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Squabbles erupt as G7 leaders open summit

Squabbles erupt as G7 leaders open summit

Reuters 2019-08-25 10:26:46

Squabbles erupted among G7 nations on Saturday as their leaders gathered for an annual summit, exposing sharp differences on global trade tensions, Britain's exit from the EU and how to respond to the...

China firmly opposes US tariff hikes on Chinese imports

China firmly opposes US tariff hikes on Chinese imports

Xinhua 2019-08-24 18:27:06

China is firmly opposed to the US announcement that it will further raise tariffs on about 550 billion US dollars of Chinese imports, said a spokesperson of Ministry of Commerce Saturday.

Huawei defies US ban again, launches new AI chip

Huawei defies US ban again, launches new AI chip

Global Times 2019-08-24 18:22:32

Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Friday again showed its defiance in the face of what is widely believed to be a politically motivated crackdown by the US government, as it released what it claims to b...

Rahul Gandhi to visit embattled Kashmir

Rahul Gandhi to visit embattled Kashmir

bdnews24.com 2019-08-24 17:16:25

Congress' Rahul Gandhi and leaders from various opposition parties will visit the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday where restrictions have been imposed since the central government rev...

China releases British consulate worker detained at border

China releases British consulate worker detained at border

BBC 2019-08-24 16:56:51

A worker at the UK consulate in Hong Kong has been released by mainland China after being held at the border, Chinese police in Shenzhen have said. Simon Cheng went missing on 8 August during a busin...

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit

Reuters 2019-08-24 16:50:44

Leaders of the G7 nations began arriving in France on Saturday for a summit as a US-China row over protectionism highlighted President Emmanuel Macron’s tough task in delivering real results on...

Violence forces 1.9m children out of school in Africa: UN

Violence forces 1.9m children out of school in Africa: UN

Xinhua 2019-08-24 15:48:00

More than 1.9 million children across a swath of eight West and Central African countries have been forced out of their schools by violence, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday. Eri Kaneko, associate spo...

Putin orders to prepare "symmetrical response" to US missile test

Putin orders to prepare "symmetrical response" to US missile test

-- 2019-08-24 14:16:21

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered the government to adopt elaborate measures in response to the US test of a missile previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) T...

Former India finance minister Arun Jaitley passes away

Former India finance minister Arun Jaitley passes away

-- 2019-08-24 13:59:24

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley has died at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, days after he was admitted following complaints of breathlessness. He was 66. In a brief statement, the hospital said Arun Jai...

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

-- 2019-08-24 13:06:17

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks...

Brazil sends army to fight Amazon fires after EU threat

Brazil sends army to fight Amazon fires after EU threat

-- 2019-08-24 10:33:05

European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an u...

US billionaire businessman David Koch dies

US billionaire businessman David Koch dies

Reuters 2019-08-23 19:58:29

American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and po...

China to impose additional tariffs on US imports worth $75.0b

China to impose additional tariffs on US imports worth $75.0b

-- 2019-08-23 19:11:26

China will impose additional tariffs on US imports worth about $75.0 billion in response to the newly-announced US tariff hikes on Chinese goods. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council of...

US told to immediately stop Taiwan arms sales

US told to immediately stop Taiwan arms sales

-- 2019-08-23 13:47:48

A spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Thursday once again urged the United States to immediately cease arms sales to Taiwan and stop its support for "Taiwan independence...

India increases restrictions in Kashmir amid fear of protests

India increases restrictions in Kashmir amid fear of protests

Reuters 2019-08-23 13:11:39

Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tightened security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary personne...

Ukraine, EU oppose Russia readmission to G7

Ukraine, EU oppose Russia readmission to G7

-- 2019-08-23 12:06:06

Ukraine's president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating p...

US says will enforce sanctions over Iran tanker

US says will enforce sanctions over Iran tanker

Reuters 2019-08-23 11:53:28

The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seize...

Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires: Bolsonaro

-- 2019-08-23 10:26:39

The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling donors he did not ne...

Two years on, a look at the Rohingya crisis

Two years on, a look at the Rohingya crisis

Reuters 2019-08-23 10:21:44

This month marks the second anniversary of the fleeing of more than 730,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar’s northwest Rakhine State to Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in response to an attack...

Nine dead, 35 missing as rain batters southwest China

Nine dead, 35 missing as rain batters southwest China

Xinhua 2019-08-22 17:52:29

The death toll has risen to nine after heavy downpours and mudslides battered Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Thursday. As of W...

Arms purchase puts Taiwan at risk

Arms purchase puts Taiwan at risk

Global Times 2019-08-22 17:32:09

The US State Department formally announced on Tuesday that the US government had decided to sell $8.0 billion in military equipment, including 66 new F-16V fighter jets, to the island of Taiwan....

Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

-- 2019-08-22 16:50:50

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approache...

‘Talks are useless’ in dealing with US, Rouhani says

‘Talks are useless’ in dealing with US, Rouhani says

-- 2019-08-22 15:32:22

Iran’s president struck a muscular tone on dealings with the US, saying Thursday that “talks are useless” as Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers crumbles further. Presiden...

Growing disaster risks exceeding capacity to respond: ESCAP

Growing disaster risks exceeding capacity to respond: ESCAP

-- 2019-08-22 15:05:39

The relentless sequence of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific in the past two years was beyond what the region had previously experienced or was able to predict – and this is a sign of th...

Pompeo praises ‘US ally’ Denmark amid Greenland sale row

Pompeo praises ‘US ally’ Denmark amid Greenland sale row

-- 2019-08-22 14:59:47

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has praised Denmark amid a public row over Greenland that saw President Donald Trump cancel a visit to the country. In a phone call with Danish Foreign Minister Jepp...

India arrests ex-finance minister in graft case

India arrests ex-finance minister in graft case

-- 2019-08-22 12:39:04

Police arrested former Indian finance minister P Chidambaram late on Wednesday in relation to alleged corruption and money laundering, a day after the Delhi High Court rejected his application to seek...

Banks in Hong Kong condemn violence

Banks in Hong Kong condemn violence

-- 2019-08-22 11:28:51

Some of Hong Kong’s biggest banks published full-page newspaper advertisements on Thursday calling for the preservation of law and order in the Chinese territory and condemning violence, as week...

UN official for 'genuine dialogue' to avoid confrontation in Middle East

UN official for 'genuine dialogue' to avoid confrontation in Middle East

Xinhua 2019-08-21 17:55:39

A United Nations official on Tuesday called for "restraint and genuine dialogue" to avoid major confrontation in the Middle East. "Restraint and genuine dialogue are urgently needed, in order to avoi...

HK should embrace role in nation’s economic destiny

HK should embrace role in nation’s economic destiny

Global Times 2019-08-21 17:48:11

The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's highest academic institution in natural sciences, has recently built a research centre in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) for the study and innov...

Pence’s threat on HK affairs outrageous

Pence’s threat on HK affairs outrageous

Global Times 2019-08-21 17:45:01

US Vice President Mike Pence said in a threatening tone on Monday that for the US to make a trade deal with China, Beijing needs to honour its commitments, including China's commitment to respect the...