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Typhoon batters Hong Kong as city in lockdown INTERNATIONAL

Typhoon batters Hong Kong as city in lockdown

The usually frenetic streets of Hong Kong were deserted Friday as the city was battered by Typhoon Haima after the storm left a trail of deaths and damage in the Philippines.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
MH370 hunters to probe underwater objects: Australia INTERNATIONAL

MH370 hunters to probe underwater objects: Australia

Investigators will deploy an underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found during a sonar survey of the southern Indian Ocean in the hunt for MH370, Australia said Wednesday ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
BRICS development bank to lend $2.5 bn next year INTERNATIONAL

BRICS development bank to lend $2.5 bn next year

The development bank set up by the BRICS group of emerging economies will ramp up lending to $2.5 billion next year after making its first loans to back green projects, its president KV Kamath told Reuters.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Elephants rescued from China water tank INTERNATIONAL

Elephants rescued from China water tank

Rescuers in China used helicopters and a digger to free three wild Asian elephants -- including one young calf -- from a water tank where they were helplessly trapped for more than two days, state media said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
China house collapse death toll rises to eight INTERNATIONAL

China house collapse death toll rises to eight

Eight people were killed after a group of houses collapsed in China on Monday, local authorities said. The four buildings caved in during the early hours in Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the Lucheng district government said in a social media posting.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
China jails provincial boss over $36 million in bribes INTERNATIONAL

China jails provincial boss over $36 million in bribes

A Chinese court on Sunday handed a former top provincial official a suspended death sentence for bribery, it said, the latest senior politician to be jailed in a high-profile, anti-corruption campaign.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Thailand bars entry to HK activist 'at China's request' INTERNATIONAL

Thailand bars entry to HK activist 'at China's request'

Thailand on Wednesday barred entry to a Hong Kong student activist who helped organise pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-ruled city in 2014, with a newspaper saying he had been "blacklisted" at China's request.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Philippines, US hold war games after Duterte tirades INTERNATIONAL

Philippines, US hold war games after Duterte tirades

The Philippines and the United States launched war games on Tuesday against the backdrop of the unusual threat of American forces being ejected from the Southeast Asian nation, as its firebrand leader pivots to China.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
China sentences activists for 'disturbing social order' INTERNATIONAL

China sentences activists for 'disturbing social order'

A Chinese court has given suspended prison sentences to three prominent labour activists, citing their involvement with ‘overseas organisations hostile to China’, an official said Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
World's largest radio telescope begins operations INTERNATIONAL

World's largest radio telescope begins operations

The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Tesla fixes security in Model S after Chinese hack INTERNATIONAL

Tesla fixes security in Model S after Chinese hack

Tesla said Wednesday that it has undertaken a security patch in the electronics in its luxury electric Model S Sedan after a Chinese security team hacked into the car's systems.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Chinese men jailed in Cambodia for major drug haul INTERNATIONAL

Chinese men jailed in Cambodia for major drug haul

A Cambodian court sentenced two Chinese nationals and a local man to life in prison on Tuesday for trafficking 55 kilograms (121 pounds) of methamphetamine and heroin, one of the country's biggest drug seizures.

4:45 AM November 25 2016