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Time for Iran to take steps to reduce tensions: Macron

Time for Iran to take steps to reduce tensions: Macron

-- 2019-09-24 11:07:48

The path to reduce tensions in the region has become smaller and the moment has come for Iran to help defuse the crisis, France’s president told his Iranian counterpart on Monday, his office sai...

Papua protests: 16 dead in burned buildings

Papua protests: 16 dead in burned buildings

-- 2019-09-24 10:52:14

At least 16 people are dead and dozens injured in Indonesia's eastern region of Papua after hundreds of protesters, mostly high school students, set fire to several buildings in one city. Among the d...

China’s development offers worthy lessons

China’s development offers worthy lessons

Global Times 2019-09-23 18:33:44

China's development during the last 70 years is a remarkable story. Severely impacted by war during the first half of the 20th century, it rose to heights that no nation of that time could imagine. No...

Impacts of climate change increase in 2015-2019

Impacts of climate change increase in 2015-2019

UNB 2019-09-23 18:05:19

The tell-tale signs and impacts of climate change – such as sea level rise, ice loss and extreme weather – increased during 2015-2019 period, which is set to be the warmest five-year perio...

UN Secretariat announces 10-year plan to halve own emissions

UN Secretariat announces 10-year plan to halve own emissions

XINHUA 2019-09-23 16:44:02

The UN Secretariat, which runs the day-to-day operations of the gigantic world body, on Sunday announced a plan to slash its own emissions by almost half by 2030. The UN Secretariat has adopted a new...

Trump hails Modi at ‘historic’ Texas rally

Trump hails Modi at ‘historic’ Texas rally

-- 2019-09-23 15:34:44

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged warm words of friendship in Texas at a rare mass rally for a foreign leader. Around 50,000 people gathered for what Mr Trum...

School collapses in Kenya, killing seven children

School collapses in Kenya, killing seven children

-- 2019-09-23 14:35:03

A school collapsed in Kenya's capital on Monday morning, and officials said at least seven children were killed. Parents wailed at the scene of The Precious Talent Top School in Nairobi. Hundreds of...

Spain police detain nine Catalan separatists

Spain police detain nine Catalan separatists

-- 2019-09-23 13:04:03

Nine Catalan separatists were detained in Catalonia early on Monday for planning violent actions, Spanish police said. “The detentions were ordered by Spain’s High Court,” a spokesw...

Buildings set ablaze amid fresh unrest in Indonesia's Papua

Buildings set ablaze amid fresh unrest in Indonesia's Papua

-- 2019-09-23 12:02:29

Indonesian security forces were battling on Monday to restore order in a town in the easternmost province of Papua, a police spokesman said, following media reports of buildings set ablaze and gunfire...

Saudi-led airstrikes kill five civilians in Yemen

Saudi-led airstrikes kill five civilians in Yemen

Reuters 2019-09-23 11:25:44

Yemen’s Houthi movement said early on Monday that five civilians from one family were killed in airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Omran province in Yemen, according to the Houthi owned Al...

UK’s attitude resembles that of a US auxiliary

UK’s attitude resembles that of a US auxiliary

Global Times 2019-09-22 20:21:22

The past decades have witnessed positive and stable development in comprehensive China-UK relations despite some twists and turns. The UK is now at the crossroads of Brexit. What will be London's visi...

UN chief stresses negative impact of climate change on world peace

UN chief stresses negative impact of climate change on world peace

Xinhua 2019-09-22 17:48:40

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday highlighted the negative impact of climate change on world peace. At a ceremony to mark World Peace Day, Guterres said, "We know that peace is more tha...

Xi calls for advancing political consultation in China

Xi calls for advancing political consultation in China

Xinhua 2019-09-22 17:30:21

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed upholding the system of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and improving the CPPCC work of political consultation, democrat...

22 die in Pakistan bus crash

22 die in Pakistan bus crash

-- 2019-09-22 13:46:44

Pakistani police say a bus has rammed into a hill after its brakes failed on a mountainous road, killing 22 passengers and injuring 15 in the country’s northwest. Officer Abdul Wakil says the a...

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rattles Albania

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rattles Albania

-- 2019-09-22 13:25:21

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and an aftershock only slightly weaker shook the Albanian port town of Durres on Saturday (local time), rocking buildings there and in the capital Tir...

90 big companies pledge to slash emissions

90 big companies pledge to slash emissions

-- 2019-09-22 12:47:04

Almost 90 big companies in sectors from food to cement to telecommunications are pledging to slash their greenhouse gas emissions in a new campaign to steer multi-nationals towards a low-carbon future...

Shooting at South Carolina leaves two dead

Shooting at South Carolina leaves two dead

-- 2019-09-22 12:23:22

Police in South Carolina were hunting for suspects on Saturday (US local time) after at least one person opened fire before dawn at a crowded bar in the city of Lancaster, killing two people and wound...

UN welcomes Houthi peace initiative in Yemen

UN welcomes Houthi peace initiative in Yemen

-- 2019-09-22 11:43:26

The UN has welcomed a proposal from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels to end all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace initiative. A statement said the proposal could send "a powerful message of...

Iran ready to 'destroy aggressors' after US troop announcement

Iran ready to 'destroy aggressors' after US troop announcement

-- 2019-09-21 20:50:42

Iran is ready to destroy any country that launches an attack on its territory, a senior military official has said, after the US announced it was sending troops to support Saudi Arabia. "Be careful a...

Solomon Islands, China diplomatic ties opening new chapter for Pacific Island country

Solomon Islands, China diplomatic ties opening new chapter for Pacific Island country

Global Times 2019-09-21 17:25:09

After severing ties with China's island of Taiwan earlier this week, Solomon Islands established formally diplomatic relations with the Chinese mainland in Beijing on Saturday, a decision that acknowl...

Cuba to respond to US expulsion of its UN diplomats, says FM

Cuba to respond to US expulsion of its UN diplomats, says FM

Xinhua 2019-09-21 17:16:00

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced on Friday that Havana would make an appropriate and timely response to recent US actions, including the expulsion of two Cuban diplomats to the United...

Britain and EU spar over Brexit as clock ticks down

Britain and EU spar over Brexit as clock ticks down

Reuters 2019-09-21 15:20:46

Britain said on Friday a Brexit deal with the European Union could be reached at a summit next month, but EU member Ireland said the sides were far from agreement and London had not yet made serious p...

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

Rare protests in Egypt after online call for dissent

-- 2019-09-21 14:49:04

Hundreds protested in central Cairo and several other Egyptian cities late on Friday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corrupt...

US sanctions Iran's central bank

US sanctions Iran's central bank

Reuters 2019-09-21 12:19:54

The United States on Friday imposed another round of sanctions on Tehran, including on Iran’s central bank and a development fund, following last week’s attacks on oil facilities in Saudi...

Four Chinese speaking tourists dead in US bus crash

Four Chinese speaking tourists dead in US bus crash

Xinhua 2019-09-21 11:42:33

At least four Chinese speaking tourists were confirmed dead in a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park in US state of Utah on Friday, according to Utah Highway Patrol (UHP). A total of 30 pe...

US to send troops to Saudi Arabia

US to send troops to Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-09-21 11:24:49

The US has announced plans to send forces to Saudi Arabia in the wake of attacks against the country's oil infrastructure. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters the deployment would be "defe...

European Parliament for arms embargo on Myanmar

European Parliament for arms embargo on Myanmar

-- 2019-09-21 10:48:47

The European Parliament (EP) has reiterated its call on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose a “global comprehensive arms embargo” on Myanmar. It also called for suspending all direct...

Tunisia's ousted president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exile

Tunisia's ousted president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exile

Reuters 2019-09-20 19:43:54

Tunisia’s Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow in a 2011 uprising triggered the “Arab Spring” revolutions, died in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, days after a free presidenti...

US drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

US drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

Reuters 2019-09-20 19:19:17

A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on...

Zimbabwe doctor is found alive after alleged abduction

Zimbabwe doctor is found alive after alleged abduction

-- 2019-09-20 19:04:42

A Zimbabwean doctor whose alleged abduction led to days of protests has been freed, activists announced on Friday, as the government asserted he had simply been missing. The disappearance had raised...