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August 25, 2019
Sudan flood death toll reaches 62
Khartoum — Heavy rainfall and flash floods have killed 62 people in Sudan and left 98 others injured, the official SUNA news agency reported on Sunday.Sudan has been hit by torrential rains since the start of July, affecting nearly 200,000 people in at least 15 states across the country including the capital Khartoum.The worst affected area is the White Nile state in the south. Flooding of the Nile river remains ...
August 25, 2019
Our engagement with Saudi Arabia is ontological: UAE minister
Dubai — The United Arab Emirates' minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said late on Saturday that "the Saudi-UAE coalition is a strategic necessity in light of the surrounding challenges, and Yemen is a clear example.""As a result of our strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, it is the one deciding whether to continue our role in supporting stability in Yemen within the Arab coalition or not," Gargash said ...
August 25, 2019
Hariri: Israeli drones designed to up Mideast tensions
BEIRUT/TEL AVIV — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah were designed to stir up regional tensions.One drone fell and second exploded before dawn and caused some damage to Hezbollah's media center in the southern Dahiyeh suburbs, a Hezbollah official told Reuters, in the first such incident since the two sides waged war in 2006."The new ...
August 25, 2019
Hariri: Israeli drones in Beirut threaten Lebanon's sovereignty
Beirut — Lebanon condemned an Israeli "aggression" after two drones Sunday targeted the Beirut stronghold of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, warning of further regional tensions.Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organization by the United States, is a major political actor in Lebanon and a key backer of the Damascus regime in war-torn Syria.The early morning incident in south Beirut came hours after Israel said it had conducted air strikes in neighboring Syria ...
August 25, 2019
Italy poised for last-ditch talks to form new government
ROME - Italy's president is due to begin a fresh round of talks with discordant political parties on Tuesday aimed at finding a new coalition government and ending a political crisis sparked by the collapse of the ruling populist alliance.President Sergio Mattarella is tasked with charting a path out of the impasse in the eurozone's third largest economy, after the partnership between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the ...
August 25, 2019
Trump, Abe disagree on North Korea missile launches
BIARRITZ, FRANCE - US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe displayed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea's series of short-range missile launches on Sunday, while maintaining that they would remain in synch on the issue.Trump, who prizes his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said the launches did not violate an agreement and were in line with what others were doing.Abe said the launches ...
August 25, 2019
Australia to block internet domains hosting extremist content during terror attacks
SYDNEY - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events and will consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their services, officials said on Sunday.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is in France to take part in the G7 leaders' forum, said the government intended to prevent extremists from exploiting digital platforms to post extremely violent content."We are doing everything we ...
August 25, 2019
200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps
KUTUPALONG, BANGLADESH - Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees.Around 740,000 Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine state escaped in August 2017 during the brutal offensive, joining another 200,000 who fled earlier persecution in vast camps in southeast Bangladesh.Children, hijab-wearing women, and men in long-skirt lungis ...
August 25, 2019
UK's Labour says it is offering other parties 'fail safe' way to stop no-deal Brexit
LONDON - Britain's opposition Labour Party is offering opponents of a no-deal Brexit a "fail safe" procedure in order to stop that outcome, the party's trade spokesman Barry Gardiner said on Sunday.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is holding a meeting with leaders of other political parties on Tuesday to discuss ways of trying to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal at the ...
August 25, 2019
Hong Kong protesters regroup under sea of umbrellas
HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong anti-government protesters marched in pouring rain on Sunday, regrouping under a sea of umbrellas after sometimes violent clashes a day earlier that prompted police to fire tear gas for the first time in more than a week.The Chinese-ruled city's rail operator, MTR Corp, suspended some services to try to prevent people gathering but protesters made it to a sports stadium in ...
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