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Australia, New Zealand to send evacuation flights to New Caledonia amid unrest
Australia and New Zealand said they will send government planes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to evacuate nationals from the French territory which has experienced a week of deadly riots, sparked by electoral changes by the French government in Paris.
Australia, New Zealand scramble to evacuate tourists from riot-hit New Caledonia
There were around 3,200 people waiting to leave or enter New Caledonia as commercial flights were cancelled due to the unrest that broke out last week, the local government has said.
AstraZeneca to build US$1.5 billion cancer drug plant in Singapore, reduce industry’s reliance on China
AstraZeneca plans to build a US$1.5 billion manufacturing facility in Singapore to produce a promising category of cancer-killing drugs called antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), the Anglo-Swedish drug maker said on Monday.
Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food'
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -- Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveler from Sydney said on Saturday.
Why so many Chinese women feel invisible to their gynaecologist
The first thing the doctor would say to me was, “Take off your underwear and lie on the table”. Then, she would squeeze some gel on my belly and start rolling an ultrasound probe up and down my skin with her right hand. She would type on a keyboard with her left hand when she spotted something on the screen.
Families still looking for missing loved ones after devastating Afghanistan floods killed scores
ISLAMABAD (AP) — When he heard that devastating floods hit his village in northern Afghanistan last week, farmer Abdul Ghani rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives. When he got home, he found out that his wife and three children had perished in the deluge.
