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DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Protesters, police clash in Hong Kong Taliban launches attacks in This comes on the fi fth anniversary of a decision by China to curtail democratic reforms Kunduz amid talks with U.S. Reuters HONG KONG Telegram app At least three civilians are killed and 41 wounded Hong Kong police fi red tear gas and water cannon on Sa to protect Reuters turday and prodemocracy KUNDUZ protesters threw petrol users’ identity Taliban forces attacked the bombs in the latest in a se northern Afghan city of Kun ries of chaotic clashes that Reuters duz on Saturday, setting off have plunged the Chinese Washington hours of gun battles, even as ruled city into its worst polit Telegram, a popular en U.S. negotiators move closer ical crisis in decades. crypted messaging app, to fi nalising a deal with the Police fi red round after will allow users to cloak insurgents for the withdra round of tear gas and protes their telephone numbers wal of American troops from ters took cover behind um to safeguard Hong Kong the country. brellas between the local protesters against monitor Heavy fi ghting began in headquarters of China’s Peo ing by authorities, accord Kunduz after Taliban fi ght ple’s Liberation Army and ing to a person with direct ers attacked from several di the government. Protesters knowledge of the eff ort. rections early in the morn Battle-ready: Afghan security forces arriving in Kunduz also threw bricks dug up The update to Telegram, ing, forcing Afghan forces to during a fi ght against Taliban on Saturday. * AP from pathways at police. planned for release over rush in reinforcements to Protest numbers had the next few days, will al prevent the insurgents from gents were killed in ground Afghan President Ashraf dwindled by the early hours Burning issue: A protester throwing a bottle onto a burning barricade after clashing with police low protesters to prevent gaining control of the city. and air operations in three Ghani. of Sunday, with just a few at an antigovernment rally in Hong Kong on Saturday. * GETTY IMAGES mainland Chinese and At least three civilians areas of Kunduz city and Taliban spokesman Zabi hundred demonstrators and Hong Kong authorities were killed and 41 wounded clearance operations were hullah Mujahid said in a some riot police visible. and green lasers at police take back Hong Kong now,” roads, came on the fi fth anni from discovering their were taken to hospitals, said under way. tweet that Afghan forces lines. There were uncon said Evelyn, a 25yearold as versary of a decision by Chi identities in the app’s large Ehsanullah Fazli, head of the An air strike in Zakhil area were under heavy pressure Fire bombs thrown fi rmed reports of an off duty set manager, chanting “gang na to curtail democratic re group chats. public health department in killed 20 Taliban, including in diff erent parts of the city. The water cannon unleashed policeman being wounded. ster” at police outside a sub forms and rule out universal Hong Kong Protesters, Kunduz city. two commanders, Afghan The fi ghting in Kunduz, bluedyed water, to make it In the neighbouring Wan way station across the suff rage in Hong Kong. who take their cues from security offi cials said. Tali which the Taliban came easier for police to identify chai bar and restaurant dis harbour in Kowloon district. “The behaviours of the more than 100 groups on 36 insurgents killed ban spokesmen were not im close to capturing twice in protesters. Riot police then trict, police fought running Asked what she would do if radical protesters gravely Telegram, use encrypted Government offi cials in Kun mediately available to con recent years, came as expec marched on foot towards the battles with protesters, some authorities did not respond breach the public peace and apps like Telegram to mo duz and Kabul said the Tali fi rm the casualty fi gures. tations have grown that U.S. neighbouring Admiralty dis beating them with trunche to protesters’ demands, she pose a serious threat to the bilise swiftly through multi ban was seeking shelter in “Security forces are re and Taliban negotiators in trict, followed by 20 police ons, according to Reuters said: “Maybe I will leave safety of police offi cers on ple group chats, with less side homes and some of the pelling the Taliban attack on Doha were close to securing cars, where protesters had witnesses. Hong Kong. I absolutely can duty and members of the pu risk of police infi ltration, fi ghters had entered the some parts of Kunduz city. an agreement that would see thrown fi re bombs from There were several ar not live under Chinese rule.” blic at the scene,” the go an indepth report pu main hospital in the city. Their top priority is to pro a timetable for the withdra fl yovers, some landing close rests. “We have to keep prot The protests, which at one vernment said in a blished by Reuters earlier The Interior Ministry said tect the civilians,” said Sediq wal of thousands of U.S. to police. Others shone blue esting, we cannot let China point blocked three key statement. in August said. at least 36 Taliban insur Sediqqi, a spokesman for the troops. ELSEWHERE U.S. blacklists Iranian Pak. forms highlevel panel to hold talks N. Korea objects to Pompeo’s tanker and its captain with Sikhs over girl’s conversion ‘rogue behaviour’ remark Reuters day. The comment was un Vessel was headed to Syria: Pompeo Press Trust of India girl’s advocate says she con The girl was sent to a shelter Seoul reasonable and provocative, Lahore verted and married of her home in Lahore on Friday A recent remark by U.S. Se Mr. Choe said, according to Agence France-Presse Union (EU) sanctions. Teh Under pressure, the govern own will. An FIR has been on the court’s order. cretary of State Mike Pom the news agency. “Pompeo Washington ran later denied it had made ment in Pakistan’s Punjab registered against six people The Punjab government peo about “North Korea’s has gone so far in his lan The U.S. has blacklisted the any promises about the province has constituted a in the case, Muhammad Ja has formed a highlevel com rogue behaviour” will make guage and it made the open Iranian tanker Adrian Da- ship’s destination. “We have highlevel committee to ne mil, Nankana City Police In mittee led by Punjab Law Mi talks more diffi cult, the ing of the expected working Ranil’s party failed the rya, saying that it had “relia reliable information that the gotiate with Sikhs angry over vestigation Offi cer said. nister Raja Basharat which North’s KCNA news agency level negotiations more diffi Tamil people: Sirisena ble information” the vessel tanker is under way and the abduction and forced has been sent to Nanakana on Saturday quoted its Vice cult,” he said. Mr. Choe also COLOMBO was transporting oil to Syria headed to Tartus, Syria,” conversion of a teenage girl 1 suspect arrested Sahib, some 80 km from La Foreign Minister Choe Son warned that North Korea’s Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday in defi ance of wideranging U.S. Secretary of State Mike from the community. Police have arrested one of hore, to calm the situation. hui as saying. expectations of talks with accused Prime Minister Ranil sanctions on the regime of Pompeo tweeted on Friday. The girl’s family alleged the suspects named Arsalan, The panel will negotiate “We recognised that the U.S. are gradually disap Wickremesinghe’s party of Bashar alAssad. The U.S. Department of that she was converted to Is a friend of the prime ac with a 30member commit North Korea’s rogue beha pearing and the country is not doing enough to bring in Previously known as Treasury said the vessel was lam at gunpoint and forced cused Mohammad Hassan tee formed by Pakistan’s viour could not be ignored,” being pushed to reexamine a new Constitution to address Grace 1, the vessel was “blocked property” under to marry a Muslim boy. The who married the Sikh girl. Sikhs over the incident. Mr. Pompeo said on Tues all measures. the problems of Tamils. seized in July by British an antiterrorist order, and “These gentlemen in the Royal Marines and held in “anyone providing support government wasted the last Gibraltar for six weeks on to the Adrian Darya 1 risks four years trying to bring in a suspicion it was delivering being sanctioned”. U.S. not involved in failed Iran rocket launch: Trump new Constitution. They failed oil for Tehran’s ally Damas The ship’s captain, Akhi the Tamil people...” he said at cus. The British territory re lesh Kumar, was also black a gathering in Jaff na. PTI leased the ship — despite listed under the order. Since President’s photo tweet raises concerns among experts that he may have revealed surveillance secrets U.S. protests — after it said it its release from Gibraltar, 9/11 plotter, 4 others to had received written assu the ship has been bouncing Agence France-Presse launch preparations for the have achieved, or that, so go on trial in 2021 rances from Iran that the around the Mediterranean, Washington Safi r SLV Launch at Semnan mehow, U.S. intelligence was WASHINGTON vessel would not head for its every move followed U.S. President Donald Launch Site One in Iran,” Mr. able to get a closer shot of Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid countries under European with intense speculation. Sheikh Mohammed and four Trump on Friday released a Trump said in a tweet. Pu the launch site from an over others held at the photograph of an apparently blicly available satellite pho fl ying aircraft. Guantanamo Bay prison camp failed Iranian rocket launch tos also show what appears Shadows and glare on Mr. will fi nally go on trial in 2021, and said that the U.S. had to have been the rocket’s ex Trump’s picture suggested it almost two decades after the U.S. moving ahead with new nothing to do with it. plosion on its launch pad. was a snapshot of the origi attack, The New York Times Tehran has made no offi nal taken with a cellphone, reported on Friday. A military tariff s on Chinese imports cial comment on the indica Third try presumably in a secure envi judge set the date for January tions from aerial photos that Tehran was believed to have ronment like the White 11, 2021, said the paper. AFP Agence France-Presse U.S. Trade Representative’s a rocket exploded on Thurs been planning a third at A screengrab of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet that House Situation Room. Washington offi ce. President Donald day on the launch pad at the tempt to loft a satellite into apparently shows an image of a failed rocket launch attempt CNBC reported that a de Bashir charged with Washington is moving Trump on Friday ruled out at the Safi r SLV Launch site in northern Iran. * AFP illegal use of funds Semnan Space Center in space, after two launches in fence offi cial confi rmed the ahead Sunday with new ta any further postponement. northern Iran. January and February failed photo of the launch pad was KHARTOUM riff s on Chinese imports as it Economists at the Wash Sudan’s ousted President But Mr. Trump tweeted a to place satellites in orbit. third attempt to put the satel alongside some equipment, included in Friday’s White steps up a campaign aimed ingtonbased Peterson Insti Omar alBashir, who was highresolution picture of Iran’s Minister for Com lite in orbit were unsuccess tweeting: “Me & Nahid I right House intelligence briefi ng. at coercing Beijing to sign a tute for International Eco deposed in April following the location, with annota munications and Informa ful. In fact, Nahid 1 is alright, now, Good Morning Donald Speaking to reporters late months of mass protests new trade deal. nomics estimate $112 billion tions pointing to damaged tion Technology Mohammad and is right now in the labo Trump!” Friday, Mr. Trump said he against his rule, was charged The additional 15% tariff s, in goods will be aff ected. vehicles and the launch gan Javad Azari Jahromi rejected ratory. Reporters can come had the authority to release in court on Saturday with aff ecting a portion of the More than $250 billion try, saying it involved Iran’s reports that a satellite had visit the laboratory, too. Level of resolution the picture. “They had a big illegal acquisition and use of $300 billion in goods from worth of China’s $540 bil Safi r satellite rocket. “The been lost, but did not com #transparency,” he tweeted. Intelligence experts said Mr. problem,” he said of Iran’s foreign funds, off ences that China that so far has been lion in exports to the U.S. United States of America was ment on the alleged launch Mr. Azari Jahromi later post Trump may have exposed a launch. “We had a photo and could land him behind bars spared, will take eff ect on (2018 fi gure) are already not involved in the catas pad explosion. “Apparently ed a selfi e of himself in what previously unknown level of I released it, which I had a for more than a decade. AFP Sunday, according to the subject to tariff s. trophic accident during fi nal there were reports that the appeared to be a laboratory resolution U.S. spy satellites right to do.”
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tion, thousands of whistle tion in the elections for city prisoners!’ in Moscow. * AFP tion facility overnight, la blowing, drumbanging peo Parliament next Sunday. wyer Carina Ford said, ple gathered raucously out In resistance: Demonstrators holding up placards outside Moscow prosecutors our city” and “Freedom to speaking in Melbourne. side the gates of Downing Downing Street on Saturday, in protest against Prime warned that the latest rally, political prisoners!”. The island is a remote Street in London chanting Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament. * AFP called by Kremlin critic The gathering was notice Australian territory around “Boris Johnson shame on Alexei Navalny for 2 p.m. ably calmer than previous 350 km south of Java. The Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku you!” “I’m absolutely dis suspend Parliament from ment shutdown” and “wake (1100 GMT) on part of the ci similar protests, when pol detention centre there had gusted by what’s happening midSeptember and legislate up UK! Or welcome to Ger ty’s Boulevard Ring, was not ice blocked the crowd and been closed for years. here,” said attendee Maya against leaving the EU with many 1933”. Organisers us authorised and participants made thousands of some The family’s case has be Dunn, 66, a Dutch citizen liv out an agreement. ing the slogan #StopThe would “bear responsibility.” times violent arrests. come a new fl ashpoint over ing in Britain, who accused In London, participants Coup claimed as many as Police on Saturday mere the Australian govern Mr. Johnson of “riding heard speeches from Oppo 1,00,000 people had turned ‘This is our city’ ly told people to leave the ment’s hardline immigra roughshod over everybody”. sition politicians on a stage out in London. Finance Mi Hundreds gathered at the street and walk along the tion policies, which in The demonstrations erected on Whitehall before nister Sajid Javid on Satur start site of the announced pedestrian areas without in clude turning away come ahead of an intense marching through Westmin day defended the move . “It “March against political re tervening or deploying rows refugees arriving by boat political week in which Mr. ster. Some held handwrit doesn’t usually sit for some pressions” and began a slow of riot police, whose actions and de facto off shore de Johnson’s opponents will go ten signs reading “defend time in September and early walk along the route, occa have been criticised over tention, both measures to court to block his move to democracy: resist the parlia October,” he told BBC radio. sionally chanting “This is the past weeks. condemned by the UN.
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