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Ethiopian troops marching on Tigrayan capital

TIGRAY, Nov 18 (BBC): Ethiopia said its troops were marching on the capital of the Tigray region on Tuesday after a deadline for rebel forces to surrender passed in a two-week conflict shaking the Horn of Africa and alarming the world."The final critical act of law enforcement will be done...

Trump fires polls official who contradicted him

NEW YORK, Nov 18 (BBC): Donald Trump says he has fired a top election official who contradicted the US president's claims of voter fraud.President Trump said he "terminated" Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) chief Chris Krebs for his "highly inaccurate" remarks on vote integrity.Mr Trump has refused to concede...

Diet trends to see 4.0b people overweight

PARIS, Nov 18 (AFP): More than four billion people could be overweight by 2050, with 1.5 billion of them obese, if the current global dietary trend towards processed foods continues, a first-of-its-kind study predicted Wednesday.Warning of a health and environmental crisis of "mind-blowing magnitude", experts from the Potsdam Institute for...

Berlin braces for protests of coronavirus measures

BERLIN, Nov 18 (AP): Berlin police, bolstered by forces from around the country, cordoned off a wide perimeter around the capital's government center on Wednesday ahead of expected protests as parliament votes on a bill that would strengthen the government's ability to impose coronavirus restrictions.A series of protests planned outside...

French 'Jetman' dies in accident

PARIS, Nov 18 (BBC): A French stuntman famous for airborne feats using jetpacks and carbon-fibre wing packs has been killed in a training accident in Dubai.Vincent Reffet was part of the company Jetman Dubai.The 36-year-old went viral for flights over the Gulf city's waterfront and the Alps.A statement said Reffet...

US to withdraw 2,500 troops from Afghanistan, Iraq

NEW YORK, Nov 18 (BBC): Senior Republicans and US allies have voiced alarm at the announcement that a large number of American troops will be removed from Afghanistan and Iraq.The US is to withdraw 2,500 troops from both countries by mid-January, the US Department of Defense confirmed.President Donald Trump has...

Modi calls Biden to boost ties

NEW DELHI, Nov 18 (Reuters): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to US President-elect Joe Biden by telephone to congratulate him on his election victory, which he said showed the strength of US democracy, and he vowed to deepen strategic ties.Modi initially sent his congratulations to Biden in a...

Child dies in rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone

BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (Xinhua): A female child was killed and five other civilians were wounded in a Katyusha rocket barrage targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, the Iraqi military said.Several projectiles "landed on Grand festivities Square and surrounding areas, and near the Medical...

Five police die in improvised bomb blast in Afghanistan

MAIMANA, Nov 18 (Xinhua): Five district police, including police chief, were killed in an improvised bomb explosion hitting an armored police vehicle in Qaramqol district of Afghanistan's northern Faryab province on Tuesday night, local police confirmed Wednesday."Police chief Safar Rahis and four policemen martyred following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)...

Israel strikes kill 10 Syrian, foreign fighters

BEIRUT, Nov 18 (AFP): Israeli strikes on Syria killed 10 fighters on Wednesday, including three Syrian air defence officers and seven allied foreign fighters, a Britain-based war monitor said in a new toll.The foreigners included five fighters who were "likely Iranian and belonging to the Quds force", as well as...

Peruvians get 3rd president in a week after unrest

LIMA, Nov 18 (AP): Peru swore in its third president in just over a week Tuesday in a televised ceremony that residents of the fraught South American country watched with both hope and skepticism after the worst constitutional crisis in two decades.Donning the red and white presidential sash, Francisco Sagasti...