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Peace talks with Taliban cancelled over attack: Trump

Peace talks with Taliban cancelled over attack: Trump

-- 2019-09-08 11:15:09

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he cancelled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that kill...

Amazon countries sign forest protection pact

Amazon countries sign forest protection pact

Reuters 2019-09-07 11:47:41

Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thous...

Brazil to hire short-term environmental enforcers

Brazil to hire short-term environmental enforcers

-- 2019-09-07 10:44:52

Brazil doesn’t have the funding to hire more permanent environmental enforcement agents in the wake of surging Amazon fires but will contract local environmental police on a short-term basis, En...

US voices concern over Myanmar army's lawsuit against religious leader

US voices concern over Myanmar army's lawsuit against religious leader

Reuters 2019-09-06 11:20:23

The United States said on Thursday (local time) it was deeply concerned about the Myanmar army’s filing of a lawsuit against a religious leader who told President Donald Trump the military oppre...

Guatemala declares state of siege after ‘drug dealers’ kill soldiers

Guatemala declares state of siege after ‘drug dealers’ kill soldiers

-- 2019-09-05 10:45:42

Guatemala’s government on Wednesday declared a state of siege in five northeastern provinces in an effort to regain control after three soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers, author...

US hits Iran space agencies with sanctions

US hits Iran space agencies with sanctions

-- 2019-09-04 10:55:41

The United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s civilian space agency and two research organisations on Tuesday, saying they were being used to advance Tehran’s ballistic missile programme....

US presidential candidate Booker proposes $3.0t climate change plan

US presidential candidate Booker proposes $3.0t climate change plan

-- 2019-09-03 17:19:44

US presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3.0 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100 per cent clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels whil...

Hurricane Dorian kills at least five in Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian kills at least five in Bahamas

Reuters 2019-09-03 12:21:59

Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas on Monday, killing at least five people and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the US coast, where more than a million people were o...

25 bodies found after California boat fire, nine missing

25 bodies found after California boat fire, nine missing

Reuters 2019-09-03 10:53:22

Divers found 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for, as the US Coast Guard continued its search, med...

‘Monster storm’ Hurricane Dorian batters Bahamas

‘Monster storm’ Hurricane Dorian batters Bahamas

-- 2019-09-02 18:48:52

The most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began has torn off roofs and caused severe flooding. The slow-moving, category five Dorian - the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record...

US missiles plan could spark arms race

US missiles plan could spark arms race

Global Times 2019-09-02 18:17:38

The US tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile on August 19 shortly after it formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, making it quite...

Texas shooting rampage leaves seven dead

Texas shooting rampage leaves seven dead

-- 2019-09-01 21:02:12

At least seven people were killed after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in west Texas on Saturday. Police say the mass shooting, the second within the state during August, began with a traffic st...

Five dead, 21 injured in Texas shooting

Five dead, 21 injured in Texas shooting

Reuters 2019-09-01 11:07:56

A white male in his 30s who was known to police killed four people and wounded 21 others on Saturday in a gun rampage between the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa that started with a traffic st...

US blacklists Iranian tanker ‘bound for Syria’

US blacklists Iranian tanker ‘bound for Syria’

-- 2019-08-31 14:49:13

The US Treasury has blacklisted an Iranian tanker it claims is being used to ship oil to Syria. The Adrian Darya 1, previously known as Grace 1, was detained by British authorities in Gibraltar in Ju...

Trial date set for 'architect of 9/11' attacks

Trial date set for 'architect of 9/11' attacks

-- 2019-08-31 13:17:36

A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mr Mohammed will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantána...

Trump launches Space Command

Trump launches Space Command

CNN 2019-08-30 19:19:39

US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command. "Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high gro...

Brazil launches pilot project to fight violent crimes

Brazil launches pilot project to fight violent crimes

Xinhua 2019-08-30 16:57:34

The Brazilian government on Thursday launched a pilot project to fight violent crimes in five towns across the country. The project called "Ahead, Brazil" involves joint actions by the federal govern...

Colombian ex-rebel leader asks followers to take up arms

Colombian ex-rebel leader asks followers to take up arms

-- 2019-08-29 21:29:42

A former commander in the Farc rebel group in Colombia, Iván Márquez, has called on his followers to take up arms less than three years after the rebels signed a peace agreement with the...

At least 23 die as fire hits bar in Mexico

At least 23 die as fire hits bar in Mexico

Reuters 2019-08-28 14:22:16

At least 23 people have died after a fire raged through a bar in Mexico’s southern port city of Coatzacoalcos, NBC News reported early on Wednesday, citing a statement by the office of Veracruz...

Honduras president to inaugurate ‘diplomatic office’ in Jerusalem

Honduras president to inaugurate ‘diplomatic office’ in Jerusalem

-- 2019-08-28 12:13:03

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Jerusalem to inaugurate a ‘diplomatic office’ in the city on Sept 1, the Honduran government said in a statement on Tuesday. The o...

Trump shifts millions from disaster relief fund to immigration

Trump shifts millions from disaster relief fund to immigration

Reuters 2019-08-28 11:08:58

The Trump administration is shifting $271 million earmarked for disaster aid and cyber security to pay for immigration-related facilities, the US Department of Homeland Security and a leading congress...

Brazil to reject G7 aid to fight Amazon fires

Brazil to reject G7 aid to fight Amazon fires

-- 2019-08-27 12:33:32

The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted a G7 summit that ended...

Trump open to meet Rouhani

Trump open to meet Rouhani

-- 2019-08-26 21:53:49

US President Donald Trump said it was realistic to think that a meeting with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani could happen in the coming weeks, according to Reuters. "I have a good feeling. They have...

Trump moves to ease tensions over China, Iran

Trump moves to ease tensions over China, Iran

Reuters 2019-08-26 16:35:39

US President Donald Trump on Monday offered an olive branch to China after days of intense feuding over trade and opened the door to diplomacy on Iran, easing tension on the last day of a strained G7...

Trump dampens Macron move on Iran talks

Trump dampens Macron move on Iran talks

-- 2019-08-25 22:22:37

US President Donald Trump appeared to brush aside French efforts to mediate with Iran on Sunday, saying that while he was happy for President Emmanuel Macron to reach out to Tehran to defuse tensions...

Trump paints picture of unity at prickly G7 summit

Trump paints picture of unity at prickly G7 summit

-- 2019-08-25 15:39:30

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was getting along well with Western allies at a G7 summit in France, dismissing reports of rifts among leaders and declaring that they “respect”...

Brazil sends army to help tackle Amazon blazes

Brazil sends army to help tackle Amazon blazes

Reuters 2019-08-25 12:07:45

Six states in Brazil’s Amazon region requested military help on Saturday (local time) to combat record fires that are tearing through the rainforest, provoking an international outcry because of...

Brazil sends army to fight Amazon fires after EU threat

Brazil sends army to fight Amazon fires after EU threat

-- 2019-08-24 10:33:05

European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an u...

US billionaire businessman David Koch dies

US billionaire businessman David Koch dies

Reuters 2019-08-23 19:58:29

American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and po...

US says will enforce sanctions over Iran tanker

US says will enforce sanctions over Iran tanker

Reuters 2019-08-23 11:53:28

The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seize...