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EU signs deal to reform largest carbon market

BRUSSELS, Nov 09 (Agencies): The European Union struck a deal Thursday to overhaul Europe's carbon market after 2021, a key step toward meeting its pledges to cut greenhouse gases under the Paris climate agreement.The European Parliament and the member states reached a tentative agreement to reform the world's biggest carbon...

S Arabia freezes ex-crown prince's bank accounts

RIYADH, Nov 09 (Al Jazeera): Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's ex-crown prince who was removed as next in line to the throne in June, has reportedly become the latest royal family member to be targeted in the kingdom's expanding anti-corruption crackdown.According to Reuters news agency and the Wall Street Journal,...

UK minister resigns over secret meetings in Israel

LONDON, Nov 09 (Reuters): British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit.Patel, a Brexit campaigner who is popular in the ruling Conservative Party, had to abandon...

Ill boy gets brand new skin with gene therapy

LONDON, Nov 09 (AP): Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save his life.Two years later, the doctors report the boy is doing so well that...

IS militants pull out from last stronghold in Syria

BEIRUT, Nov 09 (Agencies): A Syrian war monitor says Islamic State militants have withdrawn from their last stronghold following a government offensive.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says government forces and allied troops, including Iraqi fighters, are combing Boukamal, a strategic town on the border with Iraq, on Thursday...

Suicide bomber kills police DIG, three others in Pakistan

QUETTA, Nov 09 (AP): A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police in the southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, killing him and three other officers, Pakistani officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.Nine people, including police officers, were also wounded in the attack that...

Group of people racially abuse Aussie senator

MELBOURNE, Nov 09 (BBC): An Australian senator has criticised "the rise of the radical right" after he was racially abused by a group of men at a pub in Melbourne.Senator Sam Dastyari, who was born in Iran, was harassed with taunts calling him a "terrorist" and "little monkey" during the...

News in Brief (10-11-2017)

UN warns of massive famine if Yemen blockade not liftedUNITED NATIONS, Nov 09: The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that unless the Saudi-led military coalition lifts its blockade on Yemen the war-torn nation will face "the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims." Mark...