Top 10 world news today: Philippines launches investigation into Chinese sewage-dumping at sea and more

The Philippines has launched an investigation againsthundreds of Chinese vessels that were dumping sewage into contested areas of theSouthChinaSea.Rouhani has said that Iran can enrich its uranium to up to 90 per cent purity, if required. Meanwhile,Taliban have captured a key border crossingalong the Pakistan frontier.A blast on a bus killed 13 people in northPakistan, including nine Chinese nationals in what Beijing said was a bomb attack but Islamabad called a vehicle failure.

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President HassanRouhani has said that Iran canenrich uranium up to 90 per centpurity if its nuclear reactors needed it, according to local media.

Taliban said on Wednesday claimed it had captured a key border crossingalong the Pakistan frontier with US troops set to pull outcompletely in a few weeks

-A blast on a bus killed 13 people in northPakistanon Wednesday, including nine Chinese nationals in what Beijing said was a bomb attack but Islamabad called a vehicle failure.

Turkish President TayyipErdogantold his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday it was important to Turkey that Uyghur Muslims live in peace as "equal citizens of China" but said Turkey respects China's national sovereignty

Philippines' defence minister hasordered the military to investigate a report by a US-based tech firm that hundreds of Chinese vessels were dumping sewage into contested areas of theSouthChinaSea

Blue Origin andGeneral Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy have been roped in by NASAto developnuclear-powered spacecraft that can travel faster andfarther,to Mars and beyond

Inan ongoing crackdown on dissent by President Alexander Lukashenko's regime,Belarusian security police searched offices and homes of lawyers and human rights activists.

Researchershave used CRISPR genome editing technology to successfully block the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected human cells.

A Russian-based hacker group blamed for a massive ransomware attack went offline, sparking speculation about whether the move was the result of a government-led action.

Australiawill take a group of ambassadors snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef Thursday in a last-minute lobbying effort to keep the World Heritage site off UNESCO's endangered list.