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Indian SC to hear pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370

Indian SC to hear pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370

-- 2019-08-28 13:22:35

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the legal challenge against the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and referred t...

Prosecutors accuse Najib of abusing power as 1MDB trial begins

Prosecutors accuse Najib of abusing power as 1MDB trial begins

Reuters 2019-08-28 11:55:24

Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday said former prime minister Najib Razak abused his power to cover up the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from the state-fund 1MDB and used the fund for self...

China denies US warship port visit

China denies US warship port visit

-- 2019-08-28 11:04:10

China has denied a request for a US Navy warship to visit the Chinese port city of Qingdao in recent days, a US defence official told Reuters on Tuesday, at a time of tense ties between the world&rsqu...

Blasts hit Gaza police checkpoints; three dead

Blasts hit Gaza police checkpoints; three dead

-- 2019-08-28 10:50:25

Explosions hit two police checkpoints in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing three officers and wounding several other Palestinians, the Hamas-run interior ministry said, declaring a state of emergency...

Pakistan considering closure of airspace, land routes to India

Pakistan considering closure of airspace, land routes to India

-- 2019-08-27 22:50:12

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is mulling a complete closure of airspace and land routes to Afghanistan for Indian planes and trucks, the Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said fo...

China urges US to stop malicious hyping on South China Sea

China urges US to stop malicious hyping on South China Sea

-- 2019-08-27 20:39:28

China urges the United States to stop malicious hyping and play a positive and constructive role in international and regional affairs, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. Spokesperson G...

21 HK police hurt in illegal assembly over weekend

21 HK police hurt in illegal assembly over weekend

Global Times 2019-08-27 17:46:52

Violence is again pushing Hong Kong on the verge of a very dangerous situation as rioters turned anti-government protests into a riot over the weekend.  The Hong Kong Police Force, the Hong Kong...

Iran’s Rouhani rules out talks with US until sanctions lifted

Iran’s Rouhani rules out talks with US until sanctions lifted

-- 2019-08-27 14:57:53

Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump said he would meet his Iranian co...

Kolkata police arrest JMB's India head

Kolkata police arrest JMB's India head

-- 2019-08-27 12:25:48

Kolkata police's Special Task Force (STF) have arrested Taufeeq Raza alias Ejaz Ahmed, the India head of terror group Jammat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The STF arrested the accused, who was invo...

Australian writer arrested in China facing spying charge

Australian writer arrested in China facing spying charge

Reuters 2019-08-27 12:03:30

A Chinese-born Australian writer held in China since January has been formally arrested on suspicion of espionage, the Australian government said on Tuesday, amid growing tension between Canberra and...

Egregious intent hurting Hong Kong police

Egregious intent hurting Hong Kong police

Global Times 2019-08-26 18:21:08

This past weekend, Hong Kong saw another violent demonstration. Black-clad extremist thugs hurled Molotov cocktails at the police, smashed police cars and even laid siege to a group of officers, threa...

China announces six new pilot free trade zones

China announces six new pilot free trade zones

Xinhua 2019-08-26 18:16:59

China on Monday announced a master plan for six new pilot free trade zones (FTZs) in a strategic move to press ahead with reform and opening up in the new era. The new pilot FTZs will be located in t...

Palestine slams US for removing its name from list of countries

Palestine slams US for removing its name from list of countries

-- 2019-08-26 13:30:12

Palestinian authority on Sunday slammed the United States for removing the name of Palestine from its list of countries and states. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency, said i...

Saudi Arabia, UAE form committee to stabilise Yemen ceasefire

Saudi Arabia, UAE form committee to stabilise Yemen ceasefire

-- 2019-08-26 11:15:53

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said a joint committee was formed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to stabilise a ceasefire in the Yemeni provinces of Shabwah and Aby...

Hong Kong police arrest 36 as clashes intensify

Hong Kong police arrest 36 as clashes intensify

Reuters 2019-08-26 10:32:17

Hong Kong police said on Monday they arrested 36 people, the youngest aged 12, after violence during anti-government demonstrations escalated as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces...

Xi urges Chinese air force to enhance capability to win

Xi urges Chinese air force to enhance capability to win

Xinhua 2019-08-25 18:27:45

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the air force to enhance its capability to win and greet the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with great achievements...

China-US new cold war can be avoided

China-US new cold war can be avoided

-- 2019-08-25 17:15:40

The China-US trade war, the stagnation and ups and downs of trade negotiations between the two major global powers have gained a lot of attention. I would like to discuss the background and the causes...

SAARC Dev Fund Board approves two projects

SAARC Dev Fund Board approves two projects

-- 2019-08-25 17:10:27

SAARC Development Fund held it 31st board meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka 23-24 August taking decisions on key issues to further promote regional integration and economic cooperation among its eight mem...

Hong Kong police arrest 29 after overnight clashes

Hong Kong police arrest 29 after overnight clashes

-- 2019-08-25 12:19:54

Hong Kong’s police said on Sunday they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which volleys of tear gas were fired to disperse anti-government protesters, as the Asian financial hub brace...

Australia to block domains hosting extremist content during terror attacks

Australia to block domains hosting extremist content during terror attacks

-- 2019-08-25 11:51:47

Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events and will consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services, offici...

China firmly opposes US tariff hikes on Chinese imports

China firmly opposes US tariff hikes on Chinese imports

Xinhua 2019-08-24 18:27:06

China is firmly opposed to the US announcement that it will further raise tariffs on about 550 billion US dollars of Chinese imports, said a spokesperson of Ministry of Commerce Saturday.

Huawei defies US ban again, launches new AI chip

Huawei defies US ban again, launches new AI chip

Global Times 2019-08-24 18:22:32

Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Friday again showed its defiance in the face of what is widely believed to be a politically motivated crackdown by the US government, as it released what it claims to b...

Rahul Gandhi to visit embattled Kashmir

Rahul Gandhi to visit embattled Kashmir

bdnews24.com 2019-08-24 17:16:25

Congress' Rahul Gandhi and leaders from various opposition parties will visit the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday where restrictions have been imposed since the central government rev...

China releases British consulate worker detained at border

China releases British consulate worker detained at border

BBC 2019-08-24 16:56:51

A worker at the UK consulate in Hong Kong has been released by mainland China after being held at the border, Chinese police in Shenzhen have said. Simon Cheng went missing on 8 August during a busin...

Putin orders to prepare "symmetrical response" to US missile test

Putin orders to prepare "symmetrical response" to US missile test

-- 2019-08-24 14:16:21

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the government to adopt elaborate measures in response to the US test of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) T...

Former India finance minister Arun Jaitley passes away

Former India finance minister Arun Jaitley passes away

-- 2019-08-24 13:59:24

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley has died at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, days after he was admitted following complaints of breathlessness. He was 66. In a brief statement, the hospital said Arun Jai...

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

-- 2019-08-24 13:06:17

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks...

China to impose additional tariffs on US imports worth $75.0b

China to impose additional tariffs on US imports worth $75.0b

-- 2019-08-23 19:11:26

China will impose additional tariffs on US imports worth about $75.0 billion in response to the newly-announced US tariff hikes on Chinese goods. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council of...

US told to immediately stop Taiwan arms sales

US told to immediately stop Taiwan arms sales

-- 2019-08-23 13:47:48

A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Thursday once again urged the United States to immediately cease arms sales to Taiwan and stop its support for "Taiwan independence...

India increases restrictions in Kashmir amid fear of protests

India increases restrictions in Kashmir amid fear of protests

Reuters 2019-08-23 13:11:39

Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary personne...