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-- 2020-01-17 22:01:44
China's birth rate has fallen to its lowest since the formation of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago - despite the easing of the one-child policy, reports BBC. The birth rate was 10.48 per...
Reuters 2020-01-17 20:38:10
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Iran's accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week occurred at a time when Tehran was spooked by reports of advanced US stealt...
XINHUA 2020-01-17 18:06:37
Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Nay Pyi Taw on Friday for a state visit to Myanmar. It is Xi's first overseas trip this year, and the first visit to the Asian neighbour by a Chinese president af...
-- 2020-01-17 17:29:39
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defended the country's military after it admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake. He said the Revolutionary Guard - the elite unit respons...
-- 2020-01-17 14:09:42
Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to their lowest number in more than 40 years, police said on Friday, marking the 10th straight year of declines. Though suicide has a long history in Japan as a way of...
-- 2020-01-17 13:08:36
Eleven US troops were treated for concussion symptoms as a result of last week's Iranian missile attack on US military base in Iraq, the US military has said in a statement. "While no US service memb...
Reuters 2020-01-17 10:45:36
The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove US President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday (US local time) even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the...
-- 2020-01-16 20:00:56
Hong Kong police raid powerful pipe bomb lab in a residential building on Tuesday. Police destroyed the laboratory where rioters made explosives. When a homemade bomb was detonated at the scene, the...
-- 2020-01-16 17:37:35
The US House of Representatives officially sent impeachment articles against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday evening to allow a trial to get underway. After an engrossment ceremony,...
-- 2020-01-16 16:31:08
Hong Kong's full-year provisional visitor arrivals in 2019 amounted to 55.9 million and recorded a year-on-year decrease of 14.2 per cent, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced Wednesday. Visi...
Reuters 2020-01-16 13:26:48
Brazilian indigenous tribes and rubber tappers joined forces on Wednesday to oppose steps by Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro that they say are destroying the Amazon forest they depend o...
-- 2020-01-16 13:24:51
The Duke of Sussex is to carry out his first public engagement since he and the Duchess of Sussex announced they want to step back as full-time royals. Prince Harry will host the Rugby League World C...
-- 2020-01-16 12:27:38
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that his government was resigning to give President Vladimir Putin room to carry out the changes he wants to make to the constitution. The une...
-- 2020-01-16 11:22:44
Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile River. The forei...
-- 2020-01-16 11:05:58
Thunderstorms and heavy rain swept across parts of Australia’s east coast on Thursday, bringing hope that some of the fierce bushfires razing the country will be extinguished - or at least slowe...
Xinhua 2020-01-15 17:32:41
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday said that nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast so far in 2020. "Close to 1,000 migrants were returned t...
Reuters 2020-01-15 17:02:16
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed on Wednesday a proposal for a new “Trump deal” aimed at resolving a nuclear row, saying it was a “strange” offer and criticising US P...
BBC 2020-01-15 16:55:34
A woman who became China's first female tractor driver, and eventually a national icon, has died at the age of 90. In 1948, Liang Jun became the only female in China to take up the job, when she enro...
Reuters 2020-01-15 14:17:20
Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office and security service have asked Iranian authorities to give Kiev black boxes from the crashed Ukrainian plane, the prosecutors office said on Wednesday. A to...
REUTERS 2020-01-15 12:42:55
Democrats in the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against president Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, seekin...
REUTERS 2020-01-15 10:47:41
Britain, France and Germany formally accused Iran on Tuesday of violating the terms of its 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear programme, which eventually could lead to the re-imposing of UN sanctions...
-- 2020-01-15 10:47:40
Iran says it has arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile. It is believed the person being detained will face charges related to nat...
Reuters 2020-01-15 10:38:41
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court, will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on January 23, the Gambian Min...
John Leary and Lindsay Cobb in Silver Springs, Maryland, Australia 2020-01-14 20:45:52
"Unprecedented." "Hell on Earth." "Catastrophic." In Australia, these terms are being used to describe 17.9 million acres of burned land so far. While fires of this magnitude are certainly unpre...
-- 2020-01-14 19:28:00
Britain’s 24 million adult gamblers will not be able to use credit cards in gambling as the country plans to enact a new rule to ban using credit cards to place bets. The Gambling Commission of...
Xinhua 2020-01-14 18:53:45
A total of 1,123 new cadets graduated from a commando school and joined the Afghan national army, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. "Up to 1,123 commando forces completed their training...
Global Times 2020-01-14 18:37:25
Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen won by a landslide in the island's regional leadership elections, and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took more than half of the "legislative" seats. We shou...
AP 2020-01-14 17:09:50
Germany’s highest court is considering imposing stricter limits on the activities of the country’s foreign intelligence agency. The Federal Constitutional Court was due Tuesday to hear a...
-- 2020-01-14 15:13:34
At least 57 people were killed and others were missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In neighbouring India, at l...
REUTERS 2020-01-14 13:53:43
Republican members of the US Senate, poised to begin an impeachment trial against president Donald Trump in the coming days, voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt to dismiss the charges against h...
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