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  • Strong quake rocks southeast Taiwan, no reports of damage

    TAIPEI, Sept 17 (Reuters) – A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook southeastern Taiwan on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no power outages. The quake had a depth of 7.3 km (4.5 miles) with its epicentre in Taitung county, a sparsely populated part of the island, the Taiwan weather bureauContinue…

  • Biden meets families of Russian-held detainees Griner, Whelan

    WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden met on Friday with families of two Americans being held by Russia, and personally reassured them he is working to gain freedom for the detainees. Biden sat down in the Oval Office with Cherelle Griner, wife of women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, and Elizabeth Whelan, sister ofContinue…

  • Without the queen at its heart, Commonwealth faces uncertain future

    LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – When she was a child growing up in Nigeria, Timie Ogunmola’s father used to show her black-and-white pictures of his trip to London in 1953 to attend Queen Elizabeth’s coronation as an official in what was then his country’s colonial administration. Now a resident of Edinburgh in her 60s, OgunmolaContinue…

  • Japan warns powerful typhoon to hit southern region on Sunday

    TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) – The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a special typhoon warning on Saturday for Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands, as the region braces for a powerful and potentially destructive super typhoon. The warning came after the weather agency earlier in the day urged residents to evacuate partsContinue…

  • Israel attacks Damascus airport, five soldiers killed, Syria says

    Israeli kids play next to an Israeli flag next to the Israeli Syrian border at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel July 23, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo DAMASCUS, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Israel carried out an airstrike on Syria’s Damascus International airport and other positions south of the capital, killing five soldiers and causing material damage,Continue…

  • William and Harry prepare to hold vigil by late queen’s coffin

    LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – People flocked to central London to join a queue to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth on Saturday, undeterred by a government warning to stay at home to avoid standing in line for hours to see the late monarch’s lying-in-state. Tens of thousands of people have already filed pastContinue…

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