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US fighter planes dare North Korea

Daily Dispatch September 24, 2017

Some powerful US bombers and fighter escorts flew off the coast of North Korea on Saturday in a show of force. The power show is against North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme and intransigence, but the action is escalating already sky-high tensions in the region. The hermit state’s foreign

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Mugabe calls Trump the ‘Giant Gold Goliath’ in UN speech

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2017

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe did not mince words at the United Nations Thursday about Donald Trump, mocking the US president as the “Giant Gold Goliath.” “Some of us were,” Mugabe said, pausing for emphasis, “embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical Giant Gold Goliath. “Are we having a […]

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‘Madman’ N.Korea Leader To Be ‘Tested Like Never Before’, Says Trump

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2017

United State President Donald Trump on Friday warned “madman” North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un that he would be “tested,” the latest in an exchange of insults between the two. “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!” Trump […]

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Japan braces as North Korea threatens hydrogen bomb test in Pacific

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2017

Japan must brace itself for the possible launch of a nuclear-armed North Korean missile over its territory if the regime carries out a threat to test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s defence minister has said. The warning followed an extraordinary exchange of insults between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in response to the US […]

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World’s Richest Woman Is Dead

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2017

The world’s richest woman and heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune, Liliane Bettencourt, has died at the age of 94. She passed away in the early hours of Thursday at her home in Paris, her daughter, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, said in a statement. “She would have been 95 on 21 October,” she added. “My mother left […]

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Saudi lifting Skype, WhatsApp ban, but will censor calls

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2017

The Saudi government is lifting a ban on calls made through online apps on Thursday, however, it will monitor and censor them, a government spokesman said. All online voice and video call services like Microsoft’s Skype, Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger, and Rakuten’s Viber which satisfy regulatory requirements were set to become accessible overnight. However, on […]