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August 21, 2018
Iran unveils first domestic fighter jet
TEHRAN — Iran unveiled its first domestic fighter jet on Tuesday, with President Hassan Rouhani insisting that Tehran’s military strength was only designed to deter enemies and was aimed at creating “lasting peace”.Images on state television showed Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of the new “Kowsar” fourth-generation fighter at the National Defense Industry exhibition in Tehran.State media said it had “advanced avionics” and multi-purpose radar, and that it was “100-percent ...
August 21, 2018
11 dead in surge of white-water creek in Italy
ROME — At least 11 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were washed away over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rain upstream, officials said.The civil protection department said 23 people were rescued and about a dozen others were hospitalized after surviving the flash rush of water in the narrow gorge in the Calabria region. The ...
August 21, 2018
Australian PM urges unity after surviving leadership challenge
SYDNEY — Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pleaded for unity on Tuesday after narrowly surviving a leadership challenge as discontent with his rule boiled over less than a year before national elections.Turnbull, considered a moderate, declared his position vacant at a Liberal party meeting to force the issue after rampant speculation that the more hardline Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton wanted his job, with the government trailing the Labor ...
August 21, 2018
Taiwan says China ‘out of control’ as it loses El Salvador to Beijing
TAIPEI/BEIJING — Taiwan vowed on Tuesday to fight China’s “increasingly out of control” behavior after Taipei lost another ally to Beijing when El Salvador became the third country to switch allegiances to China this year.Taiwan now has formal relations with only 17 countries worldwide, many of them small, less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.Speaking in Taipei, President Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan would not ...
August 21, 2018
More than a million people in Kerala flood relief camps
CHENGANNUR, Kerala — More than one million people have packed relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than 410 people in India’s southwestern state of Kerala, officials said on Tuesday.About 50,000 homes have been destroyed, according to one Kerala legislator, and people are flocking to the camps as the scale of the desolation is revealed by receding waters.A total of 1,028,000 people were now recorded in ...
August 21, 2018
Trump vows ‘no concessions’ with Turkey over detained US pastor
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out agreeing to any demands from Turkey to gain the release of a detained American pastor and said he was not concerned that his tough stance could end up hurting European and emerging market economies.In a wide-ranging Oval Office interview with Reuters, Trump complained about interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve and suggested he was having second thoughts about Jerome ...
August 21, 2018
Trump fears ‘perjury trap’ in Mueller inquiry
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was worried that any statements under oath he provides to Special Counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him as part of the probe into Russia’s electoral interference.In an interview with Reuters, Trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, Rudy Giuliani, who has warned that any sit-down with Mueller could be a ...
August 21, 2018
Colorado man charged in murder of family claims wife strangled kids
DENVER — A Colorado oil worker charged with murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters told investigators following his arrest that he killed his wife after she strangled the children, court documents showed on Monday.Chrisopher Watts, who had been involved in an extramarital affair with a co-worker, said during a police interrogation that his wife, Shannan, strangled their daughters Bella and Celeste after he announced that he wanted a ...
August 21, 2018
Britain urges US, Europe to ‘go further’ in countering Russia
WASHINGTON — New British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday will urge the United States and European countries to do more to call out Russia’s “malign behavior” and keep Vladimir Putin in check, notably by implementing tough sanctions.“The established rules of international conduct are repeatedly being flouted by major countries like Russia,” Hunt was to say in Washington, in his first major policy speech since succeeding Boris Johnson in July.“Such ...
August 21, 2018
Iran resumes electricity supplies to Iraq
LONDON — Iran said on Tuesday it had resumed supplies of electricity to Iraq and other neighboring states 10 days earlier, after shortages in Iraqi cities sparked unrest in July.Tehran stopped supplying electricity to Iraq in July due to unpaid bills and because of a rise in Iranian consumption during the summer.The power shortage in Iraq sparked protests in Basra and other cities, as people blamed what they called an ...
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