
China blocks Australian state broadcaster’s website: ABC
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - China has blocked access to the website of Australia's national broadcaster for breaching Beijing's internet rules and regulations, ABC said on Monday.
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Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - China has blocked access to the website of Australia's national broadcaster for breaching Beijing's internet rules and regulations, ABC said on Monday.
Sep 3, 2018

Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - President Xi Jinping told African leaders Monday that China's investments on the continent have no political strings attached, pledging $60 billion in new development financing, even as Beijing is increasingly criticised over its debt-heavy projects abroad.
Sep 3, 2018

Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - Suspected Islamic State group jihadists have killed eight people and wounded four others in two attacks in northern Iraq, security officials said Monday.
Sep 3, 2018

Jerusalem (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday signalled his country could strike Iranian targets in Iraq if they threatened Israel, saying it would hit wherever necessary.
Sep 3, 2018

Tokyo (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - Japan's defence chief on Monday warned the country faces a tough security environment, with China and Russia stepping up military activity and North Korea posing imminent threats.
Sep 3, 2018

Baghdad (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - Iraqi lawmakers convened Monday with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and a populist cleric together seeking to form a government and sideline pro-Iran rivals with a deal to create the biggest bloc in parliament.
Sep 3, 2018

Riyadh (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen insisted Monday that an August air strike that killed dozens of civilians including 40 children had a legitimate target.
Sep 3, 2018

Beirut (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - An air strike near a US base in southeastern Syria has killed at least eight pro-government fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Monday.
Sep 3, 2018

Starychi, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 - Ukraine on Monday launched joint military exercises with the United States and a string of other NATO countries as tensions with Russia remain high over the Kremlin-backed insurgency in the country's east.
Sep 3, 2018

Washington (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Sep 2, 2018

Tokyo (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said any summit he holds with North Korea's Kim Jong Un must tackle abducted citizens, an issue that has bedevilled relations between the two countries for decades.
Sep 2, 2018

Beirut (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - At least two pro-government forces were killed overnight in a string of explosions at a military airport near the Syrian capital, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
Sep 2, 2018

Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - China's massive and expanding Belt and Road trade infrastructure project is running into speed bumps as some countries begin to grumble about being buried under Chinese debt.
Sep 2, 2018

Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - With artificial limbs in the place of legs they lost to jihadists, a group of Iraqis plunged into a swimming pool for a special race aimed at helping them overcome the horrors of war.
Sep 2, 2018

Baghdad (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 - Sixteen political groupings in Iraq, including those of nationalist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, late Sunday reached an accord to create the biggest bloc in parliament, capable of forming a new government.
Sep 2, 2018

Singapore (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 - Broad agreement on what would be the world's biggest free trade deal is expected to be reached at a leaders' summit in Singapore in November, the city-state's trade minister said Saturday.
Sep 1, 2018