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24 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes near Libya

24 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes near Libya

-- 2020-09-15 15:44:57

At least two dozen people drowned and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the UN migration agency said Tuesday. Safa Msehli, a s...

Afghan peace negotiators to hold first direct session on Tuesday

Afghan peace negotiators to hold first direct session on Tuesday

REUTERS 2020-09-15 14:31:03

Afghanistan and Taliban peace talk negotiators will hold their first direct session on Tuesday in Doha, officials said, as the warring sides try to work out an agenda and schedule for how to negotiate...

Britain issues travel advisory for China, warns citizens of arbitrary detention

Britain issues travel advisory for China, warns citizens of arbitrary detention

Reuters 2020-09-15 14:20:10

Britain has issued new a travel advisory for China, warning that its nationals may be at risk of arbitrary detention, after several foreigners were held on various charges including cases involving st...

Beirut commercial district fire doused

Beirut commercial district fire doused

-- 2020-09-15 13:51:10

A fire that erupted in a landmark building in central Beirut’s commercial district on Tuesday has been extinguished, civil defence official George Abou Moussa said, reports Reuters. A Reuters w...

China Covid vaccine likely to be available in November, says official

China Covid vaccine likely to be available in November, says official

Reuters 2020-09-15 12:35:53

Coronavirus vaccines being developed in China may be ready for use by the general public as early as November, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. China...

World 'dangerously unprepared' for next pandemic

World 'dangerously unprepared' for next pandemic

-- 2020-09-15 11:38:10

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), an independent body created by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, in a new report on Tuesday decried that the coronavirus pandemic had r...

Putin offers $1.5b lifeline to embattled Belarus leader

Putin offers $1.5b lifeline to embattled Belarus leader

Reuters 2020-09-15 09:32:19

Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed a $1.5 billion loan on Belarus on Monday (local time) in a gesture of support for its leader Alexander Lukashenko, who flew to entreat his patron for help aft...

Retirements, layoffs may leave scars on US economy

Retirements, layoffs may leave scars on US economy

-- 2020-09-14 22:24:13

Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pa...

Boris Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

Boris Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

-- 2020-09-14 16:56:14

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try to persuade rebellious lawmakers in his party to vote on Monday for a bill that will break international law by breaching parts of the Brexit divorce deal...

Amazon to recruit 100,000 more workers

Amazon to recruit 100,000 more workers

-- 2020-09-14 16:48:17

Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers - the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year - to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during...

Cathay Pacific grounds two-fifths of passenger fleet amid air travel collapse

Cathay Pacific grounds two-fifths of passenger fleet amid air travel collapse

-- 2020-09-14 16:37:12

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific has grounded two-fifths of its passenger fleet for the “foreseeable future”, warning it will not survive Covid-19 unless it restructures and adapts for a p...

Suga wins leadership race to become next Japan PM

Suga wins leadership race to become next Japan PM

REUTERS 2020-09-14 13:27:25

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, a longtime loyal aide of outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was poised to win a ruling party leadership election on Monday, virtually ensuring that he...

WHO sees record single-day rise in corona cases worldwide

WHO sees record single-day rise in corona cases worldwide

BBC 2020-09-14 11:36:56

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded a record one-day rise in the number of new coronavirus infections, with 307,930 reported over 24 hours till Sunday. The agency said that deaths rose b...

Singapore grapples with coronavirus in migrant dorms

Singapore grapples with coronavirus in migrant dorms

-- 2020-09-14 11:09:35

Singapore is battling new clusters of coronavirus infections in migrant dormitories that had won the all-clear from authorities, highlighting the difficulty of stamping out the disease, even in a clos...

India mulls emergency authorisation of Covid-19 vaccine

India mulls emergency authorisation of Covid-19 vaccine

Reuters 2020-09-14 10:45:08

India said on Sunday it was considering granting an emergency authorisation for a Covid-19 vaccine, particularly for the elderly and people in high-risk workplaces, as the country’s number of re...

Search on for survivors as wildfires torch millions of acres in US

Search on for survivors as wildfires torch millions of acres in US

Reuters 2020-09-13 21:49:08

Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western US states, where millions of acres have burned in weeks and "mass fatality...

Amit Shah hospitalised

Amit Shah hospitalised

-- 2020-09-13 17:34:41

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Saturday after recovering from Covid-19. He has been admitted to the hospital f...

Boris Johnson accuses EU of plotting food blockade

Boris Johnson accuses EU of plotting food blockade

-- 2020-09-13 17:07:50

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused the European Union of threatening to impose a trade border down the Irish Sea and a food blockade between Britain and Northern Ireland unless the bloc&...

Palestinians protest Bahrain move to normalise ties with Israel

Palestinians protest Bahrain move to normalise ties with Israel

REUTERS 2020-09-13 15:43:40

Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli, US, Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries' moves to normalise ties with Israel. Bahrain on Frida...

Facebook takes down posts that falsely claim who started Oregon wildfires

Facebook takes down posts that falsely claim who started Oregon wildfires

REUTERS 2020-09-13 13:20:30

Facebook has started removing false claims that the deadly wildfires in Oregon were started by various left-wing and right-wing groups, a spokesman for the social media company said on Saturday, after...

Search on for wildfire dead, Trump to visit California

Search on for wildfire dead, Trump to visit California

REUTERS 2020-09-13 12:51:50

Search and rescue crews using dogs combed through neighborhoods left in blackened ruins by massive wildfires burning across three states on Saturday, and US President Donald Trump said he would travel...

Nepal resumes visa services after one-month hiatus

Nepal resumes visa services after one-month hiatus

-- 2020-09-13 12:47:26

Nepal's Department of Immigration decided to resume all the visa services starting from Sunday after suspending the services over a month ago, a senior official of the department has said. The depart...

Mass evacuations as wildfires hit Oregon

Mass evacuations as wildfires hit Oregon

REUTERS 2020-09-13 12:16:11

An unprecedented spate of deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Friday even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go on the o...

Global coronavirus death toll reaches 919,081

Global coronavirus death toll reaches 919,081

-- 2020-09-13 10:53:29

The global coronavirus death count soared to 919,081 on Sunday morning, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Data compiled by JHU showed that the g...

Afghan peace talks open amid calls for ceasefire, women’s rights

Afghan peace talks open amid calls for ceasefire, women’s rights

REUTERS 2020-09-13 10:42:20

Afghan government representatives and Taliban insurgents gathered on Saturday for historic peace talks aimed at ending two decades of war that has killed tens of thousands of combatants and civilians....

Oxygen scarcity hits parts of India as virus cases surge

Oxygen scarcity hits parts of India as virus cases surge

Reuters 2020-09-13 10:38:42

Oxygen supply has grown scarce in some parts of India hard hit by coronavirus, hospital and local government officials said, as India reported a record daily jump in cases for a second consecutive day...

Saudi-led coalition attack Houthi barracks in Sanaa

Saudi-led coalition attack Houthi barracks in Sanaa

-- 2020-09-13 10:18:21

Saudi-led coalition fighter jets have attacked barracks and military sites of the Iran-aligned Houthi in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya reported on Sunday. The coalition also destro...

France's daily Covid cases tops 10,000 for first time

France's daily Covid cases tops 10,000 for first time

Reuters 2020-09-13 09:42:06

France has had 10,561 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Saturday (local time), a new daily record as the number topped 10,000 for the first time. The lates...

Afghan government, Taliban to talk about ceasefire on Sunday

Afghan government, Taliban to talk about ceasefire on Sunday

-- 2020-09-12 21:33:55

The head of Afghanistan’s peace council Abdullah Abdullah said implementing a ceasefire will be one of the first issues discussed when government and Taliban militant group representatives meet...

At least 50 feared dead in collapsed gold mine in east Congo

At least 50 feared dead in collapsed gold mine in east Congo

-- 2020-09-12 21:17:36

At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, a local mining NGO said, reports...