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Hong Kong leader admits vote revealed 'unhappiness' with govt

Embattled Hong Kong leader set for town hall meeting

2:32 pm September 26, 2019

Hong Kong: Embattled Hong Kong leader will attend a town hall meeting on Thursday evening in a bid to reach out to residents after more than three months of huge, sometimes violent pro-democracy protests. The public “dialogue session” is the pro-Beijing government’s first attempt to sit down with her critics following 16 consecutive weeks of […]

Iran says it begins 20% uranium enrichment amid US tensions

Iran president warns of a region ‘on the edge of collapse’

9:54 am September 26, 2019

United Nations: Iran president Hassan Rouhani used the world’s stage to warn that security in the Persian Gulf could unravel with a “single blunder” and its fragile peace be guaranteed only by the region’s countries, not through U.S. intervention or Washington’s “merciless economic terrorism.” President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday accused the United States of engaging […]

US concerned by China's ongoing attempts to 'intimidate' neighbours: White House

Transcript confirms Trump asked Ukraine leader to investigate Biden

9:33 pm September 25, 2019

Washington: The White House released a call transcript Wednesday confirming Donald Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to probe his political rival Joe Biden — a day after Democrats seized on the explosive allegation to launch an impeachment process. “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of […]

President Donald Trump says US troops ‘largely out’ of Syria region

Trump ordered aid frozen; more Democrats want impeachment

9:20 pm September 24, 2019

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before a phone call in which he pressured the Eastern European nation’s leader to investigate the family of political rival Joe Biden, a revelation that comes as more Democrats move toward impeachment proceedings. Trump, in remarks to […]

Investigators search sex offender Epstein’s Paris flat

7:56 pm September 24, 2019

Paris: Investigators searched disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein’s luxury Paris apartment on Tuesday, advancing a French probe into allegations that the sex offender procured young women to abuse in France. Epstein was arrested in New York in July on multiple charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. He was found hanged in his New York […]