Putin’s party loses one-third seats in Moscow polls
MOSCOW, Sept 09 (Reuters): Russia's ruling United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin, has lost one third of its seats in the Moscow parliament, near complete data cited by Russian news agencies showed on Monday, in an awkward setback for the Kremlin.However, the party still retained its majority in...
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Pompeo hopes Taliban talks will resume in future
WASHINGTON, Sept 09 (Xinhua): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he hopes the United States and the Taliban can resume talks in the future. Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News that talks are dead "for the time being" after one U.S. soldier was killed in...
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Charity ship rescues 50 African migrants
ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING, Sept 09 (AP): A charity ship run by humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean spent a rainy Sunday searching open waters for a fragile rubber boat overloaded with migrants before finally plucking 50 people to safety not far off Libya's coast. The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, which is...
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One suicide in every 40 seconds
GENEVA, Sept 09 (AFP): Nearly 800,000 people commit suicide each year - more than those killed by war and homicide or breast cancer, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging action to avert the tragedies.In a fresh report, the UN health agency said that the global suicide rate had fallen...
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News in Brief -(10-09-2019)
Iran installing advanced centrifuges: UN watchdogVIENNA, Sept 09: The UN's nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran was installing advanced centrifuges as the troubled 2015 deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme threatens to fall apart. In a statement the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that on September 7...
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