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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Myanmar political party chief arrested for prison escape

11:39 pm September 30, 2020

Yangon: The leader of a party fielding the second highest number of candidates for Myanmar’s November elections has been arrested after local media reported allegations of a shady past, including a prison escape and financial finagling. Despite the arrest of Kyaw Myint, another executive of his United Democratic Party said it will continue campaigning. Despite […]

China fires back at US over environment, South China Sea

7:01 pm September 28, 2020

Beijing: US-China friction flared again Monday, with Beijing firing back at accusations by Washington that it is a leading cause of global environmental damage and has reneged on its promise not to militarise the South China Sea. A document issued last week by the State Department cited China’s record on issues from greenhouse gas emissions to air and water and soil […]

Australian park owner fined USD 2.5M over 4 river ride deaths

2:59 pm September 28, 2020

Brisbane: An Australian theme park owner was fined 3.6 million Australian dollars (USD 2.5 million) on Monday for safety breaches that led to the deaths of four people on a river rapids ride in 2016. Two men and two women died when their raft flipped on the Thunder River Rapids ride in Dreamworld park. Ardent Leisure Group had pleaded […]

The U.S. reckoning on race, seen through other nations’ eyes

11:43 pm September 27, 2020

Washington: It’s not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation. A handful of America’s critics have taken note too, using recent months’ demonstrations and graphic images of police violence to denounce the country at the United Nations’ gathering of world leaders this year. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked the killing of George […]

Mexico wants to pay US water debt, stay out of US election

11:54 pm September 25, 2020

Mexico City: Mexico‘s president called on politicians and angry farmers in northern Mexico Friday to allow the country to pay its water debt to the United States, noting he does not want Mexico to become an issue in the U.S. elections. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that unlike 2016, candidates in the November presidential […]