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Four dead, three injured in Mumbai ONGC plant fire

Four dead, three injured in Mumbai ONGC plant fire

-- 2019-09-03 17:02:21

Four people have been killed and three seriously injured in a fire at an oil and gas processing plant on the outskirts of Mumbai run by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp, a local police official...

MH17 investigators want to speak to Ukrainian prisoner

MH17 investigators want to speak to Ukrainian prisoner

-- 2019-09-03 16:58:22

Dutch prosecutors investigating the downing five years ago of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine want to speak to a man being held by Ukrainian authorities, calling him a “person o...

China's rural population percentage cut by 50pc over 70 yrs

China's rural population percentage cut by 50pc over 70 yrs

-- 2019-09-03 16:53:54

The proportion of China's rural population has been reduced by nearly 50 per cent since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The pro...

Iran's Rouhani says no bilateral talks with US

Iran's Rouhani says no bilateral talks with US

Reuters 2019-09-03 15:09:37

Iran will never hold bilateral talks with the United States but if it lifts all the sanctions it reimposed on Iran it can join multilateral talks between Iran and other parties to a 2015 nuclear deal,...

HRW dubious of Myanmar army seeking justice

HRW dubious of Myanmar army seeking justice

-- 2019-09-03 14:12:09

Plans announced by Myanmar’s military to prosecute soldiers for actions at a village where security forces reportedly killed as many as 400 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority drew skepticis...

Hurricane Dorian kills at least five in Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian kills at least five in Bahamas

Reuters 2019-09-03 12:21:59

Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas on Monday, killing at least five people and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the US coast, where more than a million people were o...

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first: Imran Khan

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first: Imran Khan

-- 2019-09-03 11:56:44

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with arch-rival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashm...

25 bodies found after California boat fire, nine missing

25 bodies found after California boat fire, nine missing

Reuters 2019-09-03 10:53:22

Divers found 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for, as the US Coast Guard continued its search, med...

British lawmakers begin no-deal Brexit battle

British lawmakers begin no-deal Brexit battle

Reuters 2019-09-03 10:22:11

Lawmakers will decide on Tuesday whether to move Britain one step closer to an early election when they vote on the first stage of their plan to block Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing a no-d...

UNHCR expresses alarm at statelessness risk in India’s Assam

UNHCR expresses alarm at statelessness risk in India’s Assam

FE Online Desk 2019-09-02 20:38:37

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has expressed concern over the publication of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) that may put large numbers of people in India’s north-eastern...

‘Monster storm’ Hurricane Dorian batters Bahamas

‘Monster storm’ Hurricane Dorian batters Bahamas

-- 2019-09-02 18:48:52

The most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began has torn off roofs and caused severe flooding. The slow-moving, category five Dorian - the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record...

US missiles plan could spark arms race

US missiles plan could spark arms race

Global Times 2019-09-02 18:17:38

The US tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile on August 19 shortly after it formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, making it quite...

Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with British PM

Tory Brexit rebels to hold showdown meeting with British PM

Xinhua 2019-09-02 18:14:08

Several former British cabinet ministers, also known as Brexit rebels among Tory members of parliament, are expected to have a showdown meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, the beginni...

Assam NRC makes no one stateless, says India

Assam NRC makes no one stateless, says India

-- 2019-09-02 16:24:47

Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said the exclusion from the final list under the National Register of Citizens (NRC) has no implications for the rights of an individual resident in Assam. "It...

Fiji looks forward to 1st 5,000 e-passports

Fiji looks forward to 1st 5,000 e-passports

-- 2019-09-02 16:03:18

The Fiji Immigration Department and a group of technical officials from the Muhlbauer ID Services in Germany are working around the clock to put in the final touches to the much-awaited e-passport sys...

UN chief visits Congo Ebola region, pledges solidarity

UN chief visits Congo Ebola region, pledges solidarity

-- 2019-09-02 14:16:35

The United Nations secretary general visited Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday, pledging solidarity as the region faces an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 2,000 people in a year and o...

HK students boycott classes after weekend of violence

HK students boycott classes after weekend of violence

Reuters 2019-09-02 12:26:08

Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations on Monday, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-rule...

Labour says it will go all out to stop no-deal Brexit

Labour says it will go all out to stop no-deal Brexit

Reuters 2019-09-02 12:10:49

Britain's main opposition Labour Party will do everything possible to stop a no-deal Brexit after parliament returns on Tuesday, its leader Jeremy Corbyn will say on Monday. Lawmakers opposed to the...

Australia intercepts Sri Lankan boat with 13 asylum seekers

Australia intercepts Sri Lankan boat with 13 asylum seekers

-- 2019-09-02 12:03:43

Australia’s military intercepted a Sri Lankan boat carrying 13 asylum-seekers last month, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Monday, as Canberra sought to defend the relocation of a...

N Korea denies amassing $2.0b through cyberattacks on banks

N Korea denies amassing $2.0b through cyberattacks on banks

-- 2019-09-01 21:12:30

North Korea denied on Sunday allegations that it had obtained $2 billion through cyberattacks on banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, and accused the United States for spreading rumours, reports Reuter...

Texas shooting rampage leaves seven dead

Texas shooting rampage leaves seven dead

-- 2019-09-01 21:02:12

At least seven people were killed after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in west Texas on Saturday. Police say the mass shooting, the second within the state during August, began with a traffic st...

Poland marks 80th anniversary of start of World War Two

Poland marks 80th anniversary of start of World War Two

Reuters 2019-09-01 17:56:01

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Vice President Mike Pence joined local leaders on Sunday to commemorate 80 years since the start of World War Two in Poland, where the conflict is still a live p...

Hong Kong suffers another bout of pain

Hong Kong suffers another bout of pain

Global Times 2019-09-01 17:41:07

Hong Kong, known as Pearl of the Orient, a hub for international trade and finance and a food haven, underwent another bout of pain on Saturday as a large number of radical protesters organised illega...

Iran unveils new advanced combat drone

Iran unveils new advanced combat drone

Xinhua 2019-09-01 17:30:17

Iran's army unveiled state-of-the-art drone on Sunday, which is capable of tracking and hitting distant targets. The drone, named Kian, has been designed and produced in two types and tested by the I...

Will punish soldiers for Rohingya atrocities: Myanmar army

Will punish soldiers for Rohingya atrocities: Myanmar army

Reuters 2019-09-01 14:28:29

Myanmar’s army will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the Uni...

Five dead, 21 injured in Texas shooting

Five dead, 21 injured in Texas shooting

Reuters 2019-09-01 11:07:56

A white male in his 30s who was known to police killed four people and wounded 21 others on Saturday in a gun rampage between the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa that started with a traffic st...

AI-powered face changing app sparks privacy concern

AI-powered face changing app sparks privacy concern

Global Times 2019-08-31 19:16:23

A mobile app based on AI technology that can replace face picture of an actor or actress with user's own picture went viral on the Chinese internet Saturday but it also quickly drew wide concern over...

US blacklists Iranian tanker ‘bound for Syria’

US blacklists Iranian tanker ‘bound for Syria’

-- 2019-08-31 14:49:13

The US Treasury has blacklisted an Iranian tanker it claims is being used to ship oil to Syria. The Adrian Darya 1, previously known as Grace 1, was detained by British authorities in Gibraltar in Ju...

Trial date set for 'architect of 9/11' attacks

Trial date set for 'architect of 9/11' attacks

-- 2019-08-31 13:17:36

A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mr Mohammed will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantána...

Bus plunges into river in Pakistan, killing 24

Bus plunges into river in Pakistan, killing 24

-- 2019-08-31 12:48:43

A passenger bus carrying about 24 passengers fall into a river in Kohistan district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing all the people on board, a senior police officer told X...