SYDNEY, (APP/AFP) – Australians flocked to vote in national elections Saturday with conservative leader Malcolm Turnbull appearing to have a slight edge over Labor’s Bill Shorten, culminating a marathon race where economic management has become a key issue in the wake of the Brexit vote. Polling stations opened at 8:00 am (2200 GMT) with some […]
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Australians vote in cliffhanger election
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Sri Lanka replaces controversial central bank chief
COLOMBO, (APP/AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday bowed to pressure from activists and replaced the country’s controversial central bank chief, appointing a respected economist to the top job. President Maithripala Sirisena announced that Indrajit Coomaraswamy, 66, had been appointed as the new governor of the central bank, effective immediately. Coomaraswamy was previously a director […]
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Paris bans bangers from streets
PARIS, (APP/AFP): The French capital cracked down Friday on polluting old cars, with vehicles registered before 1997 no longer allowed roam the streets of Paris from 8 am to 8 pm during weekdays. Dozens of police were out Friday on the streets to provide warnings to motorists that driving their old bangers would soon land […]
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Ukraine will join EU within 10 years: PM
BERLIN, (APP/AFP) – Ukraine will join the EU within the next decade, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Friday, adding that his country still believed strongly in the bloc despite Britain’s vote to leave. Groysman told Germany’s Funke media group that Ukraine saw its future in the West and hailed an association agreement with the EU […]
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Organiser of Ankara suicide attack killed: Turkish official
ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – An organiser of a deadly suicide attack in Ankara in February that left at least 28 people dead has been killed in counter-terror operations in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey, a Turkish official said on Friday. “Mehmet Sirin Kaya, a mastermind of the February 17 suicide attack against military personnel in Ankara has been […]
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Bomb shrapnel kills woman, wounds 3 kids: Bahrain police
DUBAI, (APP/AFP) – A woman was killed and three children wounded when their car was hit by shrapnel from a bomb in a restive Shiite-majority district outside the Bahraini capital Manama, police said Friday. The Thursday evening blast struck in the village of East Akar, one of a string of suburbs of the capital that […]