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Via discreet airport lounge, Ghosn masterminded mystery escape from Japan 03 Jan 2020 - 05:13 pm
Carlos Ghosn gestures as he addresses a press conference in Paris on September 15, 2017 to present the Renault Nissan group strategy. AFP / Eric Piermont
Faster rockets, more warheads: What North Korea could gain from new weapons development 02 Jan 2020 - 07:16 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a WWII memorial in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 26, 2019. AFP / Kirill Kudryavtsev
Australian bushfire smoke turns New Zealand glaciers brown 02 Jan 2020 - 01:19 pm
Carmelised
Taiwan's military chief among eight dead in helicopter crash 02 Jan 2020 - 01:13 pm
This handout picture released by the Yilan County Fire Department on January 2, 2020, shows rescuers searching for survivors after a military Black Hawk helicopter smashed into mountains in Yilan county near Taipei. AFP / Yilan County Fire Department
Thai retailers ban single-use plastic bags 02 Jan 2020 - 01:11 pm
Employees carry banners informing customers about the ban on free single-use plastic bags at a shopping mall in downtown Bangkok on January 2, 2020. Thai retailers kicked off 2020 with a ban on free plastic bags to customers, as an environment group on Ja
Ghosn 'had second French passport' says source 02 Jan 2020 - 11:32 am
Lebanese police officers are seen at the entrance to the garage of what is believed to be former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's house in Beirut, Lebanon December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Australian authorities steer mass evacuation as wildfires raze holiday towns 02 Jan 2020 - 11:19 am
Cars destroyed by bushfires are seen in Mogo near Batemans Bay in New South Wales on January 2, 2020. AFP / PETER PARKS
Helicopter crashes carrying Taiwan's top military officer 02 Jan 2020 - 10:04 am
Peninsula
Taiwan's top military official missing after helicopter makes emergency landing 02 Jan 2020 - 09:33 am
A rescue team searches for missing military officers, after a Black Hawk helicopter made a forced landing at a mountainous area near Taipei, Taiwan January 2, 2020. Yilan County Fire Bureau/Handout via REUTERS
Flood death toll rises to 21 in Indonesian capital 02 Jan 2020 - 08:51 am
A fleet of flooded taxis are seen at the operator's submerged parking lot following overnight rain in Jakarta on January 1, 2020. Nine people died after Indonesia's capital was hit by its deadliest flooding in years, authorities said January 1, as torrent
Battery factory collapses in fire in New Delhi, injuring 14 02 Jan 2020 - 08:40 am
 Smoke rises over the debris of a building that collapsed, as rescue workers (L) gather nearby, in New Delhi on January 2, 2020. / AFP / Atish PATEL
Massive Hong Kong pro-democracy rally ends in police clashes 01 Jan 2020 - 08:59 pm
A plain-cloth police officer holds a weapon to disperse anti-government protesters during a demonstration on New Year's Day to call for better governance and democratic reforms in Hong Kong, China, January 1, 2020. Reuters/Tyrone Siu
Australia sending aid to wildfire towns as death toll rises 01 Jan 2020 - 08:59 pm
This picture taken on December 31, 2019 shows a firefighter hosing down trees and flying embers in an effort to secure nearby houses from bushfires near the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales.  AFP / Saeed Khan
Kim promises ‘shocking’ action and says he has new weapon 01 Jan 2020 - 07:07 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending a session of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang in a picture taken sometime between December 28-31, 2019 and released by KCNA on January 1, 2020
Japan to seek talks with Lebanon over fugitive Ghosn 01 Jan 2020 - 06:03 pm
Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan April 25, 2019. Reuters/Issei Kato
Surveillance in a leafy enclave, Ghosn's Tokyo life was under strict monitoring 01 Jan 2020 - 06:03 pm
A Lebanese internal security forces vehicle parked outside a house identified by court documents as belonging to former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in a wealthy neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 31, 2019. AFP / Anwar Amro
Japan media blasts 'cowardly' Ghosn after escape 01 Jan 2020 - 06:03 pm
Members of the media surround Japanese lawyer for former auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn, Junichiro Hironaka (centre R), as he walks to his office in Tokyo on December 31, 2019.  AFP / Kazuhiro Nogi
India targets new moon mission in 2020 01 Jan 2020 - 01:33 pm
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