-- 2019-08-31 11:54:51
As many as 1.9 million people have been left out of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) for India's border state of Assam and face the prospect of being rendered stateless. The citizenship...
-- 2019-08-31 11:27:55
A recent remark by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about “North Korea’s rogue behaviour” will make talks with the United States more difficult, the North’s KCNA news agency o...
CNN 2019-08-30 19:19:39
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command. "Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high gro...
Xinhua 2019-08-30 18:54:16
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a grand gathering to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1. Xi, also general secretary of the Co...
Xinhua 2019-08-30 16:57:34
The Brazilian government on Thursday launched a pilot project to fight violent crimes in five towns across the country. The project called "Ahead, Brazil" involves joint actions by the federal govern...
Xinhua 2019-08-30 16:39:53
The number of new homes consented reached 35,472 in the year ended July 2019, the most consented in a year since the mid-1970s, New Zealand's statistics department Stats NZ said on Friday. This is th...
Reuters 2019-08-30 15:30:11
Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition b...
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Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in India’s border state of Assam on Friday, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of...
Reuters 2019-08-30 11:47:20
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Friday on suspicion of organising illegal protests as authorities clampdown on a wave of unrest that has plunged the city into its biggest...
Xinhua 2019-08-30 11:38:04
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, and the two leaders expressed their readiness to push forward ties....
Reuters 2019-08-30 10:43:40
The opposition Labour Party said on Thursday it would trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a...
-- 2019-08-29 21:29:42
A former commander in the Farc rebel group in Colombia, Iván Márquez, has called on his followers to take up arms less than three years after the rebels signed a peace agreement with the...
-- 2019-08-29 17:38:01
Ismail B Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident in Lebanon, was supposed to move to and enrol at Harvard on Tuesday. But his visa was canceled, and he was then deported by a US immigration officer...
-- 2019-08-29 17:13:36
India's two main ports said on Thursday they had been warned by the coastguard and intelligence officials that Pakistan-trained commandos have entered Indian waters to carry out underwater attacks on...
Xinhua 2019-08-29 17:05:46
A small television shop in Kwun Tong of China's Hong Kong has few customers, but the news programmes on the screens kept attracting the attention of passersby. A few elderly residents frowned a...
-- 2019-08-29 15:04:32
A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a prominent filmmaker to one year in prison with hard labour for Facebook posts that criticised the military. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested in April and accuse...
-- 2019-08-29 12:30:57
The Indonesian government is not abandoning Jakarta after announcing plans to move the country’s capital, its planning minister said, pledging to spend $40 billion to save the slowly sinking cit...
-- 2019-08-29 11:06:25
The British prime minister's decision to suspend parliament has prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit. It sparked protests across the country, a legal challenge and a...
-- 2019-08-29 10:47:53
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday the United States will have to observe the 2015 nuclear deal if it wants to meet for talks and that Washington was engaging in &ldqu...
-- 2019-08-28 21:12:25
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has approved an order from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend country's parliament from the second week in September until 14 October - just 17 days before the sc...
-- 2019-08-28 16:57:59
French maritime authorities say 47 migrants, including two dozen children, have been rescued over two days as they tried to cross the English Channel to Britain. The authorities said that In the firs...
Xinhua 2019-08-28 16:48:05
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for efforts to improve regional economic planning featuring complementary advantages and high-quality development, and to upgrade basic industries and i...
Global Times 2019-08-28 16:37:23
The riots in Hong Kong have lasted for over 10 weeks and most media from the city and the Chinese mainland have been covering specific incidents and related topics. Global Times believes it's time to...
BBC 2019-08-28 14:59:16
The Queen Elizabeth will be asked by the UK government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline. BBC political edit...
-- 2019-08-28 14:33:34
Australia is to formally investigate foreign interference in its universities amid rising concerns about Chinese influence on campuses. The push follows reports of students and staff "self-censoring"...
Reuters 2019-08-28 14:22:16
At least 23 people have died after a fire raged through a bar in Mexico’s southern port city of Coatzacoalcos, NBC News reported early on Wednesday, citing a statement by the office of Veracruz...
-- 2019-08-28 13:22:35
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the legal challenge against the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and referred t...
-- 2019-08-28 12:13:03
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Jerusalem to inaugurate a ‘diplomatic office’ in the city on Sept 1, the Honduran government said in a statement on Tuesday. The o...
Reuters 2019-08-28 11:55:24
Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday said former prime minister Najib Razak abused his power to cover up the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from the state-fund 1MDB and used the fund for self...
Reuters 2019-08-28 11:08:58
The Trump administration is shifting $271 million earmarked for disaster aid and cyber security to pay for immigration-related facilities, the US Department of Homeland Security and a leading congress...
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