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Police fire teargas as migrants demand to leave Greek island after fire

Police fire teargas as migrants demand to leave Greek island after fire

-- 2020-09-12 21:08:09

Greek police fired teargas on Saturday during a protest by angry migrants left homeless by a blaze at Europe’s largest refugee centre, who demanded to leave the island of Lesbos as authorities s...

Spanish princess quarantined after classmate diagnosed with COVID-19

Spanish princess quarantined after classmate diagnosed with COVID-19

-- 2020-09-12 21:04:23

Princess Leonor, the heir to the Spanish throne, has gone into quarantine after a classmate at her school tested positive for COVID-19, the royal household said on Saturday. The 14-year-old daughter...

Russia, China dismiss allegations of bids to hack Biden, Trump camps

Russia, China dismiss allegations of bids to hack Biden, Trump camps

-- 2020-09-12 19:54:31

Russia and China dismissed on Friday allegations by Microsoft Corp that hackers linked to Moscow and Beijing were trying to spy on people tied to both US President Donald Trump and Democratic challeng...

Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since March

Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since March

-- 2020-09-12 18:26:16

Canada reported zero COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday. Canada’s death toll from the pandemi...

India halts AstraZeneca vaccine trials

India halts AstraZeneca vaccine trials

-- 2020-09-12 18:20:35

India’s drug regulator has asked Serum Institute of India to suspend recruitment in its clinical trials of AstraZeneca Plc’s potential COVID-19 vaccine in the country until further orders....

China announces new restrictions on US diplomats' activities

China announces new restrictions on US diplomats' activities

-- 2020-09-12 17:59:29

China has announced new restrictions on the activities of US diplomats working in mainland China and Hong Kong, in what it called a justified response to similar measures imposed on Chinese diplomats...

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari executed

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari executed

-- 2020-09-12 16:59:24

Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed after being convicted of stabbing to death a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said on Saturday, reports Reut...

Sino-India border dispute resolution: What’s at stake for Russia?

Sino-India border dispute resolution: What’s at stake for Russia?

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-12 14:31:18

Russia’s efforts to mediate in the China-India border dispute show what is at stake for Moscow if the row worsens between the two nuclear-armed Asian neighbours, South China Morning Post (SCMP)...

Historic Afghan peace talks open

Historic Afghan peace talks open

Reuters 2020-09-12 14:19:27

The opening ceremony for talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents began in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday, marking the start of negotiations aimed at ending two decades of wa...

India logs highest number of Covid cases for second straight day

India logs highest number of Covid cases for second straight day

Reuters 2020-09-12 13:29:04

India reported a record daily jump in coronavirus cases for a second consecutive day, logging 97,570 new infections on Saturday, data from the federal health ministry showed. With total cases of more...

Trump’s US has expelled 8,800 migrant children

Trump’s US has expelled 8,800 migrant children

REUTERS 2020-09-12 12:36:46

President Donald Trump’s administration has expelled about 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children intercepted at the US-Mexico border since March 20 under rules seeking to limit the spread of the...

Bahrain follows UAE in establishing full diplomatic ties with Israel

Bahrain follows UAE in establishing full diplomatic ties with Israel

REUTERS 2020-09-12 09:27:49

Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalise relations with Israel on Friday, a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further is...

Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel, Israeli media say

Bahrain to normalise ties with Israel, Israeli media say

-- 2020-09-11 21:33:50

Bahrain is going to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said in a tweet on Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli reporter...

Social media platforms remove war crimes evidence: HRW

Social media platforms remove war crimes evidence: HRW

-- 2020-09-11 19:12:25

Social media platforms are taking down online content they consider terrorist, violently extremist, or hateful in a way that prevents its potential use to investigate serious crimes, including war cri...

Brazilian state eyes buying 50 million doses of Russian vaccine

Brazilian state eyes buying 50 million doses of Russian vaccine

-- 2020-09-11 18:33:02

The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase III clinical trials of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, official...

Three years after exodus, Myanmar erases names of Rohingya villages

Three years after exodus, Myanmar erases names of Rohingya villages

-- 2020-09-11 17:36:50

Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according t...

UN expert says Pandemic's worst impacts on poverty yet to come

UN expert says Pandemic's worst impacts on poverty yet to come

-- 2020-09-11 17:26:58

The United Nations independent expert on poverty is warning that the worst impacts from the coronavirus pandemic on poverty are yet to come, and that measures taken by governments to protect people so...

Moria migrants stuck on Lesbos island, locals oppose shelter plans

Moria migrants stuck on Lesbos island, locals oppose shelter plans

-- 2020-09-11 14:37:46

Thousands of migrants remained stranded on Lesbos island for a third day on streets near Greece’s largest migrant camp on Friday, after fires burned the facility the ground. The Moria camp - no...

Indian academics allege shrinking space for democratic dissent in India

Indian academics allege shrinking space for democratic dissent in India

REUTERS 2020-09-11 12:36:35

About 2,000 academics from top institutions in India and abroad have signed petitions demanding federal authorities stop targeting people critical of the government as part of a widening investigation...

China, India agree to disengage, ease tensions on disputed border

China, India agree to disengage, ease tensions on disputed border

REUTERS 2020-09-11 10:10:22

China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomati...

UN calls for $35b more for WHO COVID-19 programme

UN calls for $35b more for WHO COVID-19 programme

Reuters 2020-09-10 23:36:42

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for $35 billion more, including $15 billion in the next three months, for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “ACT Accelerator&rd...

EU asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to do more against fake news

EU asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to do more against fake news

-- 2020-09-10 22:58:01

Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the Euro...

Indian, Chinese foreign ministers to meet in Moscow amid border tensions

Indian, Chinese foreign ministers to meet in Moscow amid border tensions

Indian Express 2020-09-10 22:19:48

In a bid to dial down tensions on the Line of Actual Control, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is set to hold a meeting soon in Moscow on the sidelines of the S...

Large fire erupts in Beirut port area, a month after massive blast

Large fire erupts in Beirut port area, a month after massive blast

Reuters 2020-09-10 19:58:30

A store of oil and tyres at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the...

Chinese foreign minister for global initiative on data security

Chinese foreign minister for global initiative on data security

FE Online Report 2020-09-10 19:32:12

State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi said on Thursday that they want a global initiative on data security. He made his assertion while delivering a keynote speech titled "Upholding M...

UK delivers projects worth £500m for Commonwealth citizens

UK delivers projects worth £500m for Commonwealth citizens

-- 2020-09-10 17:22:09

More than 40 projects have been delivered during the United Kingdom’s leadership of the Commonwealth, a new report shows. The projects included providing antibiotics to more than nine million p...

Russian state hackers reportedly suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm

Russian state hackers reportedly suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm

Reuters 2020-09-10 13:44:33

Microsoft Corp recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hacker...

India reports highest single-day spike of 95,735 virus cases

India reports highest single-day spike of 95,735 virus cases

Reuters 2020-09-10 12:36:55

India reported record jumps in new coronavirus infections and deaths on Thursday, taking its tally of cases past 4.4 million, health ministry figures showed. In the last 24 hours, 95,735 new infectio...

Global Covid-19 death toll tops 900,000 as India sees record spike in cases

Global Covid-19 death toll tops 900,000 as India sees record spike in cases

-- 2020-09-10 10:19:28

The global death toll from the coronavirus passed 900,000 on Wednesday, as worldwide cases topped 27.7 million, according to a Reuters tally. The United States remains the world’s worst-affecte...

US job openings increase in July

US job openings increase in July

-- 2020-09-09 23:29:37

US job openings increased further in July and more workers quit their jobs in the retail as well as professional and business services industries likely because of fears of exposure to COVID-19 and pr...