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Red-hot lava spews from volcano in Spain's Canary Islands

Red-hot lava spews from volcano in Spain's Canary Islands

-- 2021-09-20 08:29:53

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending lava shooting into the air and streaming in rivers towards houses in two villages from the Cumbre Vieja national park in t...

Canada's Trudeau most likely to lead another minority government

Canada's Trudeau most likely to lead another minority government

-- 2021-09-20 08:18:22

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, crisscrossing the country making a last pitch to voters before Monday's election, said on Sunday only his Liberals could end the Covid over the pandemic. Trudea...

Volcano erupts on Spanish Canary Island, sends fountains of lava

Volcano erupts on Spanish Canary Island, sends fountains of lava

-- 2021-09-19 23:17:07

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending fountains of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island...

Afghan activists protest outside shuttered women affairs ministry

Afghan activists protest outside shuttered women affairs ministry

-- 2021-09-19 23:13:30

About two dozen women activists protested outside Afghanistan's women's ministry on Sunday after it was closed by Taliban militants in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry for Promotion of Vi...

Ruling party set to win Russian election after crackdown on oppositions

Ruling party set to win Russian election after crackdown on oppositions

-- 2021-09-19 21:42:31

Russians voted on Sunday in the final stretch of a three-day parliamentary election that the ruling party is expected to win emphatically after a crackdown that crushed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's...

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

-- 2021-09-19 17:33:51

Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns, in the latest spat bet...

Former Malaysia PM Najib likely to seek re-election to parliament despite conviction

Former Malaysia PM Najib likely to seek re-election to parliament despite conviction

-- 2021-09-19 12:45:54

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, undeterred by a corruption conviction that w...

Yemen Houthi rebels execute nine over senior official’s killing

Yemen Houthi rebels execute nine over senior official’s killing

-- 2021-09-19 12:26:41

Yemen’s Houthi rebels executed on Saturday nine people they said were involved in the killing of a senior rebel official in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition more than three years ago. Th...

UN chief calls for efforts to continue campaign against sexual abuse

UN chief calls for efforts to continue campaign against sexual abuse

-- 2021-09-19 11:50:40

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday took stock of four years of efforts against sexual exploitation and abuse in the UN system and called for the continuation of the campaign. "Today ma...

Israel forces capture last two escaped Palestinian militants

Israel forces capture last two escaped Palestinian militants

-- 2021-09-19 11:43:44

Israeli forces on Sunday caught the last two of six Palestinian militants who tunnelled out of a maximum security Israeli jail nearly two weeks ago, in an escape that embarrassed Israel's security est...

World leaders returning to UN this week with focus on pandemic, climate

World leaders returning to UN this week with focus on pandemic, climate

-- 2021-09-19 11:05:42

World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send vid...

French break-up a blow to Biden's China-focused alliance rebuilding

French break-up a blow to Biden's China-focused alliance rebuilding

-- 2021-09-19 09:22:13

European capitals celebrated a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June, as President Joe Biden's top diplomat cracked jokes in French in Paris, posed for selfies with French youth and sp...

Some Afghan girls return to primary schools, others face anxious wait

Some Afghan girls return to primary schools, others face anxious wait

-- 2021-09-18 22:12:17

Some Afghan girls returned to primary schools with gender-segregated classes on Saturday, but older girls faced an anxious wait with no clarity over if and when they would be able to resume their stud...

Blasts target Taliban vehicles in Afghan city, three dead

Blasts target Taliban vehicles in Afghan city, three dead

-- 2021-09-18 21:42:35

At least three people were killed and about 20 were wounded in a series of blasts in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, two sources in the city said. The fatalities occurred during a s...

Punjab's chief minister quits ahead of Indian state elections

Punjab's chief minister quits ahead of Indian state elections

-- 2021-09-18 20:55:40

The chief minister of Punjab, an Indian state on its northwest border with Pakistan, resigned on Saturday, deepening a crisis within the main opposition Congress party ahead of state elections schedul...

US Capitol on high alert as pro-Trump demonstrators converge for rally    

US Capitol on high alert as pro-Trump demonstrators converge for rally    

-- 2021-09-18 19:32:00

Hundreds of police officers will be on duty around the US Capitol on Saturday braced for a rally by supporters of the hundreds of people who breached the building on Jan 6 trying to overturn former Pr...

Babul Supriyo joins Trinamool months after being dropped from Modi cabinet

Babul Supriyo joins Trinamool months after being dropped from Modi cabinet

-- 2021-09-18 19:10:56

Indian lawmaker from ruling BJP Babul Supriyo has joined West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped the celebrity singer-turned-politician fro...

Hundreds detained in Australian anti-lockdown protests

Hundreds detained in Australian anti-lockdown protests

-- 2021-09-18 18:55:41

Australia’s police have arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters, reports...

Abu Dhabi removes test rule for other emirates

Abu Dhabi removes test rule for other emirates

-- 2021-09-18 18:41:42

The capital of the United Arab Emirates has ended a policy requiring those coming in from other emirates to have a recent negative coronavirus test. Abu Dhabi made the announcement Saturday, saying t...

Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them

Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them

-- 2021-09-18 18:04:33

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the "propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank st...

Japan won't raise sales tax for a decade, PM contender Kishida says

Japan won't raise sales tax for a decade, PM contender Kishida says

-- 2021-09-18 14:44:34

Japan will not raise the sales tax for about a decade as imposing a higher levy on households at this time would cripple the pandemic-hit economy, Fumio Kishida, a key contender running in the ruling...

Algeria's ex-president Bouteflika dies aged 84

Algeria's ex-president Bouteflika dies aged 84

-- 2021-09-18 12:40:54

Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army. Bouteflika, a v...

Vietnam approves Cuba's Abdala vaccine

Vietnam approves Cuba's Abdala vaccine

-- 2021-09-18 12:27:36

Vietnam has approved Cuba's Abdala vaccine for use against the new coronavirus, the government said on Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country is battling its worst outbreak....

Primary schools in Singapore to shift online as Covid cases surge

Primary schools in Singapore to shift online as Covid cases surge

-- 2021-09-18 11:33:27

Singapore's primary schools will shift to home-based learning for 10 days ahead of a key national examination, the education ministry said on Saturday, as the country reported 935 new COVID-19 cases t...

Drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, US says

Drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, US says

-- 2021-09-18 10:15:04

A drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, the US military said on Friday, apologising for what it called a "tragic mistake". The Pentagon had said t...

In escalating row over submarine deal, France recalls envoys from US and Australia

In escalating row over submarine deal, France recalls envoys from US and Australia

-- 2021-09-18 08:32:19

France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the United States and Australia on Friday after it recalled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal which sank a...

IMF chief in spotlight after China rigging report

IMF chief in spotlight after China rigging report

-- 2021-09-17 21:46:17

The International Monetary Fund's ethics committee and board need to look into a report alleging its chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to boost China's ranking in a flagship report while at t...

WHO urges world leaders to focus on vaccine equity at UNGA

WHO urges world leaders to focus on vaccine equity at UNGA

-- 2021-09-17 21:41:16

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged the global leaders, attending the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), to guarantee equitable access to Covid vaccines and other li...

China formally applies to join Pacific trade pact to boost economic clout

China formally applies to join Pacific trade pact to boost economic clout

-- 2021-09-17 21:33:36

China formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with an aim to boost economic clout Japan, the CPTPP's chair this year, said it would...

Taliban say boys' schools to reopen, no mention of girls

Taliban say boys' schools to reopen, no mention of girls

-- 2021-09-17 21:16:34

Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes. More than a...