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Seeds of anxiety over core business

[2017-04-21 07:19]

MUSTANG, Nepal - Being one of the oldest apple producers in the remote Mustang district, 75-year-old Nar Bahadur Hirachan feels proud that his village, Marhpa, produces the juiciest apples in Nepal.

Detection technology helps police track down gunshots

[2017-04-21 07:19]

LOS ANGELES - Gunfire detection technology helped police arrest the suspect in a shooting spree in which three people were killed on Tuesday in Fresno, California.

Turnout offers new vote twist

[2017-04-20 07:15]

PARIS - A projected high abstention rate in Sunday's first round of the French presidential election is likely to bring new uncertainties, Guillaume Indigo, an analyst at BVA pollster, said on Tuesday.

Trump's visa changes could favor more skilled, higher wage workers

[2017-04-20 07:15]

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that could tighten the H-1B immigrant visa program that is popular with skilled workers from India and China.

Japan's overtime cap sparks outcry

[2017-04-20 07:15]

TOKYO - Workaholic Japan has unveiled its first-ever plan to limit overtime, but critics want to give it the boot, saying an "outrageous" 100-hour-a-month cap will do nothing to tackle karoshi, or death from overwork.

UN: Nearly 9,000 migrants rescued over last weekend

[2017-04-20 07:15]

NEW YORK - The International Organization for Migration reported that nearly 9,000 migrants were rescued over the past Easter weekend by individual nongovernment organizations and by the international flotilla, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

Weakening Syria's government may help IS group, report says

[2017-04-20 07:15]

ISTANBUL, Turkey - The Islamic State group could inadvertently benefit from a situation in which Syrian government forces are considerably weakened on the ground, a London-based military analysis group said on Tuesday.

US reassures Japan of resolve on DPRK

[2017-04-19 07:40]

Visiting US Vice-President Mike Pence said in Tokyo on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is determined to work closely with Japan, the Republic of Korea, other allies in the region and China to achieve a peaceable solution and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

British PM May calls for early election to strengthen Brexit hand

[2017-04-19 07:40]

Theresa May, the British prime minister, said on Tuesday that she will call for a general election on June 8.

Thorny road ahead for Erdogan

[2017-04-19 07:40]

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's tight victory in Sunday's referendum may not allow him to move freely in expanding his powers, analysts pointed out on Tuesday. An unofficial tally gave Erdogan's "yes" vote a narrow win, with 51.4 percent approving a series of constitutional changes converting Turkey's parliamentary system to a presidential one.

US sends 1,000 Marines to Darwin, in a largest deployment since WWII

[2017-04-19 07:40]

CANBERRA - More than 1,000 US Marines arrived in Darwin on Tuesday as part of a rotation of forces to be stationed in northern Australia.

At 117, Jamaican woman becomes world's oldest

[2017-04-19 07:40]

DUANVALE, Jamaica - Violet Brown spent much of her life cutting sugar cane in the fields around her home in Jamaica. She attended church regularly, avoids pork and chicken and celebrated her 117th birthday last month.

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