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Los Angeles police kill black man for altercation

LOS ANGELES, Sept 02 (AFP): Protesters were to hit the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday, after police officers shot and killed a black man during a violent confrontation.The man, identified as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle Monday in a south Los Angeles neighborhood when deputies tried to...

Honeybee venom can kill some breast cancer cells

SYDNEY, Sept 02 (BBC): Australian scientists say the venom from honeybees has been found to destroy aggressive breast cancer cells in a lab setting.The venom - and a compound in it called melittin - were used against two cancer types which are hard to treat: triple-negative and HER2-enriched.The discovery has...

Trump visits Kenosha to back police

KENOSHA, Sept 02 (Reuters): President Donald Trump defied requests to stay away and visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, not to urge racial healing after a white officer shot a Black man in the back but to express support for law enforcement in a city rocked by civil unrest.With the United...

14 suspects face trial over Paris magazine attack

PARIS, Sept 02 (BBC): Fourteen people are on trial in France over the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo more than five years ago.Most of the alleged accomplices are in court in Paris, but three are being tried in absentia.They are accused of helping the militant Islamist attackers...

Iran N deal members agree to save accord

BERLIN, Sept 02 (AP): Representatives of Iran and the world powers working to save the nuclear deal with Tehran agreed Tuesday in Vienna to do everything possible to preserve the landmark 2015 agreement in their first meeting since the United States announced a bid to restore United Nations sanctions against...

Covid-19 cases in India near 3.8 million

NEW DELHI, Sept 02 (Xinhua): India has reported 78,357 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the country's tally to 3,769,523 since the pandemic began.According to the latest data released by the federal health ministry, the death toll from Covid-19 rose to 66,333 on Wednesday with the detection...

Two pythons collapse ceiling in Australia

CANBERRA, Sept 02 (AP): An Australian returned home and was surprised to discover that his kitchen ceiling had collapsed under the weight of two large pythons apparently fighting over a mate.David Tait entered his home in Laceys Creek in Queensland state on Monday and found a large chunk of his...

Rains hit southern Japan island

TOKYO, Sept 02 (AP): An offshore typhoon brought torrents of rain to southern Japan on Wednesday heading to the Korean Peninsula as another storm in the Pacific was growing stronger.Typhoon Maysak was west of Japan, maintaining sustained winds of 162 kilometers per hour (100 mph) with higher gusts, the Japan...

NZ confirms five new cases of COVID-19

WELLINGTON, Sept 02 (Xinhua): New Zealand confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, including two in managed isolation facilities and three community cases.The three community cases are all epidemiologically linked to the Mount Roskill Evangelical Church, which has been genomically linked to the larger Auckland cluster. All were already...