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Greta Thunberg calls on world leaders to listen to young activists

Greta Thunberg calls on world leaders to listen to young activists

-- 2020-01-21 14:54:00

Greta Thunberg, who has inspired a new generation of activists to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, urged world leaders to listen to young people on Tuesday. “I’m not a...

Mexico murder rate hits record high in 2019

Mexico murder rate hits record high in 2019

Reuters 2020-01-21 14:53:14

Mexico suffered its worst year for homicides in 2019, with a record 34,582 victims, official data showed on Monday, underscoring the challenge President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador faces while waging...

Fire kills five in southern Vietnam

Fire kills five in southern Vietnam

Xinhua 2020-01-21 13:26:53

A fire in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City killed five early Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported. The fire broke out in a house located in a small alley of District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City at arou...

China confirms person-to-person spread of coronavirus

China confirms person-to-person spread of coronavirus

Reuters 2020-01-21 12:54:08

The Chinese official investigating a pneumonia outbreak stemming from a new coronavirus said the disease can spread from person to person but can be halted with increased vigilance, as authorities on...

Myanmar panel says security forces likely committed war crimes

Myanmar panel says security forces likely committed war crimes

-- 2020-01-21 11:36:05

An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 70...

Trump impeachment: Senate prepares for quick trial

Trump impeachment: Senate prepares for quick trial

Reuters 2020-01-21 10:31:59

US President Donald Trump on Monday (local time) rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate i...

India's ruling party BJP gets new chief

India's ruling party BJP gets new chief

Reuters 2020-01-20 18:06:28

India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has elected Jagat Prakash Nadda as its central president replacing current Home Minister Amit Shah. Nadda was elected unopposed on Monday...

'No other option' but to cut royal ties

'No other option' but to cut royal ties

AP 2020-01-20 17:18:22

Prince Harry said Sunday that he felt "great sadness" but found "no other option" to cutting almost all of his and his wife Meghan's royal ties in the hopes of achieving a more peaceful life. The com...

Russian opposition wants big protest over Putin's plan to 'rule forever'

Russian opposition wants big protest over Putin's plan to 'rule forever'

Reuters 2020-01-20 17:16:20

Russia’s opposition plans to stage a big protest next month against the country's President Vladimir Putin’s proposed constitutional changes, which it cast as a ploy for Putin to rule for...

Five killed in Russian hotel after boiling water floods basement

Five killed in Russian hotel after boiling water floods basement

-- 2020-01-20 13:34:13

Five people died in the Russian city of Perm on Monday after a hot water pipe exploded in the night and flooded a basement hotel room with boiling water, the regional investigative committee said. At...

Nine dead as crowded footbridge breaks over Indonesian river

Nine dead as crowded footbridge breaks over Indonesian river

-- 2020-01-20 13:08:38

A footbridge on Indonesia's Sumatra island broke while it was packed with people and several fell into the overflowing river below and drowned, officials said Monday. Nine bodies have been pulled fro...

Will send 10m Bangladeshi Muslims back: BJP leader

Will send 10m Bangladeshi Muslims back: BJP leader

-- 2020-01-20 12:04:51

BJP's West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh has said that the government is committed to implementing the proposed nationwide National Register of India and will send back 10 million (1 crore) Bangladesh...

China to ban bags and other single-use plastic

China to ban bags and other single-use plastic

-- 2020-01-20 11:29:40

China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end of 2020 a...

Coronavirus spreads to Beijing as China confirms 139 new cases

Coronavirus spreads to Beijing as China confirms 139 new cases

-- 2020-01-20 10:46:53

Chinese authorities have reported 139 new cases of a mysterious virus in two days, marking the first time that the infection has been confirmed in the country outside of Wuhan city. The new cases wer...

Jinping discuses Rohingya repatriation issue with Myanmar

Jinping discuses Rohingya repatriation issue with Myanmar

-- 2020-01-19 20:35:43

China has reaffirmed its willingness to provide further support, within its capacity, to Myanmar in the Rohingya repatriation process and resettlement of the displaced people from Rakhine State. This...

Meghan's father accuses daughter of 'cheapening' royal family

Meghan's father accuses daughter of 'cheapening' royal family

Reuters 2020-01-19 17:46:26

Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, has accused his daughter of 'cheapening' the British royal family, in part of an interview released a day after Buckingham Palace said Prince Harry and his...

Facebook says sorry after mistranslation of Xi Jinping's name

Facebook says sorry after mistranslation of Xi Jinping's name

BBC 2020-01-19 16:50:36

Facebook has apologised for translating Chinese President Xi Jinping's name from Burmese to English into an obscenity on its platform. The translation gaffe came to light on the second day of Xi's st...

Eight killed, dozens injured in Indonesia's bus crash

Eight killed, dozens injured in Indonesia's bus crash

Xinhua 2020-01-19 14:43:52

Eight people were killed and 30 others wounded when a passenger bus overturned in Indonesia's West Java province on Saturday, media reported on Sunday. The driver was believed to have failed controll...

Trump legal team says impeachment charges 'brazen and unlawful'

Trump legal team says impeachment charges 'brazen and unlawful'

BBC 2020-01-19 12:17:33

US President Donald Trump's legal team has issued its first formal response to the impeachment charges against him, describing them as a "dangerous attack" on democracy. The document said the impeach...

Sixty die in Houthi attack on military camp in Yemen

Sixty die in Houthi attack on military camp in Yemen

-- 2020-01-19 11:39:56

Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a military training camp in the Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday, killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens others, Saudi state television said on Saturday evenin...

Harry, Meghan to drop royal titles

Harry, Meghan to drop royal titles

-- 2020-01-19 11:02:39

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will no longer be working members of Britain’s monarchy and they will pay their own way in life as they embark on an independent future, Buckingham Palace said o...

Iran plane cash: Canada offers compensation to families of Canadian victims

Iran plane cash: Canada offers compensation to families of Canadian victims

-- 2020-01-18 18:36:36

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said Canada will compensate families of the victims of the Ukraine Airlines crash. The funds are designed to assist families of victims who are Canadians ci...

India restores internet, 2G mobile services in parts of Kashmir

India restores internet, 2G mobile services in parts of Kashmir

India Today 2020-01-18 18:31:02

India has restored broadband internet and 2G mobile internet services in some areas of its Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Principal Secretary of the state government Rohit Kansal on Saturday. The 2G mo...

Myanmar, China ink dozens of infrastructure project deals

Myanmar, China ink dozens of infrastructure project deals

Reuters 2020-01-18 18:19:04

China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the...

Chinese, Vietnamese leaders call for closer partnership

Chinese, Vietnamese leaders call for closer partnership

Xinhua 2020-01-18 17:04:31

China and Vietnam are socialist neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, and are a community of a shared future with strategic significance, said Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Pa...

Five soldiers die in explosion in Burkina Faso

Five soldiers die in explosion in Burkina Faso

-- 2020-01-18 13:11:01

At least five soldiers were killed in a roadside explosion on Friday in northern Burkina Faso's province of Soum, a security source said. The explosion occurred as an army patrol vehicle hit an impro...

Two die in plane crash in Chile

Two die in plane crash in Chile

-- 2020-01-18 13:03:55

At least two people died on Friday in a plane crash in the northern part of the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile, the Chilean Air Force reported. According to authorities, the plane had taken of...

Putin to attend Berlin Conference on Libya

Putin to attend Berlin Conference on Libya

-- 2020-01-18 12:45:17

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed over the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday the Berlin Conference on Libya, which he plans to attend Sunday, the Kremlin said in a statemen...

Eastern Libya halts more than half the country’s oil output

Eastern Libya halts more than half the country’s oil output

-- 2020-01-18 12:26:37

Eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar, who is trying to seize the capital Tripoli, are shutting down oil exports, slashing national crude output by more than half and ramping up t...

After base shooting, US restricts foreign trainee access to guns

After base shooting, US restricts foreign trainee access to guns

-- 2020-01-18 11:30:45

The Pentagon announced on Friday new restrictions on international military students’ access to guns on US bases, as well as other measures, after a Saudi officer killed three US sailors at a Fl...