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UN warns of famine in war-torn Yemen

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 16 (AP): The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Tuesday that "the specter of famine" has returned to conflict-torn Yemen and for the first time singled out Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait for giving nothing to this year's $3.4 billion appeal.Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security...

Unexpected rise of Yoshihide Suga

TOKYO, Sept 16 (BBC): Shinzo Abe was Japan's prime minister for so long that people around the world came to recognise his face and perhaps even knew how to pronounce his name. So, should we all now be learning how to say Yoshihide Suga? That is a difficult question to...

Trump denies downplaying severity of Covid-19

NEW YORK, Sept 16 (BBC): US President Donald Trump has denied downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview to having done that.At a televised event with voters, Mr Trump said he had "up-played" it.The claim contradicts comments Mr Trump made to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this...

Science mag taps Biden

NEW YORK, Sept 16 (AP): Even though Scientific American had never endorsed a presidential candidate in the magazine's 175-year history, its top editor said Tuesday there was little internal debate over a decision to back Democrat Joe Biden.Editor-in-Chief Laura Helmuth said President Donald Trump's administration was much worse for the...

Navalny plans to return to Russia

BERLIN, Sept 16 (Reuters): Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently after being poisoned in Siberia last month.The photo - the strongest evidence yet of Navalny's advancing...

Palestinians fire rockets at Israel during White House ceremony

JERUSALEM, Sept 16 (Reuters): Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel, wounding two people, on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack from the Hamas Islamist-run...

Canada-US border closure to be extended for 30 more days

OTTAWA, Sept 16 (Xinhua): Canada and the United States are expected to extend a ban on non-essential ground travel between the two countries for another 30 days, CTV reported on Tuesday.This is the sixth extension of the ban since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ban, first imposed in...

Earthquake jolts Nepal

KATHMANDU, Sept 16 (Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 was felt in various parts of Nepal on Wednesday early morning as many citizens in the capital Kathmandu were suddenly awakened by the powerful tremor. According to Nepal's National Seismological Center, the epicenter of the earthquake was at Ramche...