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Coronavirus may cripple fuel demand in all of Asia The coronavirus hasn’t just led to a slowdown in fuel demand in China, it’s also starting to impact the demand for transportation fuels in wider Asia. Demand for jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel is likely to be suppressed in the coming weeks, potentially prompting Chinese and other Asian refiners to cut refinery rates, analysts say.     The slowdown in China’s fuel consumption is also aggravated by an extended period of public holidays for office workers and multinational corporations—including Google, Apple, McDonalds, and IKEA, to name a few—suspending operations or shutting down offices, stores, and restaurants. The weaker fuel demand in China is spilling over onto weakening refining margins for pr...

'They will understand their mistake': Erdogan vows to continue military ops in Idlib after 4 Turkish soldiers killed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to continue retaliating heavily to any attacks against Turkish forces in Syria's Idlib Province, after four Turkish soldiers were killed. "We have responded in kind to these attacks and will continue to do so, whether it is with our artillery or mortars," Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul on Monday, adding that a military operation in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province is ongoing. He said that the Turkish heavy howitzers and F-16 jets hit around 40 targets, "neutralizing" between 30 and 35 Syrian government soldiers. Sources told the Daily Sabah that Ankara deployed special forces alon...

Turkey says 4 troops killed & 9 wounded in shelling in Syria's Idlib, points finger at Damascus Ankara has claimed that four Turkish soldiers were killed and another nine were injured after they came under heavy shelling in the rebel-held province of Idlib, while blaming Syrian Army forces for the attack. In a statement on Monday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said that its forces came under "intense artillery fire" in the northwest Syrian province, leaving four troops dead and nine injured, including one seriously. The ministry said that the Turkish forces retaliated by destroying unspecified targets in the region. It also claimed that Ankara had warned Damascus in advance that its military reinforcements were moving to the area, which is the on...

‘Needs fine-tuning, but no glitches’: India’s FIRST EVER trial of facial recognition software at polls reported success Officials in the Indian state of Telangana, first in the country to use facial recognition tech to verify voters, have said the software, while still needs to be honed, has proved itself fairly accurate with up to 86 success rate. The technology was tested on a sample of some 4,200 voters who went to cast a ballot in the municipal elections on January, 22. The trial was limited to only 10 polling stations in Kompally Municipality of the Medchal-Malkajgiri district with just over 7,000 eligible voters. In preparation to the trial, each of the booths was fitted with a smartphone and all the voter ID card data was input into the syste...

Palestinians should ‘tell us where they want to draw the lines’ but Israeli settlements will stay – Kushner US President Donald Trump’s Senior Advisor Jared Kushner said the Palestinians are welcome to offer changes in the borders in the proposed peace plan. However, all existing Israeli settlements are not going anywhere, he added. “What the Palestinian leadership should do is they should engage [Trump’s peace plan]. If there are things they want to change, if they don’t like where we drew the lines [they should] come and tell us where they want to draw the lines,” Kushner told Egyptian journalist Amr Adib in an interview on the El-Hekaya news show on Saturday. Also on rt.com Arab League rejects Trump’s ‘deal of ...

India govt. says ‘cannot be any delay’ in execution of 4 convicts in 2012 gang rape & murder after it postponed for 2nd time India’s Solicitor General has said the convicts in the ‘Nirbhaya’ rape and murder that inspired a Netflix series are "testing the patience of the nation" by filing appeals one after another as their hanging was delayed again. India’s Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is the second law officer in the country, has said that there should be no more delays in carrying out the death sentence in the case of the four men, found guilty of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young student on a bus, who later became known as Nirbhaya (“fearless” in Hindi). "In the interest of the society and victim, there should be no delay. Even ...

Russia suspends ALL rail passenger service with China over coronavirus outbreak starting Monday All passenger trains between China and Russia, including a direct Moscow-Beijing link, will stop running starting Monday due to a coronavirus outbreak, Russian Railways has announced. It’s unclear when the ban will be lifted. Russian Railways, Russia’s largest state-run transport operator, announced on Sunday that it is expanding the temporary suspension on passenger trains connecting China and Russia to include a direct link between the capitals of the two countries. The measure has come into effect at Monday midnight Moscow time [9:00pm GMT Sunday]. Also on rt.com Russia stops processing Chinese work visas & scrap...

Jailed, released, attacked: What we know about ‘ISIS-supporting’ south London suspect behind Streatham stabbing The man who stabbed at least two people in London on Sunday and was then shot dead has been tentatively identified as Sudesh Amman as media reports suggest he was a recently jailed extremism supporter, known to authorities. Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi said that London police were “confident” the attacker was indeed Sudesh Amman, after multiple sources have identified the stabbing suspect as a young man who made headlines in 2018 when he was jailed for sharing terrorist manuals, which included a tutorial on home-made bombs. #BREAKING London terrorist attacker identified as Sudesh Amman, 18, who sentenced af...