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Indian coffee tycoon Siddhartha’s body found in river

Indian coffee tycoon Siddhartha’s body found in river

-- 2019-07-31 11:50:26

Indian authorities said on Wednesday they have recovered the body of coffee baron V G Siddhartha from a river in southern India, after his disappearance on Monday sparked speculation he was facing int...

Tensions high as Hong Kong charges 44 activists with rioting

Tensions high as Hong Kong charges 44 activists with rioting

-- 2019-07-31 11:41:46

Hundreds of people surrounded a police station in Hong Kong on Tuesday chanting “free the martyrs” after 44 activists were charged with rioting following weekend clashes between protesters...

18 dead as bomb hits passenger bus in Afghanistan

18 dead as bomb hits passenger bus in Afghanistan

-- 2019-07-31 11:18:03

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb explosion hit a passenger bus in western Farha province, killing at least 18 people including women and children. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the provincia...

North Korea fires missiles, its second test in a week

North Korea fires missiles, its second test in a week

Reuters 2019-07-31 10:23:16

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles early on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, only days after it launched two similar missiles intended to pressure South Korea and the Unite...

Senate bows to Trump vetoes, allows arms sale to S Arabia

Senate bows to Trump vetoes, allows arms sale to S Arabia

-- 2019-07-31 00:12:22

The Senate failed Monday in a bid to override a trio of vetoes issued by President Donald Trump, allowing the administration to move forward with plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi...

Death toll in Brazil prison massacre rises to 57

Death toll in Brazil prison massacre rises to 57

Reuters 2019-07-30 14:09:52

A bloody clash between two prison gangs on Monday left at least 57 inmates dead with 16 of them decapitated, authorities in the state of Para said, the latest deadly clash as Brazil’s government...

4,000 Afghans killed or wounded in H1 2019: UN

4,000 Afghans killed or wounded in H1 2019: UN

-- 2019-07-30 11:28:55

At least 3,812 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first half (H1) of 2019 in the war against Islamist militant groups, a UN report said on Tuesday. The latest casualty figures were releas...

Pakistani military plane crashes, killing 17

Pakistani military plane crashes, killing 17

-- 2019-07-30 10:28:45

A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi early on Tuesday killing all five crew members and 12 civilians and setting off a blaze...

Gunman kills three in California food festival

Gunman kills three in California food festival

-- 2019-07-29 21:49:19

Three people have been killed and 15 injured after a gunman attacked a food festival in California. The gunman was shot dead by police shortly after he began firing, although police are investigating...

Fears Russian opposition leader may have been poisoned

Fears Russian opposition leader may have been poisoned

Reuters 2019-07-29 14:07:55

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalised on Sunday after suffering an acute allergic reaction which one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an unknown chem...

Brazil police arrest one over $29m gold robbery case

Brazil police arrest one over $29m gold robbery case

-- 2019-07-29 11:58:38

Brazilian police said on Sunday (local time) they arrested one person and are seeking an arrest warrant for another in connection with the theft of a gold shipment at São Paulo’s internat...

20 die in attack on Afghan VP candidate's office

20 die in attack on Afghan VP candidate's office

-- 2019-07-29 11:42:19

At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the gover...

Shooting at California festival kills three

Shooting at California festival kills three

-- 2019-07-29 11:23:36

At least three people were killed and several injured in a shooting at a food festival, an annual three-day event south of San Jose in California, on Sunday. Police and ambulances raced to the shooti...

China’s satellites help ease flood woes in India

China’s satellites help ease flood woes in India

Global Times 2019-07-28 17:03:23

China and India are moving to share satellite data involving natural disaster relief, at a time when the South Asian nation is under pressure to find long-term solutions to its frequent flood woes. M...

World powers meet Iran in Vienna to salvage nuclear deal

World powers meet Iran in Vienna to salvage nuclear deal

-- 2019-07-28 16:39:24

Representatives from Europe, China and Russia, nations that are still committed to the Iran nuclear deal, plan to meet with Iran’s representative in Vienna on Sunday to discuss how to salvage th...

Iran says missile tests need no one's permission

Iran says missile tests need no one's permission

-- 2019-07-28 13:49:02

Iran said missile tests were part of its defensive needs and were not directed against any country, after Washington said Tehran had test-fired a medium-range missile. A US defence official said Iran...

18 feared dead in landslide at Myanmar jade mine

18 feared dead in landslide at Myanmar jade mine

-- 2019-07-28 13:18:46

A landslide at a Myanmar jade mine killed 14 people including at least one policeman in the early hours of Sunday as earth and mud engulfed a guard post, and four people were missing and feared dead,...

Attacks on Pakistan security forces kill 10

Attacks on Pakistan security forces kill 10

-- 2019-07-28 12:36:03

At least 10 soldiers have been killed in separate attacks within hours on Pakistan security forces. A military vehicle was ambushed and six soldiers were killed in the country’s mountainous nor...

Rohingyas should be citizens or be given own state: Mahathir

Rohingyas should be citizens or be given own state: Mahathir

FE Online Desk 2019-07-28 11:57:30

The Rohingyas should be treated as Myanmar nationals or be given a chance to form their own state, said Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said even though Malaysia generally does n...

Magnitude 6.3 quake strikes near south coast of Japan’s Honshu

Magnitude 6.3 quake strikes near south coast of Japan’s Honshu

-- 2019-07-28 11:25:49

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near the south coast of Japan's island of Honshu early on Sunday, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported. The estimated population of the area...

Russia detains over 1,000 in opposition crackdown

Russia detains over 1,000 in opposition crackdown

-- 2019-07-28 11:06:30

Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin&rsq...

Mexico to help create jobs in Honduras to curb migration

Mexico to help create jobs in Honduras to curb migration

-- 2019-07-28 11:05:00

Mexico’s government said it would help Honduras create 20,000 jobs this year and support its coffee farmers as the two countries seek to curb migration to the United States that has created tens...

Hong Kong protesters obstruct international airport

Hong Kong protesters obstruct international airport

Global Times 2019-07-27 20:19:28

Apart from inciting social conflict in Hong Kong and bowing to Western countries, Hong Kong opposition forces on Friday targeted international passengers to spread their accusations about the governme...

Xinjiang letter signatories blast West’s bias

Xinjiang letter signatories blast West’s bias

Global Times 2019-07-27 20:10:18

Government officials, scholars and religion experts from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region defended the country's counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation policies in the region again...

Trump threatens tariffs against 'foolish' Macron

Trump threatens tariffs against 'foolish' Macron

-- 2019-07-27 17:11:33

US President Donald Trump has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "foolishness" over a digital services tax, and hinted that he would tax French wine in retaliation. Mr Trump voiced his anger...

Rescuers evacuate passengers from flood-stuck train near Mumbai

Rescuers evacuate passengers from flood-stuck train near Mumbai

-- 2019-07-27 16:45:54

Rescuers in India have evacuated more than 500 passengers from a train after it got stuck in Monsoon floodwaters between two stations near Mumbai. A statement by India's disaster management office in...

Trump blames White House air conditioning on Obama

Trump blames White House air conditioning on Obama

-- 2019-07-27 16:32:59

In President Donald Trump’s view, even the inadequate air conditioning at the White House is Barack Obama’s fault. Trump offered the new gripe about his predecessor as he explained in the...

Thousands march in Hong Kong defying police warnings

Thousands march in Hong Kong defying police warnings

-- 2019-07-27 16:15:42

Defying police warnings, thousands of protesters were marching Saturday in a Hong Kong neighborhood where six days earlier a mob apparently targeting demonstrators brutally attacked people in a train...

Trump congratulates Boris Johnson

Trump congratulates Boris Johnson

-- 2019-07-27 14:40:30

US President Donald Trump has congratulated Boris Johnson on becoming British prime minister in a phone call and said work had already begun on a US-British free trade agreement. Trump told reporters...

US top court rules for Trump in wall funds dispute

US top court rules for Trump in wall funds dispute

-- 2019-07-27 11:58:10

The US Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wal...