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Myanmar dam breach floods 85 villages, thousands driven from homes
Published On: August 31, 2018 05:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
CARACAS, Aug 31: As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, local media reported Thursday.
Clinton presidential library declassifies Yeltsin's decision pick on Putin
Published On: August 31, 2018 04:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
WASHINGTON, Aug 31: Russia’s then-President Boris Yeltsin told his US counterpart, Bill Clinton, in 1999 he picked Vladimir Putin to succeed him as the next Russian leader, declassified documents published by Clinton’s Presidential Library showed.
Jordan to lead fundraising for UN Palestinian refugees agency after US cuts
Published On: August 31, 2018 03:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
MOSCOW, Aug 31: Jordan will lead a campaign to raise funds for the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, to help it survive after the United States cut its funding, Reuters reports.
Russia blocks UN Security Council report on North Korea
Published On: August 31, 2018 03:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
MOSCOW, Aug 31: Russia has decided to halt discussions of a United Nations Security Council report on North Korea, due to disagreement on some of its points and concern over parts of it being leaked before publication, Moscow's UN envoy has said.
Corbyn is being destroyed, like blowing up a bridge to stop an advancing army
Published On: August 31, 2018 02:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
MINNESOTA, Aug 31: The latest “scandal” gripping Britain – or to be more accurate, British elites – is over the use of the term “Zionist” by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the opposition and possibly the country’s next prime minister.
Climate change sceptics 'utterly stupid', Samoa's Prime Minister says
Published On: August 31, 2018 01:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
SAMOA, Aug 31: Samoa's Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has hit out at climate change skeptics and says developed countries need to reduce pollution to save Pacific island countries from disaster.
Myanmar army fakes photos and history in sinister rewrite of Rohingya crisis
Published On: August 31, 2018 01:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
Propaganda unit’s 117-page book contains pictures purportedly taken in Rakhine state that are really from Tanzania and Bangladesh
US media ‘conditioning’ public for bombing raids on Syria
Published On: August 31, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Agencies
US, Aug 31: The Syrian government is gearing up to liberate one of the last remaining strongholds of the jihadist opposition which has been ravaging the country for seven years. As the government has deposed the so-called rebel leaders from power in various cities in the country over the years, it has shipped them to Idlib.
Coca-Cola to buy UK coffee chain Costa for $5.1 billion
Published On: August 31, 2018 12:13 PM NPT By: Agencies
Aug 31: Britain's Whitbread Plc said on Friday it had agreed to sell coffee chain Costa to Coca Cola for an enterprise value of £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion).
Detention of Uighurs must end, UN tells China
Published On: August 31, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
Committee cites reports that ‘tens of thousands to upwards of a million’ Muslim Chinese are being held, as US lawmakers call for sanctions
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