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Jailed former leaders of Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah militant group are being considered for parole, a senior counter-terror official said Tuesday, after the network disbanded and members pledged allegiance to the country.The Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network was responsible for some of the deadliest terror attacks in Indonesia, such as the 2002 Bali bombings that killed …

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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that the days of France’s new government are already numbered, predicting an early presidential election in a few months.Le Pen, 56, spoke a day after President Emmanuel Macron named a new government under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy …

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South Korea’s opposition said Tuesday it would hold back a decision to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo until later in the week. The opposition Democratic Party earlier said it would introduce an impeachment motion against Han on Tuesday to protest against the interim leader’s refusal to sign into law special bills to investigate his impeached predecessor. “We …

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A powerful blast ripped through an explosives plant in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday killing 12 people and injuring five others, officials said.Footage showed shards of glass and metal scattered outside the plant, where ambulances stood by.”According to initial reports, 12 employees died and four were taken to hospital with injuries as a result of the explosion” …

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Hong Kong police announced bounties on Tuesday of HK$1 million (around $130,000) for information leading to the arrest of six democracy advocates based overseas and accused of national security crimes.Authorities also said they would cancel the passports of seven others for whom bounties had already been issued, including ex-lawmakers Ted Hui and Dennis Kwok, local …

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The status of the Panama Canal is non-negotiable, President Jose Raul Mulino said in a statement Monday signed alongside former leaders of the country, after Donald Trump’s recent threats to reclaim the man-made waterway.The US president-elect on Saturday had slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened …

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Hong Kong police announced bounties on Tuesday of HK$1 million (around US$130,000) for information leading to the arrest of six democracy advocates based overseas and accused of national security crimes.Authorities also said they would cancel the passports of seven others for whom bounties have already been issued, including ex-lawmakers Ted Hui and Dennis Kwok, local …

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South Korea’s opposition said Tuesday it would impeach acting president Han Duck-soo in protest at the interim leader’s refusal to sign into law special bills to investigate his impeached predecessor. The main opposition Democratic Party had set Christmas Eve as the deadline for Han to promulgate two special bills investigating suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived …

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One of the world’s most active volcanoes sprang into life again Monday, spewing columns of lava 80 meters (260 feet) above Hawaii, US vulcanologists said.Images showed enormous fissures in the caldera of Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, spraying jets of molten rock into the air.The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption began just after …

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A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney — the unrest that inspired Netflix’s most successful show ever has all the hallmarks of a TV drama.This month sees the release of the second season of “Squid Game”, a dystopian vision of South …

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