MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- With the United States recklessly wielding its sanctions on a number of countries of late, Russia has quickly responded by strengthening cooperation with other nations such as Iran and Turkey.

Though the active interactions enable Moscow to establish closer ties externally, no major changes can be expected until fundamental problems are resolved, Russian experts said.

ECONOMIC BLOWS

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON 19 Aug 2018; AA: More than 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces since August 2017, according to a new report.

The figures were revealed in the report -- Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience -- released by the Ontario International Development Agency, which involved researchers and organizations from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Norway and the Philippines.

ANKARA; 19 Aug 2018; AA: Two billion people are living in poverty while 753 million others experience extreme poverty and are struggling to survive, according to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018.

The situation of helpless people suffering from famine, drought, clashes and natural disasters has come up as the World Humanitarian Day, marked each year on Aug. 19, approaches.

The World Humanitarian Day is held every year on Aug. 19 to support people getting affected by crises around the world.

Washington, Aug 17 (AP) Is the latest pickup in US economic growth destined to slow in the years ahead as most analysts say? Or, as the Trump administration insists, is the economy on the cusp of an explosive boom that will reward Americans and defy those expectations?

Yesterday, President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser made his case for the boom.

Calling mainstream predictions "pure nonsense", Larry Kudlow declared that the expansion already the second-longest on record is merely in its "early innings".

Ashok Dhawale

16 Aug 2018; GANASHAKTI: It was by far the most massive nationwide Jail Bharo struggle in recent times. According to preliminary reports received from the states, well over five lakh peasants and workers courted arrest at over 610 centres in 407 districts in 22 states across the country on August 9, 2018. They raised the main slogan “Modi Sarkar, Chale Jaao!” 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 300 "predator priests" from six Catholic dioceses across eastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania have been accused of sexually abusing over 1,000 children, according to a new grand jury report released Tuesday.

The report, issued by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, detailed a "systematic coverup by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican" over more than six decades, State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference on Tuesday.

PREDATOR PRIESTS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The past week has seen Washington slap a raft of punitive actions on Iran, Russia and Turkey. In response, the three countries have enhanced their coordination, which, in the eyes of U.S. experts, aims to soften the blow of the sanctions and push Washington towards talks to settle disagreements.

U.S. ACTIONS TARGETED

MOSCOW, August 14. /TASS/. Ankara’s NATO membership is a lifeline for Turkey-US relations, Vladimir Fitin, an expert at the Russian institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), told TASS.

13 Aug 2018; AFP: Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the night the Myanmar soldiers came.

"They broke down our door. They took my husband outside and shot him," recalled the 20-year-old, one of around 700,000 Rohingyas driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh a year ago.

5 Aug 2018; AFP; Six "terrorists and hired killers" have been arrested in Venezuela accused of trying to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro in an alleged drone attack, the government said on Sunday.

Interior and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol announced the arrests on state television, saying more could be on the way "in the coming hours."

1 Aug 2018; TASS-FACTBOX. Five years ago, on August 1, 2013, a former contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA) named Edward Snowden, who had exposed electronic surveillance methods used by US intelligence agencies, was granted temporary asylum in Russia.

Edward Snowden

ANKARA; AA; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled first 100-day action plan of Turkey's new presidential Cabinet in the capital Ankara.

"Today, we share our first 100-day action plan with you," Erdogan said at the presentation meeting at the presidential complex.

Erdogan said they are planning to announce Medium-Term Program by the end of August.