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Gunman, two others dead in Sydney siege, police say

Sydney , Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Australian authorities stormed the cafe where aself-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, killing the gunman and ending a crisis that had paralyzed central Sydney for hours. They moved in more than 16 hours after the siege began, only after hearing gunfire inside the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, […]

Arab world faces tough task in fighting terrorism in 2015

DUBAI, Dec. 15 (NsNewsWire) — The threat of religiously motivated terrorism would not disappear too soon in Iraq, Syria and Egypt, a former top diplomat of Egypt said here on Sunday. Speaking at the one-day Arab Strategy Forum on the economic and political outlook for 2015, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt’s former minister of foreign affairs, […]

American in N.Korea denounces U.S., seeks Venezuela asylum – media

North Korea, Dec. 15 (NsNewsWire ) — A U.S. citizen who illegally entered North Korea delivered a lengthy denunciation of U.S. domestic and foreign policy on Sunday and said he was seeking political asylum in Venezuela, reports Reuters quoting the the North’s official media said. The man identified himself as Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, from […]

Xi to attend gathering celebrating 15th anniversary of Macao’s return

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to attend a gathering in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Dec. 19-20 for the 15th anniversary of Macao’s return to China, authorities said on Sunday. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central […]

Chinese premier leaves Beijing for overseas visits, meetings

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang left here Sunday morning for visits to three Asian and European countries and to attend a series of international meetings. At the invitation of Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Li will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan, reports Xinhua. During the visit, Li will hold the […]

Top Chinese political advisor meets Uygur writer

DHAKA, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has met with an author from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who recently published a book introducing people from the northwestern region. Yu, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, met with author Kurbanjan Semat as well as characters from […]

Chinese social networking company Momo debuts on Nasdaq

DHAKA, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — China’s mobile social networking platform Momo Inc. listed its shares Thursday on the NASDAQ global select market. The company announced that its initial public offering of 16 million American depositary shares (ADSs) was priced at 13.5 U.S. dollars per ADS for a total offering size of 216 million dollars, reports […]

India and Bangladesh Poised to Resolve Border Dispute

DHAKA, Dec. 13 (NsNewsWire) — After nearly seventy years, it appears that India and Bangladesh may at last resolve their border issues, a legacy of the partition of India in 1947. Following the failed effort of the previous Indian government to ratify a Land Boundary Agreement negotiated with the government of Bangladesh, announced in 2011 […]

Police to deploy mini drones in Indian capital to protect women

NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Indian police will deploy mini drones fitted with night vision cameras to patrol the streets of the national capital to make the city safer for women, local media reported Friday. After the rape of a 27-year-old finance company executive by an Uber cab driver was reported last week, the […]