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Taliban kill dozens of Afghan forces

KABUL, Sept 10 (Al jazeera): At least 37 members of Afghan security forces and pro-government fighters have been killed in separate attacks carried out by the Taliban in the country's north.Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, the head of the provincial council in Kunduz province, said that at least 13 security forces were...

US threatens ICC judges with sanctions

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters): The United States said on Monday that it will adopt an aggressive posture against the International Criminal Court, threatening sanctions against ICC judges if they proceed with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Americans in Afghanistan.President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, is...

Abe wants to discuss peace treaty with Putin

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 10 (Reuters): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin were moving towards a peace treaty.Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty since World War II because of a dispute about Pacific islands known in Russia as the Kuriles...

May’s Brexit plans opposed by 80 rebels in her party

LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against, a former minister said.Such public criticism, a day after former foreign minister Boris Johnson described...

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit (right) holding talks

Cairo: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit (right) holding talks with Pierre Krineball (centre) Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), at the Arab League’s headquarters in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Monday. The meeting come after the latest decision by the UNRWA,...

Kim says ball is now in US court

MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters): A senior Russian official who met Kim Jong Un this weekend cited the North Korean leader as saying he did not plan any unilateral steps to denuclearise and was instead awaiting a US response to steps he already took, Russia's RIA news agency reported.Valentina Matvienko, a...

Muslims in China face political indoctrination

KUNMING, Sept 10 (Reuters): The Turkic mostly Muslim Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang region face arbitrary detentions, daily restrictions on religious practice and "forced political indoctrination" in a mass security crackdown, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.The United Nations human rights panel said in August that China is believed to...

News in Brief (11-09-2018)

US to close Palestinian mission in WashingtonJERUSALEM, Sept 10: The United States (US) has decided to close the Palestinian mission in Washington in the latest move against them by President Donald Trump, who has been trying to force the Palestinians to negotiate, a Palestinian official said Monday. "We have been...