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Hong Kong protesters burn flag, police fire pepper spray

6:59 pm September 21, 2019

HONG KONG: Protesters in Hong Kong burned a Chinese flag and police fired pepper spray Saturday in renewed clashes over anti-government grievances. Police accused some protesters of throwing gasoline bombs after a march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun, an outlying district in the Chinese territory’s northwest. The event was relatively small compared with […]

Demonstrators march in Hong Kong in new weekend of protest

3:58 pm September 21, 2019

Hong Kong: Protesters marched through an outlying district of Hong Kong on Saturday in a renewed outpouring of grievances against the Chinese territory’s government. The march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun on Hong Kong’s northwest was relatively small compared with previous weekends. There was no violence, in contrast to previous protests that included […]

Xi said Sino-US relations were at a "critical juncture", CCTV said, adding that cooperation was mutually beneficial and "the only right choice." "I hope that the US will take substantive actions to improve Sino-US relations, and both sides can work together to strengthen cooperation in fighting the epidemic," he said. Some provinces, cities and companies in China have provided medical supplies and support to the US as well, Xi added.

No need to have trade deal with China before 2020 elections: Trump

1:24 pm September 21, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he does not feel the need to strike a trade agreement with China before the next year’s presidential elections, emphasizing that he is looking for a complete and not a “partial deal” with Beijing. The world’s two largest economies have been locked in a bruising trade war since […]

Amit, Vikas nominated for Khel Ratna by BFI; 3 names for Arjuna

Amit Panghal, Manish Kaushik seal places in Olympic qualifiers with world medals

1:43 pm September 19, 2019

Ekaterinburg (Russia): Amit Panghal (52kg) and Manish Kaushik (63kg) have made the Indian boxing squad for next year’s Olympic Qualifiers owing to their medal-winning show at the ongoing world championships. Panghal and Kaushik have entered the semifinals here, making it the first time when India have more than one boxer left in fray for the […]

‘NASA analysing images of Chandrayaan-2’s landing site’

1:37 pm September 19, 2019

Houston: NASA is analysing, validating and reviewing the images clicked by its lunar orbiter of the area on the Moon where India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission made an unsuccessful attempt to soft land its Vikram module, according to a media report that quoted a project scientist of the US space agency. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft […]