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Italy seizes missile, guns from neo-Nazis

ROME, July 16 (Reuters): Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday.Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy following an investigation into Italians who had fought alongside Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, a police...

World hunger on rise: UN

UNITED NATIONS, July 16 (Xinhua): World hunger is on the rise in absolute number and more than 820 million people were hungry in 2018, a UN report said on Monday.After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger, as measured by the prevalence of undernourishment, reverted in 2015, said...

EU chief nominee pledges ‘green deal’ for MEP votes

BRUSSELS, July 16 (BBC): The woman nominated to head the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has pledged to launch a "green deal for Europe", in a bid for MEPs' support.Mrs von der Leyen set out her agenda in the European Parliament ahead of a key vote on her candidacy.The...

Johnson raises Brexit stakes with Irish border stance

LONDON, July 16 (AP): The favorite to become Britain's next prime minister, Boris Johnson, has raised the Brexit stakes by saying he will discard a contentious part of the European Union divorce deal agreed by outgoing leader Theresa May.Britain's Parliament rejected May's deal, in large part because of a measure...

Macron to help restart Serbia-Kosovo talks

BELGRADE, July 16 (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Monday to help jumpstart stalled negotiations to resolve Serbia's independence dispute with former province Kosovo so a lasting solution can be found for the decades-long Balkan crisis.Macron, making the first visit to Serbia by a French president since 2001, also...

Protests over construction of telescope in Hawaii

MaUNA KEA, July 16 (AP): Singing, chanting and lying on the ground in the road, hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday against the construction of a giant telescope on a mountaintop that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.The protests were the latest salvo in a yearslong fight that pits scientific discovery...

Another bldg collapses in India

MUMBAI, July 16 (AP): A four-story residential building collapsed Tuesday in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, killing at least two people, an official said. Rescuers were looking for several others feared trapped in the rubble.Fire official Ashok Talpade said dozens of rescuers were at the site in Dongri, a...

Norway arrests Muslim cleric

COPENHAGEN, July 16 (AP): A Muslim cleric found guilty in Italy of planning terror has been detained in Norway on an Italian arrest warrant, The Norwegian domestic security agency said.Iraqi-born Mullah Krekar was detained late Monday, the PST security agency said. It was not immediately clear whether he would be...

News in Brief -(17-07-2019)

Pak journalists denounce censorshipKARACHI, July 16: Pakistani journalists are holding nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship by the country's powerful security services, massive layoffs due to budget cuts and months-long delays in payments of their wages. Tuesday's rallies, dubbed Day of Protests, are spearheaded by the Pakistan Federal Union of...