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  North Korean FM at UN launches tirade against Trump

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 08:55am on September 24, 2017

  North Korea's foreign minister assailed US president Donald Trump at the United Nations on Saturday, deriding him as a ‘mentally deranged’ leader whose threats had increased the chances of military confrontation...

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  Six injured in London ‘acid attack’

  BBC | Updated at 09:05am on September 24, 2017

  Six people have been injured in Stratford, east London, in a reported acid attack...

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  Trump tweets threats against North Korea after UN speech

  Reuters | Updated at 10:45am on September 24, 2017

  US president Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho and leader Kim Jong Un ‘won’t be...

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  Hopes for Mexico quake survivors dim as search enters 6th day

  Reuters | Updated at 11:50am on September 24, 2017

  Emergency workers searched by floodlight in smashed buildings for survivors of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years amid fading...

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  North Korea quake not a nuclear test, say China experts

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 09:45am on September 24, 2017

  A shallow 3.5-magnitude earthquake which hit North Korea near the country’s nuclear test site on Saturday was not the result of a fresh nuclear test...

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  First commercial deal with Doha today

  Manjurul Ahsan | Updated at 12:33am on September 25, 2017

  The state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation, Petrobangla, is scheduled for today to sign a 15-year contract with Qatar’s state-run RasGas Company Limited to import Liquefied Natural Gas to meet supply deficit...

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  Protests bash Rohingya persecution

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:15am on September 24, 2017

  Different political and socio-cultural organisations on Saturday continued protests against persecution of ethnic Rohingya people of Arakan in Myanmar...

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  More countries could be listed for harsh US travel restrictions

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:25am on September 24, 2017

  More countries could be hit with tough travel restrictions to the United States after the ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries expires from Sunday, Trump administration officials hinted Friday...

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  Stop using landmines HRW asks Myanmar

  Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:14am on September 24, 2017

  Myanmar security forces have laid antipersonnel landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border, posing a grave threat to Rohingya Muslims fleeing atrocities, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday...

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  Wisconsin, Ohio, California among states targeted by Russian hackers in 2016 race

  Reuters | Updated at 09:55am on September 23, 2017

  Wisconsin, Ohio, California and 10 other states said on Friday they were among 21 states that Russian government hackers targeted in an effort to sway the 2016 presidential election in favour of Donald Trump though no votes were changed...