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Syrian peace talks to begin in Russia despite opposition boycott

BEIRUT, Jan 29 (AFP): Delegates arrived on Monday for the first Syria peace congress in Russia, but expectations for the dialogue were tempered after the war-torn country's main opposition group said it would boycott the event.Regime-backer Moscow has invited 1,600 people to the talks in the Black Sea resort of...

Modi to visit West Bank

RAMALLAH, Jan 29 (AP): A top Palestinian official says India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make what is described as a historic visit to the West Bank next month.Majdi Khaldi, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas told the Voice of Palestine on Monday that the visit will take place on...

German row over car exhaust tests on humans and monkeys

BERLIN, Jan 29 (BBC): There has been condemnation of experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.German media say the health impact research was done by EUGT, a body funded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW.Social Democrat politician Stephan Weil - a VW board...

Israel says Iran wants 'to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site'

JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of wanting "to turn Lebanon into one giant missile site" and warned of the consequences as he left Monday for talks in Moscow.Netanyahu has held a series of discussions with President Vladimir Putin in recent months on Iran's influence...

90,000 flee Philippine volcano stretching relief camps

LEGAZPI (Philippines), Jan 29 (AFP): The number of Filipinos fleeing from the erupting Mayon volcano to safe zones has swelled to nearly 90,000, officials said Monday, worsening a sanitation crisis in the already stretched relief camps.President Rodrigo Duterte flew to the central city of Legazpi on Monday to assess the...

'Padmaavat' gets barred from release in Malaysia

KUALALUMPUR, Jan 29 (Reuters): Controversial Bollywood movie "Padmaavat", which has released in India after a struggle, is now barred from opening in cinemas in Malaysia over concerns regarding "sensitivities of Islam".Malaysia's National Film Censorship Board (LPF) has barred filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmaavat" from getting released in the country.LPF chairman...

Clinical trial aims to treat kidney disease using water

SYDNEY, Jan 29 (Xinhua): Australian researchers are working on a new clinical trial using water to treat an inherited disease that leads to kidney failure. The trial will investigate whether drinking the right amount of water can prevent adult polycystic kidney disease, in which the organs deteriorate because of the...

News in Brief --(30-01-2018)

Lebanon's PP sues ad-Diyar editor over insulting Saudi KingBEIRUT, Jan 29: Lebanon's public prosecutor (PP) has filed a lawsuit against ad-Diyar newspaper and its owner and editor-in-chief Charles Ayoub on charges of insulting Saudi King Salman, the daily said on Sunday. The prosecution has demanded a one-year's jail term and...