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Death toll in Iraq unrest passes 100, government issues new promises

Death toll in Iraq unrest passes 100, government issues new promises

Reuters 2019-10-06 22:54:35

The death toll in five days of clashes between Iraqi police and protesters rose to over 100 on Sunday and the government struggled to appease public anger over corruption and unemployment by announcin...

AI ripe for US-China cooperation

AI ripe for US-China cooperation

Global Times 2019-10-06 17:23:47

One of the key issues of the 21st century is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a force for good or the ruin of humanity. With AI at the center of US-China tech rivalry, whether common ethical no...

Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time since ‘dead’ deal

Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time since ‘dead’ deal

AP 2019-10-06 16:47:01

The Taliban met with a US envoy in the Pakistani capital, a Taliban official said Saturday, the first such encounter since President Donald Trump announced a month ago that a seemingly imminent peace...

EU divisions mount as France, Germany seek peace in Ukraine

EU divisions mount as France, Germany seek peace in Ukraine

-- 2019-10-06 16:06:09

French and German attempts to end the conflict in east Ukraine risk increasing tensions that were already rising in the European Union over how to handle Russia and which could complicate peace effort...

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil: SHANA

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil: SHANA

-- 2019-10-06 15:12:26

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil, Iranian Oil Ministry’s website SHANA quoted Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Sunday, adding that exporting crude was the country&rsquo...

Portugal heads to polls, Socialists set to remain in power

Portugal heads to polls, Socialists set to remain in power

-- 2019-10-06 13:59:58

Portugal’s centre-left Socialists are expected to retain power and win more parliament seats in general elections on Sunday, after four years of economic growth, but still fall short of an outri...

Hong Kong reopens part of metro

Hong Kong reopens part of metro

-- 2019-10-06 12:56:10

Hong Kong’s rail operator reopened part of its metro system on Sunday after an unprecedented shutdown, but kept many typically busy stations closed, as the Chinese-ruled city braces for large...

UN calls for end to Iraq protest violence

UN calls for end to Iraq protest violence

-- 2019-10-06 11:42:32

The United Nations has called for an end to the "senseless loss of life" in Iraq as the death toll from anti-government protests nears 100. Demonstrators say they are taking a stand against unemploym...

North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US

North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US

-- 2019-10-06 11:34:04

Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea’s top negotiator said late on Saturday, dashing prospects for an end to months...

Hong Kong’s mask ban follows global standards

Hong Kong’s mask ban follows global standards

Global Times 2019-10-05 17:27:46

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)’s chief executive, announced on Friday that the Hong Kong SAR government would invoke emergency law to introduce an anti-mask law to pre...

Grenade attack injures four civilians in Kashmir

Grenade attack injures four civilians in Kashmir

-- 2019-10-05 13:00:00

A grenade attack injured four civilians on Saturday in the city of Anantnag in southern Kashmir, police said on Twitter, blaming “terrorists”. Many people in Kashmir have been seething si...

Iranian hackers targeted US 2020 campaign: Microsoft

Iranian hackers targeted US 2020 campaign: Microsoft

-- 2019-10-05 11:51:43

Hackers that appear to be linked to Iran's government have targeted the 2020 US presidential election, according to tech company Microsoft. The group attacked more than 200 email accounts, some of wh...

Myanmar not safe for Rohingyas to return: UN

Myanmar not safe for Rohingyas to return: UN

-- 2019-10-05 11:16:03

The UN's independent investigator on Myanmar says it's not safe for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to return because Myanmar has failed to dismantle its "system of pe...

House Democrats subpoena White House

House Democrats subpoena White House

-- 2019-10-05 10:36:08

US House Democrats on Friday subpoenaed the White House for documents they want to see as part of their impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump. The chairmen of three House of Representat...

Death toll surges to 46 as  Iraq unrest accelerates

Death toll surges to 46 as Iraq unrest accelerates

-- 2019-10-04 21:50:15

The death toll from days of violent demonstrations across Iraq surged to 46 on Friday, most of them killed in the last 24 hours as unrest rapidly accelerated and the country's most powerful cleric pla...

SL court dismisses case challenging presidential candidate's citizenship

SL court dismisses case challenging presidential candidate's citizenship

-- 2019-10-04 19:19:09

A Sri Lankan court on Friday dismissed a legal case challenging presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lankan citizenship, removing a major barrier he faced in contesting the Novenber 1...

Unrest-hit Hong Kong outlaws wearing masks in protests

Unrest-hit Hong Kong outlaws wearing masks in protests

-- 2019-10-04 16:08:49

The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday established an anti-mask law in the latest drive to end the prolonged violence. HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam to...

Trump publicly asks China to probe Biden

Trump publicly asks China to probe Biden

-- 2019-10-04 11:01:46

President Donald Trump on Thursday again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election by publicly calling on China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, the kind of reques...

Knife attack by employee at Paris police HQ kills four officers

Knife attack by employee at Paris police HQ kills four officers

-- 2019-10-03 20:28:20

An employee armed with a knife attacked officers inside Paris police headquarters Thursday, killing at least four before he was fatally shot, a French police union official said, reports AP. Police u...

China excels in technology

China excels in technology

Global Times 2019-10-03 19:29:33

In celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, 1.4 billion Chinese have found relief provided by the central government as it continues to steer the country in the right econom...

US widens trade war with tariffs on EU goods

US widens trade war with tariffs on EU goods

-- 2019-10-03 15:48:55

The United States on Wednesday said it would slap 10 per cent tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25 per cent duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies, and cheese from across the contin...

EU official says Johnson's Brexit offer 'can't fly'

EU official says Johnson's Brexit offer 'can't fly'

-- 2019-10-03 15:35:50

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s last ditch Brexit proposal “can’t fly” because it an unworkable move backwards that leaves Britain and the European Union far apart, a senior Eur...

Typhoon Mitag sweeps parts of South Korea, killing six

Typhoon Mitag sweeps parts of South Korea, killing six

-- 2019-10-03 13:27:04

Six people were killed when typhoon Mitag passed through the country on Thursday, South Korea’s government said. Mitag, the 18th typhoon this year, brought heavy rains in southern parts of the...

World War II-era bomber crashes; seven dead

World War II-era bomber crashes; seven dead

-- 2019-10-03 12:51:41

A World War Two-era B-17 bomber trying to make an emergency landing at an airport near Hartford, Connecticut in the US, crashed and burned on Wednesday, killing seven people on board and closing the a...

Trump slams impeachment probe as Dems seek docs

Trump slams impeachment probe as Dems seek docs

Reuters 2019-10-03 11:19:02

President Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily denounced an impeachment inquiry into his July telephone call with Ukraine’s leader as Democratic lawmakers said they would subpoena White House recor...

Iraq declares curfew in Baghdad until further notice

Iraq declares curfew in Baghdad until further notice

-- 2019-10-03 11:06:23

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Wednesday declared a curfew in Baghdad until further notice after at least seven people were killed and more than 400 were injured during two days of nationwid...

Britain expresses ‘regret’ for killing Maori 250 years ago

Britain expresses ‘regret’ for killing Maori 250 years ago

AP 2019-10-02 16:17:46

The British government on Wednesday expressed “regret” that British explorers killed some of the first indigenous Maori they met 250 years ago, but stopped short of issuing a full apology....

North Korea fires 'submarine-launched' missile

North Korea fires 'submarine-launched' missile

-- 2019-10-02 12:35:05

North Korea fired a missile off its east coast on Wednesday that South Korea said may have been launched from a submarine. The country fired the missile a day after it announced the resumption of tal...

Police arrest 144 children in Kashmir this year: Report

Police arrest 144 children in Kashmir this year: Report

-- 2019-10-02 11:19:26

Police in Indian Kashmir have detained 144 children, including a nine-year-old, between August 5 and September 23 this year, according to a court-appointed committee's report. According to data attac...

Johnson to submit final Brexit offer to EU

Johnson to submit final Brexit offer to EU

Reuters 2019-10-02 10:43:04

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday unveil his final Brexit offer to the European Union and make clear that if Brussels does not engage with the proposal, Britain will not negotiate further...