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Xi, Putin meet as Russia kicks off biggest ever war games

CHITA, Russia, Sept 11 (Al Jazeera): Russia's President Vladimir Putin met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday.The meeting, in which the leaders discussed the "development of Russia-Chinese relations", came as Russia began its largest military drills with hundreds of...

Trump gets Kim letter on new summit

North Korea's Kim Jong-un has written to US President Donald Trump asking for a follow-up to their historic summit, the White House says, reports BBC.The US says it is already looking at scheduling a new meeting. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the "very warm" letter showed Pyongyang's "continued commitment...

43 die after bus falls into valley in Telangana

TELANGANA, Sept 11 (Al Jazeera): A bus carrying at least 55 pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of southern India plunged off a road on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and injuring several others, according to officials.The driver lost control as he tried to avoid another bus...

Nigerian gas tanker explosion leaves 35 people dead

LAFIA, Sept (Reuters): At least 35 people were killed on Monday and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said.The State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) official said the accident happened at a petrol station along the...

Over a million to flee as Hurricane Florence stalks US East Coast

CHARLESTON, Sept 11 (AFP): More than a million people were ordered Monday to evacuate the path of Hurricane Florence as the powerful Category 4 storm packing winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour bore down on the East Coast of the United States."This is one of the worst storms...

Jailed ex-Pak PM Sharif’s wife dies in London

ISLAMABAD, Sept 11 (Reuters): The cancer-stricken wife of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif died in London on Tuesday while her husband and daughter were in jail, officials said.Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, died after months in a coma. She was diagnosed with lymphoma last year, barely a month after Nawaz...

UN, Erdogan warn of human catastrophe in Idlib

BEIRUT, Sept 11 (Agencies): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the international community to prevent a Syrian government offensive in Syria's Idlib, as the United Nations says it fears the century's "worst humanitarian catastrophe" there.In an article in the Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday, Erdogan echoed the UN's...

Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 22 near Pak border

KABUL, Sept 11 (AP): A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed 22 people on Tuesday in an attack on a protest gathering on the highway between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the main border crossing into neighbouring Pakistan.Another 23 people were wounded in the attack. Sohrab Qaderi, a member of...

Palestine says US attacking int'l law with UN funding cuts

CAIRO, Sept 11 (Reuters): Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Tuesday the US President Donald Trump's decision to halt funding to UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA was an attack on international law."The US administration has begun to attack the Palestinian people and international law," Malki said at a meeting...