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Yemenis find solace in cinema after years of war

Published On: September 4, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

YEMEN, Sept 4: Yemenis file into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden more than three years ago - and watch some of their own story reflected back at them on the projector screen.

‘Aid-delivering’ Syrian rebels: NYT shows warm, fuzzy side of Al-Qaeda in Idlib

Published On: September 4, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Sept 4: A New York Times report warning of an impending bloodbath in Idlib downplays the fact that the Syrian province is controlled by Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists, portraying the “rebels” as humanitarian-minded administrators.

UN refugee agency says number of trips across Mediterranean fall, but risks rise

Published On: September 3, 2018 02:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

GENEVA, Sept 3: The U.N. refugee agency says people smugglers are taking greater risks to ferry their human cargo toward Europe as Libya’s coast guard intercepts more and more boats carrying migrants, increasing the likelihood that those on board may die during the Mediterranean journeys.

Time for this war in Afghanistan to end, says departing US commander

Published On: September 3, 2018 01:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

KABUL, Sept 3: When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Colonel John W Nicholson Jr survived by chance. That morning, as dozens of his colleagues were killed, he was moving house and was not at his desk — which he said was 30 metres from the nose of the plane.

Japan to suspend Iran oil imports over US pressure

Published On: September 3, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

JAPAN, Sept 3: Japan's major oil companies are preparing to halt all of the crude oil imports from Iran in October due to fears Washington will sanction countries importing Iranian crude, AFP reported Monday, citing Jiji Press agency.

Boris Johnson predicts EU 'victory' in Brexit talks

Published On: September 3, 2018 11:00 AM NPT By: Agencies

LONDON, Sept 3: Former foreign secretary and Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson penned a renewed attack on Britain's government Monday, predicting "victory" for the European Union in its negotiations with London.

Myanmar judge convicts two Reuters reporters in landmark secrets case

Published On: September 3, 2018 10:26 AM NPT By: Reuters

YANGON, Sept 3: A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in the Southeast Asian country.

"Cultural tragedy": Massive inferno engulfs 200-year-old museum in Brazil

Published On: September 3, 2018 09:14 AM NPT By: Agencies

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 3:A massive fire tore through a 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro late Sunday, lighting up the night and sending large plumes of smoke into the air. Firefighters worked to put out the blaze at the esteemed National Museum in northern Rio, which houses artifacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil.

Declassified docs reveal how Pentagon aimed to nuke USSR and China into oblivion

Published On: September 2, 2018 05:14 PM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Sept 2: Plans for a nuclear war devised by the US Army in the 1960s considered decimating the Soviet Union and China by destroying their industrial potential and wiping out the bulk of their populations, newly declassified documents show.

Fragile Argentina placing faith in IMF meeting

Published On: September 2, 2018 04:00 PM NPT By: AFP/RSS

ARGENTINA, Sept 2: Argentina's Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne heads to Washington on Monday to thrash out a hastily revised loan deal with the International Monetary Fund to help revive South America's second-largest economy.