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Iran joins Asian security body

TEHRAN, Sept 17 (Agencies): Iran joined a rapidly expanding central Asian security body led by Russia and China on Friday, calling on the countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to help it form a mechanism to avert sanctions imposed by the West.The body, formed in the 2001 as a talking...

Myanmar junta to put Suu Kyi on trial for corruption

YANGON, Sept 17 (AFP): Myanmar's junta will put ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on trial for corruption, her lawyer said Friday, adding to a raft of ongoing cases that could see her jailed for decades.Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since her National League for Democracy (NLD) government...

Chinese astronauts return after 90-day mission to space station

BEIJING, Sept 17 (BBC): Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after completing the country's longest crewed space mission.They spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China's space station, some 380km (240 miles) above Earth.The three men had on Thursday boarded the Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft and undocked from the...

Xi urges Afghanistan to stamp out terrorism

BEIJING Sept 17 (Reuters): China's President Xi Jinping urged "relevant parties" in Afghanistan to eradicate terrorism and promised to provide more help to the war-torn nation, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday.China shares a land border with Afghanistan, where the Taliban named a new government this month. The Islamist...

Mexico urges end to ‘perverse’ US sanctions against Cuba

MEXICO CITY, Sept 17 (Xinhua): Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday again urged Washington to end its more than half-century trade embargo against Cuba, calling the decades-old sanctions policy "perverse."In a speech marking Mexico's Independence Day celebrations, to which Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was invited as a special...

Palestine condemns Israeli opposition to two-state solution

RAMALLAH, Sept 17 (Xinhua): Palestine condemned the current Israeli government's position of rejecting the two-state solution and its attempts to undermine any opportunity to establish a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.The Palestinian foreign ministry said in a statement that the position of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett...

News in Brief- (18-09-2021)

Race for Japan's new prime minister kicks offTOKYO, Sept 17: The campaign to become Japan's next prime minister kicks off on Friday, with four candidates vying for leadership of the ruling party in an unusually close race. The candidates include two women hoping to lead a country that has never...