-- 2019-11-04 12:42:00
A vessel owned by Norwegian shipping firm J J Ugland was boarded by pirates while at anchor off the coast of Benin on Saturday, and nine crew members were kidnapped, the company said on Sunday. The r...
-- 2019-11-04 11:45:50
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday emphasised that the “speedy, safe and sustainable” return of Rohingyas to their homes in Rakhine was in the interest of the region, the displa...
-- 2019-11-04 11:41:28
Authorities in the Indian capital on Monday banished from the roads cars with number plates ending in an odd number in a bid to cut hazardous air pollution shrouding the city. The US Embassy air qual...
-- 2019-11-04 11:02:30
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres expressed concern Sunday over the plight of the 730,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state, calling on Myanmar's government to take responsibil...
-- 2019-11-04 10:24:20
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for the wildfires sweeping California, in a Twitter spat with the state's governor. Nearly 100,000 acres have been destroyed by wildfir...
-- 2019-11-03 22:18:18
Illegal loggers in the Amazon ambushed an indigenous group that was formed to protect the forest and shot dead a young warrior and wounded another, leaders of the Guajajara tribe in northern Brazil sa...
Global Times 2019-11-03 18:14:10
India officially divided its state of Jammu and Kashmir Thursday into two new union territories to be ruled directly by the central government in New Delhi. The so-called Union Territories of Jammu an...
-- 2019-11-03 17:49:38
China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency denounced the attack on its office in Hong Kong by pro-democracy protesters as "barbaric" during a melee that marked nearly five months of unrest in the Chinese...
Reuters 2019-11-03 16:18:58
Iran will maintain its ban on talks with the United States, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, describing the two countries as implacable foes a day before the 40th an...
Reuters 2019-11-03 11:38:51
Islamic state has claimed responsibility for an attack in northeastern Mali that killed at least 53 soldiers, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday without citing evidence. Mali gov...
-- 2019-11-03 11:26:28
Airbnb has said it will ban "party houses" after a mass shooting at a California home rented through the company left five people dead. CEO Brian Chesky said in a tweet the company would take steps t...
-- 2019-11-03 11:13:30
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson drew an angry backlash from Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on Saturday after he rejected calls to drop his Brexit deal and embrace a clean break from the Europea...
-- 2019-11-02 16:08:30
Pakistan’s powerful military said it supported the country’s elected government and the constitution, as tens of thousands of opposition protesters gathered in the capital demanding that P...
-- 2019-11-02 15:03:02
More than 100 migrant workers from India’s Kashmir will be moved after a spate of killings by suspected separatist militants underlined the threat to outsiders in the restive region. Senior off...
-- 2019-11-02 12:35:15
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said societies as a whole pay a price when journalists are targeted. Almost 90 per cent of those responsible for the killing of 1,109 journalists around the...
-- 2019-11-02 12:10:57
At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said. The attack is one of the deadliest strikes against the West...
-- 2019-11-02 11:40:42
Four people were shot dead at a crowded Halloween costume party at a house in Orinda in Northern California in the US, the county sheriff’s office said on Friday. The shooting took place around...
Reuters 2019-11-01 19:45:34
Thailand launched an 'anti-fake news' centre on Friday, the Southeast Asian country’s latest effort to exert government control over a sweeping range of online content. The move came as Thailan...
-- 2019-11-01 17:43:57
Schools in the Indian capital will be shut until Nov 5, the city government said on Friday, as residents breathed the season's worst air for a third straight day, reports Reuters. As farm fires...
-- 2019-11-01 10:19:55
A deeply divided US House of Representatives took a major step on Thursday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump when lawmakers approved rules for the next, more public, stage in the Democra...
-- 2019-10-31 22:51:10
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The measure detailed how the inquiry will move into a more pub...
-- 2019-10-31 13:48:10
The Pentagon on Wednesday released its first images from last weekend’s commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned the militant group ma...
-- 2019-10-31 12:43:21
Police in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar have apprehended 800 Chinese citizens and confiscated hundreds of computers and mobile phone SIM cards as part of an investigation into a cybercrime ring...
-- 2019-10-31 12:38:28
India has formally divided the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two new federally-administered territories. In the new arrangement, Jammu and Kashmir is one territory, and Ladakh, which borders China,...
Reuters 2019-10-31 12:00:59
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked southern Philippines still reeling from two strong tremors this month, killing at least five people and causing previously damaged buildings and homes to collapse. T...
-- 2019-10-31 11:16:53
At least 73 people were killed on Thursday from a fire in three bogies of a Tezgam train near Liaqatpur city in Pakistan, Rahim Yar Khan district government confirmed. Women and children a...
Global Times 2019-10-30 18:26:32
The US is showing positive signs on the ongoing trade talks with China, which is beneficial to yielding a good outcome during next month's APEC summit in Chile. But experts warn it is unwise to assume...
-- 2019-10-30 14:26:07
Five Colombian indigenous guards, tasked with protecting the country’s tribal reservations, were killed in a confrontation, possibly with dissident rebel fighters on Tuesday, the military said....
-- 2019-10-30 13:03:36
India will formally split up disputed Jammu and Kashmir state into two federal territories on Thursday, aiming to tighten its grip on the restive region that has been in the grip of a harsh security c...
-- 2019-10-30 12:57:24
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s two main backers have agreed to work on removing him from office as protests against his government gained momentum in Baghdad and much of the Shi’i...
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