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More Americans will die: Taliban

More Americans will die: Taliban

-- 2019-09-09 11:12:54

President Donald Trump's decision to cancel Afghan peace talks will cost more American lives, the Taliban said on Sunday while the United States promised to keep up military pressure on the militants,...

PLA conducts joint land assault exercises near Taiwan

PLA conducts joint land assault exercises near Taiwan

Global Times 2019-09-08 18:51:24

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted a joint land assault exercise featuring multiple military branches near the island of Taiwan, which military experts said on Sunday shows...

Cargo trains drive closer cooperation between Chinese, European industrial bases

Cargo trains drive closer cooperation between Chinese, European industrial bases

Xinhua 2019-09-08 18:43:07

In the plant of the world's top auto glass manufacturer Fuyao Group in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, forklifts are busy transporting windshields into standard containers. Th...

India locates Chandrayaan-2 lander on moon

India locates Chandrayaan-2 lander on moon

-- 2019-09-08 17:18:32

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has found out the exact location of the Chandrayaan-2 lander that had lost communication with the space agency just moments before its scheduled soft land...

Behind Hong Kong's chaos lie deep-seated social problems

Behind Hong Kong's chaos lie deep-seated social problems

Xinhua 2019-09-08 15:21:41

Kwong loves the pure adrenaline rush he gets when he takes his motorcycle out on the weekends to light up his lacklustre life. The 35-year-old lives with his parents in an old and cramped apartment i...

One dead, 29 injured in China earthquake

One dead, 29 injured in China earthquake

Xinhua 2019-09-08 14:49:12

One was killed and 29 others were injured as of 10 am after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Weiyuan County of Neijiang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 6:42 am Sunday, local government...

India builds first camp for illegals raising detention fears

India builds first camp for illegals raising detention fears

Reuters 2019-09-08 10:55:08

Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer fields and are building the first mass detention centre for...

Xi stresses colleges' role in boosting agricultural prosperity

Xi stresses colleges' role in boosting agricultural prosperity

Xinhua 2019-09-07 16:34:10

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged agricultural colleges to strengthen moral education and talent cultivation to promote the country's agricultural development. Xi, also general secretary of...

HK won’t top Merkel's China trip agenda

HK won’t top Merkel's China trip agenda

Global Times 2019-09-07 16:26:55

German Chancellor Angela Merkel began on Friday her official visit to China. It's a big event for China-German relations. Merkel, who had visited China as German chancellor 11 times before this trip,...

Iran seizes ship for ‘fuel smuggling’ in Gulf, holds 12 crew

Iran seizes ship for ‘fuel smuggling’ in Gulf, holds 12 crew

-- 2019-09-07 14:31:22

Iran’s coast guard has seized a vessel for allegedly smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 crew members from the Philippines, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The vessel wa...

Pakistan vows 'fullest possible response' to India over Kashmir

Pakistan vows 'fullest possible response' to India over Kashmir

Reuters 2019-09-06 15:08:53

Pakistan will make the fullest possible response to India’s actions in disputed Kashmir and the global community would be responsible for any “catastrophic” aftermath, Imran Khan, th...

IS uses cows as suicide bombers in Iraq

IS uses cows as suicide bombers in Iraq

-- 2019-09-05 23:11:31

The Islamic State group has been reluctant to use humans to carry bombs because of the group's reduced numbers, so it has tried out a new tactic: Bovine suicide bombers, reports New York Times. Resid...

Challenges boost China’s consensus

Challenges boost China’s consensus

Global Times 2019-09-05 18:02:20

2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a year to celebrate. Yet the US-launched trade war against China has escalated, and Hong Kong is experi...

India to offer Russia $1.0b  loan to develop Far East

India to offer Russia $1.0b loan to develop Far East

-- 2019-09-05 17:23:49

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that India would offer Russia a $1.0 billion credit line to help develop the Russian Far East. Modi was speaking at an economic forum in the city...

Blast near embassies in Kabul shakes buildings

Blast near embassies in Kabul shakes buildings

Reuters 2019-09-05 12:32:30

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday in the center of Kabul, the Afghan capital, government officials said, and the blast shook windows and doors in an area near embassies and government build...

China offers dev fund if Solomon Islands breaks Taiwan ties

China offers dev fund if Solomon Islands breaks Taiwan ties

-- 2019-09-05 11:36:19

China is offering to bankroll a development fund for the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific if it switches diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing, a parliamentary committee in the small island natio...

Dollar to die from its excessive use as a force: Zarif

Dollar to die from its excessive use as a force: Zarif

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-09-05 10:24:46

Excessive use of force of the dollar by the USA will lead to its demise, said visiting Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Wednesday. "Sooner or later, the excessive use, by the United...

Time for decisive battle in Europe for Huawei

Time for decisive battle in Europe for Huawei

Global Times 2019-09-04 17:27:31

The time has come for China's telecom giant Huawei to fight a decisive battle in Europe against Washington's crackdown. At this critical moment, the Chinese authorities are unlikely to turn a blind ey...

Mongolia, Russia lift ties to comprehensive strategic partnership

Mongolia, Russia lift ties to comprehensive strategic partnership

Xinhua 2019-09-04 17:10:33

Mongolia and Russia on Tuesday signed a permanent treaty on friendly relations and lifted bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership. The new treaty to lift the bilateral relationship be...

World's first Red Cross academy established in China

World's first Red Cross academy established in China

Xinhua 2019-09-04 17:00:36

The first Red Cross academy in the world, jointly built by the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) and Soochow University, has been established in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, according to the...

Hong Kong leader announces withdrawal of extradition bill

Hong Kong leader announces withdrawal of extradition bill

Reuters 2019-09-04 13:00:38

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has plunged the city into its worst political crisis in decades, a source with direct knowledge of the mat...

Six Chinese tourists die in New Zealand bus crash

Six Chinese tourists die in New Zealand bus crash

Xinhua 2019-09-04 12:21:17

The Chinese embassy in New Zealand confirmed Wednesday that six Chinese tourists were dead in a serious bus crash near New Zealand's Rotorua. An official from the Chinese embassy in New Zealand told...

Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship

Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship

Reuters 2019-09-04 10:43:18

Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Rohingya Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards that categorise them as foreigners, stripping them of the chance to become citizens, a righ...

HK adolescent protesters reveal a breakdown in family and school values

HK adolescent protesters reveal a breakdown in family and school values

Global Times 2019-09-03 17:23:04

Hong Kong police detained 86 rioters carrying out acts of violence after violent protests on August 24 and 25, including a 12-year-old boy, the youngest person detained since the protests began in Jun...

Cooperating with China helps improve EU’s competitiveness

Cooperating with China helps improve EU’s competitiveness

Xinhua 2019-09-03 17:19:06

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will reportedly visit China from Friday to Saturday with a large delegation of German CEOs. Analysts believe a prime objective of the trip is to ensure that German-Chin...

Four dead, three injured in Mumbai ONGC plant fire

Four dead, three injured in Mumbai ONGC plant fire

-- 2019-09-03 17:02:21

Four people have been killed and three seriously injured in a fire at an oil and gas processing plant on the outskirts of Mumbai run by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp, a local police official...

MH17 investigators want to speak to Ukrainian prisoner

MH17 investigators want to speak to Ukrainian prisoner

-- 2019-09-03 16:58:22

Dutch prosecutors investigating the downing five years ago of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine want to speak to a man being held by Ukrainian authorities, calling him a “person o...

China's rural population percentage cut by 50pc over 70 yrs

China's rural population percentage cut by 50pc over 70 yrs

-- 2019-09-03 16:53:54

The proportion of China's rural population has been reduced by nearly 50 per cent since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The pro...

Iran's Rouhani says no bilateral talks with US

Iran's Rouhani says no bilateral talks with US

Reuters 2019-09-03 15:09:37

Iran will never hold bilateral talks with the United States but if it lifts all the sanctions it reimposed on Iran it can join multilateral talks between Iran and other parties to a 2015 nuclear deal,...

HRW dubious of Myanmar army seeking justice

HRW dubious of Myanmar army seeking justice

-- 2019-09-03 14:12:09

Plans announced by Myanmar’s military to prosecute soldiers for actions at a village where security forces reportedly killed as many as 400 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority drew skepticis...