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Hong Kong: 1 protestor shot as police fires at crowd on China's National D
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Oct 1 (ANI): For the first time, Hong Kong police on Tuesday fired live ammunition directly at protesters during agitations, injuring at least one and escalating the city's months-long political crisis on the same day when mainland China staged a huge military parade to celebrate
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Mathura: Armed man sets own car ablaze, fires in air outside SSP office
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 25 (ANI): A man armed with a pistol created unrest outside Mathura SSP office while setting his own car on fire here at Civil Line checkpoint on Wednesday.
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Hong Kong: Protests takes a violent turn on 16th consecutive weekend
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Sep 23 (ANI): Protesters here on Sunday night vandalised a subway station, set fires and trampled on Chinese flags as the pro-democracy demonstrations once again took a violent turn for the 16th consecutive weekend.
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France: Police fires tear gas during new wave of 'Yellow-vest' protest
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Nantes [France], Sept 15 (ANI): Hundreds of protestors clashed with police on Saturday in the western French city of Nantes during a new wave of "yellow vest" protest against the France government.
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DRDO successfully test-fires indigenous anti-tank missile for Army
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 11 (ANI): In a major boost to the indigenous missile development programme, India on Wednesday successfully test-fired the Man Portable Anti Tank Guided Missile (MP-ATGM) from a firing range in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool.
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Amid rocket fires sirens warning, Israel PM evacuated from stage during el
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Ashodad [Israel], Sept 11 (ANI): Amid sirens warning of rocket fire, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was evacuated from the stage during an election rally in Ashdod on Tuesday.
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US: Trump fires National Security Advisor John Bolton
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 10 (ANI): US President Donald Trump has fired National Security Advisor John Bolton stating that he "disagreed strongly" with many of Bolton's suggestions.
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After offering to resume talks with US, N Korea fires unidentified project
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], Sept 10 (ANI): North Korea on Tuesday fired two unidentified projectiles into the East Sea, in the latest such launch in the last few months, according to the South Korean military.
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Climate change a global threat to human rights: Bachelet
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that climate change is a rapidly growing and a global threat to human rights and underlined that incidents like forest fires raging in the Amazon is "burning up our future"
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Amazon fires: UN rights chief calls on Amazonian countries to implement lo
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on the South American countries of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil to ensure the implementation of longstanding environmental policies to prevent future tragedies of the scale of recen
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H&M stops import of Brazilian leather following Amazon fires
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 6 (ANI): Following the devastating fires in the Amazon rainforest, H&M, the second-biggest fashion retailer has stopped importing leather from the South American country, Brazil.
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Siliguri raises voice for Amazon fires
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Sep 4 ANI: Organisations dealing with issues related to science, nature, environment conservation hit the Siliguri streets on Tuesday evening to express deep concern over the fires engulfing the world's largest rainforest, Amazon.
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