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Hezbollah fires new volley at Israel

BEIRUT, Sept 19 (AP/AFP/Reuters): Hezbollah fired a new barrage into northern Israel on Thursday, continuing its drumbeat of exchanges with the Israeli military as fears of a greater war rise after hundreds of electronic devices exploded in Lebanon, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 3,000 others.The device...

M’sia detains CEO, other leaders of Islamic group

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 (AP): Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group.National police chief Razarudin Husain said...

Some Cubans depend on sugar water as food shortages bite

HAVANA, Sept 19 (AFP): Subsidized food, without which most Cubans would not eat at all, is becoming ever more scarce and expensive as the government, battling sanctions, struggles to pay for imports.Breads are smaller-not even the size of an adult hand-rice is rare, and oil and coffee are nowhere to...

Life in cities would become unbearable

PARIS, Sept 19 (AFP): Longer and more frequent heatwaves, soaring demand for air conditioning, and widespread disease: life in cities would become unbearable should the planet keep warming at current rates, researchers warned Thursday.The World Resources Institute (WRI) looked at what might happen in nearly 1,000 major cities if temperatures...

Indian artillery shells enter Ukraine raising Russian ire

MOSCOW, Sept 19 (Reuters): Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow, according to eleven Indian and European government and defence industry officials, as well as a Reuters analysis...

Teen arrested over NY subway train joyride

NEW YORK, Sept 19 (BBC): New York police have arrested a teen suspected of taking a joyride on an empty subway train then crashing it.A 17-year-old girl is charged with criminal mischief over the incident in Briarwood subway station in Queens, shortly after midnight on 12 September.She and a companion...

Tokyo demands answers over Japanese boy killed in China

TOKYO, Sept 19 (AFP): Japan's prime minister demanded an explanation from Beijing on Thursday about the fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen and urged China to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens.Wednesday's attack, on the anniversary of a notorious 1931 incident in the run-up to Japan's occupation of...