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Turkey, Britain agree to speed up fighter jet project

Turkey, Britain agree to speed up fighter jet project

-- 2019-12-11 15:10:29

Turkey and Britain have agreed to speed up work on a project to build fighter jets, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told broadcaster A Haber on Wednesday. The two countries agreed a 100 mil...

Suu Kyi to lead genocide defence at ICJ today

Suu Kyi to lead genocide defence at ICJ today

-- 2019-12-11 13:04:12

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi will lead Myanmar’s defence at the World Court on Wednesday, where her country faces accusations of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority. Gamb...

Somali forces kill five al Shaabab fighters to end hotel siege

Somali forces kill five al Shaabab fighters to end hotel siege

-- 2019-12-11 12:26:03

Somali security forces shot dead five Al Shabaab gunmen, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night, poli...

US judge blocks $3.6b transfer to Mexican border wall

US judge blocks $3.6b transfer to Mexican border wall

Reuters 2019-12-11 12:10:28

A US federal judge on Tuesday (local time) issued a permanent injunction barring President Donald Trump’s attempt to transfer $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a wall on the U...

US grounds Saudi pilots, halts military training after shooting

US grounds Saudi pilots, halts military training after shooting

-- 2019-12-11 11:01:15

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notice after a Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot and kill...

Police officer among six killed in New Jersey shooting

Police officer among six killed in New Jersey shooting

-- 2019-12-11 10:41:35

Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded on Tuesday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New...

US blacklists head of Myanmar military

US blacklists head of Myanmar military

-- 2019-12-10 22:48:45

The United States (US) on Tuesday blacklisted four Myanmar military leaders, including the commander-in-chief, in the toughest action taken yet by Washington for alleged human rights abuses against th...

Noble laureates want Suu Kyi, generals held criminally accountable for genocide

Noble laureates want Suu Kyi, generals held criminally accountable for genocide

-- 2019-12-10 18:55:25

Nobel Peace laureates have demanded that Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, along with her army commanders, be held criminally accountable for crimes committed against the Rohingyas....

China's CPI up in November

China's CPI up in November

Xinhua 2019-12-10 18:19:02

China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.5 per cent year on year in November, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The growth rate, which was up from 3.8...

Southern elephant seal spotted for first time in Sri Lankan waters

Southern elephant seal spotted for first time in Sri Lankan waters

Xinhua 2019-12-10 16:36:59

A southern elephant seal was spotted for the first time in Sri Lankan waters and has attracted many locals as it swarmed off the coast of capital Colombo searching for a place to haul, local media rep...

Tell Myanmar to stop genocide, Gambia asks UN judges

Tell Myanmar to stop genocide, Gambia asks UN judges

-- 2019-12-10 16:35:41

The Gambia has asked the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, to tell Myanmar to stop genocide carried out on Myanmar's own people....

Three Australians believed among dead in New Zealand volcano eruption

Three Australians believed among dead in New Zealand volcano eruption

Xinhua 2019-12-10 16:34:17

Three Australians are believed to be among those killed in New Zealand's volcanic explosion, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a press conference on Tuesday morning. Morrison said 24 Australians...

Suu Kyi at Hague court for genocide hearing

Suu Kyi at Hague court for genocide hearing

REUTERS 2019-12-10 15:16:56

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the UN's International Court of Justice on Tuesday to defend her country over charges of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority. Gambia launched pr...

Czech hospital shooting leaves four dead

Czech hospital shooting leaves four dead

-- 2019-12-10 14:49:03

An attacker shot dead four people and seriously injured two at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday, police said. Police said on Twitter they were searching for the attacke...

US Commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah over citizenship bill

US Commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah over citizenship bill

-- 2019-12-10 14:38:17

Describing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a "dangerous turn in the wrong direction", a federal US commission on international religious freedom has sought American sanctions against Indian Home M...

Protests erupt as India pushes for religion-based citizenship bill

Protests erupt as India pushes for religion-based citizenship bill

REUTERS 2019-12-10 12:28:38

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in India on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial bill in parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslim mi...

Alarms triggered as Sydney choked by bushfire smoke

Alarms triggered as Sydney choked by bushfire smoke

-- 2019-12-10 11:58:35

Smoke from Australia’s fierce bushfires settled over Sydney in still conditions on Tuesday, setting off fire alarms, and halting ferry services as famous landmarks disappeared behind some of the...

Ukraine, Russia agree to implement ceasefire

Ukraine, Russia agree to implement ceasefire

-- 2019-12-10 11:27:34

Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive" ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr...

Chilean Air Force plane goes missing with 38 on board

Chilean Air Force plane goes missing with 38 on board

Reuters 2019-12-10 10:21:13

The Chilean Air Force reported on Monday (local time) the disappearance of one of its cargo planes that was headed to a base in Antarctica with 38 people on board. The Hercules C130 aircraft took off...

ICJ hearing on Rohingya issue begins today

ICJ hearing on Rohingya issue begins today

MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN 2019-12-10 10:10:16

An order for 'Provisional Measures' from the International Court of the Justice (ICJ), that sits this (Tuesday) morning in the Hague, Netherlands to hear a case regarding the Rohingya issue, may exped...

265-yr-old stone tablet found in north China

265-yr-old stone tablet found in north China

Xinhua 2019-12-09 20:12:59

An ancient stone tablet dating back 265 years ago was found in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said. Archaeologists believe the stone tablet was erected in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911...

S Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances for restaurants

S Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances for restaurants

-- 2019-12-09 19:13:23

Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, the authorities said on Sunday, further eroding some of the world's strictest social rules as sweeping reforms...

'Sudden' volcano eruption in New Zealand kills five

'Sudden' volcano eruption in New Zealand kills five

-- 2019-12-09 15:29:08

At least five people were killed, up to 20 injured and several were reported missing after a volcano suddenly erupted off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island on Monday, spewing a plume of as...

Peru arrests 27 army members for fuel theft

Peru arrests 27 army members for fuel theft

-- 2019-12-09 14:32:38

Peruvian authorities have arrested 27 members of the military, including high-ranking officials, on suspicion of stealing fuel between 2013 and 2018, local media reported Sunday. An investigation led...

Finnish minister, 34, to become world’s youngest PM

Finnish minister, 34, to become world’s youngest PM

-- 2019-12-09 14:00:07

Sanna Marin, aged 34, will become the world's youngest prime minister as head of a women-led coalition government in Finland. The transportation minister was picked by her Social Democratic party to...

Several 'unaccounted for' after New Zealand volcano eruption

Several 'unaccounted for' after New Zealand volcano eruption

BBC 2019-12-09 12:03:12

A volcano has erupted in New Zealand with about 50 people in the vicinity - leaving "a number of them" unaccounted for, police said. Tourists were seen walking inside the rim of the White Island crat...

US bill on Xinjiang violates international law, Chinese official says

US bill on Xinjiang violates international law, Chinese official says

-- 2019-12-09 11:35:45

Recent US legislation on Xinjiang is a severe violation of international law and gross interference in China’s internal affairs, the governor of the far western region said on Monday, accusing t...

Lebanon's Hariri reemerges as PM candidate as Khatib withdraws

Lebanon's Hariri reemerges as PM candidate as Khatib withdraws

Reuters 2019-12-09 11:21:55

Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister on Sunday when businessman Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy to lead a government that m...

APEC pledges to further cooperation in Chile year's closing meeting

APEC pledges to further cooperation in Chile year's closing meeting

Xinhua 2019-12-08 18:10:04

Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) pledged to further their cooperation at the APEC Concluding Senior Officials' Meeting (CSOM) held in Singapore on Saturday. Convened by C...

Shooting near Mexico’s presidential residence kills four

Shooting near Mexico’s presidential residence kills four

-- 2019-12-08 11:08:59

Four people were killed and two injured in a shooting on Saturday near Mexico’s National Palace, the presidential residence in the capital’s historic downtown, officials said. President A...