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- Agence France-Presse | Wednesday September 14, 2016, Taipei (Taiwan)Parts of Taiwan were brought to a standstill today as the strongest typhoon of the year skirted past the island's southern tip, knocking out power for more than 180,000 households.
- Reuters | Wednesday September 14, 2016, Wukan, ChinaResidents of a southern Chinese village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy were in shock on Wednesday after a "wild crackdown" by police in clashes with protesters which they said led to about 70 people being detained.
- Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 14, 2016, PanajiThe environment ministers of BRICS countries will meet in Goa on September 16 to strengthen mutual cooperation in areas of air and water pollution and climate change.
- Agence France-Presse | Wednesday September 14, 2016, ColomboExiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has said he is in talks with the former president - who repeatedly threw him in jail - to "legally topple" the current leader of the troubled honeymoon island.
- Reuters | Wednesday September 14, 2016, BangkokThailand has recorded about 200 cases of Zika since January, the health ministry said on Tuesday, making it a country with one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases in the region.
- Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday September 14, 2016, WashingtonThere is unlikely to be a La Nina event in late 2016 as water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around average for the rest of the year, predicts a model based on NASA satellite data.
- Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Wednesday September 14, 2016, New DelhiNavjot Singh Sidhu is in Delhi and has formally resigned from the BJP today, said his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu in Chandigarh.
- Associated Press | Wednesday September 14, 2016, Leavenworth (Kansas, USA)A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.
- Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 14, 2016, New YorkA group of Baloch activists held protests against Pakistan outside the United Nations headquarters in New York, demanding freedom and highlighting Pakistan's atrocities and crimes against humanity in Balochistan.
- Reuters | Wednesday September 14, 2016, BeijingThe United States is a troublemaker and has no right to lecture China about taking responsibility for reining in North Korea as tensions on the peninsula are a direct result of US actions, the official People's Daily newspaper said on Wednesday.
- Reported by Manish Kumar | Wednesday September 14, 2016, PatnaThe Nitish Kumar government in Bihar will move the Supreme Court against the bail granted to former RJD lawmaker Mohammad Shahbuddin, who was released from jail last weekend, top sources in the ruling Janata Dal United (JD-U) have said.
- Associated Press | Wednesday September 14, 2016, JerusalemDoctors treating Shimon Peres say the former Israeli president has survived the night, but remains in serious condition after suffering a major stroke.
- Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 14, 2016, WashingtonIn a bid to revolutionise the fitness wearable space, an Indian company has introduced smart shoes in the US which claims to scientifically improve running and fitness levels by giving real-time feedback to the user.
- Agencies | Wednesday September 14, 2016, New DelhiA shoe thrown at Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday by a Congress lawmaker marked a new low for any state assembly.
- Written by Tanima Biswas | Wednesday September 14, 2016, Manesar (Haryana)Two hours from Delhi, in Manesar, a sprawling cluster of farmland and industrial townships, 52-year-old Om Prakash, meets us in his farm.
