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Singapore's affluent veneer hides repression and corruption, says son of its modern-day founder

Oct. 31, 2024 10:10 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Singapore has become much more repressive, and corruption in the Asian financial hub has worsened in the decade since the death of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, according to his youngest son who fled to Britain to seek asylum from what he described as a campaign of persecution...

Albania stops a ship suspected of harboring massive amounts of toxic waste from docking

Oct. 28, 2024 21:04 PM EDT

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania prevented Monday a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities. The Turkish-flagged Moliva XA443A ship was kept about a mile away from...

Pope marvels at Singapore's skyscrapers and asks that the lowest migrant workers not be forgotten

Sep. 12, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

SINGAPORE (AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday praised Singapore’s economic strength as a testament to human ingenuity but urged the city-state to look after the weakest, too, especially foreign workers, as he opened the final leg of his tour through some of Asia’s poorest countries in one of the...