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Daily Archives: Mar 10, 2017

Cruise control: China squeezes South Korea as boats and planes stay away

Pressure in China on travel firms forced airlines and cruise operators to cut routes to South Korea, as the fallout spread on Friday from a diplomatic row over Seoul's plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense system against Beijing's objections.

U.S.-backed SDF says it can capture Syrian city of Raqqa

U.S.-backed Syrian militias said on Thursday they have enough forces to capture the city of Raqqa from Islamic State with support from the U.S.-led coalition, underlining their opposition to any Turkish role in the attack.

Islamic State mortars, snipers take toll on Iraqi forces in Mosul

At a field clinic near the front line in Mosul, an Iraqi Federal Police officer lay in discomfort on a stretcher, a drip in his arm and bandage plastered over his chest from where shrapnel from a mortar shell had pierced his sternum.

South Korean court throws president out of office, two dead in protest

South Korea's Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country's conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China.

YASCO stands condemned, principal expresses disappointment

One school principal has described the recent condemning of stands located at the country’s sole track & field facility, the YASCO Sports Complex, as “disappointing” adding that inspections should have been carried out at the venue months before this weekend’s Coca Cola Inter-schools Championships.

Pregnant Fraser-Pryce to miss World Athletics Championships

Jamaica's reigning 100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will miss this summer's World Athletics Championships in London because she is pregnant.

Horsford Hill vendors protest lack of bathroom facilities

Souvenir vendors who ply their trade at Horsford Hill have decided to withold the monthly rental fees from their landlord, the National Parks Authority (NPA), to force the body to address critical concerns regarding their working environment

CID officer says ‘tight-lipped’ residents cause cases to go cold

A senior police official said while it is understandable that people who lost their loved ones or property to crime would be upset when the cases are not solved, oftentimes the police are wrongfully blamed for it.

West Indies rolled over by England in final ODI

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – Alex Hales and Joe Root smashed centuries to leave West Indies with a record run chase in order to win the third and final One-Day International against England at Kensington Oval on Thursday.

Syrian refugees still awaiting resettlement

The effort to get four Syrian refugees in Antigua & Barbuda to move to the United States is still being pursued by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
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