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44 die in Peru road crash

44 die in Peru road crash

-- 2018-02-22 12:51:37

At least 44 lives have been claimed in Peru on Wednesday after a bus hurtled some 100 meters into a ravine in the mountains south of the country. An official added that the incident is the second majo...

Venezuela President seeks election amid Oppn boycott

Venezuela President seeks election amid Oppn boycott

-- 2018-02-22 11:03:10

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has proposed holding a "mega-election" after the opposition coalition said it would boycott a planned presidential poll in April. Maduro said he wanted to a...

Trump considers arming teachers to stop shootings

Trump considers arming teachers to stop shootings

-- 2018-02-22 10:51:32

US President Donald Trump has said arming teachers could prevent school shootings like that which left 17 people dead last week in Florida. A staff member with a gun could end an attack "very quickly...

Trump family missing business opportunities for presidency

Trump family missing business opportunities for presidency

-- 2018-02-21 20:41:07

Donald Trump Jr. has said his father pledged to conduct no new foreign business during the tenure of presidency. He said the US president's family is actually missing out on business opportunities fo...

Trump pushes for ban on gun 'bump stocks'

Trump pushes for ban on gun 'bump stocks'

-- 2018-02-21 10:38:52

As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year's La...

Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

-- 2018-02-20 12:43:04

Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of three Italian men in the western state of Jalisco. The Naples natives reportedly went missing on Jan 31 after being detained by police at a...

Trump supports 'improved gun background checks'

Trump supports 'improved gun background checks'

-- 2018-02-19 21:18:25

US President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve the federal background check system for gun purchases, the White House has said. Mr Trump spoke to Republican Senator John Cornyn about gun legis...

Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode

Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode

-- 2018-02-19 14:41:17

US President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes programme and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in t...

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

-- 2018-02-19 14:00:55

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has shaken the southern parts of Mexico, the country's National Seismological Service reported on early Monday. The strong quake struck 43 km east of...

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

-- 2018-02-19 13:40:21

Brazilian police have freed 18 hostages, who were held by armed inmates at a Rio de Janeiro jail, say officials. Officials at Brazil’s Milton Dias Moreira prison said eight prison wardens and 1...

'Shame on you': Florida students to Trump

'Shame on you': Florida students to Trump

-- 2018-02-18 11:13:56

Young survivors of Wednesday's school shooting in Florida have taken part in an emotionally charged rally demanding tighter gun controls. Protesters in Fort Lauderdale chanted "shame on you", referri...

US-based Russia news outlet registers as foreign agent

US-based Russia news outlet registers as foreign agent

-- 2018-02-18 09:59:29

US-based Russian news outlet RIA Global LLC has registered as a foreign agent with the US Justice Department, the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure from the US...

Mexico chopper crashes in emergency killing 14

Mexico chopper crashes in emergency killing 14

-- 2018-02-18 09:57:01

A helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed while they assessed damage from Friday's earthquake in Mexico, killing at least 14 including a baby. Mexico's interior minister and the governor of...

US indicts Russians over election tampering

US indicts Russians over election tampering

-- 2018-02-17 10:50:35

A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 US presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released o...

Strong Mexico quake causes power cuts; two dead in crash

Strong Mexico quake causes power cuts; two dead in crash

-- 2018-02-17 10:12:52

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled Mexico on Friday, left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the only reported deaths came when a military c...

Tillerson terms US-Turkey relations as 'crisis point'

Tillerson terms US-Turkey relations as 'crisis point'

-- 2018-02-16 22:17:10

The US secretary of state has acknowledged that his country's relationship with Turkey is "at a bit of a crisis point". At a joint press conference in Ankara on Friday, Rex Tillerson said the US-Turk...

Florida gunman confesses to police

Florida gunman confesses to police

-- 2018-02-16 19:00:10

The teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school on Wednesday has confessed to the shooting, police say. Nikolas Cruz, 19, said he arrived on campus and began shooting students befo...

FBI knew about Florida gunman

FBI knew about Florida gunman

-- 2018-02-16 11:59:45

The 19-year-old man accused of shooting 17 people to death at a Florida high school legally purchased the assault rifle used in the killings and may have foreshadowed the attack in a social media comm...

Teachers 'were warned' about Florida shooting

Teachers 'were warned' about Florida shooting

-- 2018-02-15 19:43:12

Teachers were warned in advance about the teenager who allegedly carried out a mass shooting at his former school in Florida, US media are reporting. Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of p...

Mexico road crash wounds presidential candidate Patricio

Mexico road crash wounds presidential candidate Patricio

-- 2018-02-15 10:27:16

The first Mexican indigenous presidential candidate Maria de Jesus Patricio has been injured and one person killed in a road crash. The accident occurred when a van in which Patricio was travelling w...

Expelled student kills 17 at Florida high school

Expelled student kills 17 at Florida high school

-- 2018-02-15 09:54:17

A 19-year-old gunman returned to the Florida high school where he had once been expelled for disciplinary problems and opened fire with an assault-style rifle on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injur...

US police commander shot in head

US police commander shot in head

-- 2018-02-14 22:01:51

One police official in Chicago said the suspect in the fatal shooting of a police commander was carrying a semi-automatic handgun with an extended clip of ammunition when he fatally shot the officer i...

Russia targeting US 2018 polls, says intel chief

Russia targeting US 2018 polls, says intel chief

-- 2018-02-14 11:51:26

Leaders of US intelligence agencies warned that Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 US midterm elections by using social media to spread propaganda and misleading reports, much as it did in the 2...

Judge bars Trump’s move to scrap DACA program

Judge bars Trump’s move to scrap DACA program

-- 2018-02-14 11:28:02

A second US judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation. US District Judge...

Suspicious powder mail sends Trump Jr's wife to hospital

Suspicious powder mail sends Trump Jr's wife to hospital

-- 2018-02-13 11:44:21

US President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump was taken to a New York hospital after she opened a piece of mail containing an unidentified white powder on Monday, officials said. Th...

Pence hints US-N.Korea talks

Pence hints US-N.Korea talks

-- 2018-02-12 21:34:59

Comments by US Vice President Mike Pence suggest the United States may be looking more favourably at diplomatic engagement with North Korea Pence’s comments came amid South Korea’s intere...

Kentucky gunman kills four before ending life

Kentucky gunman kills four before ending life

-- 2018-02-12 14:15:26

Five people, including a suspected gunman who apparently took his own life, were killed in a shooting spree at two locations in US state Kentucky, officials said on Sunday. Police received a 911 call...

Democratic memo could still be released: Trump aide

Democratic memo could still be released: Trump aide

-- 2018-02-12 12:44:23

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are prepared to black out parts of their memo about the FBI's Russia investigation to ensure there's no harmful spilling of secrets, then try again to get...

Bolivia Oruro carnival blast takes eight lives

Bolivia Oruro carnival blast takes eight lives

-- 2018-02-12 11:21:37

A gas canister used by a street vendor exploded during Oruro's famous carnival celebrations in Bolivia, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 40 others, authorities said. Several victi...

California private plane crash leaves four dead

California private plane crash leaves four dead

-- 2018-02-12 11:01:03

A small, home-built plane crashed near a mountain town in Southern California in the United States, killing four people on Sunday, authorities said. The private plane went down late Sunday morning in...