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Belarus protest leader 'detained' at border

MINSK, Sept 08 (BBC/Reuters): A Belarus opposition leader has reportedly been detained at the border with Ukraine the day after her disappearance.State media report that Maria Kolesnikova was held at the border early on Tuesday morning.It comes the day after witnesses reportedly saw masked men bundle her into a minibus.She...

Saudi Arabia jails eight over Khashoggi murder

RIYADH, Sept 08 (Reuters): A Saudi Arabian court jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years on Monday for the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, state media reported, four months after his family forgave his killers and enabled death sentences to be set aside. The trial was...

India records highest coronavirus deaths

NEW DELHI, Sept 08 (Reuters): India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month on Tuesday, even as new infections slowed, data from the health ministry showed.The health ministry said 1,133 people had died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest since July,...

Australian journalist 'endangered nat'l security': China

BEIJING, Sept 08 (BBC): An Australian journalist detained in China for weeks is being held on national security grounds, China has said.Cheng Lei, a presenter for China Global Television Network (CGTN), is suspected of "criminal activity endangering China's national security".She has been detained since 14 August.The announcement comes after the...

UK court to hear Shamima's case in Nov

LONDON, Sept 08 (Reuters): The UK Supreme Court will hear arguments in November for and against the government's decision to remove the UK citizenship of a British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State.The case of Shamima Begum has been the subject of a heated...

Navalny has come out of coma: Germany

BERLIN, Sept 08 (Reuters): Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital said on Monday.The hospital, which has been treating Navalny since he was airlifted to Germany after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month, said...

Uganda turns nat’l stadium into hospital

WAKISO, Sept 08 (Xinhua): Uganda's ministry of health has converted parts of Namboole National Stadium into an auxiliary hospital to cater for the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the east African country.Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of ministry of health unveiled the treatment center located in the central Ugandan...

Houthi rebels launch drone attack toward Saudi airport

SANAA, Sept 08 (Xinhua): Yemen's Houthi militia said it launched a drone attack toward a Saudi border airport on Tuesday morning, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.The attack on Abha International Airport came in response to "the Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes," the television said, citing a statement by the Houthi military spokesman Yahya...

California fire burns record two million acres

SHAVER LAKE, Sept 08 (AP): Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, the US Forest Service said.The danger for more destruction is so high that the US Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half of the state,...

Climate activists block street in Warsaw

WARSAW, Sept 08 (AP): A few hundred Polish climate activists blocked traffic in downtown Warsaw on Monday to spur the conservative government into protecting the environment better.It was the second action since Saturday by Poland's chapter of the Extinction Rebellion climate protection group that says world leaders are not doing...