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Pakistan arrests four over Mumbai terror attacks

Pakistan arrests four over Mumbai terror attacks

Reuters 2019-10-11 11:38:25

Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested four aides of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, the suspected mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terrorism financin...

Indonesia security minister stabbed by 'IS radical'

Indonesia security minister stabbed by 'IS radical'

-- 2019-10-10 18:35:35

Indonesia's security minister has been stabbed by a man who police say was "inspired" by the Islamic State group. Wiranto, who uses one name, was getting out of a car in a town square in Banten provi...

Handke, Tokarczuk win Nobel prizes for literature

Handke, Tokarczuk win Nobel prizes for literature

-- 2019-10-10 17:57:02

Austria's Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday, reports Reuters. Two Nobels we...

Xi meets Pakistani PM, calls for forging closer community of shared future

Xi meets Pakistani PM, calls for forging closer community of shared future

Xinhua 2019-10-10 16:52:38

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, vowing to work jointly to strengthen strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation so as to forge a closer Ch...

US arrests counterterrorism analyst over leaks to journalists

US arrests counterterrorism analyst over leaks to journalists

-- 2019-10-10 11:46:02

A counterterrorism analyst with the US Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country’s weapons system to two journalis...

Syrian Kurds outgunned but vow to inflict toll on Turkish army

Syrian Kurds outgunned but vow to inflict toll on Turkish army

-- 2019-10-10 11:03:38

Kurdish fighters who defeated Islamic State across much of Syria with US help will struggle to fend off the Turkish army and its Syrian rebel allies who thrust across the border on Wednesday in a long...

Xi Jinping to visit India, Nepal

Xi Jinping to visit India, Nepal

Global Times 2019-10-09 19:02:04

At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepali President Bidhya Devi Bandari, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the second informal meeting with Modi and pay a state visit...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on lithium ion batteries

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on lithium ion batteries

CNN 2019-10-09 16:46:18

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology. The trio will share the prize f...

France to ban demo in Paris police attacker's community

France to ban demo in Paris police attacker's community

Reuters 2019-10-09 16:18:50

France is banning a planned demonstration that triggered outrage from politicians who saw it as honoring the attacker who killed four people in the Paris police headquarters last week. The demonstrat...

Turkish troops to push into Syria ‘shortly’

Turkish troops to push into Syria ‘shortly’

-- 2019-10-09 16:03:35

Turkish forces and Syrian rebel allies will cross the Syrian border "shortly", a Turkish official said early on Wednesday, as a surprise withdrawal of US troops made way for the Turkish incursion. Tu...

White House vows to fight 'baseless' impeachment inquiry

White House vows to fight 'baseless' impeachment inquiry

-- 2019-10-09 11:56:05

The White House has officially refused to co-operate with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. A letter sent to Democratic leaders rejected it as "baseless" and "constitutionally i...

US imposes China visa restrictions over Uighur issue

US imposes China visa restrictions over Uighur issue

-- 2019-10-09 11:29:40

The US has said it will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials accused of involvement in repression of Muslim populations. It follows the decision on Monday to blacklist 28 Chinese organisatio...

‘Golden Week’ brings consumption boom

‘Golden Week’ brings consumption boom

Global Times 2019-10-08 17:27:24

Chinese people spent more than ever during the weeklong National Day holidays at home and abroad, showing that consumption power in the world's second-largest consumer market still has great potential...

'Turkey will not bow to US threats over Syria plans'

'Turkey will not bow to US threats over Syria plans'

AP 2019-10-08 17:05:00

Turkey will not bow to threats over its Syria plans, the Turkish vice president said on Tuesday in an apparent response to US President Donald Trump’s warning to Ankara the previous day about th...

Liu He invited to hold new round of trade talks in US

Liu He invited to hold new round of trade talks in US

Xinhua 2019-10-08 17:03:02

At the invitation of the US side, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will lead a Chinese delegation to visit Washington for a new round of the China-US high-level economic and trade consultations from Oct. 1...

China sees 782m domestic tourist trips during National Day holiday

China sees 782m domestic tourist trips during National Day holiday

Xinhua 2019-10-08 16:56:48

Tourists tour Xihu Park in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Oct. 7, 2019. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), Chinese tourists made 782 million visits to recreational and...

Nobel prize in physics awarded for work on cosmology

Nobel prize in physics awarded for work on cosmology

-- 2019-10-08 16:53:19

The Nobel Prize in Physics of this year has been jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their work in furthering our understanding of the universe. In a ceremony in Stoc...

Hong Kong leader Lam does not rule out Beijing help

Hong Kong leader Lam does not rule out Beijing help

Reuters 2019-10-08 16:41:11

Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday did not rule out asking Beijing for help, as the Asian financial hub struggles to deal with months of often violent anti-government protests th...

'Brexit deal is essentially impossible ever'

'Brexit deal is essentially impossible ever'

Reuters 2019-10-08 16:34:43

A Brexit deal is essentially impossible as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson that to do one Northern Ireland must stay in the European Union’s...

Trump threatens to destroy Turkey economy

Trump threatens to destroy Turkey economy

-- 2019-10-08 11:51:29

President Donald Trump on Monday launched a harsh attack on NATO ally Turkey, threatening to destroy its economy if Ankara takes a planned military strike in Syria too far, even though the US leader h...

London police arrest 276 climate change protesters

London police arrest 276 climate change protesters

-- 2019-10-08 11:28:37

London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it had so far arrested 276 people taking part in demonstrations organised by the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion. Thousands of clim...

India to lift travel advisory on Kashmir

India to lift travel advisory on Kashmir

-- 2019-10-08 11:08:05

India will lift a travel advisory on the disputed region of Kashmir on Thursday, authorities said, two months after the government launched a security crackdown before removing the state’s speci...

US blacklists 28 Chinese entities over ‘Uighur abuse’

US blacklists 28 Chinese entities over ‘Uighur abuse’

-- 2019-10-08 10:11:47

The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese organisations for their alleged involvement in abuses against ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province. The organisations are now on the so-called Entity List, wh...

Global praise for China's efforts to reduce poverty

Global praise for China's efforts to reduce poverty

Xinhua 2019-10-07 17:45:34

China's achievements in combating poverty over the past 70 years are unprecedented, experts worldwide have said as the country continues to celebrate its weeklong National Day holiday. In the past 70...

HK rioters inflict brutal assault on commoners

HK rioters inflict brutal assault on commoners

Global Times 2019-10-07 17:40:07

Rioters have continued assaulting ordinary Hong Kong residents who hold different political views or oppose their illegal acts as the hit-and-run mob reached a new height of lawlessness. After the ne...

Japan rescues 60 crew from North Korean fishing vessel

Japan rescues 60 crew from North Korean fishing vessel

Reuters 2019-10-07 17:21:21

Japan has rescued about 60 North Korean crew members from fishing vessel that sank after colliding with a Japanese patrol boat that was chasing it out of Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), p...

Malaysia fines 80 individuals, companies in 1MDB case

Malaysia fines 80 individuals, companies in 1MDB case

Reuters 2019-10-07 13:11:04

Malaysia has fined the brother of former premier Najib Razak and other people and companies for allegedly receiving money from state fund 1MDB, the country’s anti-graft chief said on Monday. Ma...

Rwanda kills 19 assailants after deadly national park attack

Rwanda kills 19 assailants after deadly national park attack

-- 2019-10-07 12:00:31

Rwandan security forces have killed 19 people who were part of a group that carried out a deadly attack in a tourist hub in the north of the country on Friday, a police spokesman said. The assailants...

Nepal police arrest speaker over alleged staff rape

Nepal police arrest speaker over alleged staff rape

-- 2019-10-07 11:27:51

Police in Nepal have arrested the former speaker of parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, after a female member of staff accused him of rape. The arrest came after a court in the capital Kathmandu issu...

Trump impeachment: Second whistleblower emerges

Trump impeachment: Second whistleblower emerges

-- 2019-10-07 10:47:49

A second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment case against US President Donald Trump, according to lawyers representing the first one. Mark Zaid told ABC News the second person was also...