-- 2019-12-26 11:38:04
Seven people died and 64 were rescued when a boat carrying migrants sank in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The agency said the boat sank ne...
Reuters 2019-12-26 11:24:34
A typhoon that struck the central Philippines over Christmas has killed at least 13 people, disaster agency officials said on Thursday. Typhoon Phanfone hit the Philippines late on Tuesday with winds...
-- 2019-12-25 22:34:58
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons, reports AP. Spea...
Reuters 2019-12-25 20:09:48
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the 'darkness in human hearts' that leads to religious persecution, social injustice, armed conflicts and fear of migrant...
Global Times 2019-12-25 19:00:14
Two US representatives on Monday introduced a bill in the Congress demanding to upgrade the director of the American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) Taipei office to the rank of "Ambassador at Large," and...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a 60-billion-rupee ($842 million) plan to tackle water shortages in the country's seven heartland states where agriculture is a mainstay, repo...
Xinhua 2019-12-25 17:46:09
Russia is ready to work on new arms control agreements but in the meantime will continue to strengthen its nuclear forces, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russia will advance its work on the c...
-- 2019-12-25 14:14:21
Christmas turned to chaos for many holiday observers in the central Philippines as a typhoon with strong winds and heavy rains destroyed homes, cut off power and stranded travelers, disaster officials...
-- 2019-12-25 12:23:35
Burkina Faso insurgents killed 35 mostly female civilians on Tuesday after attacking a military outpost in northern Soum Province, and about 87 militants and local security forces were killed in the c...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2019-12-25 11:52:42
Nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees living in India are not eligible for citizenship under a new law, sparking concerns they may be forced to return to the island nation they fled during a decades-long...
Reuters 2019-12-25 11:48:29
Two strong earthquakes, of magnitude 6.2 and magnitude 5.7, struck central Colombia on Tuesday (local time), the Colombian Geological Service said, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries...
-- 2019-12-24 20:27:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia is the only country in the world that has hypersonic weapons. Speaking at a meeting with top military brass, Putin said that for the first ti...
Xinhua 2019-12-24 18:00:33
The pilot of Russia's newest Su-57 fighter survived after the aircraft crashed during a test flight Tuesday in the far eastern Khabarovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "The ejection syst...
REUTERS 2019-12-24 14:14:55
A Turkish delegation was in Russia on Monday for talks on Syria, following reports that Russian-backed attacks there were forcing tens of thousands more Syrians to flee towards Turkey. Turkey already...
Reuters 2019-12-24 13:29:04
Calls for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to resign have littered social media platforms after it was revealed he was holidaying in Hawaii while the country battled a bushfire emergency and h...
-- 2019-12-24 12:58:09
Police in Nepal have detained 122 Chinese nationals in its biggest crackdown on crime by foreigners entering the country on tourist visa, officials said on Tuesday. The chief of police in the capital...
REUTERS 2019-12-24 12:52:43
Thousands of Indians have been protesting against a new citizenship law as well as possible plans for a National Register of Citizens (NRC), alleging the measures are an attack on a secular constituti...
-- 2019-12-24 12:07:34
Twenty-five people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s Sumatra island after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, police said Tuesday. At least 14 other people...
-- 2019-12-24 11:32:48
Venezuela has arrested 11 people in connection with a weekend raid of a remote military outpost in southern Bolivar state, but some suspects have fled across the border to Brazil with stolen weapons,...
REUTERS 2019-12-24 11:08:47
Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a UN investigator accused it of making a “mockery” of justi...
S M Jahangir From Beijing, China 2019-12-24 10:32:16
The major policies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and its government are to pursue shared mutual understanding and friendly relations with all nations, a senior international committee leader o...
Reuters 2019-12-23 18:58:37
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears to lose control of the state of Jharkhand in state poll results out on Monday. That means more political troubles for India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Reuters 2019-12-23 16:31:17
Five people were sentenced to death and three more to jail terms totalling 24 years in Saudi Arabia over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that occurred in Istanbul in October last...
Reuters 2019-12-23 16:23:58
A Turkish delegation will travel to Moscow on Monday to discuss Syria and Libya, areas where the nations have some opposing views, for talks that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said would determine...
REUTERS 2019-12-23 11:40:36
The White House on Sunday signalled comfort with plans by Senate Republicans to avoid new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, while a top Democrat seized on a newly released...
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At least 16 Honduran inmates were killed during a fight between armed gangs of prisoners on Sunday, officials said, the second outbreak of violence to hit Honduras’ beleaguered jails in the past...
-- 2019-12-23 10:50:16
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 300 treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local aut...
-- 2019-12-23 10:20:32
At least nine people, including four women and three children, died in Delhi in a fire that broke out in a residential building early on Monday, confirmed an official in the city's Fire Department. T...
Xinhua 2019-12-22 18:02:02
Continued violent activities targeting shops and passersby have disrupted business order and led to job losses, threatening the livelihood of numerous families in Hong Kong, the financial chief said o...
-- 2019-12-22 17:04:36
The BBC is considering restricting its journalists’ use of Twitter, following the waves of online criticism it received from internet users over its coverage during the election campaign in UK,...
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