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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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US will withdraw from the WTO unless it shapes up, threatens Trump

Published On: August 31, 2018 11:30 AM NPT By: Agencies

Trump's warning about a possible US pull-out from the organisation highlights the conflict between the president's trade policies and the open trade system that the WTO oversees.

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Australian film-maker James Ricketson sentenced to six years' jail in Cambodia

Published On: August 31, 2018 10:30 AM NPT By: Agencies

The 69-year-old documentary maker, who was found guilty of espionage, says the spying claims are ‘fanciful and ludicrous’

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Sexism row after female player given code violation for removing shirt at US Open

Published On: August 31, 2018 10:15 AM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Aug 31: A sexism row has erupted online after French tennis player Alize Cornet was handed a code violation for briefly removing her shirt during her US Open first round match against Johanna Larsson of Sweden.

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Migrant laborers 'risk slavery in UK following Brexit'

Published On: August 31, 2018 10:00 AM NPT By: Agencies

IRELAND, Aug 31: Low-skilled migrants risk falling into slavery in post- Brexit Britain, where a dearth of European workers will tempt abusive bosses into a race to the bottom, experts have said.

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Luka Modric wins UEFA Player of the Year award

Published On: August 31, 2018 09:28 AM NPT By: Agencies

MONACO, Aug 31:  Real Madrid and Croatia star Luka Modric on Thursday received the accolade of UEFA Player of the Year in Monaco, beating his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool's Mohamed Salah to the prize.

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BDS Chile protests Jerusalem orchestra's 'Whitewashing' of Israel

Published On: August 30, 2018 03:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

CARACAS, Aug 30: BDS Chile organized the protest after the municipality failed to heed calls to cancel the presentation. The country’s Palestinian Federation also joined the calls to cancel the orchestra’s presentation. “Its director has said they are the orchestra of Israel’s capital, justifying the occupation and naturalizing apartheid,” the federation tweeted last week.

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Israeli soldier who killed unarmed Palestinian: 'I'm Not Sorry'

Published On: August 30, 2018 02:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

CARACAS, Aug 30: Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian laying on the ground immobilized, said in his first interview since being released from prison early that he feels "no remorse for killing a terrorist" and would do the same again.

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UN’s Yemen report ‘Strongly Suggests’ coalition may be guilty of war crimes

Published On: August 30, 2018 01:30 PM NPT By: Agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 30: The United Nations Human Rights Council said on Tuesday that parties to the conflict in Yemen, namely participants in the Saudi-led coalition, may be guilty of war crimes.

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Trump says ‘no reason’ for costly war games with South Korea, blames China for stalemate with North

Published On: August 30, 2018 01:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 30: US President Donald Trump has blamed Beijing for the lack of progress on North Korea’s denuclearization, saying China has put North Korea “under tremendous pressure” in response to a trade war Trump had started in the first place.

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Idlib to become Syria's final battle with terrorists… if the West stays out of it

Published On: August 30, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 30: Syrian forces are gearing up to take the last terrorist stronghold, the US is boosting its military presence, and Russia is warning of a false-flag chemical attack. RT looks at the aligning of forces ahead of the battle for Idlib.

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US soldier pleads guilty to assisting ISIS, agrees to 25 years in jail

Published On: August 30, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Aug 30: A Hawaii-based US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to aiding the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group. He was arrested last year after pledging allegiance to the group in a ceremony staged by the FBI.

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NATO sees Russia’s Vostok 2018 drills as preparation for conflict - Spokesman

Published On: August 29, 2018 04:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

BRUSSELS, Aug 29: NATO will closely monitor Russia's Vostok 2018 exercises, expects them to be transparent and predictable, acting NATO Deputy Spokesman Dylan White told Sputnik on Tuesday.

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White Helmets accompany large delivery of poisonous chemicals to militants in Syria – MoD

Published On: August 29, 2018 04:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 29: A large supply of chemicals has been delivered to the militants in Syria’s Idlib with the assistance of the White Helmets aid group in order to stage a provocation and blame the Syrian government, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.

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Pennsylvania AG says Vatican helped conceal abuse of over 1,000 children

Published On: August 29, 2018 03:30 PM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Aug 29: The Pennsylvania Attorney General has revealed the Vatican was well aware of the massive cover-up of dozens of sex crimes against children in the state's dioceses since the bishops shared their secret archives with Rome.

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'Fix is In': Trump close to firing Jeff Sessions - Report

Published On: August 29, 2018 03:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

WASHINGTON DC, Aug 29: Three sources close to the president told the Washington Post that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the head of the Department of Justice, is potentially the next on US President Donald Trump's chopping block amid an administration marred by high-profile outings.

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China building military training base in Afghanistan - Report

Published On: August 29, 2018 02:30 PM NPT By: Agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 29: China has reportedly started to build a training camp in Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, a narrow area that separates Tajikistan from Pakistan, in efforts to improve counterterrorism efforts in the war-torn country.

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Air pollution can put a dent in solar power

Published On: August 29, 2018 02:00 PM NPT By: Agencies

Study finds lost revenue can be millions of dollars annually, suggests ways to quantify haze-related reductions in solar panel output.

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The lightest laptops in 2018

Published On: August 29, 2018 01:30 PM NPT By: Agencies

Need a portable computer? These are the 5 lightest laptops you can buy

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Sri Lanka: Over 100 bodies found in mass grave in Mannar

Published On: August 29, 2018 12:08 PM NPT By: Agencies

CARACAS, Aug 29: So far 100 bodies have been pulled from Sri Lanka’s second largest mass grave in Mannar, believed to be remnants of the country’s recent civil war, archaeologists say. “We have found 101 people and already moved 96 individual skeletons from the trench,” said Raj Somadeva, archaeologist and a forensic scientist at the University of Kelaniya

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