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China, Myanmar hail close ties amid Rohingya outcry
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
Suu Kyi was in friendly territory in China and neither she nor Xi publicly mentioned the plight of Myanmar's Muslim minority group as they met in the Chinese ca...
Beijing bans fireworks, evil spirits rejoice
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
The new regulation was passed by the local government, state news agency Xinhua said, and comes amid a city-wide campaign that is driving an estimated tens of t...
Beijing evicts migrants onto cold streets, sparking outcry
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
The blunt warning gave residents just six hours to pack up and leave, as part of a city-wide campaign that has thrown throngs of migrant workers onto the freezi...
Iraqi bishop urges US aid for frontline community
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
But the Chaldean and Syriac people of the Nineveh plain in Iraq need support to rebuild to their homes and are still anxious that fighting will return. Bashar W...
China port city blast caused by illegal explosives: police
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
Sunday's blast hit a crumbling light-industrial area after a fugitive wanted for manufacturing and selling illegal explosives had asked relatives to dispose of ...
Seven 'trapped' after cargo ships collide off south China
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
The five rescued from a sunken ship cabin on Tuesday afternoon told rescue staff that the other seven were trapped inside and still alive, the official Xinhua n...
Myanmar has 'no religious discrimination', army chief tells Pope
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
"Myanmar has no religious discrimination at all," he said in a Facebook post by his office. "Likewise our military too... (it) performs for the peace and stabil...
Army contracts for temporary electricity for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Nov 27, 2017 (UPI)
The $860 million deal, announced last week by the Department of Defense, comes after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló asked Congress for a $94.4 billion relie...
Septic tank at centre of huge China blast
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
The blast tore through a crumbling light-industrial area adjacent to crowded residential towers in the city of Ningbo, just south of Shanghai, and was so powerf...
Blast rocks Chinese port city, two dead
Nov 26, 2017 (AFP)
Cars were twisted and mangled by the force of the blast, a plume of grey smoke rose in the sky and debris was scattered for dozens of metres. But there was no o...
Libya navy says over 30 migrants dead, 200 rescued off coast
Nov 25, 2017 (AFP)
The coastguard conducted two rescue operations off the city of Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east of Tripoli, spokesman Colonel Abu Ajila Abdelbarri said....
Dutch St Martin's PM quits after pressure over Irma aid
Nov 24, 2017 (AFP)
Marlin told a press conference in the island's capital Philipsburg he was quitting, Dutch media reports said. "He (Williams) said he will send his resignation l...
Russia opens commission into 'nuclear incident' report
Nov 24, 2017 (AFP)
The move comes despite Russia's denial that a nuclear accident had occurred at any of its nuclear facilities. "Nuclear scientists have created a commission to d...
South Korea quiet for quake-delayed college entrance exam
Nov 23, 2017 (AFP)
Educational authorities had to change four exam sites at Pohang, affecting about 2,000 candidates, after a 5.4-magnitude quake shook the southern city a week ag...
Homes should not be abandoned after a big nuclear accident
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
This is the main finding of a multi-university research study led by Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at the University of Bristol, involving the uni...
Aid groups urge Greece to improve refugee camps before winter
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
"We are in a race against time. Lives will be lost, again, this winter - unless people are allowed to move, in an organised and voluntary fashion, to the mainla...
Yemen port, airport to reopen to aid: Saudi-led coalition
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
The coalition said it would reopen Hodeida port to receive "urgent humanitarian and relief materials" and Sanaa airport to UN aircraft from midday on Thursday (...
Russia denies nuclear accident after radioactive pollution
Nov 21, 2017 (AFP)
On Monday, Russia's meteorological service said a station close to the Mayak nuclear facility in Chelyabinsk region in south Urals detected "extremely high poll...
Russia denies nuclear incident after contamination reports
Nov 21, 2017 (AFP)
A station close to the Mayak nuclear facility in the Chelyabinsk region detected "extremely high pollution" of the radioactive isotope Ru-106, Russian meteorolo...
Russia confirms 'extremely high' readings of radioactive pollution
Nov 20, 2017 (AFP)
"Probes of radioactive aerosols from monitoring stations Argayash and Novogorny were found to contain radioisotope Ru-106" between September 25 and October 1, t...
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