The Sudani power market is expected to register a CAGR of over 2% during the forecast period, 2020-2025

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Paul Rusesabagina: Hotel Rwanda film hero arrested

Paul Rusesabagina's efforts to save people during the Rwanda genocide was depicted in a film. source https://news.yahoo.com/paul-rusesabagina-hotel-rwanda-film-105453185.htm...

2020 Watch: Can Trump ignore reality as Election Day nears?

Both sides are pleased with their convention performances which offered dramatically different versions of reality to the American electorate. President Donald Trump is essentially asking voters to judge him based on pre-pandemic America. Joe Biden is asking voters to judge the incumbent on...

Saudi-led coalition says it foiled rebel attacks by air, sea

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Global Polycarbonate Sheets Industry

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Take It From Eastern Europe: Now Is Not the Time to Go Soft on Russia

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Israeli, US delegations depart to UAE in 1st direct flight

A Star of David-adorned El Al plane took off Monday from Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, carrying a high-ranking American and Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates. With the U.S. as matchmaker, Israel and the UAE agreed...

Global Portable Analytical Instruments Industry

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Diplomat poised to become PM-designate in crisis-hit Lebanon

Lebanon's president is holding consultations with heads of parliamentary blocs to designate a new prime minister for the crisis-stricken country, with a career diplomat poised to win the job Monday. Lebanon's ambassador to Germany, Mustapha Adib, was expected to be named as prime minister-designate...

Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of a Beirut palace surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon — the precursor of the modern state of Lebanon. The current French president, Emmanuel...

Belarus opposition leader to address UN Security Council - spokesman

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Israeli and U.S. officials fly to UAE to cement 'normalisation' deal

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In aftermath of Hurricane Laura, residents worry about help

In a matter of hours last week, Hurricane Laura tore through the tire shop Layla Winbush's family started just under a year ago, reducing most of it to rubble and scattering hundreds of tires across the lot. Federal and state officials are now on the ground to help residents with home repairs...

George Floyd? Donald Trump? Hero statue nominations are in

Americans' suggestions of suitable statues for President Donald Trump's planned National Garden of American Heroes are in, and they look considerably different from the predominantly white worthies that the administration has locked in for many of the pedestals. The outside nominations are...

When Trump talks law and order, some Wisconsin voters listen

Alexis Arnold says she's sympathetic toward protesters who have peacefully fought racial injustice this summer. The uncertainty is drawing her to whatever stability President Donald Trump can offer. “The public just needs something to make them feel comfortable and safe again," said Arnold,...

Uncertainty dominates presidential campaign's final stretch

Within President Donald Trump’s campaign, some privately feared the worst heading into the national conventions. “This campaign has always known that it’s going to be a close race, it’s going to be a tough race,” Biden’s senior adviser Anita Dunn said, noting that no Democratic presidential...

Trump seizes on protests as Dems blame him for tensions

Democrats accused President Donald Trump of trying to inflame racial tensions and incite violence to benefit his campaign after he praised supporters who clashed with protesters during a deadly night in Portland, Oregon. Trump unleashed a flurry of tweets and retweets the day after a man identified...

Patriot Prayer no stranger to violent Northwest protests

The man who was fatally shot in Portland, Oregon, as supporters of President Donald Trump skirmished with Black Lives Matter protesters was a supporter of a right-wing group called Patriot Prayer, which doesn't have a big national footprint but is well known in the Pacific Northwest. Patriot...

State police returning to Portland following deadly shooting

Oregon State Police will return to Portland to help local authorities after the fatal shooting of a man following clashes between President Donald Trump supporters and counter-protesters that led to an argument between the president and the city's mayor over who was to blame for the violence....

In China's Xinjiang, forced medication accompanies lockdown

When police arrested the middle-aged Uighur woman at the height of China’s coronavirus outbreak, she was crammed into a cell with dozens of other women in a detention center. “It was scalding,” recounted the woman by phone from Xinjiang, declining to be named out of fear of retribution. The...

'Tragedy': St. Louis officer dies after being shot by gunman

A St. Louis police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a shooting on the city’s south side died Sunday, authorities said. Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon, 29, had been with the department for 3 1/2 years. A second officer who was shot in the leg was treated and released after...

Letter from Africa: Why Kenyans are no longer cheering their constitution

It is a time of reflection 10 years after the country was promised a rebirth, writes Waihiga Mwaura. source https://news.yahoo.com/letter-africa-why-kenyans-no-234903438.htm...

Non-stop protests keep pressure on Belarus' president to resign

On display was the first major demonstration since Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that he would send in security forces​ "if necessary." source https://news.yahoo.com/non-stop-protests-keep-pressure-230225109.htm...

Huge protest on Belarus leader's birthday demands he resign

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian president after an election they call rigged gave him a sixth term in office. Wide protests began after the Aug....

Voting groups scramble to reach college students in pandemic

Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to answer their front doors and take his GOP flyer. The two college students are on opposite ends of the political universe but facing the same challenge: reaching young voters when campuses are empty and students are scattered...

In Israel, Kushner says 'stage is set' for Mideast progress

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Migrants overwhelm Italian island; islanders launch protest

The arrival of hundreds of migrants crammed into a rickety fishing boat has worsened the severe overcrowding at shelters on a tiny Italian island, triggering an angry demonstration by islanders and a vow Sunday by the mayor to call a protest strike. While tensions grew on the Mediterranean...

UN labor body: Qatar 'dismantles' kafala employment system

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Lebanese Hezbollah says it's open to reformist government

The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said Sunday his group supports the formation of a government that would be able to improve economic conditions in the crisis-stricken country and undertake major reforms. Hassan Nasrallah said his group is also open to calls from France for a new political contract...

Lukashenko gets birthday call from Putin as Belarus protests rumble

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China restaurant collapses during birthday party, killing 29

Rescue efforts ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village that collapsed during a local resident's 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead, authorities said Sunday. The Ministry of Emergency Management said another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously,...

Lebanon arrests 3 Egyptian suspects in Cairo gang rape case

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Trump supporters, protesters clash in Portland; 1 killed

One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said. Many of them end in vandalism and violence, and hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested by local...

Afghanistan people want real peace and stability states AHMADZAI

Meladul Haq Ahmadzai Meladul Haq Ahmadzai, 2020.OTTAWA, Aug. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Afghanistan war which has been ongoing for almost two decades has a final chance to come to a peaceful end. The truth is that this war has not been won by any group; internal nor foreign. In February...

Afghan president names council for peace deal with Taliban

Afghanistan's president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected to be protracted and uncertain negotiations with the insurgents. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued...

Teachers across the world concerned as schools reopen despite rising cases

“Children should not become the losers of the pandemic,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. source https://news.yahoo.com/teachers-across-world-concerned-schools-083012335.htm...

Teachers across the world concerned as schools reopen despite rising cases

While the United Nations warned Wednesday of a “global education emergency” if kids could not return to school after months of lockdowns, teachers are concerned about safety and a lack of contingency planning as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. “We do have the impression that German politicians...

India records highest daily increase in virus cases globally

India on Sunday registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help the battered economy. The surge raised India's tally to over 3.5 million, and came as the government...

Montenegro votes in tense election testing long-ruling party

Voters in Montenegro on Sunday cast ballots in a tense election that is pitting the long-ruling pro-Western party against the opposition seeking closer ties with Serbia and Russia. The parliamentary vote is marked by a dispute over a law on religious rights that is staunchly opposed by the...

Israel responds to explosive balloons with tank fire on Gaza

The Israeli military said it struck militant targets in Gaza early on Sunday in response to continued launches of explosives-laden balloons out of the Hamas-run territory. Hamas-linked groups have launched a wave of incendiary balloons into Israel in recent weeks, torching wide swaths of farmland....

Lebanon’s powerhouse Hezbollah hit by backlash after blast

Sara Jaafar joined a group of political activists gathered on Aug. 4 to discuss strategies to challenge Lebanon’s entrenched rulers when their building was shaken and the windows blasted out by the giant explosion that rocked Beirut. No direct connection to Hezbollah has emerged in the explosion...

1 killed as Trump supporters, protesters clash in Portland

One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said. It wasn’t clear if the shooting was linked to fights that broke out as a caravan of about 600 vehicles...

Home smashed: For one family, Hurricane Laura the 3rd strike

In 2005, Rita pushed a foot of floodwaters into his white, wooden home in Hackberry, Louisiana, a tiny community in Cameron Parish 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the Gulf of Mexico. Laura outstripped them both. A retired welder who worked at many of the refineries that dot the Louisiana coast,...

How a German and a Syrian experienced the 2015 refugee crisis

German Gracia Schuette and Syrian Aeham Ahmad both had their lives changed forever by Angela Merkel's decision in 2015 to leave Germany's doors open to hundreds of thousands of refugees. source https://news.yahoo.com/german-syrian-experienced-2015-refugee-042128512.htm...

California moves to consider reparations for slavery

California lawmakers are setting up a task force to study and make recommendations for reparations to African Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, as the nation struggles again with civil rights and unrest following the latest shooting of a Black man by police. The state Senate...

Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirus

Finding parallels between the famous novel and how Algeria is coping with coronavirus amid political upheaval. source https://news.yahoo.com/algerias-lessons-plague-age-coronavirus-231738601.htm...

Census, like Post Office, politicized in election year

The postal service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020. Unlike the department charged with delivering mail, however, the U.S. Census Bureau has been here before. “The census was political from the very beginning and remains so,” former Census Bureau...

With the conventions now over, what's next in campaign 2020?

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden have emerged from their presidential nominating conventions with each candidate believing he has a head of steam. Trump’s job approval ratings and standing in polls are perilously low for an incumbent, but Biden and other Democrats vividly remember...

Nathaniel Julius: South Africa police arrested for killing teen

Nathaniel Julius, who had Down's syndrome, was out to buy biscuits when he got shot, his family says. source https://news.yahoo.com/nathaniel-julius-south-africa-police-110313812.htm...

UN expresses concern over 'dramatic turn' in Libya crisis

The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm over what it called “a dramatic turn of events” in Libya's civil war, after a power struggle between leaders of the Tripoli-based government surfaced in the wake of anti-corruption protests. “Libya is witnessing a dramatic turn of events that underlines...

France's horses killed in mysterious ritual-like mutilations

Armed with knives, some knowledge of their prey and a large dose of cruelty, attackers are going after horses and ponies in pastures across France in what may be ritual mutilations. Up to 30 attacks have been reported in France, from the mountainous Jura region in the east to the Atlantic...

Xi says China to step up efforts to fight 'splittism' in Tibet

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Xi says China to step up efforts to fight 'splittism' in Tibet

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Zimbabwe's 'keyboard warriors' hold protests off the streets

Unable to protest on the streets, some in Zimbabwe are calling themselves “keyboard warriors” as they take to graffiti and social media to pressure a government that promised reform but is now accused of gross human rights abuses. Activists use the hashtag #zimbabweanlivesmatter to encourage...

UAE formally ends Israel boycott amid US-brokered deal

The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued Saturday a decree formally ending the country's boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries. The deal opening up relations between Israel and the UAE was announced Aug. 13. It required Israel to halt...

Activists see disparate police tactics amid Kenosha protests

Police officers in Kenosha were on alert after days of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake by one of their colleagues, and they'd recently gotten a tip about “suspicious vehicles” from out of state. Jennifer Scheurle, a member of its board of directors, said they were filling up gas...

A wobble, luck and preparations lessened Laura's devastation

Hurricane Laura was a monster storm that could have, even should have, wreaked much more destruction than it did, except for a few lucky breaks and some smart thinking by Gulf Coast residents, experts say. Just before striking Louisiana, Laura wobbled. Cameron Parish has less than 7,000. source...

GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn't always match reality

At almost every turn at the Republican National Convention, speakers from the president on down portrayed American cities like Portland, Oregon, New York and Chicago as lawless Democratic wastelands that have been overrun with violence, looting and destruction that is forcing residents to...

Kenosha police union gives its version of Blake shooting

The Kenosha police union on Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers' perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back, saying he had a knife and fought with officers, putting one of them in a headlock and shrugging off two...

Tito Mboweni: South Africa's finance minster known for a Twitter roast chicken fail

South Africa's Tito Mboweni is fearless on Twitter, rowing with officials and sharing cooking skills. source https://news.yahoo.com/tito-mboweni-south-africas-finance-070650670.htm...

Trump to head to Louisiana as Hurricane Laura cleanup starts

The angry storm surge has receded and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S. toll from the Category...

Trump still faces skepticism in suburbs following convention

Pat Newell backed Donald Trump in 2016. The GOP convention’s target audience, according to campaign officials, was mostly former Trump supporters, those Republicans or independents who may have backed him in 2016 but grew unhappy with his rhetoric or handling of the pandemic. source ht...

AP PHOTOS: Pandemic casts pall over Muharram in Kashmir

For Nasir Hussain, observing the Muslim month of Muharram, which marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson in the battle of Karbala, is an article of faith. “We’ve to survive this epidemic to keep the mission of Imam Hossein alive,” Hussain, a business executive, said, explaining...