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Asian traders tread uneasily as Syria strike fuels tensions
Asian investors moved cautiously Monday as last week's US missile strikes on a Syrian airfield fuelled geopolitical tensions and led to sabre-rattling between Washington and Russia. There are fears about brewing tensions between the two powers, with the US suggesting there can be no peace while Moscow-backed Bashar al-Assad remains Syria's president. Greg McKenna, chief market strategist at AxiTrader, said the attack showed the US was not pulling back from its role as a world policeman, despite Donald Trump's isolationist rhetoric.
Philippine appellate court affirms conviction of US Marine
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippines appeals court on Monday affirmed a regional trial court's conviction of a U.S. Marine and his sentence of up to 10 years in jail for killing a transgender Filipino, whose heirs he was also ordered to compensate.
Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea
BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves:
South Jersey native victim in deadly Miami gym shooting
The man who shot and killed two managers at a Florida gym before turning the gun on himself had just been fired from the fitness center for workplace violence, police said Sunday.
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