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Moderate quake shakes Myanmar

Moderate quake shakes Myanmar

-- 2018-04-24 16:06:17

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 shook Myanmar’s north-western Sagaing region on Tuesday, said the Meteorology and Hydrology Department. The earthquake struck at 10:29 am local time (0359 GMT)....

Afghan army kills 16 militants

Afghan army kills 16 militants

-- 2018-04-24 12:52:57

At least 16 Taliban militants were killed and four others injured after Afghan army waged an operation in restive southern province of Zabul, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. “The cleanup...

Bar fire kills 18 in southern China

Bar fire kills 18 in southern China

-- 2018-04-24 11:02:58

At least 18 people were killed and five others injured at a devastating fire that allegedly caused by arson at a karaoke bar in Qingyuan City in southern China, according to Xinhua report. Preliminar...

Pak police arrests man for burning alive Christian woman

Pak police arrests man for burning alive Christian woman

-- 2018-04-23 22:43:38

Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim man accused of burning a Christian woman to death for refusing his marriage offer, an official said Monday. Ijaz Shahid, a police official in the eastern Pun...

Naidu rejects motion  to impeach India’s CJ

Naidu rejects motion to impeach India’s CJ

-- 2018-04-23 22:03:28

India's Vice-President and chairman of the Upper House of parliament, Venkaiah Naidu, has rejected the opposition's notice for impeachment of Chief Justice (CJ) of India, Dipak Misra. But the Congress...

Armenia's PM resigns amid protests

Armenia's PM resigns amid protests

-- 2018-04-23 18:51:04

Armenia's newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned following days of protests against his government. Hundreds of soldiers joined anti-government protests in the capital, Yerevan, o...

Taliban attack leaves 14 Afghan troops, cops dead

Taliban attack leaves 14 Afghan troops, cops dead

-- 2018-04-23 15:05:37

Two near-simultaneous Taliban attacks in Afghanistan’s western Badghis province have left at least 14 troops and policemen dead on Monday, Afghan officials say. Ghulam Sarwar Haidari, the deput...

32 Chinese dead in North Korean bus crash

32 Chinese dead in North Korean bus crash

-- 2018-04-23 14:30:37

Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died in a major bus accident in North Korea, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, with two Chinese nationals seriously injured and left in...

Two cars collide in India, killing five

Two cars collide in India, killing five

-- 2018-04-23 11:33:57

At least five people were burnt to death after two cars collided head-on and caught fire in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police said Monday. The accident occurred on national highway 146 n...

Bus carrying Chinese tourists falls off N Korea bridge

Bus carrying Chinese tourists falls off N Korea bridge

-- 2018-04-23 10:43:44

Chinese tourists have been involved in a major transportation accident in North Korea and there are a large number of casualties, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Chinese diplomats have...

Qatari fighter jets intercepted civilian plane: UAE

Qatari fighter jets intercepted civilian plane: UAE

-- 2018-04-22 18:43:01

The United Arab Emirates said Qatari fighter planes intercepted a civilian aircraft carrying 86 passengers to Bahrain on Sunday, UAE state news agency WAM reported. Quoting its civil aviation authori...

Saudi restricts drone flying after palace incident

Saudi restricts drone flying after palace incident

-- 2018-04-22 15:45:40

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday instructed drone enthusiasts to obtain permission to fly the devices until regulations were finalised, a day after security forces shot down a recreati...

Kabul election centre blast toll mounts to 31

Kabul election centre blast toll mounts to 31

-- 2018-04-22 14:49:55

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 50, most of them waiting in line to receiv...

Islamic party aims to hold the key in Malaysia's election

Islamic party aims to hold the key in Malaysia's election

-- 2018-04-22 14:18:45

The outcome of next month’s election in Malaysia may hinge on the performance of a party that has strived for decades to turn the country into an Islamic state and enforce harsher penalties on M...

17 die after two dragon boats capsize in China

17 die after two dragon boats capsize in China

-- 2018-04-22 10:34:38

Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China have overturned and 17 people drowned, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Television pictures showed one of the long, narrow b...

Iran warns against US deals

Iran warns against US deals

-- 2018-04-22 09:50:56

A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warned as US and North...

‘Expected and unexpected' moves if US exits nuke deal: Rouhani

‘Expected and unexpected' moves if US exits nuke deal: Rouhani

-- 2018-04-21 18:38:43

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear de...

Assailants kill Palestinian scholar in Malaysia

Assailants kill Palestinian scholar in Malaysia

-- 2018-04-21 18:21:59

A Palestinian scholar was shot dead by two assailants in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Fadi al-Batsh, a 35-year-old Palestinian academic and member of Hamas, was killed by gunmen...

Death penalty for child rapist in India

Death penalty for child rapist in India

-- 2018-04-21 17:42:43

India’s cabinet approved the death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The meeting headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the decision on Saturday...

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

-- 2018-04-21 14:20:05

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has shaken Myanmar’s Bago region on early Saturday. The quake, with an epicentre of 40 km southwest of Phyu city, struck at 04:58:42 local time, said the Meteorol...

Airstrike kills twenty in southwest Yemen, say residents

Airstrike kills twenty in southwest Yemen, say residents

-- 2018-04-21 10:33:46

An air strike lunched by a Saudi-led military coalition in south-western Yemen killed twenty people on Friday, residents said. The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of Taiz province,...

Kim announces nuke test halt ahead of summit

Kim announces nuke test halt ahead of summit

-- 2018-04-21 09:45:58

North Korea will immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, the North’s state media said on Saturday, ahead of pl...

Boat carrying 76 Rohingya lands in Indonesia

Boat carrying 76 Rohingya lands in Indonesia

-- 2018-04-20 20:02:36

A boat carrying 76 Rohingya Muslims landed in northwest Indonesia on Friday, the latest in what rights groups expect will be a wave of dangerous sea crossings by members of the persecuted minority fro...

Australia has ‘perfect right’ to navigate in South China Sea: Turnbull

Australia has ‘perfect right’ to navigate in South China Sea: Turnbull

-- 2018-04-20 19:21:16

Australia’s prime minister said the Australian navy has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report Friday that the Chinese navy had challenged three Austr...

Indian Chief Justice faces impeachment motion

Indian Chief Justice faces impeachment motion

-- 2018-04-20 18:38:31

India’s opposition parties launched an unprecedented bid to impeach the country’s top judge on Friday. They submitted a motion to vice president Venkaiah Naidu accusing the chief justice...

Malaysian aircraft skids off Nepal airport runway

Malaysian aircraft skids off Nepal airport runway

-- 2018-04-20 18:05:44

A Malaysian aircraft with 139 people on board aborted its takeoff and skidded off the runway of Tribuvan International Airport in Nepal on Friday. All 132 passengers and 7 crew on board of the Mali...

Seize Dawood Ibrahim’s property: Indian court

Seize Dawood Ibrahim’s property: Indian court

-- 2018-04-20 14:56:53

The Indian Supreme Court on Friday directed the government to take over most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s properties worth millions in the city of Mumbai, dismissing petitions by his sister...

Philippines decries European Parliament's 'interference'

Philippines decries European Parliament's 'interference'

-- 2018-04-20 11:59:10

The Philippines decried what it said was interference in its internal affairs by the European Parliament, which urged the Southeast Asian nation in a resolution to end “extrajudicial killings&rd...

Angry protesters confront  Modi in London

Angry protesters confront Modi in London

-- 2018-04-19 21:16:16

Hundreds of noisy protesters greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he arrived in London on Wednesday, demonstrating over a rising tide of sexual violence at home, including two particularly...

China ‘ready’ to deal with any fallout from US trade row

China ‘ready’ to deal with any fallout from US trade row

-- 2018-04-19 19:00:13

China is well prepared to handle any negative effects from its trade dispute with the United States, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, adding that Beijing’s tariff hikes on US imports will...