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Muslims celebrate feast all around the world
Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand. During the holiday, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute part of the meat to the poor.
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Indonesian airline bans use of Galaxy Note 7 phone during flight
Indonesian leading carrier, PT Garuda Indonesia, on Sunday banned passengers from using or charging Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in all flights following a battery fire incident, an airline official said. The decision was made after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told passengers not to use the smartphone following…
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UNFPA approves Mongolia Country Program
Mongolia’s Country Program document to be implemented between 2017 and 2021 was approved on September 6, at the second regular session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The UB Post reports. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations,…
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Samsung for government
Oh Young-jin – The Korea Times One may rightly feel it absurd to put a private company in charge of government. True, private firms seek profits, while the role of the government is, well, to run the country — requiring it to serve many different purposes with profit at the…
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Russia to Host CIS Summit in October 2017
A summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will take place in Russia in October 2017, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev said on September 11, Sputnik reports. Russia will host the summit and will assume the CIS chairmanship, he explained. “A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of…
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ASEAN wise to leave sea arbitration alone
The ASEAN summit released a joint statement on Wednesday, article 121-128 of which mentioned the South China Sea issue. Like the joint communiqué released by the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in July, the latest statement did not mention the South China Sea arbitration. Rather, it stressed the importance and urgency…
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Kazakh president urges G20 to unite to sustain global economy
Xie Yahong – People’s Daily Given the current global geopolitical arena as well as the uncertainties faced by global financial system, the G20 Summit must demonstrate the unity needed to secure the stability of world economy, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said ahead of his attendance at the G20 Summit to be…
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Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou
People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global…
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