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Oct 9, 2018    World News

Kanye West to visit Trump, discuss prison reform, violence

Rapper Kanye West has been invited to the White House.White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that West is scheduled to have lunch with President Donald Trump and meet with Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Sanders says they'll talk about manufacturing, prison reform, preventing gang violence and reducing violence in Chicago, where West grew up.The White House hasn't said when West will visit. In this Aug. 28, 2016 file photo, Kim Kardashian West (left) and Kanye West arrive at t

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  [Graphic News] Samsung 9th most preferred employer among IT majors

  　Samsung Electronics was among the top 10 employers preferred by college students majoring in engineering and information technology, according to a survey.  　The South Korean tech giant ranked ninth, up one notch from last year, in the 2018 survey on the world’s most attractive employers conducted by human resources researcher Universum. 　Samsung was included among the top 10 for the third consecutive year.　Amazon was in 10th place, while Facebook and Huawei Technologies ranked 23rd and 40th, r

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  10 minutes of terror: A quake, a tsunami and a missing son

  PALU, Indonesia (AP) -- The Muslim call to prayer had just started echoing across the Indonesian city of Palu when Musrifah's home began to shake violently.Family photos fell from the walls. Dishes and glasses crashed to the floor. A television smashed onto the white tiles of their living room, prompting Musrifah to scoop her 2-year-old son into her arms.Seconds later, the concrete sides of their one-story house cracked, then crumbled, filling the air inside with pale clouds of dust. Musrifah br

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  Australia seeks to settle migrants outside major cities

  SYDNEY, (AFP) -- Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced Tuesday.While much of the vast continent is sparsely populated, Australia is growing at an annual rate of 1.6 percent -- one of the highest among OECD countries.  (AP)Sydney, Melbourne and southeast Queensland are among the fastest-growing urban areas in the world thanks in part to overseas migration, said population min

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  Hong Kong leader refuses to explain journalist visa denial

  HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong's leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating demands for an explanation of the unprecedented challenge to freedom of the press.Victor Mallet, the FT's Asia news editor and a British national, angered authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong by hosting a speech at the city's press club by Andy Chan, the leader of a tiny pro-independence political party, in August. (AP)Chan's party was later bann

  Oct 9, 2018

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  Malaysian PM rallies for successor and former foe Anwar

  PORT DICKSON, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is campaigning for his designated successor and former foe Anwar Ibrahim, urging voters to support Anwar's return to active politics. Mahathir's appearance at a late night political rally Monday marked the first time in two decades that the two shared the same stage, after setting aside a bitter political feud to form an alliance that won a stunning victory in national elections in May. (AP)Mahathir, 93, was elected a secon

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  Netflix to bring new US production hub to New Mexico

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Netflix has chosen New Mexico as the site of a new U.S. production hub and is in final negotiations to buy an existing multimillion-dollar studio complex on the edge of the state's largest city, government and corporate leaders announced Monday.It's the company's first purchase of such a property, and upcoming production work in Albuquerque and at other spots around New Mexico is forecast to result in $1 billion in spending over the next decade. Netflix logo (AP)More tha

  Oct 9, 2018

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  UN report: Technologies can help lives but boost inequality

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- New technologies from artificial intelligence to gene editing hold immense potential to improve people's live -- but can also drive greater inequality and social dislocation, according to a UN report launched Monday.The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 focused on whether leading edge technologies can be used to meet UN goals for 2030 including ending extreme poverty, preserving the environment and promoting economic growth. (AP)UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sa

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  Area hit hard by Indonesia quake was seen as high-risk zone

  PETOBO, Indonesia (AP) — When the violent shaking from a massive magnitude 7.5 earthquake finally stopped, Selvi Susanti stood up and realized something strange was happening. First, she saw the ground suddenly begin to sink. Then the pavement split beneath her feet like a broken dinner plate and started to rise.Terrified, she clung to a small sliver of asphalt and surfed a river of fast-moving mud as it swallowed entire neighborhoods, carrying her higher than coconut trees for a quarter of a mi

  Oct 9, 2018

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  [Graphic News] String of disasters exacts heavy damage, human toll in Asia

  　A recent string of natural disasters, the latest a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, have exacted a severe toll both in economic damage and human lives throughout Asia. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNISDR, says up to 1.6 million people could be affected by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and the tsunami it created in a central region of the island of Sulawesi. 

  Oct 8, 2018

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  Rocket carrying Argentinian satellite takes off successfully

  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite into space Sunday and for the first time landed a first-stage booster back at its California launch site.The primary purpose of the mission was to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX also wanted to expand its recovery of first stages to its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles. (AP)SpaceX had previousl

  Oct 8, 2018

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  UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its gloomy report at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea. (AP)In the 728-page document, the UN organization detailed h

  Oct 8, 2018

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  Strong aftershock rattles north Haiti day after deadly quake

  Haiti (AP) -- A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise.The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the aftershock was located 9.8 miles (15.8 kilometers) north-northwest of Port-de-Paix, the city hard hit by Saturday night's 5.9 magnitude earthquake. Sunday's aftershock had a depth of 10 kilometers. "It was an aftershock.

  Oct 8, 2018

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  Missing Saudi journalist once a voice of reform in kingdom

  BEIRUT (AP) -- Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared last week after a visit to his country's consulate in Turkey, was once a Saudi insider. A close aide to the kingdom's former spy chief, he had been a leading voice in the country's prominent dailies, including the main English newspapers.  Now the 59-year-old journalist and contributor to The Washington Post is feared dead, and Turkish authorities believe he was slain inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, something Saudi offi

  Oct 8, 2018

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  20 killed in upstate New York limo horror

  NEW YORK (AFP) - Twenty people have been killed after a limousine careened out of control in what investigators described Sunday as the most deadly transportation accident in the United States for nearly a decade.All 18 occupants of the SUV-style stretch limo died along with two pedestrians