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HK police fire tear gas at protesters as confrontation looms

HK police fire tear gas at protesters as confrontation looms

-- 2019-08-11 16:25:52

HONG KONG, Aug 11: - Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters on Sunday as a tenth straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations intensified amid an increasingly aggressive response from the...

Israeli troops kill militant on Gaza border

Israeli troops kill militant on Gaza border

-- 2019-08-11 13:07:15

Israeli soldiers fired at a Palestinian militant on the Gaza border on Sunday, the military said, and a Palestinian medic said the man was killed, reports Reuters. It was the second such incident sin...

Hajj: Stoning at Jamarat marks first day of Eid

Hajj: Stoning at Jamarat marks first day of Eid

-- 2019-08-11 12:56:39

MINA: At the dawn of the first day of Eid al-Adha – the third day of Hajj - hundreds of thousands of Hajj pilgrims walked together to Jamarat Al-Aqaba in Mina. It is at this site the pilgrims t...

India to give aid to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN

India to give aid to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN

-- 2019-08-11 12:50:24

NEW DELHI, Aug 11: Authorities enforcing a strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir will bring in trucks of essential supplies for an Islamic festival next week, as the divided Himalayan region...

Mahinda brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa to vie for Lanka president

Mahinda brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa to vie for Lanka president

-- 2019-08-11 12:24:53

COLOMBO: Sri Lankans, angered by the government’s inability to prevent the Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed more than 250 people, want a strongman back in power who can guarantee their s...

Car bomb kills three UN staff in Libya

Car bomb kills three UN staff in Libya

-- 2019-08-11 11:28:24

A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least three UN staff members, a spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general said....

Typhoon Lekima kills 28 in China

Typhoon Lekima kills 28 in China

-- 2019-08-11 10:49:32

  A powerful typhoon left at least 28 people dead in China, after a landslide backed up a river that broke through debris and inundated homes, state media reported on Sunday, report agencies An...

Sonia Gandhi returns to lead Congress

Sonia Gandhi returns to lead Congress

-- 2019-08-11 10:42:02

  NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi will be the new Congress interim president, the party's top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee, revealed this on Saturday after a meeting to choose he...

Some signs of normality return to Kashmir

Some signs of normality return to Kashmir

-- 2019-08-11 10:34:05

  For the first time in six days, India eased travel restrictions in some parts of Srinagar on Saturday, and people flooded the streets of Kashmir's summer capital to buy provisions ahead of the...

UN calls for humanitarian truce in Libya

UN calls for humanitarian truce in Libya

Xinhua 2019-08-10 18:57:58

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday called for a humanitarian truce between the rival parties in Libya, as the armed conflict in the capital Tripoli continues between the...

US operates thuggish diplomacy in Hong Kong

US operates thuggish diplomacy in Hong Kong

Global Times 2019-08-10 17:54:46

Hong Kong netizens recently exposed a photo of a US diplomat meeting with several radical opposition figures including Joshua Wong during a sensitive period. Hong Kong media further reported that the...

Radical Western extremists threaten global security

Radical Western extremists threaten global security

Global Times 2019-08-10 17:24:04

Is China an ideological rival? Is the country challenging Western ideology by exporting its values, political system and development ideas? With China's rise, these issues have increasingly raised con...

Tanzania tanker blast kills at least 60

Tanzania tanker blast kills at least 60

-- 2019-08-10 17:18:11

A fuel tanker exploded in eastern Tanzania on Saturday killing at least 60 people as flames ripped through a crowd that had gathered to siphon petrol from it. Video clips circulating on social media...

Cultural consumption becoming a necessity for life among Chinese: Survey

Cultural consumption becoming a necessity for life among Chinese: Survey

Xinhua 2019-08-10 16:41:44

Cultural consumption is regarded as a necessity for life among Chinese, according to a survey conducted by the China Tourism Academy (CTA) and Shanghai-based Creatoo Company. Over 70 per cent of the...

Two million hajj pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat

Two million hajj pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat

Reuters 2019-08-10 16:05:52

More than two million hajj pilgrims gathered at Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Saturday amid the summer heat and regional tensions for a vigil to atone for their sins and seek forgiveness from t...

Iran unveils 'upgraded missile defence system'

Iran unveils 'upgraded missile defence system'

-- 2019-08-10 15:05:18

Iran unveiled on Saturday what authorities said was a locally upgraded missile defence system with a range of 400 km (250 miles) and able to defend against cruise and ballistic missiles and drones. T...

Death toll from India floods jumps to 95

Death toll from India floods jumps to 95

-- 2019-08-10 14:40:06

The death toll from floods in India’s states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed on Saturday, as heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands to ev...

Typhoon causes landslide in eastern China, killing 13

Typhoon causes landslide in eastern China, killing 13

-- 2019-08-10 13:25:28

Thirteen people were killed and 16 were missing in eastern China on Saturday in a landslide triggered by a major typhoon, which also caused hundreds of flight cancellations and the evacuation of more...

Texas shooting suspect ‘confesses to targeting Mexicans’

Texas shooting suspect ‘confesses to targeting Mexicans’

-- 2019-08-10 13:06:25

The suspect accused of killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting "Mexicans", say US media. An arrest report obtained by some news outlets sheds light on hi...

Boats collide in Greek waters, leaving two dead

Boats collide in Greek waters, leaving two dead

Xinhua 2019-08-10 12:05:15

Two boats collided on Friday night in the Argolic Gulf, east of Peloponnese peninsula, Greece, two men lost their lives during the accident, and a woman was seriously injured, Hellenic Coast Guard con...

North Korea fires two short-range missiles in ‘show of force’

North Korea fires two short-range missiles in ‘show of force’

-- 2019-08-10 11:19:39

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles on Saturday, South Korea said, in a “show of force” against US-S Korea joint military exercises. More missile launches are h...

White House summons tech, social media firms after shootings

White House summons tech, social media firms after shootings

-- 2019-08-10 11:09:07

White House officials and big social media companies met on Friday to talk about how to curb extremism online after two mass shootings last weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio. After the...

10 dead in Myanmar landslide; dozens missing

10 dead in Myanmar landslide; dozens missing

-- 2019-08-10 10:50:33

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a landslide caused by severe rains buried homes and buildings in southern Myanmar, officials and rescue workers said on Friday. Heav...

Thailand fighting a 'hybrid war': Army chief

Thailand fighting a 'hybrid war': Army chief

-- 2019-08-09 20:28:15

Thailand’s army is fighting a “hybrid war” waged by enemies who are using “fake news” to turn young Thais against the military and the monarchy, the army chief said in a...

Three days of protests start at Hong Kong airport

Three days of protests start at Hong Kong airport

-- 2019-08-09 14:48:45

Demonstrators have gathered at Hong Kong's airport, marking the start of three days of unauthorised rallies in the Chinese territory. Activists dressed in black sat in the arrivals hall waving banner...

Cambodia, Sri Lanka sign deals to boost bilateral ties

Cambodia, Sri Lanka sign deals to boost bilateral ties

Xinhua 2019-08-09 12:59:24

Cambodia and Sri Lanka signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) on Thursday to boost bilateral relations in politics, trade and investment, a Cambodian senior official said. Cambodian Prime Min...

Egypt security forces kill 17 militants

Egypt security forces kill 17 militants

-- 2019-08-09 11:25:44

Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside the county...

Blasts rock Turkish ammunition depot near Syria

Blasts rock Turkish ammunition depot near Syria

-- 2019-08-09 11:15:38

A series of explosions rocked an ammunition depot in Turkey’s Hatay province, near the Syrian border, early on Friday and nearby homes were evacuated but there were no reports of casualties, Tur...

China issues 'red alert' as super typhoon approaches

China issues 'red alert' as super typhoon approaches

Reuters 2019-08-09 10:52:50

China’s weather bureau issued a red alert early on Friday as super typhoon Lekima approached Zhejiang province on the eastern coast, after forcing flight cancellations in Taiwan and shutting mar...

US may fall further in ranks of China's trading partners

US may fall further in ranks of China's trading partners

Global Times 2019-08-08 18:57:54

China's overall foreign trade expanded steadily in the first seven months of the year, with a 4.2 per cent year-on-year increase, while trade with the US declined, customs data showed Thursday. Exper...