WEEKLY ROUND-UP: Sports happenings in Singapore (27 Nov-3 Dec)
18-year-old nabbed for trying to sell an e-vaporiser at Toa Payoh playground to 13-year-old boy: HSA
COMMENT: This Christmas and Chinese New Year, switch off from gift obsession and annoying relatives
River Valley High School death: Teen, 18, pleads guilty to killing 13-year-old schoolmate with axe in 2021
Singapore Marathon: Para-athlete sets world-record time
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Asian markets drop as traders temper rate cut bets
Stocks fell Tuesday, extending the sell-off seen on Wall Street, with analysts warning November's rally fuelled by bets on interest rate cuts may have gone too far, forcing traders to take a step back.Traders are now awaiting the release later in the week of key US jobs data, with a miss to the downside of expectations likely to ramp up optimism for a rate cut in early 2024.
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John Fetterman Pays George Santos To Burn Bob Menendez In Most Fitting Way
The Pennsylvania Democrat taunted his indicted colleague with some (paid) help from the newly-expelled congressman from New York.
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Pakistan police detain Pashtun rights activist critical of military
The leader of an ethnic Pashtun rights movement has been detained after addressing a sit-in at Pakistan's frontier city of Chaman to demand free cross-border movement with Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.Manzoor Pashteen, chief of the Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM), was travelling from the border town of Chaman to Turbat in Balochistan province when he was picked up by police Monday evening.
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Record more than 2,000 fossil fuel lobbyists at COP28 talks: NGOs
A record almost 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists have been accredited for UN climate talks in Dubai, as negotiators wrestle with calls to end all new oil, gas and coal projects to curb global warming, campaign groups said Tuesday.The COP28 negotiations, held during what is widely expected to be the hottest year on record, have been mired in controversy since Sultan Al Jaber, head of the UAE state oil firm, was appointed the climate talks' president.
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Israeli troops battle Hamas militants in southern Gaza
Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after expanding their offensive deeper into the besieged territory, with warnings that an "even more hellish scenario" was unfolding for trapped civilians.As Israel's offensive pushes deeper into Gaza, international aid organisations have warned that civilians in the densely populated territory are running out of places to flee to.
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Foxconn cancels first shift on Tuesday at Indian iPhone facility after extreme weather - sources
Taiwan's Foxconn has cancelled the first shift on Tuesday at its Indian facility that makes Apple iPhones following weather disruptions, two sources familiar with the matter said. Foxconn's operations in the facility near the south Indian city of Chennai were likely to resume after the first shift, the sources said. Foxconn and Pegatron had on Monday halted production of iPhones at their factories near Chennai because of heavy rain as a severe cyclone neared, Reuters had reported.
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Eight dead as cyclone batters India's southeast coast
Chest-high waters surged down the streets of India's southern city Chennai on Tuesday with eight people killed in intense floods as Cyclone Michaung was set to make landfall on the southeast coast.Police said on Tuesday that eight people have been killed in state capital Chennai.
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