World

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Apple Inc unveiled an iPhone 7 with high-resolution cameras and no headphone jack at its annual launch event yesterday, though the biggest surprise was the debut of a three-decade-old Nintendo game franchise, Super Mario Bros, on the smartphone.

NEW DELHI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Sri Lanka free of malaria, hailing it as a “remarkable public health achievement” for the Indian Ocean island, once one of the most affected nations in the world.

LIBREVILLE, (Reuters) – Gabon’s re-elected president, Ali Bongo, came under international scrutiny yesterday as a European Union mission questioned the validity of his narrow win, France recommended a recount and the African Union said it would send mediators.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June next year, and if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks.

HANGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Leaders from the world’s top economies broadly agreed at a summit in China yesterday to coordinate macroeconomic policies, but few concrete proposals emerged to meet growing challenges to globalisation and free trade.

VIENTIANE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama canceled what would have been his first meeting with Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, after Duterte described Obama in vulgar terms, a White House spokesman said yesterday.

CANFIELD, Ohio/CLEVELAND,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened a final two-month sprint to the Nov.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker who funneled them into his nation’s civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event in years past, authorities said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s 300 million asthma sufferers could help reduce their risk of severe asthma attacks by taking vitamin D supplements as well as their standard asthma medicines, according to the findings of a review of international trial evidence.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard yesterday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor’s hopes of winning – or even running – for a fourth term in 2017.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One major Chinese company that has invested billions of dollars in Jamaica in the past decade, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), is publicly denying any knowledge of an ‘established practice’ to pay bribery to Jamaican government officials.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in record numbers for a bitterly contested legislative election, with a push for independence among a disaffected younger generation of candidates and voters stoking tension with China’s government.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities briefly rounded up more than 30 people on Margarita island for heckling President Nicolas Maduro, activists said yesterday, in what appeared to be a rare public confrontation with the unpopular leader.

DETROIT (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit yesterday and calling for a new civil rights agenda to support African-Americans.

PAWNEE, Okla (Reuters) – One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled the area northwest of Pawnee yesterday, fuelling growing concern about seismic activity linked to energy production, a federal agency said.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A powerful Atlantic storm strengthened yesterday afternoon after passing over North Carolina’s Outer Banks en route to the US Middle Atlantic coast, where it was expected to spoil the Labor Day holiday weekend with high winds, soaking rains and surging seas.

HANGZHOU (Reuters) – Britain’s economy will suffer as a result of the decision to leave the European Union despite signs in recent economic data that the impact has not been as severe as some predicted, Prime Minister Theresa May said today.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government said yesterday it thwarted a coup plot this week as opponents planned to build on their biggest protest in more than a decade with further street action demanding a referendum to remove the president.