AHMEDABAD, India - The country's first bullet train project, a $19-billion initiative linking Ahmedabad to Mumbai, was launched on Thursday as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe hailed fast-growing relations between the two nations.
HOLLYWOOD, Florida - Hurricane-scarred Florida warily eyed the fate of its most vulnerable residents and emergency workers were urged to immediately check on those in nursing homes after eight people died in a scorching facility that lost its air conditioning in the storm.
CAIRO - Diplomats from Qatar and the four states boycotting it exchanged heated words at an Arab League meeting on Tuesday.
SINGAPORE - Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament, was declared elected as Singapore's first woman president on Wednesday, after the returning officer announced she was the sole candidate to qualify for the contest.
PARIS - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has shrugged off nationwide protests against planned reforms to France's strict labor regulations, saying on Wednesday he was "listening" but would nonetheless press ahead with the bill.
TOKYO - Penniless and subsisting only on water for three weeks, Tokyo street-dweller Tokuchika Nishi thought he had come to the end of his life.
Japan is expected to upgrade its talks with India involving vice-foreign and defense ministers to a ministerial-level dialogue during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's three-day visit, Japan's Kyodo News said.
The European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced on Wednesday that European Union is getting back on track after a 10-year economic and financial crisis while pledging to strengthen the bloc despite the United Kingdom's planned departure.
WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a brief emergency order allowing the Trump administration to keep its travel ban on most refugees while the legal battle continues.
Decades of afforestation efforts in Minqin county in Wuwei, Gansu province, have prevented the Badain Jaran and Tengger deserts - the third and fourth-largest deserts in China, respectively - from joining, helping to lessen the ecological threat facing North China, according to local officials and experts.
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