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'Citizenship law not anti-Muslim'

'Citizenship law not anti-Muslim'

Reuters 2019-12-22 16:56:06

Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a rally on Sunday for...

Modi to address rally as protests rage across India

Modi to address rally as protests rage across India

Reuters 2019-12-22 14:11:27

Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a rally later today (S...

Trump invites Johnson to White House in new year: British media

Trump invites Johnson to White House in new year: British media

-- 2019-12-22 12:39:24

US President Donald Trump has invited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit him in the White House in the new year, British media reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper reported that...

Cuba names first prime minister in decades

Cuba names first prime minister in decades

Reuters 2019-12-22 12:37:14

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday (local time) named tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country’s first prime minister in decades, under a new constitution that seeks to dec...

French forces kill 33 militants in Mali

French forces kill 33 militants in Mali

-- 2019-12-22 11:40:01

French forces have killed 33 militants in an operation in Mali, according to President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron made the announcement on a visit to Ivory Coast, where he reiterated France's commitm...

North Korea threat looms as China, Japan, South Korea leaders meet

North Korea threat looms as China, Japan, South Korea leaders meet

REUTERS 2019-12-22 11:26:34

The spectre of new confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington hangs over meetings between China, Japan and South Korea this week, with growing risks North Korean actions could end an uneasy detent...

Australia PM sorry for Hawaii holiday during bushfire crisis

Australia PM sorry for Hawaii holiday during bushfire crisis

-- 2019-12-22 10:50:54

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised for going on holiday while the country struggled with a mounting wildfire crisis. Mr Morrison cut short his trip to Hawaii as criticism of him...

At least 20 die in Guatemala bus crash

At least 20 die in Guatemala bus crash

Reuters 2019-12-22 10:41:16

A collision between a passenger bus and a trailer truck in eastern Guatemala early on Saturday killed at least 20 people, including a seven-year-old boy, doctors and firefighters said. Guatemalan Pre...

'China emerges stronger from trade war with US'

'China emerges stronger from trade war with US'

Global Times 2019-12-21 18:14:30

China has manifested growing strength in China-US competition, and that the essence of the trade war initiated by the US is targeted toward the economy and high technology, a Global Times' survey show...

Phase-one China-US trade deal benefits whole world: Xi Jinping

Phase-one China-US trade deal benefits whole world: Xi Jinping

XINHUA 2019-12-21 18:04:10

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said the phase-one economic and trade deal between China and the United States benefits both sides and the whole world. In a phone conversation on Friday with his US...

'Saudi threatened to send back Pakistanis, reemploy Bangladeshis instead'

'Saudi threatened to send back Pakistanis, reemploy Bangladeshis instead'

-- 2019-12-21 17:45:41

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has alleged that Pakistan skipped Kuala Lumpur summit as Saudi Arabia threatened to recruit Bangladeshi people after sending back Pakistanis. Erdogan made the a...

Russia gas export pipeline in jeopardy as Trump signs sanctions bill

Russia gas export pipeline in jeopardy as Trump signs sanctions bill

Reuters 2019-12-21 16:57:07

Swiss-Dutch company Allseas said it had suspended work on building a major Russia-to-Germany natural gas pipeline in order to avoid US sanctions contained in legislation signed by President Donald Tru...

Muslim nations consider gold, barter trade to beat sanctions

Muslim nations consider gold, barter trade to beat sanctions

REUTERS 2019-12-21 14:16:16

Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar are considering trading among themselves in gold and through a barter system as a hedge against any future economic sanctions on them, Malaysian prime minister Mahathi...

Travel warnings issued as fires ravage Australia

Travel warnings issued as fires ravage Australia

-- 2019-12-21 13:15:14

Catastrophic fire warnings are in place across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), where firefighters are tackling more than 100 blazes. Authorities have urged Christmas travellers to dela...

Modi summons ministers to discuss security situation following protests

Modi summons ministers to discuss security situation following protests

REUTERS 2019-12-21 11:45:46

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called a meeting with his council of ministers on Saturday to discuss the security situation in the country following protests against a controversial citize...

18 inmates dead in Honduran prison riot

18 inmates dead in Honduran prison riot

-- 2019-12-21 11:39:17

At least 18 inmates were killed and 16 wounded during a fight between rival gangs in a Honduran penitentiary on Friday, authorities said, in one of the worst recent outbreaks of prison violence in the...

Curfew in Indian city, internet shut in parts

Curfew in Indian city, internet shut in parts

Reuters 2019-12-20 20:57:29

Authorities shut down the internet in parts of northern India on Friday and imposed a curfew in a southern city after two people died in clashes between police and stone-throwing protesters angered...

Prince Philip, 98, taken to hospital

Prince Philip, 98, taken to hospital

Reuters 2019-12-20 20:24:59

Britain’s Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was taken to hospital on Friday as a precautionary measure for treatment for a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said...

6.1 magnitude earthquake rattles Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir

6.1 magnitude earthquake rattles Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir

-- 2019-12-20 19:06:13

An earthquake shook some buildings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir State in India on Friday, witnesses said. The magnitude 6.1 quake was centred in mountainous Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan,...

Protesters chant 'Remove Modi' after prayers at historic Indian mosque

Protesters chant 'Remove Modi' after prayers at historic Indian mosque

-- 2019-12-20 18:09:07

Chants of 'Remove Modi' filled the air after Friday prayers at the historic Jama Masjid as protesters gathered to march toward New Delhi’s center, one of many demonstrations across India over a...

Turkey will retaliate against possible US sanctions: Erdogan

Turkey will retaliate against possible US sanctions: Erdogan

Reuters 2019-12-20 18:03:52

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that Ankara would retaliate against possible US sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline. US Congress has move...

Mobile internet ban lifted in Assam

Mobile internet ban lifted in Assam

-- 2019-12-20 14:37:47

Authorities in India’s Assam state have resumed mobile internet services, 10 days after it was suspended in the wake of violent protests over the controversial new citizenship law, officials sai...

Three die in protests against new citizenship law in India

Three die in protests against new citizenship law in India

REUTERS 2019-12-20 12:04:23

Three people died of injuries sustained in intensifying protests against a new citizenship law in India on Thursday with thousands taking to the streets nationwide in defiance of temporary bans on pub...

Democrats seek high-profile trial for Trump in Senate

Democrats seek high-profile trial for Trump in Senate

REUTERS 2019-12-20 11:01:11

US Democrats on Thursday pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on...

Hang corpse for three days if Musharraf dies before execution: Pak court

Hang corpse for three days if Musharraf dies before execution: Pak court

-- 2019-12-19 21:15:28

A Pakistan special court issued a bizarre but apparently symbolic order for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Thursday, saying his corpse should be dragged to parliament and hang for three day...

Iran calls for transport insurance for Muslim nations

Iran calls for transport insurance for Muslim nations

-- 2019-12-19 15:42:16

Hit by US sanctions that make it difficult to get Western insurers from covering Iranian exports, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday proposed setting up a transport insurance mechanism exclu...

India police ban protests against citizenship law

India police ban protests against citizenship law

-- 2019-12-19 13:14:53

Police have banned protests against a controversial new citizenship law in several parts of India. The ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi, Uttar Pradesh state, and some areas of Karna...

Impeached Trump assures supporters he won't be ousted

Impeached Trump assures supporters he won't be ousted

REUTERS 2019-12-19 12:38:30

An embattled President Donald Trump condemned the Democratic-led impeachment vote against him on Wednesday, irked that he made US history in a bad way but assured that Republicans in the Senate will s...

Pakistan’s Musharraf calls death sentence a ‘personal vendetta’

Pakistan’s Musharraf calls death sentence a ‘personal vendetta’

-- 2019-12-19 12:21:43

Speaking from his hospital bed in Dubai, Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said a special court’s decision to sentence him to death in a high treason case was the result of...

State of emergency declared in Australia over bushfire crisis

State of emergency declared in Australia over bushfire crisis

-- 2019-12-19 11:19:02

A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales, Australia, amid fears a record-breaking heatwave will exacerbate the state's bushfire crisis. The nation experienced its hottest day on reco...