Armenia has urged the United Nations to send a mission to ensure the safety of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh after the territory was seized back by Azerbaijan, which promised to respect minority rights ... "But today we are at the brink of another failure," he said in a speech to the UN General Assembly ... US calls for protections ... .
Even China’s population of 1.4 billion would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said on Saturday, in a rare public critique of the country’s crisis-hit property market ... .
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This will ensure that the machine tooling capacity of the two dockyards does not erode for want of work orders ... It is for this very reason that India’s indigenous submarine building capacity needs to be promoted, say experts, adding that as it is the lynchpin of PM Narendra Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” plan in defence and security.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering ... Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on the messaging app Telegram ... News .
Ethiopia this month announced the completion of the fourth and final filling of the GrandRenaissance Dam, prompting immediate condemnation from Cairo, which denounced the move as illegal ... At full capacity, the huge hydroelectric dam -- 1.8 kilometres long and 145 metres high -- could generate more than 5,000 megawatts ... ....
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COTONOU, Sept 23 (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed in southeastern Benin on Saturday after a fire broke out at a shop where witnesses said gasoline was being unloaded, a justice ministry representative said. The fire broke out at 0930 local time in Seme-Podji municipality, near the border with Nigeria... Our Standards ... Acquire Licensing Rights.
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Israel offered its congratulations to Saudi Arabia on the kingdom's national day Saturday as the two countries move closer towards a possible normalisation of ties ... We send our sincere congratulations to the King, Government and people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 on the occasion of the ninety-third National Day ... ....
Russia's Foreign MinisterSergey Lavrov on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the West at the UN General Assembly, accusing it of hypocrisy, not abiding by international treaties and being an “empire of lies” ... “The rest of the planet is sick of it,” he said ... Read More ... ....
GregLawson, 63, had been living in the Mexican state of Oaxaca under a stolen identity, authorities said. He was arrested and extradited this week ... .
In the last year, two cases have been recorded in the Edmonton area and seven in southern Alberta. In the last month, there have been five recorded cases in the southeastern area of Alberta ... .