Canada election: Trudeau stays in power but Liberals fall short of majority
By Jessica Murphy
BBC News, Montreal
Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has narrowly won Canada's election, but it failed to secure a majority of seats.
This is Mr Trudeau's third federal election win, but his critics say the poll was a waste of time.
The Liberals are projected to win 158 seats, short of the 170 seats needed for the majority Mr Trudeau was seeking with his early election call.
The Conservatives have held onto their main opposition status and are expected to win about 122 seats.
"There are still votes to be counted but what we've seen tonight is millions of Canadians have chosen a progressive plan," Mr Trudeau told supporters in Montreal in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Xi’s army: from ‘hiding and biding’ to building China’s dream
The combat capability of the People’s Liberation Army may still be a ‘work in progress’ but it is catching up through influence and training
When Covid-19 swept across Iran last March, killing more than 1,000 people including the senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it was the Chinese military that Tehran turned to for help. On 19 March 2020, batch loads of testing kits, PPE and face masks arrived in the Iranian capital.
In February this year, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) began to donate Covid-19 vaccines to counterparts overseas. The Cambodia armed forces have received two batches of 300,000 vaccines; Sierra Leone’s army was given 40,000 doses; United Nations peacekeeping forces secured 300,000.
Salisbury attack: Denis Sergeev named as ‘third man’ responsible as UK police authorise charges
Boris Johnson urges Russia to ‘hand over’ suspects but the Kremlin continues to deny involvement
The prime minister has urged Russia to hand over the spies responsible for the 2018 Salisbury novichok attack after a third GRU agent was charged.
Denis Sergeev, who travelled to the UK under the alias Sergey Fedotov, is believed to have commanded the two GRU agents who carried out the poisoning from a London hotel.
Boris Johnson told Sky News that Britain wants “all the suspects handed over for justice”.
Kashmir's female athletes kick down barriers to coach girls
In Muslim-majority Kashmir, female athletics is often frowned upon. DW spoke with women who are breaking taboos and teaching girls the value of committing to sports.
It is a sunny afternoon on a football pitch in Indian-administered Kashmir's largest city, Srinagar. Girls wearing hijabs and uniforms are running laps to warm up for practice.
Nadiya Nighat is their coach, and she says playing football teaches the girls discipline.
"I want to make them tough and punctual. I want to teach them the importance of being on time in sports," Nighat says, as she calls out two girls for being 20 minutes late.
Sudanese authorities thwart attempted coup, arrest plotters
Sudanese authorities have foiled an attempted coup, the army said on Tuesday, warding off a challenge to a civilian-military council that has run the country since Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019.
A civilian member of the ruling council told Reuters the situation was under control after the attempted coup overnight had been contained. Interrogation of suspects was due to begin, the council member, spokesman Mohamed Al Faki Suleiman said.
The leaders of the coup attempt have been arrested, a government spokesman said on state TV, adding that "remnants" of the regime of the ousted Bashir participated in the attempt.
Northern Hemisphere's summer of wildfires let off record-breaking carbon emissions
Updated 1421 GMT (2221 HKT) September 21, 2021
The amount of carbon emitted from severe wildfires that tore across many parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer broke records, according to data from the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service published Tuesday.
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