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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Nov 05- Nov 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 | Trump takes aim at R

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'Putin's chef' admits to interfering in U.S. elections

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an entrepreneur known as "Putin's chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, on Monday admitted he had interfered in U.S. elections an

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Iran, Ukraine deny reports of Ukrainian plane hijacking

Iran on Tuesday dismissed media reports that a Ukrainian plane has been hijacked in Iran, saying the aircraft left Iran for Kiev after it was refueled in the northeastern city of Mashhad, according t

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Russia evacuates villages after munition depot explosion

Russia has evacuated more than 1,000 people from nearby villages after a wildfire set off explosions at a munitions depot in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow, officials said. /AFP Russia

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The Magnitsky Act, sanctions and China's right to respond

People attend a culture and tourism festival themed on Dolan and Qiuci culture in Awat County of Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 25, 2019. /Xinhua

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Putin agrees to declare state of emergency in Arctic Norilsk due to fuel spill

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to declare a state of emergency of federal scale in Russia's Arctic Norilsk city in the Krasnoyarsk region due to a di

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Russia's top spacecraft designer reportedly dies from COVID-19

A Roscosmos file photo of Yevgeny MikrinThe passing of Mikrin is "an irreparable loss," Roscosmos said. MOSCOW, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Chief designer of the Energia Rocket

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Russia fined $10 mln, only 10 neutral athletes allowed at Tokyo 2020

World Athletics on Thursday fined Russia's track and field federation 10 million U.S. dollars for breaching anti-doping rules and capped at 10 the number of Russians allowed to compete as neutrals

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Emboldened Trump fires 2 officials who testified in impeachment inquiry

President Donald Trump on Friday fired a U.S. ambassador and a White House national security aide, both of whom testified in the House impeachment inquiry, as the newly

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Payback: Trump ousts officials who testified on impeachment

Exacting swift punishment against those who crossed him, an emboldened President Donald Trump on Friday ousted two government officials who had delivered damaging testi