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VENICE: Venetians woke Wednesday to devastating scenes after the highest tide in 50 years washed through the historic Italian city, beaching gondolas, trashing hotels and sending tourists fleeing through rapidly rising waters.Shopkeepers on the Grand Canal raged against those who have failed to protect the UNESCO city from the high tide, blaming...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines said on Wednesday it had stopped veteran Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy from boarding a flight from Kuala Lumpur to the Indonesian capital Jakarta on the instruction of Indonesian authorities.Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in France, has been in Malaysia since the weekend after initially saying he...