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Australian media defend George Pell trial reports

Australian media defend George Pell trial reports

-- 2019-04-15 14:08:14

Dozens of journalists and major news outlets in Australia have begun defending accusations that they breached a reporting ban on the sexual abuse trial of Cardinal George Pell. Pell, the ex-Vatican t...

Singapore airport opens massive mall for transit passengers Apr 17   

Singapore airport opens massive mall for transit passengers Apr 17  

-- 2019-04-14 20:51:22

A sprawling retail complex with the world's tallest indoor waterfall is what Singapore hopes will bring more travellers and visitors to the airport to shop and dine, says a Reuters report. As global...

New Palestinian govt takes oath

New Palestinian govt takes oath

-- 2019-04-14 16:27:32

A new government for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority took oath on Saturday, led by a veteran peace negotiator and harsh critic of Gaza's Hamas rulers, says an AP report. President Mahmoud A...

Iranian woman gets jail term for removing scarf

Iranian woman gets jail term for removing scarf

-- 2019-04-14 16:23:29

An Iranian woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in a public protest has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader, her lawyer said on Sunday, reports AP. P...

Three killed in Nepal plane crash

Three killed in Nepal plane crash

-- 2019-04-14 13:35:01

A small passenger plane crashed into a parked helicopter during takeoff at the only airport in Nepal’s Everest region on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring four others, officials...

Shooting outside Australia nightclub leaves one dead

Shooting outside Australia nightclub leaves one dead

-- 2019-04-14 10:30:40

A drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne inflicted "horrific injuries" that killed a security guard and wounded three men, police said on Sunday, but there was no su...

27 Taliban militants die in Afghanistan

27 Taliban militants die in Afghanistan

-- 2019-04-13 15:46:48

Taliban massive offensive to capture Shirzad district in the eastern Nangarhar province has been repulsed and the militant group fled away after leaving 27 bodies behind, said a statement. The milita...

North Korea's Kim gives US a deadline to change stance

North Korea's Kim gives US a deadline to change stance

-- 2019-04-13 10:41:34

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the breakdown in talks with the United States has raised the risks of reviving tensions, and he is only interested in meeting President Donald Trump again if the U...

US withdraws nomination for top diplomat for South Asia

US withdraws nomination for top diplomat for South Asia

-- 2019-04-12 20:41:33

The White House said on Thursday it had withdrawn a nomination it made to the US Senate to fill the post of America's top diplomat for South Asia, a position that has remained unfilled since President...

India's top court asks political parties to give details of funding through bonds

India's top court asks political parties to give details of funding through bonds

-- 2019-04-12 20:13:51

The Supreme Court on Friday asked political parties taking part in ongoing elections to provide details of funds received through electoral bonds. In 2017, India proposed these bonds as a transparent...

Kim Jong Un consolidates power as North Korea shuffles leadership

Kim Jong Un consolidates power as North Korea shuffles leadership

-- 2019-04-12 15:43:14

In one of the biggest leadership shake-ups in years, North Korea named a new nominal head of state and a new premier, and gave leader Kim Jong Un a new title, state media reported on Friday, moves ana...

18 Taliban militants die in Afghan province

18 Taliban militants die in Afghan province

-- 2019-04-12 15:08:59

At least eighteen Taliban militants have been killed in a special operation in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the country's intelligence agency National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Friday....

16 die in Pakistan market bombing

16 die in Pakistan market bombing

-- 2019-04-12 13:01:24

A bomb hidden among bags of potatoes at a Pakistani market killed at least 16 people, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shi’ite Muslims. At...

Moon jae-in to meet Trump hoping to revive N Korea talks

Moon jae-in to meet Trump hoping to revive N Korea talks

-- 2019-04-11 11:35:33

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet US President Donald Trump on Thursday hoping to help put denuclearisation talks with North Korea back on track after a failed summit between the United Sta...

NZ police expect tens of thousands of firearms surrender

NZ police expect tens of thousands of firearms surrender

-- 2019-04-11 10:19:01

New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered in a guns buy-back scheme after parliament passed tough new firearm laws in the wake of the country’s worst peacetime...

India begins voting in first phase of general election

India begins voting in first phase of general election

-- 2019-04-11 10:07:16

Indians began voting on Thursday in the first phase of a mammoth general election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi gunning for a second term having campaigned strongly on his national security recor...

World’s 'biggest democracy' begins general election Thursday

World’s 'biggest democracy' begins general election Thursday

-- 2019-04-10 22:30:50

India’s prime minister is rallying his nationalist base as the world’s biggest democracy begins a general election on Thursday, but it has become tighter than anticipated, thanks to dwindl...

Dalai Lama, 83, admitted to Delhi hospital

Dalai Lama, 83, admitted to Delhi hospital

-- 2019-04-10 13:33:38

The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, with a chest infection, but is reported to be in a stable condition. His private aide Tenzin Taklha said he was flown to Del...

Israel’s Netanyahu wins record fifth term in office: Reports

Israel’s Netanyahu wins record fifth term in office: Reports

-- 2019-04-10 11:02:10

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the national election, securing a record fifth term in office despite running neck in neck with his challenger Benny Gantz, the country’s three...

BJP lawmaker among five 'killed by Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

BJP lawmaker among five 'killed by Maoists' in Chhattisgarh

-- 2019-04-09 19:59:56

A lawmaker of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and four others were killed in an attack on an election campaign convoy by suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh in central India on Tuesday eveni...

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong found guilty of public nuisance

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong found guilty of public nuisance

-- 2019-04-09 16:42:07

Nine pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been found guilty of public nuisance charges for their role in a civil disobedience movement that called for free elections in the city. Among them are...

Israelis start voting in close-fought election

Israelis start voting in close-fought election

-- 2019-04-09 11:16:28

Israelis have begun voting in the country's most closely-fought general election in years. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud Party, is seeking a fifth term in office....

Fire at Pakistan PM's office

Fire at Pakistan PM's office

-- 2019-04-08 18:26:47

The Prime Minister’s Office of Pakistan was evacuated on Monday after a fire broke out on the sixth floor of the building. Several media reports said, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was r...

Malaysia police say 37 Rohingyas found on beach

Malaysia police say 37 Rohingyas found on beach

-- 2019-04-08 13:54:38

Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrivals in what authorities fear could be a new wave of...

Modi's party promises 33pc reservation for women in parliament

Modi's party promises 33pc reservation for women in parliament

-- 2019-04-08 13:42:22

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party promised on Monday to reserve 33 per cent of seats in the parliament and state assemblies for women if it returns to power in an election due to begin on Th...

Australia police arrest 38 animal rights activists

Australia police arrest 38 animal rights activists

Reuters 2019-04-08 13:18:42

Australia police arrested 38 animal rights activists on Monday after they blocked peak hour traffic in Melbourne in protests to mark the first anniversary of a film, Dominion, about factory farming....

India will attack again this month, Pakistan FM says

India will attack again this month, Pakistan FM says

-- 2019-04-07 18:51:03

Pakistan has 'reliable intelligence' that India will attack again this month, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday, as tension over a February standoff between the two nuclear-armed ne...

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank settlements

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank settlements

-- 2019-04-07 11:59:03

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likel...

Fresh evacuations underway in flood-hit Iran

Fresh evacuations underway in flood-hit Iran

-- 2019-04-06 19:26:06

Flood-hit Iran is evacuating more towns and villages, with further rain expected on Saturday. Three weeks of heavy rainfall have left much of the country submerged and cost at least 70 lives. More d...

Iran, US threaten to blacklist each other's military as terrorists

Iran, US threaten to blacklist each other's military as terrorists

-- 2019-04-06 16:30:50

Iran may put the US military on its terror list if Washington designates the Iranian elite Revolutionary Guards as terrorists, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday. The United States is expecte...