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Trump meets Imran, discusses Afghanistan peace plan

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua): US President Donald Trump on Monday met with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House to discuss bilateral ties and Afghanistan.Trump and Khan, who is on his first visit to the United States since taking office in August, discussed the terrorist threat against...

Kim inspects new submarine

SEOUL, July 23 (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a newly built submarine and ordered officials to further bolster the country's military capabilities, state media reported on Tuesday, as the North increases pressure on the United States ahead of the possible resumption of nuclear diplomacy.Last week, North...

S Korea fires 360 warning shots at Russian warplane

SEOUL, July 23 (AP): South Korean air force jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane briefly violated South Korea's airspace twice on Tuesday, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries.Three Russian military planes - two Tu-95 bombers and one A-50 airborne...

Iran to meet N deal parties Sunday

TEHRAN, July 23 (AFP): Iran said it will attend a meeting in Vienna on Sunday of diplomats from countries still party to the 2015 nuclear deal, as they try to salvage the landmark agreement.The hard-won deal has been threatened with collapse since the United States withdrew from it last year...

Experts express alarm over drug-resistant malaria strain

PARIS, July 23 (AFP): Multidrug-resistant forms of malaria- causing parasites are spreading across southeast Asia leading to "alarmingly high" treatment failure rates of widely used frontline medication, researchers warned on Tuesday.In twin studies published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they revealed that in parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia...

HK arrests men with gang links over mob attack

HONG KONG, July 23 (AP): Hong Kong police say they've arrested six men, some with links to triad gangs, following a violent attack on pro-democracy protesters at a subway station over the weekend that saw dozens injured.Senior police official Chan Tin-chu said the men, aged 24-54, were held for "unlawful...

News in Brief -(24-07-2019)

Nepal mudslide kills eight personsKATHMANDU, July 23: A mudslide buried houses in two remote mountain villages in Nepal on Tuesday, killing eight people and leaving two others missing, officials said. Government Administrator Yadhunath Poudyal said the mudslide at dawn Tuesday buried at least five houses while residents were sleeping. —...