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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news ( Sep. 05 - Sep. 11 )

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Biden and Trump go o

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Fire breaks out at Greece's overcrowded Moria refugee camp

Refugees and migrants carry their belongings as they flee from a fire burning at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, September 9, 2020. /Reuters Fire broke out at Greece's overcrow

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Assange told to stop interrupting witnesses at UK hearing

A British judge told WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday that his extradition hearing will proceed without him if he continues to speak from the dock and interr

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Israel strikes Hezbollah posts in Lebanon after firing at troops

Israeli soldiers sit in a tent next to their mobile artillery units near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, August 26, 2020. /AP The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belo

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U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq following Kadhimi's visit to Washington 

United States-led international coalition troops withdrew from Iraq's Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces, Reuters witnesses, and t

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U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq following Kadhimi's visit to Washington

U.S. soldiers gather at a military base north of Mosul, Iraq, January 4, 2017. /Reuters United States-led international coalition troops withdrew from Iraq's Taji military base on Sunday and h

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Private space industrialization is here

The universal glee that surrounded the launch of the crewed Dragon spacecraft made it easy to overlook that the Falcon rocket’s red glare marked the advent of a new era — that of private space industr

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Huawei lawyers say U.S. evidence 'unreliable' in Meng extradition case

Evidence used by the U.S. to justify the extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is "unreliable and defective" and should not be considered by a Canadian court, Meng's lawyers argued in documents rele

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Brazil's Bolsonaro calls surging Amazon fires a 'lie'

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is seen at the Alvorada Palace, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Brasilia, Brazil, July 18, 2020. /Reuters Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily

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Hundreds ransack downtown Chicago businesses after shooting

Hundreds of people descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city's South Side, with vandals smashing the windows of dozens of businesses and making off with merch

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Israel accelerates move to implement annexation plan: Palestinian official

A senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday that Israel is accelerating its move to implement the plan of annexing parts of the West Bank. Walid Assaf, head of the National Commission to Resist the

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2 civilians killed, 24 wounded in attack during Eid ceasefire in E. Afghanistan

At least two civilians were killed and 24 other people wounded in a car bomb blast and ensuing gunfire outside a prison in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province Sun

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Thai PM orders deeper look into death of witness in Red Bull hit-and-run case

Thailand’s prime minister has ordered a second autopsy be conducted after the death of a key witness in a deadly hit-and-run case linked to the heir to the Red Bull ene

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Meghan fights to keep friends anonymous in newspaper lawsuit

Lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex asked a judge at a London court on Wednesday to keep the names of five of her friends out of the public domain as she wages a privacy-

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Netanyahu's corruption trial to hear first witnesses in January

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) talks with attorneys Micha Fettman (L) and Amit Hadad (R) inside the court room as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24

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Detained Mali protest leaders freed, after 3 days of violent unrest

Supporters of imam Mahmoud Dicko and other opposition parties protest against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita aimed at resolving a months-long political stand-off, in Bamako, Mali, July 10, 2020

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Mali protest leader calls for calm after demonstrations turn deadly

A Malian protest leader called for calm Sunday after four more people were killed during demonstrations calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation, the West African country's worst ci