SANTIAGO, Oct 21 (BBC): Five people died after looters torched a garment factory near Chile's capital Santiago, bringing the death toll in violent protests to at least seven.The military and police used tear gas and water cannon against protesters and a curfew was imposed in major cities.A state of emergency...
Read moreHONG KONG, Oct 21 (AP): Hong Kong officials apologized to Muslim leaders Monday after riot police sprayed a mosque and bystanders with a water cannon while trying to contain pro-democracy demonstrations in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The city's leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and its police chief visited the Kowloon...
Read moreMANILA, Oct 21 (AFP): Philippine police recommended graft and drug charges against its former chief on Monday over a new scandal that has put President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-narcotics crackdown under the spotlight.The police face allegations some officers are involved in the illegal drugs trade and that they had the protection...
Read moreJUBA, Oct 21 (AP): South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar warned on Sunday that the country could return to civil war if a coalition government is formed by a Nov. 12 deadline and he asked for another months-long delay for the crucial step in a fragile peace deal. Machar made...
Read moreBEIJING, Oct 21 (AFP): China's defence minister made an uncompromising call Monday for the "reunification" of Taiwan with the mainland, telling a high level defence forum that the process was something "no force" could stop.Self-ruled Taiwan is viewed by China as a renegade province which will eventually be unified with...
Read moreDIYARBAKIR, Oct 21 (AFP): Turkish police on Monday detained three mayors from a main pro-Kurdish party on suspicions of "membership in a terror group" and "disseminating terror propaganda", the official Anadolu news agency reported.The three local mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Kayapinar, Bismil and Kocakoy in the...
Read moreBEIJING, Oct 21 (AP): Chinese authorities have detained a Japanese man, Japan's government said on Monday, and news reports suggested he might be accused of spying. The man in his 40s has been held since September in Beijing on unspecified charges of a possible violation of Chinese law, the chief...
Read moreWASHINGTON, Oct 21 (AFP): Hillary Clinton on Sunday posted a joke letter on Twitter supposedly sent by John F. Kennedy during the 1962Cuban missile crisis, written in the excitable style of US President Donald Trump's recent letter to Turkey.The parody letter, originally from ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" TV show, is...
Read morePakistan road crash leaves nine people deadISLAMABAD, Oct 21: A head-on collision between an ambulance and a trailer in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province left nine people dead on Monday morning, local media reported. According to the reports, an ambulance carrying a patient and his family members hit a trailer at...
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