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Cyber spying firm NSO to follow human rights guidelines

Cyber spying firm NSO to follow human rights guidelines

-- 2019-09-10 16:45:19

The Israeli-based NSO Group, whose software is alleged to have been used in a number of government surveillance scandals, said on Tuesday it would abide by UN guidelines to prevent rights abuses, repo...

Johnson fails to get nod again for early polls

Johnson fails to get nod again for early polls

-- 2019-09-10 16:37:23

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his final chance in the early hours of Tuesday to force an early general election as the British Parliament closed its doors for five weeks. Johnson’s...

Putin 'personally planned' Russia's interference in US polls

Putin 'personally planned' Russia's interference in US polls

-- 2019-09-10 16:12:29

The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports BBC. Citing "multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge" of the operation, CNN reported that US intelligence f...

Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says

Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says

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

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment minis...

Myanmar destroys all Muslim Rohingya villages for govt facilities

Myanmar destroys all Muslim Rohingya villages for govt facilities

-- 2019-09-10 15:36:31

Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. Four locations where secure faci...

Haze hits Malaysian state, shuts schools

Haze hits Malaysian state, shuts schools

-- 2019-09-10 14:22:40

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10: Malaysia sent half a million face masks to the eastern state of Sarawak and closed more than 400 schools there on Tuesday as a haze spread from forest fires in neighboring Indon...

India, Pakistan set to battle at UNHRC session over Kashmir issue today

India, Pakistan set to battle at UNHRC session over Kashmir issue today

-- 2019-09-10 13:01:15

Geneva: India and Pakistan are set to battle it out over Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session on Tuesday, reports www.firstpost.com. Both the countries have deploye...

Nigeria to evacuate citizens from S Africa after xenophobic attacks

Nigeria to evacuate citizens from S Africa after xenophobic attacks

-- 2019-09-10 12:39:10

Nigeria will evacuate hundreds of its citizens from South Africa following a string of xenophobic attacks, a government official told CNN on Monday. Flights carrying the returnees will start leaving...

India, Nepal to jointly inaugurate cross border pipeline today

India, Nepal to jointly inaugurate cross border pipeline today

-- 2019-09-10 12:25:30

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal's Prime Minister K.P.Sharma Oli will jointly inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhgunj cross border petroleum products pipeline through video conference Tuesday....

Australians flee homes as police investigate suspicious fires

Australians flee homes as police investigate suspicious fires

-- 2019-09-10 12:18:48

Hundreds of Australians have fled their homes in the eastern states as 140 fires ravaged parts of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), officials said on Tuesday. Strong winds have fanned bushfires i...

Trump says he could meet with Iranian President Rouhani

Trump says he could meet with Iranian President Rouhani

-- 2019-09-10 11:33:28

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday he could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and that he had no problem with such an encounter. "It could happen. It could happen. No problem...

North Korea fires two more projectiles

North Korea fires two more projectiles

-- 2019-09-10 10:55:37

North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its deali...

Trump says Taliban talks 'dead'

Trump says Taliban talks 'dead'

-- 2019-09-10 10:37:44

 WASHINGTON, Sept 10: US President Donald Trump proclaimed talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders dead on Monday, while the general in charge said the U.S. military is likely to ramp up o...

UK parliament speaker to quit

UK parliament speaker to quit

Reuters 2019-09-09 21:31:41

John Bercow, Speaker in Britain’s House of Commons, announced on Monday that he would be standing down from the role. Bercow has helped bend parliamentary rules to give lawmakers opposed to a n...

Xi stresses synergy, coordination, efficiency in advancing reform

Xi stresses synergy, coordination, efficiency in advancing reform

Xinhua 2019-09-09 20:38:03

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the 10th meeting of the central committee for deepening overall reform Monday. Xi, also Chi...

How can China cope with US technological decoupling?

How can China cope with US technological decoupling?

Global Times 2019-09-09 20:34:38

What on earth is the US competing for with China? Why does the US concern itself with China's development? We may find answers through the development of internet technology. The US and China a...

'Japan needs to improve medical care for detainees'

'Japan needs to improve medical care for detainees'

Reuters 2019-09-09 16:37:14

Japan needs to improve medical care at immigration detention centres, the head of the country’s recently created Immigration Services Agency said, following widespread criticism of the care avai...

Mugabe's family pushes back against government burial plan

Mugabe's family pushes back against government burial plan

Reuters 2019-09-09 13:09:40

The family of Zimbabwe founder Robert Mugabe is pushing back against the government’s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare and wants him to be buried in his home villa...

Strong typhoon hits Tokyo, leaving one dead

Strong typhoon hits Tokyo, leaving one dead

-- 2019-09-09 11:46:09

One of the strongest typhoons to hit the Japanese capital in recent years hit just east of Tokyo on Monday, killing one woman, with record-breaking winds and stinging rain that threatened to burst riv...

More Americans will die: Taliban

More Americans will die: Taliban

-- 2019-09-09 11:12:54

President Donald Trump's decision to cancel Afghan peace talks will cost more American lives, the Taliban said on Sunday while the United States promised to keep up military pressure on the militants,...

PLA conducts joint land assault exercises near Taiwan

PLA conducts joint land assault exercises near Taiwan

Global Times 2019-09-08 18:51:24

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a joint land assault exercise featuring multiple military branches near the island of Taiwan, which military experts said on Sunday shows...

Cargo trains drive closer cooperation between Chinese, European industrial bases

Cargo trains drive closer cooperation between Chinese, European industrial bases

Xinhua 2019-09-08 18:43:07

In the plant of the world's top auto glass manufacturer Fuyao Group in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, forklifts are busy transporting windshields into standard containers. Th...

India locates Chandrayaan-2 lander on moon

India locates Chandrayaan-2 lander on moon

-- 2019-09-08 17:18:32

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has found out the exact location of the Chandrayaan-2 lander that had lost communication with the space agency just moments before its scheduled soft land...

Behind Hong Kong's chaos lie deep-seated social problems

Behind Hong Kong's chaos lie deep-seated social problems

Xinhua 2019-09-08 15:21:41

Kwong loves the pure adrenaline rush he gets when he takes his motorcycle out on the weekends to light up his lacklustre life. The 35-year-old lives with his parents in an old and cramped apartment i...

One dead, 29 injured in China earthquake

One dead, 29 injured in China earthquake

Xinhua 2019-09-08 14:49:12

One was killed and 29 others were injured as of 10 am after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Weiyuan County of Neijiang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 6:42 am Sunday, local government...

UK Work and Pensions Secretary quits govt in Brexit protest

UK Work and Pensions Secretary quits govt in Brexit protest

-- 2019-09-08 12:22:42

Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday in a protest over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the...

Peace talks with Taliban cancelled over attack: Trump

Peace talks with Taliban cancelled over attack: Trump

-- 2019-09-08 11:15:09

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he cancelled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that kill...

India builds first camp for illegals raising detention fears

India builds first camp for illegals raising detention fears

Reuters 2019-09-08 10:55:08

Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer fields and are building the first mass detention centre for...

Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in landmark deal

Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in landmark deal

-- 2019-09-07 20:45:52

Russia and Ukraine have completed a long-awaited exchange of prisoners. Those freed include 24 Ukrainian sailors and - controversially - a "person of interest" over the downing of flight MH17 which k...

Xi stresses colleges' role in boosting agricultural prosperity

Xi stresses colleges' role in boosting agricultural prosperity

Xinhua 2019-09-07 16:34:10

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged agricultural colleges to strengthen moral education and talent cultivation to promote the country's agricultural development. Xi, also general secretary of...