Reuters Top India News: September 7, 2017

Click to View in Browser THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 TODAY'S HEADLINES Court sentences two Mumbai 1993 blasts convicts to death MUMBAI (Reuters) - A court on Thursday sentenced to death two men convicted of involvement in India's most deadly bombings, a series of blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993, while two others were jailed for life. | Full Article Children, teenagers among wounded Rohingya in crammed Bangladesh hospital CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Mohammed Idrees, a 10-year-old Rohingya boy, does not remember how he landed at the hospital in Bangladesh with a part of his right ear blown off. | Full Article China agrees more U.N. actions needed against North Korea after nuclear test BEIJING/VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it agreed the United Nations should take more action against North Korea after its latest nuclear test, while pushing for more dialogue to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula. | Full Article North Korea pledges 'powerful counter measures' against U.S.-backed sanctions VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - North Korea on Thursday pledged to take "powerful counter measures" to respond to U.S. pressure or any new sanctions against it over its missile programme, accusing Washington of wanting war. |Full Article Insight: 'And then they exploded' - How Rohingya insurgents built support for assault YANGON (Reuters) - When the former U.N. chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar's troubled northwest on August 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse. | Full Article Fire at building in Mumbai kills at least six MUMBAI (Reuters) - A blaze in a building under construction in a Mumbai suburb killed at least six people, most of them labourers, and injured nearly a dozen, fire and police officials said on Thursday. | Full Article Rohingya say their village is lost to Myanmar's spiralling conflict KUTAPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The villagers said the soldiers came first, firing indiscriminately. Then came civilians, accompanying the soldiers, to loot and burn. | Full Article Federer's U.S. Open quest ended by big-hearted Del Potro NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer's hopes of claiming a record-extending 20th grand slam title ended on Wednesday when he was beaten 7-5 3-6 7-6(8) 6-4 by Juan Martin del Potro in a thrilling U.S. Open quarter-final. | Full Article Hurricane Irma lashes Caribbean islands; Florida braces for hit SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, howled past Puerto Rico on Wednesday after thrashing several smaller Caribbean islands with tree-snapping winds, drenching rains and pounding surf on a collision course with Florida. | Full Article Trump says U.S. not 'putting up with' North Korea's actions WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that the United States would no longer tolerate North Korea’s actions but said the use of military force against Pyongyang will not be his "first choice." | Full Article - Birla House | 10th Floor, East Tower | 25, Barakhamba Road | New Delhi | 110001 | India © Copyright 2017 Thomson Reuters