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Climate activists block German mine despite orders to leave
Published On: June 23, 2019 08:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BERLIN, June 23: Hundreds of climate activists are keeping up their protest inside one of Germany’s biggest open-pit mines despite police orders to leave the place immediately, citing life-threatening danger.
2020 Democrats strongly defend abortion rights at forum
Published On: June 23, 2019 07:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C., June 23: Twenty Democratic presidential candidates attending a Planned Parenthood forum on Saturday vowed to defend abortion rights under nearly any circumstance while largely ignoring nuances around the issue that have already roiled their party heading into the 2020 election.
Istanbul votes in mayoral re-run, in test for Turkish democracy, Erdogan
Published On: June 23, 2019 07:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
ISTANBUL, June 23: Millions of Istanbul residents voted on Sunday in a re-run of a mayoral election that has become a referendum on President Tayyip Erdogan’s policies and a test of Turkey’s ailing democracy.
UN food agency members vote to elect new director general
Published On: June 23, 2019 04:25 PM NPT By: Associated Press
ROME, June 23: Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have started voting to elect the new head of the United Nation’s food agency.
West African task force says troops killed 42 Islamic State fighters near Lake Chad
Published On: June 23, 2019 03:15 PM NPT By: Reuters
ABUJA, June 23: West African troops killed 42 suspected Islamic State fighters in a battle in the Lake Chad region on June 21, the heaviest death toll suffered by the insurgents in the last six months, a regional military task force said in a statement.
Underage fighters are drawn into Indonesian conflict
Published On: June 23, 2019 02:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
JAKARTA, June 23: The long-simmering armed conflict between Indonesia’s military and Papuans seeking independence includes indigenous teenagers and boys who appear barely adolescent, The Associated Press has found, highlighting how Indonesia’s heavy-handed attempts to extinguish the movement have produced a new generation of fighters.
Southeast Asian leaders meet, expected to discuss Rohingyas, South China Sea
Published On: June 23, 2019 02:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
BANGKOK, June 23: Southeast Asian leaders met on Sunday for a second day of a summit in Bangkok, where they were expected to discuss pressing regional issues including the plight of Myanmar’s fleeing Rohingyas and the South China Sea dispute.
Police arrest 70 climate change protesters outside New York Times
Published On: June 23, 2019 12:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW YORK, June 23: Police arrested 70 environmental protesters outside the New York Times headquarters who laid down in the street and climbed onto the building to demand the newspaper start referring to climate change as a climate emergency, police and media reports said.
Scars on Middle East landscape bear witness to past peace failures
Published On: June 23, 2019 12:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
JERUSALEM, June 23: Talk of Middle East peace is in the air again, as politicians are set to gather in Bahrain to launch the latest in a long line of initiatives to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
North Korea's Kim says will consider letter received from Trump
Published On: June 23, 2019 12:08 PM NPT By: Reuters
June 23: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and will put serious thought into its content, North Korea’s state-run news agency KCNA said.
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