Pence rejects invoking 25th Amendment

This all but guarantees vote to kick president out of office with just 8 days left in his term

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Kim Jong-un’s sister slams South Korea’s ‘idiot’ authorities

Criticism comes after Seoul allegedly tracked Pyongyang’s military parade

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China blasts Britain over criticism of Uighur treatment

Chinese ambassador ‘rejects, refutes’ British rep’s ‘baseless attacks’

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WHO experts to arrive in Wuhan for delayed virus probe

Team of experts aim to “reconstruct” how the pandemic started

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Hong Kong opposition shudders as mass arrests herald ‘a harsh winter’ 

Arrests of opposition figures under new security law demolishes assurances only a ‘tiny majority’ would be targeted,  say analysts

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Indonesian plane did not explode before crashing into water: safety committee

Parts of aircraft retrieved so far measure more than 23m

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Italian govt holds make-or-break meeting on EU funds

Former prime minister Matteo Renzi is expected to withdraw his party after complaining that EU funds risk being wasted

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Tokyo Olympics organisers say cancellation report ‘fake news’

Dismisses report saying the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 organisers would debate the fate of the Games next month

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China places 5 million more under lockdown to stamp out virus cluster

Officials rush to test all 4.9 million residents in two days, says the local health bureau, after one case was discovered in Langfang’s Gu’an county

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Stay granted to US inmate set to be first woman executed in 7 decades

Lisa Montgomery’s lawyers argue mental incompetence, judge rules her unable to understand impact of her crime

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Indonesia recovers first black box from crashed plane

Discovery may shed light on why aircraft with 62 people aboard slammed into the sea

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Portugal’s president tests positive of Covid-19

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa tests positive late yesterday, says report

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IMF approves US$487.5 mil aid to Angola

It is part of a three-year agreement worth about US$3.7 bil at the time that it was approved in 2018