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India's top court gives disputed Ayodhya site to Hindus

India's top court gives disputed Ayodhya site to Hindus

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-09 12:01:45

India's Supreme Court has ordered an alternate land for Muslims, decreeing a disputed religious site to Hindus in the northern town of Ayodhya. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the...

Brazil ex-president Lula freed from jail

Brazil ex-president Lula freed from jail

-- 2019-11-09 11:34:00

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been freed after more than 18 months in prison. The left-wing former leader, known as Lula, was greeted with rapturous applause from cr...

India tightens security ahead of Ayodhya verdict

India tightens security ahead of Ayodhya verdict

-- 2019-11-09 10:47:10

India's top court is set to deliver a ruling on Saturday on a disputed religious site that has been fiercely contested by majority Hindus and Muslims for decades, lawyers said, as it beefed up securit...

China provides $300,000 cash assistance for Myanmar's ceasefire monitoring work

China provides $300,000 cash assistance for Myanmar's ceasefire monitoring work

Xinhua 2019-11-08 17:07:15

China provided financial assistance of $300,000 for ceasefire monitoring work being carried out by Myanmar authorities on Friday morning. The cash assistance was presented by the Special Envoy for As...

China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-7 satellite

China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-7 satellite

Global Times 2019-11-08 16:57:46

China has successfully tracked and received data from the newly launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-7, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The China Remote Sensing Satellite G...

UNHCR welcomes release of immigrants from Libyan detention centre

UNHCR welcomes release of immigrants from Libyan detention centre

-- 2019-11-08 13:32:10

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday welcomed the release of more than 100 illegal immigrants and refugees from a detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. "...

Magnitude 5.9 quake kills five in Iran, injures 300

Magnitude 5.9 quake kills five in Iran, injures 300

-- 2019-11-08 11:18:32

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eastern Azerbaija...

Judge orders Trump to pay $2m for misusing charity foundation

Judge orders Trump to pay $2m for misusing charity foundation

-- 2019-11-08 10:31:40

A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2m (£1.6m) for misusing funds from his charity to finance his 2016 political campaign. The Donald J Trump Foundation closed down in 2...

British universities under fire for politicising honourary degrees

British universities under fire for politicising honourary degrees

Global Times 2019-11-07 19:07:42

British universities are under criticism for political bias, losing prestige over more than one case of stripping honourary degrees of foreign politicians, Chinese experts said, referring to a recent...

US to continue talks with countries to end wildlife trafficking

US to continue talks with countries to end wildlife trafficking

-- 2019-11-07 18:56:13

The United States has said it looks forward to continuing dialogue with both ‘focus countries and countries of concern’ to thwart transnational organised crime engaged in wildlife traffick...

Rejecting RCEP won’t make India a winner

Rejecting RCEP won’t make India a winner

Global Times 2019-11-06 19:30:37

After India decided not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), some officials and scholars inside the country claimed it is "a win for all those protecting national interests....

China launches BeiDou satellite

China launches BeiDou satellite

Xinhua 2019-11-06 19:10:39

China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 1:43 am Tuesday. Launched on a Long March-3B carr...

France to set immigrant quotas for professionals

France to set immigrant quotas for professionals

Reuters 2019-11-06 17:32:14

France has announced to set immigrant quotas for professionals, marking a precedent with a measure long sought by the country’s right-wing parties. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe made t...

Hong Kong lawmaker injured in knife attack

Hong Kong lawmaker injured in knife attack

Xinhua 2019-11-06 17:20:00

A Hong Kong lawmaker was injured in a knife attack and sent to hospital Wednesday morning. Junius Ho, a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was reportedl...

EU, China agree to protect 100 of each other's regional foods

EU, China agree to protect 100 of each other's regional foods

-- 2019-11-06 13:53:42

The European Union and China have agreed to protect 100 European geographical indications in China and 100 Chinese geographical indications in the EU, said a statement from the EU Commission on Wednes...

Tourists to pay more fee for monuments in Bhutan

Tourists to pay more fee for monuments in Bhutan

-- 2019-11-06 11:41:57

The Tourism Council of Bhutan has said that the entrance fee for monuments across Bhutan would be raised starting January 2020. The council on Tuesday also called the relevant stakeholders and agenci...

Johnson to launch election bid with promise to 'get Brexit done'

Johnson to launch election bid with promise to 'get Brexit done'

Reuters 2019-11-06 11:40:46

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally announce a December 12 election on Wednesday (today), urging voters to back him and promising to “get Brexit done in the next few weeks”....

17 die in attack on Tajikistan border outpost

17 die in attack on Tajikistan border outpost

-- 2019-11-06 11:25:07

Seventeen people were killed in an overnight shootout at an outpost on the Tajik-Uzbek border that was attacked by armed men wearing masks, Tajik authorities said on Wednesday. The 20 attackers kille...

15 killed in attack in Thailand’s south, officials say

15 killed in attack in Thailand’s south, officials say

-- 2019-11-06 10:39:44

Suspected separatist insurgents killed at least 15 and wounded four village defence volunteers in a late-night shooting at a security checkpoint in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south, security off...

Import Expo to change West’s opinion

Import Expo to change West’s opinion

Global Times 2019-11-05 17:08:06

The Second China International Import Expo (CIIE) will open in Shanghai on Tuesday. French President Emmanuel Macron will join the opening ceremony with top Chinese leaders. Macron is the first leader...

Five of a family dead following attack in Mexico

Five of a family dead following attack in Mexico

-- 2019-11-05 13:22:22

At least five members of a family in northern Mexico, including two infants, were killed on Monday in an attack by unknown gunmen, a government source and local media said, in the latest case of grisl...

Air quality index: Visibility improves in Delhi

Air quality index: Visibility improves in Delhi

-- 2019-11-05 13:08:54

The air quality in New Delhi improved slightly on Tuesday as the wind picked up to blow away some of the pollution shrouding the Indian capital city for days. But the air remained at the “hazar...

US notifies UN of its withdrawal from Paris climate accord

US notifies UN of its withdrawal from Paris climate accord

BBC 2019-11-05 12:00:05

The United States has formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change accor...

Turkey captures slain IS leader Baghdadi’s sister

Turkey captures slain IS leader Baghdadi’s sister

-- 2019-11-05 11:40:41

The sister of former Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been captured in northern Syria, Turkish officials say. The 65-year-old, named as Rasmiya Awad, was detained in a raid on...

Taj Mahal gets air purifier amid severe air pollution

Taj Mahal gets air purifier amid severe air pollution

-- 2019-11-04 17:52:08

As north India battles severe levels of pollution, authorities have deployed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to save the iconic 17th-century marble mausoleum. The air purifier van deployed by the Ut...

Where will the China-US trade agreement be signed?

Where will the China-US trade agreement be signed?

Global Times 2019-11-04 17:02:07

The mid-November cancellation of the APEC summit in Chile, where China and the US were widely expected to sign an interim trade agreement, has ignited speculations about a new location and venue to in...

China to continue sci-fi support: report

China to continue sci-fi support: report

Xinhua 2019-11-04 16:35:33

A leading Chinese association for science has reaffirmed support for the science fiction sector, China Daily reported Monday. It quoted Huai Jinpeng, a top official of the China Association for Scien...

One dead, 14 hurt in Kashmir grenade attack

One dead, 14 hurt in Kashmir grenade attack

-- 2019-11-04 14:55:28

One person died and at least 14 were injured on Monday in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, two Indian officials told Reuters. Nine people were admitted t...

Vietnam arrests eight in connection with UK truck deaths

Vietnam arrests eight in connection with UK truck deaths

-- 2019-11-04 14:16:35

Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in relation to the discovery of 39 dead Vietnamese in a truck near London last month, state media said on Monday. British police last week charged two men...

Iranians chant ‘Death to America’ to mark US embassy seizure

Iranians chant ‘Death to America’ to mark US embassy seizure

-- 2019-11-04 13:47:31

Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” near the old US embassy on Monday, the 40th anniversary on the seizure of the mission and a day after Iran’s supreme leader vowed it...