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Oil prices fall as investors seek clarity on US-China trade deal

Oil prices fall as investors seek clarity on US-China trade deal

-- 2019-12-16 12:35:03

Oil prices on Monday slid off near three-month highs hit last week as investors searched for clarity beyond the initial impact of a trade deal between the United States and China that’s expected...

10th 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum opens in China

10th 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum opens in China

S M Jahangir From Sichuan, China 2019-12-16 11:49:09

The tenth 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum started here on Sunday with a call for greater cooperation and interaction among media outlets and media people to give an impetus to an inclusive and mutual dev...

Thousands join largest protest in Bangkok

Thousands join largest protest in Bangkok

-- 2019-12-15 17:24:22

Several thousand people took part in Thailand's biggest protest since a 2014 coup on Saturday after authorities moved to ban a party that has rallied opposition to the government of former military ru...

Powerful quake drives people out of malls in Philippines

Powerful quake drives people out of malls in Philippines

-- 2019-12-15 16:31:10

A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, causing a three-story building to collapse and prompting people to rush out of shopping malls, houses and other buildings in panic, offic...

Greta apologises for ‘put leaders against the wall’ comment

Greta apologises for ‘put leaders against the wall’ comment

-- 2019-12-15 15:20:31

Greta Thunberg has apologised for saying world leaders should be "put against the wall" in a speech. The teenage climate activist made the comment while addressing a Fridays For Future protest in Tur...

14 die in Nepal bus crash

14 die in Nepal bus crash

-- 2019-12-15 12:00:00

At least 14 passengers were killed while around 16 others injured in a bus crash at Sindhupalchowk district in central Nepal on Sunday morning, authorities confirmed. Ganesh Khanal, spokesperson at d...

Argentina’s new govt hikes export taxes on disgruntled farmers

Argentina’s new govt hikes export taxes on disgruntled farmers

-- 2019-12-15 11:21:50

Argentina’s new government has hiked export levies on soy, wheat and corn, according to an official decree on Saturday, hitting farmers in the grains exporting nation to raise revenue needed to...

Johnson says he will repay ex-Labour voters' trust

Johnson says he will repay ex-Labour voters' trust

REUTERS 2019-12-15 10:45:06

Prime minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver a stunning victory for his Conse...

Suu Kyi’s visit to Dutch parliament cancelled

Suu Kyi’s visit to Dutch parliament cancelled

-- 2019-12-14 21:56:48

The planned visit of Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives) of the Netherlands has been cancelled. Suu Kyi was supposed to visit the lower hou...

Singapore invokes fake news law over opposition party posts

Singapore invokes fake news law over opposition party posts

-- 2019-12-14 20:13:36

Singapore’s government invoked a fake news law on Saturday to order an opposition party to publish corrections on two social media posts and an article on its website about local employment, an...

Economic blueprint reassures Chinese public

Economic blueprint reassures Chinese public

Global Times 2019-12-14 18:14:16

The annual Central Economic Work Conference wrapped up on Thursday. Going through a statement released after the meeting, one would be deeply impressed with the central government's objective judgemen...

US sanctions on Iran violate international law: Mahathir

US sanctions on Iran violate international law: Mahathir

-- 2019-12-14 14:29:29

The American sanctions imposed on Iran violate the United Nations charter and international law, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a conference in Qatar on Saturday. “Malaysia does...

Hong Kong leader heads for Beijing as pressure mounts at home

Hong Kong leader heads for Beijing as pressure mounts at home

-- 2019-12-14 11:08:11

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam left for Beijing on Saturday for her first visit to the Chinese capital since her government was handed a crushing defeat in local elections last month, prompting speculati...

Trump nears impeachment as panel passes charges

Trump nears impeachment as panel passes charges

REUTERS 2019-12-14 10:45:07

Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Friday took Republican President Donald Trump to the brink of impeachment by approving two charges against him over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to i...

Capitalism is losing appeal to Chinese

Capitalism is losing appeal to Chinese

Global Times 2019-12-13 17:12:52

As China has stood on a higher level of development, it is having a different way of dealing with, and understanding Western countries. It's fair to say the Chinese people now have the most profound a...

Indian president signs citizenship bill into law

Indian president signs citizenship bill into law

REUTERS 2019-12-13 14:12:28

Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, in Guwahati,...

Winning big, Johnson on course to deliver swift Brexit

Winning big, Johnson on course to deliver swift Brexit

REUTERS 2019-12-13 12:13:02

Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union within weeks. The Bre...

Corbyn to resign as Labour leader

Corbyn to resign as Labour leader

REUTERS 2019-12-13 10:43:48

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks to a polling station to vote in the general election in London, Britain, December 12, 2019. Reuters Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Fr...

UK destined for Brexit as Johnson wins big

UK destined for Brexit as Johnson wins big

REUTERS 2019-12-13 10:07:02

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was on course for a resounding victory in Britain’s election after voters backed his bid to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31, the country’s...

New Finnish PM and her women-led cabinet

New Finnish PM and her women-led cabinet

-- 2019-12-12 16:36:56

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday appointed the new coalition government under Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin. Following authorising decisions by the parties on Monday, parlia...

Russia expels two German diplomats in row over killing

Russia expels two German diplomats in row over killing

-- 2019-12-12 14:35:30

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it would expel two German diplomats from Moscow in a tit-for-tat response after Berlin last week ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats. Germa...

‘Anti-Muslim’ citizenship bill challenged in India court

‘Anti-Muslim’ citizenship bill challenged in India court

-- 2019-12-12 13:56:00

A bill that grants Indian citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The Indian Union Muslim League, a political party, has petitioned the court to declare...

New Zealand plans to recover bodies from volcanic island on Friday

New Zealand plans to recover bodies from volcanic island on Friday

Reuters 2019-12-12 13:09:38

Police in New Zealand are planning to go to the volcanic White Island on Friday to retrieve bodies of people killed in this week’s eruption, while the known death toll from the disaster climbed...

UK votes to decide the fate of Brexit, again

UK votes to decide the fate of Brexit, again

Reuters 2019-12-12 11:31:28

Voters go to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain toward another referendum that could ultimately reverse the dec...

Rohingya refugees reject Suu Kyi’s genocide denial

Rohingya refugees reject Suu Kyi’s genocide denial

-- 2019-12-12 11:12:15

Rohingya refugees accused former Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi of lying to the International Court of Justice in testimony Wednesday in which she denied that her country’s armed fo...

House Democrats prepare for impeachment vote

House Democrats prepare for impeachment vote

REUTERS 2019-12-12 11:05:36

Democrats in the US House of Representatives moved closer on Wednesday to impeaching President Donald Trump as a key House committee began debating formal articles of impeachment that are expected to...

India's citizenship law sparks violent protests

India's citizenship law sparks violent protests

Reuters 2019-12-12 10:28:32

India moved thousands of troops into the northeastern state of Assam on Thursday as violent protests erupted against a new law that would make it easier for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbourin...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year

Reuters 2019-12-11 20:31:17

Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019 on Wednesday. Thunberg, 16...

Politics causes human rights frictions

Politics causes human rights frictions

Global Times 2019-12-11 17:24:09

Human Rights Day fell on Tuesday this year, in which the US-led Western world has unprecedentedly attacked China on its human rights record. They have let values dominate their perceptions of China, w...

Genocide case against Myanmar is misleading: Suu Kyi

Genocide case against Myanmar is misleading: Suu Kyi

Reuters 2019-12-11 16:32:49

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case brought against her country at the World Court was “incomplete and misleading” as she began her defence to accusations of genocide against the...