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Campaign enters final stretch
Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden traded tough blows Monday as the White House race entered its final stretch, with the Republican leader branding his opponent “stupid” -- and the Democrat firing back that the president lacked the “guts” to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.
8 September 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Be united, or be doomed’
World powers must pull together and retool their economies for a green future or humanity is “doomed”, UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, telling AFP that failure to control the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the danger of disunity.
8 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump willing to spend own money on presidential campaign
US President Donald Trump, facing the possibility of a cash crunch, has said he would spend his own money to finance his 2020 presidential campaign against Democrat Joe Biden if he had to.
8 September 2020, 17:28 PM
Belarusian protest leader detained at border as Lukashenko rejects dialogue
Prominent opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova was detained by Belarusian authorities, a border official has said, after thwarting what a Ukrainian government minister described as an attempt to expel her from Belarus.
8 September 2020, 17:04 PM
UK admits to breaking EU treaty as top legal official quits
Britain's government on Tuesday admitted that it may break international law by not applying parts of its Brexit divorce deal relating to Northern Ireland, as a top legal adviser quit, reportedly over the plans.
8 September 2020, 16:17 PM
Palestinians set to soften stance on UAE-Israel normalisation: draft statement
The Palestinian leadership has watered down its criticism of the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates before an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Wednesday at which the accord will be debated.
8 September 2020, 16:01 PM
Australian journalists flee China fearing arrest
Two Australian journalists fled China Tuesday under diplomatic protection, fearing arrest as political pawns in the rapidly worsening relationship between Canberra and Beijing.
8 September 2020, 13:02 PM
UN urges 'independent' Russian probe of Navalny poisoning
The UN rights chief called Tuesday on Moscow to conduct or cooperate with a "thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation" into the alleged nerve agent attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
8 September 2020, 10:19 AM
Key opposition figure Maria ‘abducted’
Belarus said yesterday that police had detained more than 600 people at weekend protests and the opposition said a senior figure had been snatched off the streets, as authorities intensified efforts to end weeks of demonstrations.
7 September 2020, 18:00 PM
UK police arrest man over Birmingham mass stabbings
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the mass stabbings in Britain’s second city Birmingham that left one person dead and two critically wounded, police said yesterday.
7 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Navalny out of artificial coma after ‘poisoning’
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who Germany says was poisoned by a weapons-grade Novichok nerve agent, is now out of a medically induced coma and being weaned off mechanical ventilation, the Berlin hospital treating him said yesterday.
7 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Navalny has come out of coma, Berlin hospital says
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital says in a statement.
7 September 2020, 13:46 PM
Belarusian protest leader detained by masked men
Unidentified masked men detained prominent Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witness as saying.
7 September 2020, 13:36 PM
Assange's legal fight to avoid US espionage trial resumes in London
Julian Assange has resumed his battle in a London court to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLeaks website, after months of delay due to the coronavirus lockdown.
7 September 2020, 13:32 PM
EU to blacklist 31 Belarus senior officials over election, diplomats say
The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country’s interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats said, in response to an August 9 election that the West says was rigged.
7 September 2020, 11:43 AM
India reports global daily record of new Covid-19 cases
India added more than 90,000 cases of the novel coronavirus yesterday, a global daily record, according to data from the federal health ministry.
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Osama bin Laden’s niece endorses Donald Trump
An endorsement from the bin Laden family is hardly the most coveted prize on the campaign trail, but Noor bin Ladin, niece of the 9/11 mastermind, said she is backing President Trump, claiming only he can save Western civilization.
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Give me back my vote!’
Nearly 100 people were arrested by Hong Kong police yesterday as riot officers swooped on democracy protesters opposed to the postponement of local elections.
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Random’ stabbing spree kills 1 in UK
Police said they were searching for a man in relation to a two-hour stabbing spree in the city of Birmingham, central England, early yesterday, that left one man dead and seven people injured, two of them critically.
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Russian state link likely in Navalny poisoning: UK
Britain yesterday said Russia had “a very serious set of questions to answer” about the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, suggesting
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM