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UAE offers five-year visa for tourists

UAE offers five-year visa for tourists

-- 2020-01-06 21:12:35

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled multiple-entry five-year visa system for tourists for the first time. The country took the decision in the first meeting of its cabinet of the year on Mond...

Weeping, Iran supreme leader prays over general slain by US

Weeping, Iran supreme leader prays over general slain by US

AP 2020-01-06 16:51:52

Weeping amid wails from a crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a US airst...

Merkel, Putin to discuss Middle East crisis in Moscow

Merkel, Putin to discuss Middle East crisis in Moscow

Reuters 2020-01-06 16:35:27

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Russia on January 11 to discuss the Middle East crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader’s press service gave the informat...

Delhi police probe attack on students at elite university

Delhi police probe attack on students at elite university

-- 2020-01-06 14:11:53

Delhi police are investigating how masked men burst into a premier university and attacked a student protest with sticks and rods, an officer said on Monday, the latest incident to ignite criticism of...

Japan in principle could press Lebanon to extradite ex-Nissan boss Ghosn: Japan minister

Japan in principle could press Lebanon to extradite ex-Nissan boss Ghosn: Japan minister

REUTERS 2020-01-06 12:56:01

Japan on Monday said it could still press Lebanon to extradite Carlos Ghosn, after the former Nissan Motor boss skipped bail to become a fugitive in a country that normally does not extradite its nati...

Australian bushfires hit businesses, damage still being assessed

Australian bushfires hit businesses, damage still being assessed

-- 2020-01-06 11:37:45

As Australia’s deadly bushfires rage, many companies are reporting hits to business with resorts shutting their doors, cheesemakers struggling to secure milk supplies and insurance claims on the...

Croatia's former PM Milanovic wins presidential vote

Croatia's former PM Milanovic wins presidential vote

-- 2020-01-06 11:18:51

Croatia's former Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, candidate of the top opposition party the Social Democrats, will be the country's next president, the results of the presidential election showed on Su...

Iran says no limits on enrichment, stepping further from 2015 deal

Iran says no limits on enrichment, stepping further from 2015 deal

REUTERS 2020-01-06 10:29:56

Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would continue to cooperate...

Iraqi MPs back call to expel US troops

Iraqi MPs back call to expel US troops

-- 2020-01-05 21:41:54

Iraqi MPs have passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country after the US killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad airport last week. Parliament i...

Iran to finalise its next nuclear step on Sunday night

Iran to finalise its next nuclear step on Sunday night

Reuters 2020-01-05 20:17:06

Iran will finalise its next step to further roll back its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers on Sunday night, days after the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Solei...

Bushfire smoke from Australia covers sky of New Zealand's Auckland

Bushfire smoke from Australia covers sky of New Zealand's Auckland

Xinhua 2020-01-05 16:10:18

The heavy smoke from devastating Australian bushfires cloaked Auckland, turning the city's skyline into eerie orange colour on Sunday afternoon. New Zealand meteorology service MetService forecast th...

Iraq parliament to convene extraordinary session to expel US troops

Iraq parliament to convene extraordinary session to expel US troops

Reuters 2020-01-05 16:09:37

Iraq’s parliament is set to convene an extraordinary session on Sunday where the lawmakers would push for a vote on a resolution requiring the government to request the withdrawal of US troops f...

China to set up cultural heritage demonstration zones

China to set up cultural heritage demonstration zones

-- 2020-01-05 15:01:11

China is to set up a batch of demonstration zones for the protection and use of cultural heritage resources, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA). The areas should have s...

Australia bushfire: Fundraiser raises A$20m in 48 hours

Australia bushfire: Fundraiser raises A$20m in 48 hours

-- 2020-01-05 13:53:22

A fundraiser for fire services in New South Wales, Australia has raised more than A$20 million (£10.6m; $13m) in just 48 hours, as the state battles a bushfire crisis. Australian comedian Celes...

British navy to escort UK ships in Strait of Hormuz

British navy to escort UK ships in Strait of Hormuz

REUTERS 2020-01-05 13:13:46

Britain’s navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani inflamed tensions in the reg...

Cambodia guesthouse collapse leaves 36 dead

Cambodia guesthouse collapse leaves 36 dead

-- 2020-01-05 13:11:18

Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble, officials said on Sunday. Officials said rescue op...

Airstrike kills 28 students of military academy in Libya’s Tripoli

Airstrike kills 28 students of military academy in Libya’s Tripoli

-- 2020-01-05 12:30:21

An airstrike hit a military academy in the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Saturday, killing 28 students and injuring 18 others. "Initial casualties indicate that 28 students of the military academy w...

Tens of thousands march in India to protest citizenship law

Tens of thousands march in India to protest citizenship law

REUTERS 2020-01-05 12:03:17

Over one hundred thousand protesters, many carrying the Indian tricolour flag, took part in a peaceful march in the southern city of Hyderabad on Saturday, chanting slogans against prime minister Nare...

Fourteen killed in bomb attack on bus convoy in Burkina Faso

Fourteen killed in bomb attack on bus convoy in Burkina Faso

Reuters 2020-01-05 11:41:31

Fourteen people were killed and 19 wounded when a bus carrying students ran over an improvised explosive device on Saturday in northern Burkina Faso, the government said. It was not immediately clear...

Trump vows to hit 52 Iranian targets if Iran retaliates

Trump vows to hit 52 Iranian targets if Iran retaliates

REUTERS 2020-01-05 11:09:37

US president Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran attacks Americans or US assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qass...

Indonesia flood: Deaths rise to 53, 0.17m displaced

Indonesia flood: Deaths rise to 53, 0.17m displaced

Reuters 2020-01-04 17:47:20

Nearly 175,000 people remain displaced in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby towns, after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people, amid some of the heaviest rain since records...

US-led coalition, Iraqi military deny airstrike north of Baghdad

US-led coalition, Iraqi military deny airstrike north of Baghdad

Xinhua 2020-01-04 17:13:15

The US-led coalition, fighting the Islamic State (IS) militant group, and the Iraqi military on Saturday denied any airstrike north of Baghdad. "The coalition did not conduct airstrikes near Camp Taj...

Bolivia to hold general elections on May 3

Bolivia to hold general elections on May 3

Xinhua 2020-01-04 16:54:01

Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) has decided to hold general elections on May 3, the court's vice President said on Friday. "The first Sunday in May," the official told reporters at a public e...

UK royal family releases photo of four generations

UK royal family releases photo of four generations

Reuters 2020-01-04 16:51:44

Buckingham Palace, the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom, has issued a new photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth, her son Prince Charles, her gra...

Thousands gather in Baghdad to mourn Soleimani

Thousands gather in Baghdad to mourn Soleimani

Reuters 2020-01-04 16:43:18

Thousands of mourners gathered in Baghdad on Saturday ahead of a funeral procession for Iran’s slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others ki...

US oil workers leave Iraq after air strike on Iranian leader

US oil workers leave Iraq after air strike on Iranian leader

REUTERS 2020-01-04 15:07:02

US citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were leaving the country on Friday, the Oil Ministry said, after a US air strike killed a top Iranian commander in...

US Senate in stalemate over how to proceed with Trump impeachment trial

US Senate in stalemate over how to proceed with Trump impeachment trial

REUTERS 2020-01-04 14:19:19

The US Senate remained at a stalemate on Friday over how to proceed with the impeachment trial of president Donald Trump, as the chamber’s leaders wrangled over whether White House aides will be...

Greta changes Twitter name to ‘Sharon’ after game show error

Greta changes Twitter name to ‘Sharon’ after game show error

-- 2020-01-04 12:02:33

Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. While appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Hen...

Fresh air strikes targeting Iraqi militia kill six

Fresh air strikes targeting Iraqi militia kill six

Reuters 2020-01-04 11:54:08

Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded thr...

Bushfire sweeps across southeast Australia, two more dead

Bushfire sweeps across southeast Australia, two more dead

-- 2020-01-04 11:23:00

Bushfires were burning dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fueled by soaring temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property...