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Magnitude 5.0 quake jolts Taiwan

Magnitude 5.0 quake jolts Taiwan

-- 2019-08-18 13:01:52

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 12:05 pm Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre, with a depth of 6 km, was monitored at...

UK PM in bid to get new Brexit deal

UK PM in bid to get new Brexit deal

-- 2019-08-18 12:05:28

Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week. The UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he wil...

Hong Kong braces for major anti-government rally

Hong Kong braces for major anti-government rally

-- 2019-08-18 11:50:00

Hong Kong braced for a major anti-government rally planned for Sunday after an unusually calm Saturday night in what has been a summer of violent protests in the Asian financial hub. Demonstrations h...

Suicide blast at Kabul wedding kills 63

Suicide blast at Kabul wedding kills 63

Reuters 2019-08-18 10:29:17

A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a wedding reception in the Afghan capital on Saturday night, the interior ministry said. The Taliban denied responsibility for the bl...

Massive fire breaks out at India hospital

Massive fire breaks out at India hospital

-- 2019-08-17 19:06:38

A massive fire has broken out at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. The fire has reportedly broken out on the first and second floors of a building inside the hospital...

Trump floats possibility of deal with Taliban

Trump floats possibility of deal with Taliban

Xinhua 2019-08-17 18:25:09

US President Donald Trump on Friday floated the possibility of a deal with the Taliban after a meeting with senior advisors on Afghan issues. "Just completed a very good meeting on Afghanistan. Many...

India begins easing clampdown in Kashmir

India begins easing clampdown in Kashmir

-- 2019-08-17 14:26:39

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday began restoring landline phone services after a nearly two-week unprecedented security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to downgr...

Eight die in Ukraine hotel fire

Eight die in Ukraine hotel fire

-- 2019-08-17 13:00:52

Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. The fire occurred shortly...

US issues warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker

US issues warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker

-- 2019-08-17 11:46:20

The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barr...

Nazi bomb found in Moscow's Kremlin

Nazi bomb found in Moscow's Kremlin

-- 2019-08-16 12:03:41

An aerial bomb of Nazi troops was retrieved and removed from the Kremlin during archaeological excavation, the Kremlin's commandant Sergei Khlebnikov said Thursday, reports Xinhua. The undetonated bo...

Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants

Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants

-- 2019-08-16 10:58:04

Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The federal Public Sa...

China Life Insurance sees steady premium growth in Jan-July

China Life Insurance sees steady premium growth in Jan-July

Xinhua 2019-08-15 17:17:02

China Life Insurance Co, a leading insurer in the country, saw steady growth in its premium income in the first seven months, company data showed Thursday. Premium income in the period totalled 405.1...

Hong Kong violence faces backlash

Hong Kong violence faces backlash

-- 2019-08-15 17:08:25

Police officers patrol the departure hall of Hong Kong International airport on Wednesday. Flights were departing the airport largely on schedule, a day after radical protesters caused chaos with a di...

HK airport reopens

HK airport reopens

-- 2019-08-14 12:22:19

China’s Hong Kong Liaison office said on Wednesday that anti government protesters were no different to “terrorists”, as US President Donald Trump said Chinese troops were moving to...

Malaysia cabinet to discuss residency of Zakir Naik

Malaysia cabinet to discuss residency of Zakir Naik

-- 2019-08-14 12:07:50

Malaysia's cabinet will discuss the permanent residency of controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Wednesday, said a minister who believed Naik should return to India to face charges of mo...

Indian-controlled Kashmir under strict lockdown for ninth day

Indian-controlled Kashmir under strict lockdown for ninth day

-- 2019-08-14 11:59:17

Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir were running low on essential supplies Tuesday as an unprecedented security lockdown kept people indoors for a ninth day. India has imposed a near-constant cu...

Pakistan seeks urgent UN meeting over Kashmir

Pakistan seeks urgent UN meeting over Kashmir

-- 2019-08-14 10:21:11

Pakistan has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet over India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ti...

Knife-wielding man goes on rampage in Sydney

Knife-wielding man goes on rampage in Sydney

-- 2019-08-13 20:16:47

A man went on a stabbing rampage in downtown Sydney on Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another before he was restrained by members of the public, police said, adding they were not treating it...

Israeli billionaire faces trial over $10m ‘Guinea bribes’

Israeli billionaire faces trial over $10m ‘Guinea bribes’

-- 2019-08-13 20:00:58

Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two associates are to stand trial for allegedly bribing Guinean officials to win mining licences, Swiss prosecutors say. The trio allegedly paid $10m (£8....

Thunberg embarks on zero carbon journey to climate change confce

Thunberg embarks on zero carbon journey to climate change confce

-- 2019-08-13 18:13:36

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. Greta has stopped flying due to environmental reasons,...

Modi joins Bear Grylls’ adventure series to throw light on environmental conservation

Modi joins Bear Grylls’ adventure series to throw light on environmental conservation

-- 2019-08-13 17:57:36

After weeks of hype, a special episode of Bear Grylls’ adventure series, Running Wild, featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aired on Monday, reports BBC. A trailer showing Mr Modi lear...

Protesters throng Hong Kong airport again after it reopens

Protesters throng Hong Kong airport again after it reopens

-- 2019-08-13 16:01:48

Protesters clogged the departure area at Hong Kong’s reopened airport Tuesday, a day after they forced one of the world’s busiest transport hubs to shut down entirely amid their calls for...

Scientists find how brain cells regulate memories

Scientists find how brain cells regulate memories

-- 2019-08-13 15:43:20

The US scientists have mapped a part of the molecular machinery that helps the brain maintain long-term memories, providing new targets against Alzheimer’s disease characterised by memory loss....

New Trump immigration rule will deny visas to poor

New Trump immigration rule will deny visas to poor

-- 2019-08-13 15:37:39

US President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to poor. The lon...

India’s passenger vehicle sales drop at steepest pace in nearly two decades   

India’s passenger vehicle sales drop at steepest pace in nearly two decades  

-- 2019-08-13 15:21:45

India’s domestic passenger vehicle sales in July dived at the steepest pace in nearly two decades, an auto industry body said on Tuesday, as a financing crunch deepened a crisis in the country...

Cathay suspends second pilot, cites misuse of company information

Cathay suspends second pilot, cites misuse of company information

-- 2019-08-13 15:07:50

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways said it had suspended with immediate effect on Tuesday a second officer operating flight CX216 for misuse of company information, and had also commenced i...

HK leader warns protesters not to push city into 'abyss'

HK leader warns protesters not to push city into 'abyss'

-- 2019-08-13 11:54:47

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has warned anti-government protesters not to push the city into an "abyss", in an emotional press conference on Tuesday, reports BBC. Ms Lam warned that Hong Kong had "rea...

Ebola drugs show ‘90pc survival rate’ in breakthrough trial

Ebola drugs show ‘90pc survival rate’ in breakthrough trial

-- 2019-08-13 11:01:36

Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said. Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Demo...

Pakistan deploying fighter jets to Skardu near Ladakh

Pakistan deploying fighter jets to Skardu near Ladakh

-- 2019-08-13 11:00:44

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing tensions with Pakistan over the abrogation of the Article 370, Pakistani forces have started moving equipment to their forward bases close to Ladakh, according to a report...

Key US leaders question Modi on Kashmiri rights

Key US leaders question Modi on Kashmiri rights

-- 2019-08-13 10:48:41

Almost unnoticed, two key leaders in Congress have questioned Modi’s India on Kashmiri rights, according to a article by www.forbes.com. This was a joint statement, by Senator Robert Menendez...