Xinhua 2020-01-09 16:55:08
The Philippines on Wednesday expressed "deep concern over the events in Iraq" and the impacts they will have on peace and the stability of the Middle East region. "The Department of Foreign Affairs (...
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At least 19 people were killed and 24 others injured as a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in north of Iran on Thursday, official IRNA news agency reported. The accident happened on Firouz Kooh mo...
Reuters 2020-01-09 14:44:46
Three policemen were among at least four people killed in Vietnam on Thursday when protesters attacked soldiers building a wall near a military airport, the Ministry of Public Security said. The prot...
REUTERS 2020-01-09 13:33:34
President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was “standing down” after it fired missiles at US forces in Iraq, as both sides looked to defuse a cr...
Reuters 2020-01-09 11:36:30
Australian authorities issued new warnings and evacuation notices across the country’s heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening severa...
-- 2020-01-09 10:40:06
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as "senior" royals and work to become financially independent. In a statement, Prince Harry and Meghan also said they plan to split t...
Reuters 2020-01-08 22:47:18
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that there were no American casualties in the Iranian strikes on military bases housing US troops in Iraq and that Tehran appeared to be standing down. &ld...
Reuters 2020-01-08 21:54:06
Turkey and Russia on Wednesday called on all parties in Libya to stop hostilities and declare a ceasefire at midnight on January 12. The two countries made the statement after talks between president...
Xinhua 2020-01-08 19:53:44
More than 40 million tourists from home and abroad visited southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region in 2019, up 19 per cent year on year, according to local authorities. In 2019, tourism revenue rose...
Global Times 2020-01-08 19:43:50
In the early hours of Wednesday local time, Iran launched two rounds of missile attacks at military bases in Iraq housing US troops. According to Tehran, the attacks were in retaliation for the US kil...
Xinhua 2020-01-08 17:59:25
Austria's new coalition government was sworn in by President Alexander Van der Bellen at the presidential residence of Hofburg Palace on Tuesday. The new government is the first conservative-green co...
-- 2020-01-08 16:47:53
Japan has the most powerful passport in the world, according to a new index, reports The Inpedendent. The country has scored the number one position in the ranking for the third year in a row....
-- 2020-01-08 16:38:11
Several major airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned US carriers from the area following an Irani...
-- 2020-01-08 16:28:14
The Pentagon confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) that Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq. "At approximately 5:30pm (EST) on January 7, I...
-- 2020-01-08 12:18:28
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued emergency restrictions for the Gulf airspace, as Washington-Tehran tensions are escalating. The FAA said in a statement that it has issued noti...
Reuters 2020-01-08 12:10:32
Iranian state television said on Wednesday that at least 80 “American terrorists” were killed in attacks involving 15 missiles Tehran launched on US targets in Iraq, adding that none of th...
-- 2020-01-08 11:08:18
A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, the country’s state television and Ukraine&rsquo...
Reuters 2020-01-08 10:35:45
Iran launched a missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday in retaliation for the US drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing has raised fears of a wider war in...
Reuters 2020-01-07 20:59:44
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday. This was the Russian leader's second trip to Syria since Moscow intervened decisively o...
-- 2020-01-07 18:27:36
An Indian court has set an execution date for four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student in Delhi. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to de...
-- 2020-01-07 17:38:38
Almost 2,000 houses have been destroyed in Australia's months-long bushfire crisis, officials say, as crews prepare frantically for worsening conditions. After ferocious conditions last week, firefig...
Xinhua 2020-01-07 16:26:47
New Zealand firefighters have finally managed to contain a large forest fire that broke out on Monday and has burned through more than 300 hectares of the North Island forest in the north of Napier....
-- 2020-01-07 16:25:16
At least 35 people were killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for Iran's top commander Qassem Soleimani killed in a recent US air strike. Another 4...
-- 2020-01-07 14:08:39
Germany is moving some of its military personnel from Iraq to neighbouring countries over security concerns, the government told lawmakers, days after the killing of a top Iranian military commander i...
-- 2020-01-07 13:46:59
The United States warned its citizens in Israel and the Palestinian territories on Monday to be vigilant, citing the risk of rocket fire, three days after a US drone strike killed an Iranian military...
-- 2020-01-07 13:31:23
At least 30 people were killed in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno after an improvised explosive device detonated on a bridge, sources said on Monday. The bomb detonated at roughly 5:00 pm lo...
REUTERS 2020-01-07 12:38:01
The United States has denied a visa to Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a US offic...
-- 2020-01-07 12:26:52
Britain has reduced staff at its embassies in Tehran and Baghdad to a minimum level due to escalating tensions following the US killing of a top Iranian military leader, Sky News reported on Monday....
-- 2020-01-07 11:59:30
More than 60,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since the start of the country's war on drugs in 2006, according to authorities. The number is far higher than previous estimates of around 40,000....
REUTERS 2020-01-07 11:28:10
The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq, defence secretary Mark Esper said on Monday, following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi...
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