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Trump or Biden?
With incense smoke, flowers and photos of President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, Peruvian shamans performed an ancestral ritual on Wednesday for the US elections, but there was little agreement about who would win the Nov. 3 ballot.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
No ME peace without solving Palestinian issue
Russia yesterday said it would be a “mistake” to think lasting peace in the Middle East could be secured without resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Hotel room water bottle linked to Navalny poisoning
The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said yesterday.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
US charges seven in Chinese hacking effort
The US Justice Department said on Wednesday it has charged five Chinese residents and two Malaysian businessmen in a wide-ranging hacking effort that encompassed targets from videogames to pro-democracy activists.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Erdogan lashes out at ‘incapable’ Macron
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said France was being led by an “incapable” president as he stepped up his personal feud with Emmanuel Macron.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
One in 7 reported infections is among health workers: WHO
One in seven cases of Covid-19 reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) is a health worker and in some countries that figure rises to one in three, the agency said on Thursday.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Disengagement onus on India, says China
Despite the recent five-point India-China consensus for defusing the border situation, China on Wednesday put the ball for disengagement in India’s court and said it was imperative for the latter to correct its “mistake”, disengage on the ground and take concrete steps to ease tensions.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus driving discrimination in Asia
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) yesterday warned that the novel coronavirus is driving discrimination towards vulnerable communities in Asia, including migrants and foreigners.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
No trade deal unless you respect N Irish peace pact
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or there would be no separate US trade deal.
17 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 threatening gains in healthcare, education: World Bank
The Covid-19 pandemic threatens hard-won gains in health and education over the past decade, especially in the poorest countries, a new World Bank Group analysis finds.
17 September 2020, 13:08 PM
Trump or Biden? Peruvian shamans try to predict US election winner
With incense smoke, flowers and photos of President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, Peruvian shamans have performed an ancestral ritual for the US elections, but there was little agreement about who would win the November 3 ballot.
17 September 2020, 12:52 PM
Head of Libya’s Tripoli government says he wants to quit
Libya’s internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has said he wants to quit by the end of October, which could feed political tensions in Tripoli amid new efforts to find a political solution to the country’s conflict.
17 September 2020, 11:50 AM
Oil up more than 4% as US stockpiles fall, hurricane hits output
Oil prices have jumped more than 4% following a drawdown in US crude and gasoline inventories and as Hurricane Sally forced a swath of US offshore production to shut.
16 September 2020, 20:12 PM
Russia to supply 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to India
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has said it will supply 100 million doses of its potential coronavirus vaccine to Indian drug company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, as Moscow speeds up plans to distribute its shot abroad.
16 September 2020, 18:39 PM
Babri mosque demolition case verdict on Sept 30
A special Indian court will deliver the judgment on September 30 in the Babri Masjid demolition case, ruling whether Bharatiya Janata Party veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were involved in razing the mosque 28 years ago.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
US wildfires’ smoke reaches Europe
Smoke from the fires devastating swathes of the US West Coast has reached as far as Europe, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said yesterday in its assessment of the “unprecedented” blazes.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden leads Trump by 9 points
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump nationally among likely US voters by 9 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Trump’s “law and order” message falling short with its target audience of suburban voters.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
International travel fell 65pc in first half of 2020: UN
International tourist arrivals plunged 65% in the first half of 2020 compared to last year, data from the World Tourism Organization showed, translating into an estimated $460 billion loss in export revenues.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
US city to pay $12m settlement over Breonna Taylor’s death
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in a botched raid on her apartment in March, to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer said on Tuesday.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state
Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the Caribbean nation’s government has said.
16 September 2020, 18:00 PM