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Climate change key issue in US election amid wildfires

NEW YORK, Sept 15 (BBC): On Monday, climate change took centre stage in the US presidential campaign - and the contrast between the two candidates couldn't have been more stark.While touring fire-ravaged California, Donald Trump downplayed the role a warming planet could have in the devastation, suggesting temperatures will "start...

24 migrants found dead as boat capsizes near Libya

CAIRO, Sept 15 (AP): The U.N. migration agency said Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, leaving at least two dozen people drowned or missing and presumed dead, the latest shipwreck off the North African country.Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the...

'Rule of six' to fight COVID comes into effect in UK

LONDON, Sept 15 (Xinhua): In order to curb the rise in coronavirus cases, tough new limits on social gatherings came into force in Britain on Monday, meaning that in most regions, it is now illegal for groups of more than six to meet up.The "rule of six" kicked off at...

Imran Khan for chemical castration for rapists

ISLAMABAD, Sept 15 (Reuters): Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday he would like convicted rapists to be publicly executed or chemically castrated, reacting to a question on the rape of a woman on a highway last week that has caused uproar in the South Asian nation.Last week, a...

Navalny able to leave hospital bed

BERLIN, Sept 15 (AP): Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is off a ventilator and is able to leave his hospital bed briefly, his doctors said Monday, while Germany announced that French and Swedish labs have confirmed its findings that he was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.Navalny, 44, was...

War crimes risk grows for US over Saudi attacks in Yemen

NEW YORK, Sept 15 (New York Times): When President Donald Trump hosts the signing of a diplomatic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, the White House ceremony will also serve as tacit recognition of Trump's embrace of arms sales as a cornerstone of his foreign policy.The...

Brazil's COVID death toll tops 132,000

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 15 (Xinhua): Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 132,000 after 381 more patients died of the COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of fatalities to 132,006, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.In the same period, tests detected 15,155 new cases of infection,...

Zimbabwe govt abuses critics

HARARE, Sept 15 (AP): Godfrey Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution dropped one charge, and acquitted him of another charge of blocking traffic.Hopewell...

Damage reported as 'Paulette' makes landfall in Bermuda

SAN JUAN, Sept 15 (Xinhua): Hurricane Paulette knocked down trees and power lines across Bermuda on Monday as it made a rare landfall in the wealthy British territory and strengthened into a Category 2 storm while still over the island.Government officials said in a press conference that there were no...