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Strong quake batters southern China, killing 11

Strong quake batters southern China, killing 11

-- 2019-06-18 11:31:55

A strong earthquake that hit Sichuan province in southern China late Monday night killed 11 people and injured 122, the local government said. The Yibin city government posted the casualty toll on it...

Doctors in West Bengal call off strike after safety assurances

Doctors in West Bengal call off strike after safety assurances

-- 2019-06-18 10:46:36

Doctors in West Bengal called off a strike late on Monday after authorities promised improved hospital security, ending a week-long dispute that had spread to other parts of the country and crippled m...

Xinjiang city eyes pharmaceutical expansion

Xinjiang city eyes pharmaceutical expansion

-- 2019-06-17 17:33:13

A border city in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is eyeing the Central Asian markets for pharmaceutical products and equipment, after opening a regional drug distribution centre an...

Iran will break uranium stockpile limit in 10 days

Iran will break uranium stockpile limit in 10 days

-- 2019-06-17 16:28:58

Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday while also warning...

Israel unveils 'Trump Heights' on disputed Golan

Israel unveils 'Trump Heights' on disputed Golan

-- 2019-06-17 15:01:00

Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after US President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjam...

Hong Kong leader says sorry as protesters insist she quits

Hong Kong leader says sorry as protesters insist she quits

-- 2019-06-17 13:17:27

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam apologised to its people on Sunday as an estimated 1 million-plus black-clad protesters insisted that she resign over her handling of a bill that would allow citizens to...

Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia

Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia

Reuters 2019-06-17 12:58:52

An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck in eastern Indonesia on Monday, the European monitoring agency said, but there were no immediate report of any casualties or damage. The epicentre was 133 km (83...

Pressure mounts on HK leader as democracy activist vows to join protests

Pressure mounts on HK leader as democracy activist vows to join protests

-- 2019-06-17 10:54:54

Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s...

Heatwave in India kills 40 on Saturday

Heatwave in India kills 40 on Saturday

-- 2019-06-16 18:16:07

At least 40 people have died during a heatwave in India’s north-eastern state of Bihar on Saturday, reports NDTV. It comes in the midst of an outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome outbreak in...

Netanyahu's wife admits misusing public funds

Netanyahu's wife admits misusing public funds

-- 2019-06-16 18:08:52

The wife of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted to misuse of state funds and will have to pay $15,000 (£11,910). Sara Netanyahu was accused of spending $99,300 on outside...

Huge crowds march in Hong Kong, demand leader step down

Huge crowds march in Hong Kong, demand leader step down

-- 2019-06-16 17:48:18

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, mostly clad in black despite the sweltering weather, jammed the city’s streets Sunday in a vehement show of opposition to proposed legislation that has...

Industrial Internet platform for SOEs unveiled

Industrial Internet platform for SOEs unveiled

Global Times 2019-06-16 17:36:42

China launched the Industrial Internet Convergence Platform for Central State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) on Saturday, which will become a key infrastructure system to push for better inter-communication...

Heat wave kills 40 in India in a day

Heat wave kills 40 in India in a day

FE Online Desk 2019-06-16 13:58:43

Heat wave killed more than 40 people in the Indian state of Bihar on Saturday. It came amid an Acute Encephalitis Syndrome outbreak in Muzzafurpur that has killed 80 children this month. Most heat w...

Planes collide mid-air in New Zealand, leaving two pilots dead

Planes collide mid-air in New Zealand, leaving two pilots dead

-- 2019-06-16 12:40:04

Two light aircraft collided mid-air on their final approach at a regional aerodrome in New Zealand on Sunday killing both pilots, police said. Four parachutists on board of one of the planes had jump...

No tsunami threat to NZ after 7.2 quake hits Kermadec Islands

No tsunami threat to NZ after 7.2 quake hits Kermadec Islands

-- 2019-06-16 11:39:08

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand at 10:55am on Sunday (local time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre, which struck at a de...

Saudi Arabia blames Iran for tanker attacks

Saudi Arabia blames Iran for tanker attacks

-- 2019-06-16 11:28:04

Saudi Arabia's crown prince blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and called on the international community to take a "decisive stand" but said in an interview published on Su...

Saudi seeks oil supply protection

Saudi seeks oil supply protection

-- 2019-06-16 11:12:24

Saudi Arabia called for swift action to secure Gulf energy supplies and joined the United States in blaming Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in a vital shipping route that have raised fears of broa...

Japanese cop stabbed in apparent pre-meditated attack: NHK

Japanese cop stabbed in apparent pre-meditated attack: NHK

-- 2019-06-16 11:12:01

A Japanese police officer was stabbed several times in the chest with a kitchen knife and his loaded handgun stolen while on patrol on Sunday morning in the western city of Suita, in a rare case of vi...

Hong Kong suspends extradition bill after protests

Hong Kong suspends extradition bill after protests

-- 2019-06-15 14:45:36

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday delayed indefinitely a proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after widespread anger over the bill sparked violent protests...

Twitter removes 4,800 accounts linked to Iran

Twitter removes 4,800 accounts linked to Iran

-- 2019-06-14 19:41:12

Twitter has removed nearly 4,800 accounts, which were allegedly being used by Iran to spread misinformation, in a continuing effort to prevent election interference and misinformation on the platform....

Sri Lanka brings five suspects back from Saudi Arabia

Sri Lanka brings five suspects back from Saudi Arabia

-- 2019-06-14 18:33:58

Five Sri Lankans suspected of having links to Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people were brought home in police custody on Friday after being deported from Saudi Arabia. Police decl...

China flood death toll hits 61

China flood death toll hits 61

Reuters 2019-06-14 12:09:01

As many as 61 people have been killed and 356,000 evacuated from their homes as heavy rain and floods swept through large parts of southern and central China this week, Chinese rescue authorities said...

Stranded Rohingyas linked to human trafficking: Thai police

Stranded Rohingyas linked to human trafficking: Thai police

-- 2019-06-13 14:46:57

Thai police said on Thursday there is enough evidence to press human trafficking charges against the captain and crew of a boat carrying 65 Rohingya Muslims that was shipwrecked this week on a souther...

Hong Kong extradition protesters leave city in shock

Hong Kong extradition protesters leave city in shock

-- 2019-06-13 14:12:48

Authorities have shut some government offices in Hong Kong's financial district after the worst violence the city has seen in decades. By Thursday morning the crowds had largely dispersed around gove...

36 children dead in Bihar due to ‘Acute Encephalitis’

36 children dead in Bihar due to ‘Acute Encephalitis’

-- 2019-06-12 20:04:11

Some 36 children died at Bihar's Muzaffarpur district of India in the last 48 hours and 133 children were admitted to hospitals due to suspected Acute Encephalitis Syndrome or AES. The doctors, howeve...

China, Russia seek further cooperation in finance, education and culture

China, Russia seek further cooperation in finance, education and culture

Global Times 2019-06-12 17:57:40

Russia should fall in love with China more times,  Alexander Ageev, Director General at the Institute for Economic Strategies in Russia, said at a round table conference on the greater Eurasian p...

India to evacuate thousands as Cyclone Vayu nears Gujarat

India to evacuate thousands as Cyclone Vayu nears Gujarat

-- 2019-06-12 13:14:24

Indian authorities are preparing to evacuate 0.3 million (300,000) people along the western coast as a severe cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday morning in the state of Gujarat. Storm V...

Protesters paralyse Hong Kong over extradition bill

Protesters paralyse Hong Kong over extradition bill

Reuters 2019-06-12 11:06:14

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Hong Kong surrounded the city’s legislature on Wednesday, forcing it to postpone a second round of debate on an extradition bill that would allow people to...

Chinese migrant workers leaving megacities for more stable lives in third- and fourth- tier cities

Chinese migrant workers leaving megacities for more stable lives in third- and fourth- tier cities

Global Times 2019-06-11 20:36:10

Chinese migrant workers in megacities are more inclined to leave super cities and start business in local community with government supporting grants. Sense of security, belonging, and skills drawing...

North Korean leader's slain half-brother 'was a CIA informant'

North Korean leader's slain half-brother 'was a CIA informant'

-- 2019-06-11 13:05:30

Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal r...