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Allegations link Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro to drug trafficking, while Venezuela’s regime, and its Cartel of the Suns,…
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Police charge another 10 people over HK$1.6 billion JPEX cryptocurrency scandal
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Donald Trump’s planned visit to China in May may offer some clues about the preferred US road map for ending the war with Iran, according…
Knife-wielding man kills woman at Tokyo Pokemon shop before taking his own life
A man brandishing a knife stabbed a woman in a Pokemon store in downtown Tokyo before turning the knife on himself, leaving both dead, Japanese…