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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. MORE..
12 Dec 2024 (11:21 PM)
A diplomat who "entrapped" a domestic worker in her Canberra home, forcing her to work 14 hours, seven days a week, for less than a dollar an hour, has been fined more than $100,000 in the Australian federal court. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:57 AM)
Indian conglomerate Adani Group s port project in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite US charges against its founder and sudden changes to its financing, the island nation said Friday. MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (2:34 PM)
U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State, Ambassador Donald Lu, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Robert Kaproth...MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (11:02 AM)
The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT) says that the Geminids meteor shower, considered as one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, will be visible tonight (13) and tomorrow (14). MORE..
13 Dec 2024 (12:13 PM)