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HK ‘Umbrella’ protesters may get sever-yr jail term

HONG KONG, Apr 09 (BBC): Nine pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been found guilty of public nuisance charges for their role in a civil disobedience movement that called for free elections in the city.Among them are three prominent activists, seen as figureheads of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.They could be...

May meets Merkel for Brexit delay request

BERLIN, Apr 09 (BBC): UK PM Theresa May is holding last-minute Brexit talks with the leaders of Germany, and France later, four days before the UK is due to leave the EU.Mrs May is meeting Angela Merkel in Berlin, followed by Emmanuel Macron in Paris, to urge them to back...

Netanyahu’s challenger urges Israelis to vote for ‘new dawn’

JERUSALEM, Apr 09 (AP): Israeli voters casted ballots on Tuesday in parliamentary elections that will determine whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains in office after a decade in power.Clouded by a series of looming corruption indictments, Netanyahu is seeking a fourth consecutive and a fifth overall term in office,...

Roadside bomb kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan

KABUL, Apr 09 (AP): Three American service members and a US contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main US base in Afghanistan, the US forces said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.The US and NATO Resolute Support mission said the four...

Seven more Sudanese die in clashes

CAIRO, Apr 09 (AP): Sudanese security forces tried again to break up an anti-government sit-in outside the military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, killing at least seven people on Tuesday, activists behind the demonstrations said.The deaths brought the total number of people killed at the sit-in since the weekend to...

Libya clashes over Tripoli escalate

BENGHAZI, Apr 09 (AP): Clashes between rival Libyan forces for control of Tripoli escalated on Monday as the death toll from days of fighting rose to at least 51, including both combatants and civilians, and the city's only functioning airport said it was hit by an airstrike.The self-styled Libyan National...

Court dismisses petition against Modi film

NEW DELHI, Apr 09 (AFP):0 India's top court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal to delay the release of a Bollywood biopic about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the opposition says is propaganda, until after India's mega-election.The Supreme Court threw out the petition from the opposition Congress party, saying the biopic...

News in Brief -(10-04-2019)

Judge halts Trump’s asylum policy NEW YORK, Apr 09: A US judge on Monday halted the Trump administration's policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a programme the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of...