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HK won’t top Merkel's China trip agenda

HK won’t top Merkel's China trip agenda

Global Times 2019-09-07 16:26:55

German Chancellor Angela Merkel began on Friday her official visit to China. It's a big event for China-German relations. Merkel, who had visited China as German chancellor 11 times before this trip,...

Iran seizes ship for ‘fuel smuggling’ in Gulf, holds 12 crew

Iran seizes ship for ‘fuel smuggling’ in Gulf, holds 12 crew

-- 2019-09-07 14:31:22

Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The vessel wa...

Brexit: MPs willing to go to court to enforce delay

Brexit: MPs willing to go to court to enforce delay

-- 2019-09-07 14:15:19

British MPs, including Tories expelled from the party, are preparing legal action in case the PM refuses to seek a delay to Brexit. A bill requiring Boris Johnson to ask for an extension to the UK's...

Amazon countries sign forest protection pact

Amazon countries sign forest protection pact

Reuters 2019-09-07 11:47:41

Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thous...

Brazil to hire short-term environmental enforcers

Brazil to hire short-term environmental enforcers

-- 2019-09-07 10:44:52

Brazil doesn’t have the funding to hire more permanent environmental enforcement agents in the wake of surging Amazon fires but will contract local environmental police on a short-term basis, En...

Russia welcomes Chinese investment: Putin

Russia welcomes Chinese investment: Putin

Xinhua 2019-09-06 18:16:49

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that his country welcomes Chinese investment and expects more positive outcomes from bilateral cooperation. Putin made the remarks Vladivostok at a m...

Pakistan vows 'fullest possible response' to India over Kashmir

Pakistan vows 'fullest possible response' to India over Kashmir

Reuters 2019-09-06 15:08:53

Pakistan will make the fullest possible response to India’s actions in disputed Kashmir and the global community would be responsible for any “catastrophic” aftermath, Imran Khan, th...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe: From liberator to oppressor

Zimbabwe's Mugabe: From liberator to oppressor

Reuters 2019-09-06 13:58:36

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule....

Zimbabwe's former president Mugabe dies

Zimbabwe's former president Mugabe dies

-- 2019-09-06 12:03:47

Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader who led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, died aged 95 on Friday, two years after the army brought an ignominious end to almost four decades of his iron-fisted rule...

US voices concern over Myanmar army's lawsuit against religious leader

US voices concern over Myanmar army's lawsuit against religious leader

Reuters 2019-09-06 11:20:23

The United States said on Thursday (local time) it was deeply concerned about the Myanmar army’s filing of a lawsuit against a religious leader who told President Donald Trump the military oppre...

IS uses cows as suicide bombers in Iraq

IS uses cows as suicide bombers in Iraq

-- 2019-09-05 23:11:31

The Islamic State group has been reluctant to use humans to carry bombs because of the group's reduced numbers, so it has tried out a new tactic: Bovine suicide bombers, reports New York Times. Resid...

Challenges boost China’s consensus

Challenges boost China’s consensus

Global Times 2019-09-05 18:02:20

2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a year to celebrate. Yet the US-launched trade war against China has escalated, and Hong Kong is experi...

India to offer Russia $1.0b  loan to develop Far East

India to offer Russia $1.0b loan to develop Far East

-- 2019-09-05 17:23:49

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that India would offer Russia a $1.0 billion credit line to help develop the Russian Far East. Modi was speaking at an economic forum in the city...

Youngest son of Mohamed Morsi dies

Youngest son of Mohamed Morsi dies

-- 2019-09-05 13:52:43

The youngest son of Egypt’s former president, Mohamed M0rsi, died on Wednesday from a heart attack, his brother and a family lawyer told Reuters news agency, 2-1/2 months after his father’...

Blast near embassies in Kabul shakes buildings

Blast near embassies in Kabul shakes buildings

Reuters 2019-09-05 12:32:30

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday in the center of Kabul, the Afghan capital, government officials said, and the blast shook windows and doors in an area near embassies and government build...

China offers dev fund if Solomon Islands breaks Taiwan ties

China offers dev fund if Solomon Islands breaks Taiwan ties

-- 2019-09-05 11:36:19

China is offering to bankroll a development fund for the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific if it switches diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing, a parliamentary committee in the small island natio...

Guatemala declares state of siege after ‘drug dealers’ kill soldiers

Guatemala declares state of siege after ‘drug dealers’ kill soldiers

-- 2019-09-05 10:45:42

Guatemala’s government on Wednesday declared a state of siege in five northeastern provinces in an effort to regain control after three soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers, author...

Dollar to die from its excessive use as a force: Zarif

Dollar to die from its excessive use as a force: Zarif

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-09-05 10:24:46

Excessive use of force of the dollar by the USA will lead to its demise, said visiting Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Wednesday. "Sooner or later, the excessive use, by the United...

Time for decisive battle in Europe for Huawei

Time for decisive battle in Europe for Huawei

Global Times 2019-09-04 17:27:31

The time has come for China's telecom giant Huawei to fight a decisive battle in Europe against Washington's crackdown. At this critical moment, the Chinese authorities are unlikely to turn a blind ey...

Mongolia, Russia lift ties to comprehensive strategic partnership

Mongolia, Russia lift ties to comprehensive strategic partnership

Xinhua 2019-09-04 17:10:33

Mongolia and Russia on Tuesday signed a permanent treaty on friendly relations and lifted bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership. The new treaty to lift the bilateral relationship be...

World's first Red Cross academy established in China

World's first Red Cross academy established in China

Xinhua 2019-09-04 17:00:36

The first Red Cross academy in the world, jointly built by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) and Soochow University, has been established in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, according to the...

Bomb explodes under bus in Mali, killing 14

Bomb explodes under bus in Mali, killing 14

-- 2019-09-04 13:46:12

A makeshift bomb exploded under a passenger bus traveling in the violence-plagued central Mali region of Mopti on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 24, the security minister said. The...

Hong Kong leader announces withdrawal of extradition bill

Hong Kong leader announces withdrawal of extradition bill

Reuters 2019-09-04 13:00:38

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has plunged the city into its worst political crisis in decades, a source with direct knowledge of the mat...

Six Chinese tourists die in New Zealand bus crash

Six Chinese tourists die in New Zealand bus crash

Xinhua 2019-09-04 12:21:17

The Chinese embassy in New Zealand confirmed Wednesday that six Chinese tourists were dead in a serious bus crash near New Zealand's Rotorua. An official from the Chinese embassy in New Zealand told...

US hits Iran space agencies with sanctions

US hits Iran space agencies with sanctions

-- 2019-09-04 10:55:41

The United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s civilian space agency and two research organisations on Tuesday, saying they were being used to advance Tehran’s ballistic missile programme....

Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship

Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship

Reuters 2019-09-04 10:43:18

Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Rohingya Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards that categorise them as foreigners, stripping them of the chance to become citizens, a righ...

Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat UK PM Johnson

Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat UK PM Johnson

Reuters 2019-09-04 10:32:53

British lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he wou...

HK adolescent protesters reveal a breakdown in family and school values

HK adolescent protesters reveal a breakdown in family and school values

Global Times 2019-09-03 17:23:04

Hong Kong police detained 86 rioters carrying out acts of violence after violent protests on August 24 and 25, including a 12-year-old boy, the youngest person detained since the protests began in Jun...

US presidential candidate Booker proposes $3.0t climate change plan

US presidential candidate Booker proposes $3.0t climate change plan

-- 2019-09-03 17:19:44

US presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3.0 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100 per cent clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels whil...

Cooperating with China helps improve EU’s competitiveness

Cooperating with China helps improve EU’s competitiveness

Xinhua 2019-09-03 17:19:06

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will reportedly visit China from Friday to Saturday with a large delegation of German CEOs. Analysts believe a prime objective of the trip is to ensure that German-Chin...