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Calls mount for Germany to rethink Nord Stream 2 pipeline after Navalny poisoning
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces growing pressure to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will take gas from Russia to Germany, after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent.
3 September 2020, 12:09 PM
Music mogul Akon building smart city in Senegal in the mould of ‘Wakanda’
Senegalese-American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism’s uncertain future.
3 September 2020, 06:01 AM
End of a dynasty?
Congressman Joe Kennedy, long seen as a rising star, crashed to defeat Tuesday in his bid for a US Senate seat, the first time the storied American political dynasty lost a state election in Massachusetts.
2 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Notorious Khmer Rouge prison commander dead at 77
The Khmer Rouge commander known as ‘Comrade Duch’, Pol Pot’s premier executioner and security chief who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died yesterday.
2 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Putin critic Navalny poisoned with Novichok nerve agent
Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed that he was poisoned by a Novichok chemical nerve agent, the German government said yesterday, demanding explanations from Moscow.
2 September 2020, 18:00 PM
US refuses to join WHO’s effort
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization.
2 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Italy's former PM Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus
Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently in isolation at home, his staff said in a statement today.
2 September 2020, 17:33 PM
Putin critic Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, Germany says
Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman has said.
2 September 2020, 16:01 PM
Lebanon PM designate bids to form crisis cabinet within two weeks
Lebanon's prime minister designate was to kick off talks Wednesday on forming a crisis government within two weeks to begin enacting desperately needed reforms in the disaster-hit country.
2 September 2020, 12:15 PM
Iran hails support for nuclear deal against US
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the show of unity by parties to a 2015 nuclear deal, after they defeated US efforts to restore international sanctions.
2 September 2020, 11:51 AM
Trial of suspected Charlie Hebdo attack accomplices begins
Fourteen alleged accomplices to the Islamist gunmen who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015 are on trial as the country recalls a dark episode that marked the onset of a wave of militant violence.
2 September 2020, 11:48 AM
UK launches FCDO to combine diplomatic influence, development expertise
The UK has inaugurated Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), merging Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Department for International Development (DFID) for combining diplomatic levers and aid expertise to fight against coronavirus, conflict and climate change globally.
2 September 2020, 11:18 AM
Virus plunges Australia into first recession in nearly 30 years
Australia tumbled into its first recession for almost three decades with its pandemic-crippled economy shrinking a record seven percent in the second quarter, official data shows.
2 September 2020, 05:24 AM
Los Angeles deputies shoot, kill Black man who dropped gun: police
A Black man was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies after he was stopped for a traffic violation while riding a bike, then ran from police, punched one officer and then “made a motion” toward a gun on the ground, authorities said.
2 September 2020, 04:40 AM
FB threatens to block users, media from news sharing
Facebook yesterday threatened to block users and media organisations in Australia from sharing news stories in an escalating challenge to government plans to force digital giants to pay for content.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Junk food linked to aging in chromosomes: study
People who eat a lot of industrially processed junk food are more likely to exhibit a change in their chromosomes linked to ageing, according to research presented Tuesday at an online medical conference.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Iran nuclear deal parties meet amid US pressure
The signatories to the faltering Iran nuclear deal kicked off a meeting in Vienna yesterday as the United States is bidding to restore international sanctions on the Islamic republic and extend an arms embargo.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
World’s most expensive sheep sold in Scotland
A sheep sold for a record 350,000 guineas -- or around US$490,000 -- at an auction in Scotland this week. The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
UAE ‘betrayed’ Muslim world with Israel deal
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused the United Arab Emirates of betraying the Muslim world with its agreement to normalise relations with Tehran’s arch-foe Israel.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Ethnic Chinese Mongolians protest to save identity
Tens of thousands of people in an ethnic Mongolian region of northern China have joined rare protests and school boycotts against a new curriculum they fear will wipe out their minority culture, residents said yesterday.
1 September 2020, 18:00 PM