Jakarta police fired tear gas on Monday as they battled protesters angered by Indonesia’s new corruption law and proposed criminal code. Large-scale demonstrations began last week over the new law, which critics say weakens Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency. There’s also anger over the penal code – which would ban sex outside marriage and outlaw most abortions […]
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Browns coach Freddie Kitchens has Odell Beckham’s back. He’s more worried about the NFL protecting the star’s neck. Kitchens said Monday that he wishes the league’s officials were more consistent calling penalties in the aftermath of Beckham being choked by Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey during Cleveland’s 40-25 win on Sunday. Beckham got into a heated
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The United States ran a double-agent operation against China’s Ministry of State Security, an indictment unsealed in California revealed on Monday, as it announced that it had arrested an American citizen and charged him with smuggling what he thought were classified American secrets to China’s leading intelligence agency. The charges against Xuehua Peng, 56, of
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Image copyright Getty Images A controversial study says cutting down on sausages, mince, steak and all other forms of red or processed meat is a waste of time for most people. The report – which disagrees with most major organisations on the planet – says the evidence is weak and any risk is small. Some
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BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged 27. The BBC’s Fran Unsworth, director of news, said Hanna was a “talented young journalist who was widely admired” and her death was “terrible news”. Her family said they were “deeply saddened and heartbroken” and
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Image copyright Getty Images It took China less than 70 years to emerge from isolation and become one of the world’s greatest economic powers. As the country celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we look back on how its transformation spread unprecedented wealth – and deepened inequality – across
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USA Basketball had a tough summer. The outlook for 2020 is already much brighter. Plenty of NBA standouts — elite names like Stephen Curry, James Harden, LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard, Anthony Davis, Draymond Green and Paul George among them — are clearly intrigued by the notion of winning Olympic gold in Tokyo next
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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont proposed a new corporate tax on Monday that would penalize some of the country’s largest companies if they did not narrow the gap between what they pay their chief executives and what they pay their workers. The proposal is the latest measure from Mr. Sanders aimed at reducing income equality
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What’s up: In this screwball, political horror/comedy, a high school student has aspirations to win the U.S. presidency someday. Aided by extreme family wealth, a team of student advisers, a bookshelf full of political memoirs, a detailed plan and a white Alfa Romeo (the car company with a logo that famously appears to depict a
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Leonardo DiCaprio thinks the world of Donald Trump … is a disaster in the making. The Oscar-winning actor ripped the president and other world leaders for gambling away the future of the planet by denying climate change. Appearing at the Global Citizen Festival over the weekend in New York, the “Once Upon a Time in
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