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Boat loving Italian MP resigns after ‘media lynching’ over attendance record
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
An Italian sailing champion turned MP – who justified frequent parliamentary absences by saying he could do politics from his boat – announced his...
Cracks appear in ‘invincible’ Xi Jinping’s authority over China
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Rumours have swirled in Beijing in recent weeks that China’s seemingly invincible leader, Xi Jinping, is in trouble, dogged by a protracted trade war with the US,...
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro survives drone assassination attempt
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has survived an apparent assassination attempt involving drones that exploded close to him while he was speaking at an...
House of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel vandalised in Romania
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Romanian police began an investigation on Saturday after antisemitic graffiti appeared on the house of the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in north-west Romania. The...
US pledges $300m security funding for south-east Asia
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Mike Pompeo has pledged that the United States will provide nearly $300m in new security funding for south-east Asia, as China forges ahead with plans to bolster its...
Why Brigitte Macron is the most loved French first lady for years
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
From a very young age, Brigitte Macron, née Trogneux, must have seen people beaming at her whenever she mentioned her family business: they were chocolatiers....
British campaign pressures Pakistan to swap doctors jailed for ‘terror’ offences
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
For two Pakistani doctors languishing in jails thousands of miles apart, there was more at stake than the promise made by Imran Khan to transform their nation as he...
First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places,...
North Korea’s nuclear programme has not been halted, says UN
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes and is violating United Nations sanctions, UN experts have said in a report. A summary of the report,...
Sex, drugs and puke: partygoers turn Amsterdam into an ‘urban jungle’
augustus 05, 2018by WN.com - Asia News
Richard Hemsley has visited Amsterdam every year in the past decade to let off steam with friends in the neon-lit alleyways of its red-light district. Now one of those...
