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24 dead in Papua New Guinea tribal massacre

24 dead in Papua New Guinea tribal massacre

-- 2019-07-10 12:08:31

Children and pregnant women are among those murdered in a tribal massacre in Papua New Guinea's Highlands area. At least 24 people are confirmed to have died in a brutal flare up of violence between...

Air India issues apology after banning Zamzam water

Air India issues apology after banning Zamzam water

-- 2019-07-09 16:55:53

Air India has issued an apology and withdrawn its decision to ban holy Zamzam water on its narrow-body aircraft as many Hajj pilgrims of the country expressed displeasure. The Indian flag carrier als...

Rights violations in Kashmir unchecked: UN

Rights violations in Kashmir unchecked: UN

-- 2019-07-09 15:52:00

Tensions in disputed Kashmir after a deadly suicide bombing earlier this year are having a severe impact on human rights in the region, a United Nations report released on Monday said. Muslim-majorit...

US, Taliban resume talks after Afghans agree to end bloodshed

US, Taliban resume talks after Afghans agree to end bloodshed

-- 2019-07-09 13:03:47

US and Taliban officials will on Tuesday resume talks in Qatar aimed at ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war, hours after a delegation of Afghan citizens and the militants ended a meeting with both...

Japan rejects South Korea’s calls to scrap export curbs

Japan rejects South Korea’s calls to scrap export curbs

-- 2019-07-09 12:01:58

Japan pushed back on Tuesday against calls from South Korea to scrap curbs on some high-tech exports, ratcheting up tension in a decades-old diplomatic dispute that threatens to disrupt the global sup...

Hong Kong extradition bill is dead: Lam

Hong Kong extradition bill is dead: Lam

-- 2019-07-09 10:18:27

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the territory's biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government's work on the bill had been a...

China slams US for harassing its scholars, students

China slams US for harassing its scholars, students

Global Times 2019-07-08 21:15:31

China has urged the United States to stop making unjust charges on Chinese scholars and students, and not to disturb people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. The foreign ministry of Chin...

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after strong quake

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after strong quake

-- 2019-07-08 11:41:17

There were no reports on Monday of major damage in Indonesia from a weekend earthquake of magnitude 6.9 off the northeastern coast of the island of Sulawesi, and authorities lifted a tsunami warning....

Iran tanker detention by Britain was threatening act: Minister

Iran tanker detention by Britain was threatening act: Minister

-- 2019-07-08 11:25:41

Britain’s detention of an Iranian tanker last week was a threatening and incorrect action, Iran’s Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television...

27 die as bus falls into drain near Agra

27 die as bus falls into drain near Agra

-- 2019-07-08 10:52:54

At least 27 people died and around 15 injured when a passenger bus carrying them fell into a drain in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday morning, confirmed a state government source. T...

People-to-people cooperation key to further strengthening China-Pakistan relations

People-to-people cooperation key to further strengthening China-Pakistan relations

Global Times 2019-07-07 18:08:01

The extraordinary friendship between China and Pakistan is 69 years strong this year. Over the years, this friendship has led to ever closer cultural integration in the two countries as many Chinese s...

Sri Lanka on alert as Buddhist monks hold first meeting since Easter

Sri Lanka on alert as Buddhist monks hold first meeting since Easter

-- 2019-07-07 14:23:46

Police lined the streets of the Sri Lankan highland town of Kandy on Sunday and the army was on standby as hardline Buddhist monks gathered for their first big assembly since Easter attacks by Islamis...

Iran announces plans to enrich uranium beyond deal limit

Iran announces plans to enrich uranium beyond deal limit

-- 2019-07-07 13:34:30

Iran said on Sunday it would further scale back its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, raising its uranium enrichment level to what officials said earlier was 5 per cent to produce...

Taliban car bomb blast kills 12 in Afghanistan

Taliban car bomb blast kills 12 in Afghanistan

-- 2019-07-07 12:24:15

Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowing up a car bomb in central Ghazni province on Sun...

Iran says to raise uranium enrichment to 5pc

Iran says to raise uranium enrichment to 5pc

Reuters 2019-07-07 10:24:44

Iran on Sunday will announce an increase in uranium enrichment to 5 per cent, a concentration above the limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian official told Reuters, in a move signalling a dee...

Japan PM Abe's coalition on track to win solid majority in election

Japan PM Abe's coalition on track to win solid majority in election

-- 2019-07-06 12:49:12

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition is on track to win a solid majority in a July 21 upper house election, and his dream of revising the pacifist constitution could still be alive if enough...

Iran threatens to seize British oil tanker

Iran threatens to seize British oil tanker

-- 2019-07-05 17:31:41

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian super tanker in Gibraltar by Royal Marines. “If Britain does...

Chinese state media blames West’s meddling for HK unrest

Chinese state media blames West’s meddling for HK unrest

-- 2019-07-04 13:23:33

Chinese state media blamed meddling by Western governments on Thursday for unrest in Hong Kong amid an escalating diplomatic spat between China and the United Kingdom over protests in the former Briti...

Rahul Gandhi quits as Congress leader

Rahul Gandhi quits as Congress leader

-- 2019-07-04 11:57:49

Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition Congress party, said on Wednesday he had asked party bosses to find a successor after he took responsibility for losing a general election that has left the party in...

N Korea says US 'hell-bent on hostile acts'

N Korea says US 'hell-bent on hostile acts'

-- 2019-07-04 10:50:30

North Korea's mission to the United Nations accused the United States on Wednesday of being "more and more hell-bent on hostile acts" against Pyongyang, despite President Donald Trump wanting talks be...

I am no longer Congress president: Rahul Gandhi

I am no longer Congress president: Rahul Gandhi

-- 2019-07-03 17:20:56

Indian politician Rahul Gandhi has said he is no longer Congress president and the party's working committee should meet immediately to decide on his successor. "Party [Congress] should decide on th...

261 hospitalised after eating in Imelda Marcos’s birthday party

261 hospitalised after eating in Imelda Marcos’s birthday party

-- 2019-07-03 17:05:24

Chaos erupted at a huge party to celebrate the 90th birthday of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos on Wednesday, with 261 friends and supporters rushed to Manila hospitals with suspected food...

UN investigator reports possible fresh war crimes in Myanmar

UN investigator reports possible fresh war crimes in Myanmar

-- 2019-07-03 14:56:50

Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator has said....

US criticises Chinese 'missile launches' in South China Sea

US criticises Chinese 'missile launches' in South China Sea

-- 2019-07-03 13:46:59

The US has accused China of conducting missile launches in the South China Sea, describing Beijing's actions as "meant to intimidate". US media first reported the launches citing unnamed Pentagon off...

Dam bursts in India after heavy rains, killing six

Dam bursts in India after heavy rains, killing six

-- 2019-07-03 11:33:39

Heavy monsoon rains caused the breach of a small dam in western India, washing away dozens of homes and killing at least six people with 18 missing, a government official said on Wednesday. Seasonal...

China’s outrage over HK violence  may prompt tighter embrace

China’s outrage over HK violence may prompt tighter embrace

-- 2019-07-02 22:14:53

China deplored violence in Hong Kong on Tuesday that saw protesters ransack the city's legislature, fuelling expectations it will take a tougher line on the territory, even as details of the scenes of...

China government slams Hong Kong protesters for violence

China government slams Hong Kong protesters for violence

-- 2019-07-02 16:27:22

China’s government strongly backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s embattled administration on Tuesday, saying the occupation and vandalising of the city’s legislature by pro-...

Heavy rains in Mumbai leave 27 dead

Heavy rains in Mumbai leave 27 dead

-- 2019-07-02 10:58:53

Monsoon rains caused wall collapses that killed 27 people in India on Tuesday, as a second day of bad weather disrupted rail and air traffic in the financial capital Mumbai, prompting officials to shu...

Protests escalate in Hong Kong as thousands rally to mark handover

Protests escalate in Hong Kong as thousands rally to mark handover

-- 2019-07-01 16:01:15

Hong Kong protesters smashed windows of the Legislative Council on the anniversary of the city’s 1997 return to Chinese rule on Monday amid widespread anger over planned laws that would allow ex...

34 dead in Kabul blast, Taliban claim responsibility

34 dead in Kabul blast, Taliban claim responsibility

-- 2019-07-01 14:50:00

Up to 34 people have been confirmed dead and 68 injured persons have been taken to hospitals after a powerful blast rocked Afghan capital Kabul in the morning rush hour on Monday, a local broadcaster...