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Indonesia security minister stabbed by 'IS radical'

Indonesia security minister stabbed by 'IS radical'

-- 2019-10-10 18:35:35

Indonesia's security minister has been stabbed by a man who police say was "inspired" by the Islamic State group. Wiranto, who uses one name, was getting out of a car in a town square in Banten provi...

Xi meets Pakistani PM, calls for forging closer community of shared future

Xi meets Pakistani PM, calls for forging closer community of shared future

Xinhua 2019-10-10 16:52:38

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, vowing to work jointly to strengthen strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation so as to forge a closer Ch...

Syrian Kurds outgunned but vow to inflict toll on Turkish army

Syrian Kurds outgunned but vow to inflict toll on Turkish army

-- 2019-10-10 11:03:38

Kurdish fighters who defeated Islamic State across much of Syria with US help will struggle to fend off the Turkish army and its Syrian rebel allies who thrust across the border on Wednesday in a long...

Xi Jinping to visit India, Nepal

Xi Jinping to visit India, Nepal

Global Times 2019-10-09 19:02:04

At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepali President Bidhya Devi Bandari, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the second informal meeting with Modi and pay a state visit...

‘Golden Week’ brings consumption boom

‘Golden Week’ brings consumption boom

Global Times 2019-10-08 17:27:24

Chinese people spent more than ever during the weeklong National Day holidays at home and abroad, showing that consumption power in the world's second-largest consumer market still has great potential...

Liu He invited to hold new round of trade talks in US

Liu He invited to hold new round of trade talks in US

Xinhua 2019-10-08 17:03:02

At the invitation of the US side, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will lead a Chinese delegation to visit Washington for a new round of the China-US high-level economic and trade consultations from Oct. 1...

China sees 782m domestic tourist trips during National Day holiday

China sees 782m domestic tourist trips during National Day holiday

Xinhua 2019-10-08 16:56:48

Tourists tour Xihu Park in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Oct. 7, 2019. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), Chinese tourists made 782 million visits to recreational and...

Hong Kong leader Lam does not rule out Beijing help

Hong Kong leader Lam does not rule out Beijing help

Reuters 2019-10-08 16:41:11

Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday did not rule out asking Beijing for help, as the Asian financial hub struggles to deal with months of often violent anti-government protests th...

India to lift travel advisory on Kashmir

India to lift travel advisory on Kashmir

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

India will lift a travel advisory on the disputed region of Kashmir on Thursday, authorities said, two months after the government launched a security crackdown before removing the state’s speci...

Global praise for China's efforts to reduce poverty

Global praise for China's efforts to reduce poverty

Xinhua 2019-10-07 17:45:34

China's achievements in combating poverty over the past 70 years are unprecedented, experts worldwide have said as the country continues to celebrate its weeklong National Day holiday. In the past 70...

HK rioters inflict brutal assault on commoners

HK rioters inflict brutal assault on commoners

Global Times 2019-10-07 17:40:07

Rioters have continued assaulting ordinary Hong Kong residents who hold different political views or oppose their illegal acts as the hit-and-run mob reached a new height of lawlessness. After the ne...

Japan rescues 60 crew from North Korean fishing vessel

Japan rescues 60 crew from North Korean fishing vessel

Reuters 2019-10-07 17:21:21

Japan has rescued about 60 North Korean crew members from fishing vessel that sank after colliding with a Japanese patrol boat that was chasing it out of Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), p...

Malaysia fines 80 individuals, companies in 1MDB case

Malaysia fines 80 individuals, companies in 1MDB case

Reuters 2019-10-07 13:11:04

Malaysia has fined the brother of former premier Najib Razak and other people and companies for allegedly receiving money from state fund 1MDB, the country’s anti-graft chief said on Monday. Ma...

Nepal police arrest speaker over alleged staff rape

Nepal police arrest speaker over alleged staff rape

-- 2019-10-07 11:27:51

Police in Nepal have arrested the former speaker of parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, after a female member of staff accused him of rape. The arrest came after a court in the capital Kathmandu issu...

Death toll in Iraq unrest passes 100, government issues new promises

Death toll in Iraq unrest passes 100, government issues new promises

Reuters 2019-10-06 22:54:35

The death toll in five days of clashes between Iraqi police and protesters rose to over 100 on Sunday and the government struggled to appease public anger over corruption and unemployment by announcin...

AI ripe for US-China cooperation

AI ripe for US-China cooperation

Global Times 2019-10-06 17:23:47

One of the key issues of the 21st century is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a force for good or the ruin of humanity. With AI at the center of US-China tech rivalry, whether common ethical no...

Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time since ‘dead’ deal

Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time since ‘dead’ deal

AP 2019-10-06 16:47:01

The Taliban met with a US envoy in the Pakistani capital, a Taliban official said Saturday, the first such encounter since President Donald Trump announced a month ago that a seemingly imminent peace...

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil: SHANA

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil: SHANA

-- 2019-10-06 15:12:26

Iran will use every possible way to export its oil, Iranian Oil Ministry’s website SHANA quoted Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Sunday, adding that exporting crude was the country&rsquo...

Hong Kong reopens part of metro

Hong Kong reopens part of metro

-- 2019-10-06 12:56:10

Hong Kong’s rail operator reopened part of its metro system on Sunday after an unprecedented shutdown, but kept many typically busy stations closed, as the Chinese-ruled city braces for large...

UN calls for end to Iraq protest violence

UN calls for end to Iraq protest violence

-- 2019-10-06 11:42:32

The United Nations has called for an end to the "senseless loss of life" in Iraq as the death toll from anti-government protests nears 100. Demonstrators say they are taking a stand against unemploym...

North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US

North Korea breaks off nuclear talks with US

-- 2019-10-06 11:34:04

Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea’s top negotiator said late on Saturday, dashing prospects for an end to months...

Hong Kong’s mask ban follows global standards

Hong Kong’s mask ban follows global standards

Global Times 2019-10-05 17:27:46

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)’s chief executive, announced on Friday that the Hong Kong SAR government would invoke emergency law to introduce an anti-mask law to pre...

Grenade attack injures four civilians in Kashmir

Grenade attack injures four civilians in Kashmir

-- 2019-10-05 13:00:00

A grenade attack injured four civilians on Saturday in the city of Anantnag in southern Kashmir, police said on Twitter, blaming “terrorists”. Many people in Kashmir have been seething si...

Myanmar not safe for Rohingyas to return: UN

Myanmar not safe for Rohingyas to return: UN

-- 2019-10-05 11:16:03

The UN's independent investigator on Myanmar says it's not safe for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to return because Myanmar has failed to dismantle its "system of pe...

Death toll surges to 46 as  Iraq unrest accelerates

Death toll surges to 46 as Iraq unrest accelerates

-- 2019-10-04 21:50:15

The death toll from days of violent demonstrations across Iraq surged to 46 on Friday, most of them killed in the last 24 hours as unrest rapidly accelerated and the country's most powerful cleric pla...

SL court dismisses case challenging presidential candidate's citizenship

SL court dismisses case challenging presidential candidate's citizenship

-- 2019-10-04 19:19:09

A Sri Lankan court on Friday dismissed a legal case challenging presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lankan citizenship, removing a major barrier he faced in contesting the Novenber 1...

Unrest-hit Hong Kong outlaws wearing masks in protests

Unrest-hit Hong Kong outlaws wearing masks in protests

-- 2019-10-04 16:08:49

The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday established an anti-mask law in the latest drive to end the prolonged violence. HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam to...

China excels in technology

China excels in technology

Global Times 2019-10-03 19:29:33

In celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, 1.4 billion Chinese have found relief provided by the central government as it continues to steer the country in the right econom...

Typhoon Mitag sweeps parts of South Korea, killing six

Typhoon Mitag sweeps parts of South Korea, killing six

-- 2019-10-03 13:27:04

Six people were killed when typhoon Mitag passed through the country on Thursday, South Korea’s government said. Mitag, the 18th typhoon this year, brought heavy rains in southern parts of the...

Iraq declares curfew in Baghdad until further notice

Iraq declares curfew in Baghdad until further notice

-- 2019-10-03 11:06:23

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Wednesday declared a curfew in Baghdad until further notice after at least seven people were killed and more than 400 were injured during two days of nationwid...