Kuwait emir announces visit to Washington, talks with Trump
Kuwait’s ruler will travel to Washington on Monday for a working visit and hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, the state news agency KUNA announced on Sunday.
Car bomb attack strikes local government office in Mogadishu: police
A suicide car bomb struck a local government office in Mogadishu on Sunday, police said, destroying the building and a school opposite.
Chinese police detain 46 people at education protest in Leiyang city
Chinese police on Sunday said it has detained 46 people in Leiyang city after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest against problems in the education system.
China says has culled over 38,000 hogs due to African swine fever
China culled more than 38,000 hogs as of Sept. 1 due to African swine fever outbreaks, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday.
Protesters gather at entrance to Iraq’s Nahr Bin Omar oilfield: police
About 150 protesters gathered at the main entrance to Iraq’s giant Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, police said, amid growing unrest in southern cities over poor public services and corruption.
Governments ‘not on track’ to cap temperatures at below 2 degrees: U.N.
Governments are not on track to meet a goal of the 2015 Paris agreement of capping temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) before the end of the century, a United Nations official said on Sunday ahead of climate-change talks in Bangkok this week.
Japan PM Abe says relations with China back on ‘normal track’: paper
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed confidence in improving ties with China and said the countries’ relationship had returned to a “normal track”, in a newspaper interview published on Sunday.
Loud blasts heard at Syrian air base; cause disputed
Syrian state media said loud blasts coming from an airbase early on Sunday were from an explosion at an ammunitions dump caused by an electrical problem, but an official in the regional alliance backing Damascus said they were from Israeli strikes.
Repeated blasts heard near Syrian air base: resident, TV channel
Loud blasts were heard from the direction of Syria’s Mezzeh military air base near Damascus early on Sunday, a resident of the city and a pro-Syrian government Lebanese television channel reported.
Missile strike caused Syria blasts: official in regional alliance
Blasts heard at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus were caused by missile strikes targeting the base and by Syrian air defense systems responding, an official in the regional alliance supporting Damascus said on Sunday.
