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US forfeits being ‘honest broker’ in ME peace process: Mahmoud Abbas

US forfeits being ‘honest broker’ in ME peace process: Mahmoud Abbas

-- 2018-02-09 21:24:07

The US has disqualified itself from being an 'honest broker' in the Middle East peace process, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas has said as he criticised his American counterpart Donald Trump for his...

Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militia targets in Syria

Turkish warplanes strike Kurdish militia targets in Syria

-- 2018-02-09 13:17:27

Turkish warplanes resumed strikes on Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday after a five-day lull that followed the shooting down of Russian warplane elsewhere in Syria, t...

Damning evidence of Rohingya massacre in Myanmar

Damning evidence of Rohingya massacre in Myanmar

-- 2018-02-09 11:12:52

Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbours dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of September 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to deat...

Bangkok issues warning as air pollution hits danger level

Bangkok issues warning as air pollution hits danger level

-- 2018-02-08 17:59:48

Residents in Bangkok, one of the world's top tourist destinations, were warned on Thursday the city's air quality had hit dangerous levels just days after the country's pollution control agency appeal...

Philippines security forces shoot dead three ‘terrorists’

Philippines security forces shoot dead three ‘terrorists’

-- 2018-02-08 15:52:13

Philippine security forces on Thursday shot dead three terror suspects allegedly involved in the attack of the southern Philippine city of Marawi in May last year. Brigadier General William Alunday o...

Eight die in China construction site collapse

Eight die in China construction site collapse

-- 2018-02-08 14:53:02

Eight people have been killed and nine others taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries as a construction site collapsed at Foshan city in southern China’s Guangdong province. The ci...

South Korea's Moon to meet North Koreans

South Korea's Moon to meet North Koreans

-- 2018-02-08 14:38:35

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet members of North Korea’s Olympics delegation on Saturday, including North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, the Blue House said on Thursday....

Hot-air balloon crash wounds seven in Australia

Hot-air balloon crash wounds seven in Australia

-- 2018-02-08 14:22:11

At least seven people have been injured after a hot-air balloon carrying them, was hit by a surprise weather change and crash-landed on Thursday in a field near Australia’s southern city of Melb...

N Korea set for military show on Olympic eve

N Korea set for military show on Olympic eve

-- 2018-02-08 09:42:27

North Korea is set to hold its 70th anniversary military parade, a day ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Pyongyang's annual parade, marking the founding of its armed forces, h...

Pak court awards death sentence to one over ‘blasphemy’ murder

Pak court awards death sentence to one over ‘blasphemy’ murder

-- 2018-02-07 22:11:13

A Pakistani court has sentenced one man to death and handed life terms to five others for murdering a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Twenty-five others were convicted of lesser offence...

Kim Jong-un’s sister to make landmark visit to South Korea

Kim Jong-un’s sister to make landmark visit to South Korea

-- 2018-02-07 18:12:47

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is to attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, which are being held in the South, ministers in Seoul say. Kim Yo-jong, a...

India PM Narendra Modi’s wife survives fatal car crash

India PM Narendra Modi’s wife survives fatal car crash

-- 2018-02-07 16:51:27

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s estranged wife, Jashodaben, survived a fatal crash on Wednesday on a national highway. One of her relatives died when their vehicle collided with a truck i...

Jeep falls into ravine, killing nine in India

Jeep falls into ravine, killing nine in India

-- 2018-02-07 13:19:40

Nine people have been killed after a jeep in which they were travelling, skidded off a road in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and fell into a ravine on Wednesday, said police. The incident occu...

Maldives high court cancels order freeing jailed politicians

Maldives high court cancels order freeing jailed politicians

-- 2018-02-07 12:09:44

Three Maldives Supreme Court justices on Tuesday annulled their own order to free a group of imprisoned opposition politicians after two of the court’s justices were arrested amid a political cr...

Four die, scores missing as 6.4 quake strikes Taiwan

Four die, scores missing as 6.4 quake strikes Taiwan

FE Online Desk 2018-02-07 10:12:13

Rescuers combed through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 60 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the popular Tai...

Court jails Vietnam activist for livestreaming pollution march

Court jails Vietnam activist for livestreaming pollution march

-- 2018-02-06 20:50:52

One central Vietnamese court has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant's spill of toxins into the ocean....

Gunmen storms Indian hospital, escaped with Pakistani prisoner

Gunmen storms Indian hospital, escaped with Pakistani prisoner

-- 2018-02-06 17:42:43

Gunmen stormed a hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir and escaped with a high-profile Pakistani prisoner who was undergoing a medical check-up. Two Indian police officers were killed in the attack...

Maldives ex-President seeks India, US intervention

Maldives ex-President seeks India, US intervention

-- 2018-02-06 17:32:08

Former president of the Maldives on Tuesday has called from exile for other countries to intervene in a political crisis engulfing the island nation. Mohammed Nasheed asked India to help release pris...

Vietnam sentences blogger to 14 years in prison

Vietnam sentences blogger to 14 years in prison

-- 2018-02-06 16:06:37

A court in central Vietnam jailed a prominent environmental blogger on Tuesday for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials on duty, his lawyer said. Vietnamese activist Hoa...

Four die in Indonesia tourist resort landslide

Four die in Indonesia tourist resort landslide

-- 2018-02-06 13:39:46

Four people have been killed and two others gone missing after landslides hit a tourist resort in Indonesia's West Java province, national disaster management agency said on Tuesday. Heavy downpours...

Taiwanese military chopper falls into sea, six missing

Taiwanese military chopper falls into sea, six missing

-- 2018-02-06 13:26:59

A military helicopter from Taiwan fell into the sea on Monday night and six people on board are still missing. The rescue operation continued till Tuesday morning, Xinhua news agency reports citing T...

Maldives police arrest former president Gayoom

Maldives police arrest former president Gayoom

-- 2018-02-06 00:00:00

Former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Monday was arrested by Maldives police , hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency for 15 days, in an escalation of a legal battle wit...

Indian quack infects 21 with HIV using common syringes

Indian quack infects 21 with HIV using common syringes

-- 2018-02-06 00:00:00

A fake doctor who has been treating poor villagers for colds, coughs and diarrhoea, infected at least 21 of them with HIV by using contaminated syringes and needles, says an Indian health official. T...

Maldives president declares emergency for 15 days

Maldives president declares emergency for 15 days

-- 2018-02-05 21:56:37

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency in the country on Monday amid a deepening political crisis in the island nation. The president's close aide Azima Shukooron made...

Army chopper crashes into house in Japan

Army chopper crashes into house in Japan

-- 2018-02-05 15:52:28

A Japanese military helicopter has crashed in south-western Japan, ripping the top floor off a house and setting it afire. The combat helicopter belonging to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Metabaru...

S Korea bans 36,000 foreigners from entering Olympics

S Korea bans 36,000 foreigners from entering Olympics

-- 2018-02-05 10:39:12

South Korea has banned 36,000 foreigners from entering the country ahead of the Winter Olympics, citing security concerns, Reuters news agency reported on Monday citing Yonhap News Agency. Yonhap cit...

Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew goes missing

Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew goes missing

-- 2018-02-05 10:34:58

A ship carrying 22 Indian crew and 13,500 tons of gasoline is missing in the Gulf of Guinea after contact was lost in Benin on Friday, the company and India’s minister of external affairs said o...

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state to visit South

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state to visit South

-- 2018-02-05 09:45:30

North Korea is to send its highest ranking official for years to the South amid an easing of tensions during the Winter Olympics. Kim Yong-nam, the ceremonial head of state, will lead a 22-member del...

Four Indian soldiers die in 'Pakistani firing'

Four Indian soldiers die in 'Pakistani firing'

-- 2018-02-05 00:00:00

Four Indian soldiers, including an officer, have been killed in the latest cross-border clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, deputy commissioner of Rajouri sector, sai...

Man held for trying break into Iranian presidential office

Man held for trying break into Iranian presidential office

-- 2018-02-05 00:00:00

A man was shot and arrested in Iran after trying to break into the presidential office building, the deputy governor of Tehran was quoted as saying by Fars news agency on Monday. “We are trying...