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Iran hails 'constructive' talks with IAEA chief

TEHRAN, Aug 25 (AFP): Iran's nuclear body said it held "constructive" talks on Tuesday with the visiting head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) amid tensions over a US bid to reimpose UN sanctions.The trip is Rafael Mariano Grossi's first to the Islamic republic since the Argentine took the...

WHO cautions virus plasma treatment still experimental

LONDON, Aug 25 (AP): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S. boost for the treatment has many scientists afraid formal studies will be derailed.On Sunday, the...

Change nowhere in sight after weeks of Beirut blast

BEIRUT, Aug 25 (AP): Three weeks after a catastrophic explosion ripped through Beirut, killing nearly 200 people and rendering thousands homeless, the change many hoped for is nowhere in sight. Instead, activists said they are back to square one.The same politicians whose corruption and negligence the public blames for the...

Consider 'beauty of diversity'

WELLINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters): The daughter of a woman killed in the New Zealand mosque shootings challenged white supremacist Brenton Tarrant at his sentencing hearing to use his life in prison to consider the beauty of the diversity and freedom he sought to destroy.The daughter of Linda Armstrong sobbed as...

HK man 'reinfected' with virus

HONG KONG, Aug 25 (AP): Scientists at the University of Hong Kong claim that they have found the first evidence of someone being reinfected with coronavirus that causes COVID-19.Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain...

Republicans nominate Trump again

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Xinhua): Republicans formally nominated President Donald Trump as the party's presidential candidate at the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday, reports Xinhua.Trump arrived at the Charlotte Convention Center in the afternoon.Over 300 delegates met in person for a roll call vote to...

Another building collapses in India

MUMBAI, Aug 25 (Xinhua): One person was killed and 17 injured, while 43 were feared being trapped after a five-storey building collapsed at Mahad, 170 km from Mumbai in India on Monday evening.One person died and seven are currently undergoing treatment in hospital and the search for the remaining 43...

Militants behind Philippine attacks, says army chief

MANILA, Aug 25 (AP): The Philippine army chief said Tuesday that two Islamic militants who blew themselves up were responsible for the bombings that killed at least 14 people and wounded 75 more, the country's worst extremist attack this year.Military officials initially said that the first of two powerful explosions...

Legal migrants renew fight to get citizenship in Italy

ROME, Aug 25 (AFP): Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Italy's second generation of immigrants is renewing the fight for automatic citizenship in a land where migration is at the heart of the political debate."Jus soli!", the Latin term which literally means "right of soil," or birthright citizenship, has...