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'Explosive device behind Jordan blast'

'Explosive device behind Jordan blast'

-- 2018-08-11 17:10:49

Jordanian police said on Saturday investigations showed a homemade explosive device planted near a police van was behind a blast that killed one policeman and injured six others the day before. Polic...

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

-- 2018-08-11 15:52:38

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had killed ten militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official new...

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

-- 2018-08-11 15:47:45

A Japanese man has been detained in North Korea, and government officials are trying to gather information on his safety, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Saturday. The report, citing government sources...

Muslims respond in standoff over China mosque demolition

Muslims respond in standoff over China mosque demolition

-- 2018-08-10 20:19:02

Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished. Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia...

Indonesia dreads deadly aftershocks after powerful earthquake

Indonesia dreads deadly aftershocks after powerful earthquake

-- 2018-08-10 17:15:52

After a deadly earthquake devastated the Indonesian island of Lombok last weekend, Husni Handayani thought the worst was over. The powerful quake claimed hundreds of lives, wounded thousands more and...

14 Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

14 Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

-- 2018-08-10 15:23:12

Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at least...

Imran Khan calls for more 'trustworthy' ties with US

Imran Khan calls for more 'trustworthy' ties with US

-- 2018-08-09 22:15:34

Pakistani prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan called for more "trustworthy" ties with the United States which have frayed amid US accusations that Pakistan is aiding Islamist insurgents waging war in...

Torrential rain leaves 22 dead in Kerala

Torrential rain leaves 22 dead in Kerala

-- 2018-08-09 21:09:43

A resurgent southwest monsoon, sweeping large parts of the northern and central districts of Kerala, left an extensive trail of destruction and loss of life in its wake in the last 24 hours. As of Th...

Scores of Yemeni children die in Saudi-led air strike on bus

Scores of Yemeni children die in Saudi-led air strike on bus

-- 2018-08-09 18:59:24

Dozens of people, many of them children, have been killed or wounded in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in rebel-held northern Yemen on Thursday. The bus was travelling through Dahyan market in Saad...

Death toll crosses 300 in Indonesia quake

Death toll crosses 300 in Indonesia quake

-- 2018-08-09 18:48:00

The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300. The strong aftersh...

US can't be trusted, Iran to NKorea

US can't be trusted, Iran to NKorea

-- 2018-08-09 15:26:14

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told North Korea’s foreign minister that the United States cannot be trusted, Tehran’s state media said, as the United States seeks a deal to rein in the N...

Another powerful quake rattles Indonesia

Another powerful quake rattles Indonesia

-- 2018-08-09 12:09:46

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Lombok island on Thursday, causing some buildings to collapse, according to witnesses and the Southeast Asian nation’s meteorolo...

Japan army to raise maximum age for new recruits

Japan army to raise maximum age for new recruits

-- 2018-08-09 11:15:40

Japan’s military plans to raise the maximum age for new recruits in a bid to cope with a shrinking pool of potential soldiers due to the country’s low birth rate and fast-ageing population...

Prestigious Tokyo university apologises over exam rigging

Prestigious Tokyo university apologises over exam rigging

-- 2018-08-08 19:21:03

One of Japan's most prestigious medical universities has apologised for tampering with entrance exam scores to limit its intake of female students. An internal investigation found that Tokyo Medical...

Major fire breaks out at petroleum plant in India

Major fire breaks out at petroleum plant in India

-- 2018-08-08 18:06:06

A major fire has been reported after loud explosions at Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd’s (BPCL) refinery in Mumbai of India. Sources said that the fire broke out at 2:55 pm on Wednesday and is confi...

Indonesia earthquake deaths cross 130

Indonesia earthquake deaths cross 130

-- 2018-08-08 17:43:41

Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 131 people, while rescuers doubled down on efforts to find the dead. Volunteers...

Australian state suffers worst drought in living memory

Australian state suffers worst drought in living memory

-- 2018-08-08 17:31:23

Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is now entirely in drought, officials have confirmed. A dry winter has intensified what has been called the worst drought in living memory in p...

'US plan to reduce Iran’s oil exports will not succeed'

'US plan to reduce Iran’s oil exports will not succeed'

-- 2018-08-08 16:52:52

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the plan made by the United States to reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero will not succeed. “If the Americans want to keep this simpli...

Japan braces for typhoon ‘Shanshan’

Japan braces for typhoon ‘Shanshan’

-- 2018-08-08 11:43:33

Japan is bracing for heavy rains and high winds on Wednesday as a strong typhoon is forecast to make landfall near the capital of Tokyo, the latest storm to hit Japan in recent months. Typhoon &ldquo...

Veteran Indian politician M Karunanidhi dies at 94

Veteran Indian politician M Karunanidhi dies at 94

-- 2018-08-07 20:54:57

Veteran Indian politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi has died at the age of 94. He was being treated for age-related illnesses in Chennai (formerly Madras) in southern India's Tamil Nadu state. Mr Karunan...

Australia's population hits 25m for first time

Australia's population hits 25m for first time

-- 2018-08-07 19:58:31

Australia's population reaches 25 million for the first time on Tuesday, according to official estimates. The milestone, driven significantly by migration, has magnified debate about the merits of a...

Thousands of earthquake victims wait for aid in Indonesia

Thousands of earthquake victims wait for aid in Indonesia

-- 2018-08-07 19:25:30

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok topped 100 on Tuesday. Rescuers found victims under wrecked buildings, while thousands left homeless in t...

North Korea frees South Korean man detained while crossing border

North Korea frees South Korean man detained while crossing border

-- 2018-08-07 13:30:45

North Korea released a South Korean citizen detained in July after crossing the border into the North, the South’s Unification Ministry said on Tuesday. The prisoner was a 34-year-old man surna...

Renewed US sanctions target Iran's economy, Tehran cool on talks

Renewed US sanctions target Iran's economy, Tehran cool on talks

-- 2018-08-07 12:39:04

President Donald Trump’s top security adviser on Monday urged Iran to take up an offer of talks with the United States or suffer more pain from economic sanctions, but Iran’s president sai...

Four die in China coal mine blast

Four die in China coal mine blast

Reuters 2018-08-07 10:26:13

Four workers were killed and nine went missing after an explosion at a small coal mine in China’s Guizhou province on Monday night, state-owned Xinhua News reported on Tuesday citing local autho...

Seven children among eight die in Nepal landslide

Seven children among eight die in Nepal landslide

-- 2018-08-06 14:59:29

A landslide killed a woman and at least seven children in Nepal over the weekend as officials issued warnings on Monday of the risk of more landslides and flash floods due to torrential rain. Working...

91 dead as powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

91 dead as powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

-- 2018-08-06 14:49:14

At least 91 people were killed when Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok was hit by a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Sunday, triggering widespread panic as thousands fled their homes for em...

6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

-- 2018-08-05 21:14:04

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Sunday, and a series of aftershocks also shook the country, said the United States Geological Survey said. There is a "potential" for a tsunami followin...

Suicide bomber kills three NATO members in Afghanistan

Suicide bomber kills three NATO members in Afghanistan

-- 2018-08-05 14:44:37

A suicide bomber killed three NATO service members in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO Resolute Support mission said. A Resolute Support service member, an American, and two Afghan National...

Bus-tanker collision kills 14 in Pakistan

Bus-tanker collision kills 14 in Pakistan

Xinhua 2018-08-05 11:50:56

At least 14 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a deadly road crash in Pakistan's northwestern district of Kohat on Saturday evening, local media and police said. According to the repo...