Xi tells Scholz political trust easy to destroy, hard to rebuild
BEIJING, Nov 04 (Reuters): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the first G7 leader to visit China since the Covid pandemic began, warning of the ease with which mutual political trust can be destroyed.Scholz's one-day visit is testing the waters between China and the...
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Israeli forces kill four Palestinians
JERUSALEM, Nov 04 (Agencies): Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, including an Islamic Jihad militant and a man accused by police of stabbing an officer. The other two fatalities were shot dead by troops during West Bank...
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Biden vows to 'free Iran' in West Coast campaign speech
OCEANSIDE, Calif., Nov 04 (Reuters): US President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to "free" Iran, and said that demonstrators working against the country's government would soon succeed in freeing themselves."Don't worry, we're gonna free Iran. They're gonna free themselves pretty soon," Biden said during a wide-ranging campaign speech in California,...
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S Korea scrambles jets after detecting N Korean military flights
SEOUL, Nov 04 (Reuters): South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean military flights north of the two countries' border over four hours on Friday.The North Korean aircraft flew north of the so-called tactical action line, north of the Military Demarcation Line between the...
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Ukrainians face nuclear threat with grit and dark humour
KYIV Nov 04 (AP/Al Jazeera): Dmytro Bonda-renko is ready for the worst.He's filled the storage area under his fold-up bed and just about every other nook of his apartment in eastern Kyiv with water and nonperishable food. There are rolls of packing tape to seal the windows from radioactive fallout....
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Scientists urge COP27 PR agency to drop fossil fuel firms
PARIS, Nov 04 (AFP): Over 420 scientists on Friday urged the public relations firm representing upcoming climate talks to drop its fossil fuel clients, including Saudi Aramco, Shell and ExxonMobil. The firm, Hill+Knowlton, is the leading PR agency at the upcoming UN climate talks (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh opening Sunday....
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News in brief -(2022-11-05)
Saudi king issues decrees to promote judges, public prosecution staffRIYADH, Nov 04: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday issued a royal order promoting and appointing 161 judges in the Ministry of Justice at various levels of the judiciary. Minister of Justice, Dr. Walid Al-Samaani, also chairman of the Supreme Judicial...
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