ACCRA -- Police said Saturday that 62 people were arrested on suspicion of illegal mining at the western Ghanaian town of Kenyasi.

The move came after a series of complaints from an international gold firm, Newmont Goldcorp, over the incursions of illegal miners into their concession in Kenyasi. (Ghana-Mining)

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NEW YORK -- The phase-one economic and trade deal that the United States and China have announced is "the positive signal in that it eliminates the imminent threat of new tariffs," a leading U.S. economist said on Friday.

"The good news is that the threat of tariffs has been moderated to some degree," Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, told Xinhua in a phone interview. (US-China-Trade)

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NEW DELHI -- Three women were killed and four people injured in a fire that engulfed a four-story residential building in the Indian capital on Saturday, police said Sunday.

The fire broke out Saturday evening at Shalimar Bagh locality, northwest of Delhi. (India-Delhi-Fire)

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MANILA -- A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

The institute said the quake, which struck at 2:11 p.m. local time (0611 GMT), hit 6 km northwest of Padada town, Davao del Sur province, with a depth of 30 km. (Philippines-Earthquake) Enditem

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