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A sunken cruise ship caused by Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, sits in the water. The Lebanese military discovered more than 4 tons of ammonium nitrate near Beiruts port on Thursday, Sept. 3, a find thats a chilling reminder of the horrific explosion a month ago that killed 191 people. (AP)

Lebanese army finds 4 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut

It was nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut's port for six years that detonated last month, wreaking...

4 Sept 2020 11:15 AM IST

Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe. (AP)

Chinese defence minister requests meeting with Rajnath Singh amid...

Singh and Wei are currently in Russia to attend a meeting of SCO defence ministers on Friday

4 Sept 2020 10:39 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on September 3, 2020 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (AFP)

Donald Trump called US Marines killed in WWI battle 'losers': report

Trump slammed the report late Thursday, after his aides earlier called the allegations 'disgusting, grotesque,...

4 Sept 2020 9:43 AM IST

Coast guards rescuing a Filipino man off Amami Oshima island, about 120 km northwest of the sea. Japans coast guard said on September 2 one person was found during a search for a cargo ship with 43 people on board after receiving a distress call from the East China Sea during a typhoon. (Photo by Handout / 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters / AFP)

More than 40 crew missing after cattle ship capsizes in storm off...

A lone crew member from the Gulf Livestock 1 had been rescued so far

4 Sept 2020 9:15 AM IST

US President Donald Trump claps as he arrives for a campaign event at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (AFP)

Trump encourages supporters to try to vote twice, sparking uproar

The US president has repeatedly asserted that mail-in voting would increase fraud and disrupt the November election

4 Sept 2020 8:57 AM IST

The New Diamond, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), was heading to the port of Paradip in India.(Image: Twitter/@IndiaCoastGuard)

Indian Oil Corp-chartered oil tanker catches fire off Sri Lanka

The ship had sailed from the port of Mina Al Ahmadi in Kuwait, carrying Kuwait Export Crude, Refinitiv Eikon ship...

3 Sept 2020 4:11 PM IST

Indian children play online game PUBG on their mobile phones sitting on stairs outside their house in Hyderabad, India. India on Wednesday banned the widely popular Chinese mobile game PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, along with other 117 mobile applications in yet another move targeting China in the online space.(AP File)

China 'strongly opposes' India's ban on Chinese apps

'Indian actions violate the legal interests of Chinese investors and services providers,' commerce ministry spokesman...

3 Sept 2020 3:38 PM IST

A healthcare worker collects a nasal swab sample from a migrant worker for testing for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus at a foreign workers domitory in Singapore (AFP)

New COVID clusters detected in Singapore's migrant worker dormitories

The vast majority of Singapore's nearly 57,000 cases are from cramped dormitories that house more than 300,000 South...

3 Sept 2020 3:15 PM IST

Smoke raises during a wildfire over the ancient site of Mycenae, Greece. (AP)

Still ablaze, this year's Arctic wildfires set new CO2 emission...

Siberia and the Arctic Circle are prone to large year-on-year temperature fluctuations, but persistence of this year's...

3 Sept 2020 3:01 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (AP File)

UNSC thwarts Pakistan's attempt to get two Indians listed as global...

Sources pointed out that a similar request by Pakistan containing names of Mistry and Dongara had been blocked earlier...

3 Sept 2020 1:45 PM IST

Satellite image released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Tropical Storm Nana approaching Belize. (via AP)

Hurricane Nana makes landfall in Belize after shaking Honduras

The 2020 hurricane season, which runs from June to November, has been more active than average

3 Sept 2020 1:22 PM IST

US President Donald Trump arrives at Wilmington International Airport in Wilmington, North Carolina. (AFP)

US cuts remaining dues payment to WHO after Trump pullout

However, US will continue to participate in select WHO technical and policy meetings that have a direct bearing on the...

3 Sept 2020 1:00 PM IST