-- 2019-08-18 13:01:52
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 12:05 pm Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre, with a depth of 6 km, was monitored at...
-- 2019-08-18 12:05:28
Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week. The UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he wil...
-- 2019-08-18 11:50:00
Hong Kong braced for a major anti-government rally planned for Sunday after an unusually calm Saturday night in what has been a summer of violent protests in the Asian financial hub. Demonstrations h...
Reuters 2019-08-18 10:29:17
A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a wedding reception in the Afghan capital on Saturday night, the interior ministry said. The Taliban denied responsibility for the bl...
-- 2019-08-17 19:06:38
A massive fire has broken out at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. The fire has reportedly broken out on the first and second floors of a building inside the hospital...
Xinhua 2019-08-17 18:25:09
US President Donald Trump on Friday floated the possibility of a deal with the Taliban after a meeting with senior advisors on Afghan issues. "Just completed a very good meeting on Afghanistan. Many...
-- 2019-08-17 14:26:39
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday began restoring landline phone services after a nearly two-week unprecedented security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to downgr...
-- 2019-08-17 13:00:52
Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. The fire occurred shortly...
-- 2019-08-17 11:46:20
The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released. The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barr...
-- 2019-08-16 12:03:41
An aerial bomb of Nazi troops was retrieved and removed from the Kremlin during archaeological excavation, the Kremlin's commandant Sergei Khlebnikov said Thursday, reports Xinhua. The undetonated bo...
-- 2019-08-16 10:58:04
Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The federal Public Sa...
Xinhua 2019-08-15 17:17:02
China Life Insurance Co, a leading insurer in the country, saw steady growth in its premium income in the first seven months, company data showed Thursday. Premium income in the period totalled 405.1...
-- 2019-08-15 17:08:25
Police officers patrol the departure hall of Hong Kong International airport on Wednesday. Flights were departing the airport largely on schedule, a day after radical protesters caused chaos with a di...
-- 2019-08-14 12:22:19
China’s Hong Kong Liaison office said on Wednesday that anti government protesters were no different to “terrorists”, as US President Donald Trump said Chinese troops were moving to...
-- 2019-08-14 12:07:50
Malaysia's cabinet will discuss the permanent residency of controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Wednesday, said a minister who believed Naik should return to India to face charges of mo...
-- 2019-08-14 11:59:17
Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir were running low on essential supplies Tuesday as an unprecedented security lockdown kept people indoors for a ninth day. India has imposed a near-constant cu...
-- 2019-08-14 10:21:11
Pakistan has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet over India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ti...
-- 2019-08-13 20:16:47
A man went on a stabbing rampage in downtown Sydney on Tuesday, killing one woman and wounding another before he was restrained by members of the public, police said, adding they were not treating it...
-- 2019-08-13 20:00:58
Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two associates are to stand trial for allegedly bribing Guinean officials to win mining licences, Swiss prosecutors say. The trio allegedly paid $10m (£8....
-- 2019-08-13 18:13:36
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. Greta has stopped flying due to environmental reasons,...
-- 2019-08-13 17:57:36
After weeks of hype, a special episode of Bear Grylls’ adventure series, Running Wild, featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aired on Monday, reports BBC. A trailer showing Mr Modi lear...
-- 2019-08-13 16:01:48
Protesters clogged the departure area at Hong Kong’s reopened airport Tuesday, a day after they forced one of the world’s busiest transport hubs to shut down entirely amid their calls for...
-- 2019-08-13 15:43:20
The US scientists have mapped a part of the molecular machinery that helps the brain maintain long-term memories, providing new targets against Alzheimer’s disease characterised by memory loss....
-- 2019-08-13 15:37:39
US President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to poor. The lon...
-- 2019-08-13 15:21:45
India’s domestic passenger vehicle sales in July dived at the steepest pace in nearly two decades, an auto industry body said on Tuesday, as a financing crunch deepened a crisis in the country...
-- 2019-08-13 15:07:50
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways said it had suspended with immediate effect on Tuesday a second officer operating flight CX216 for misuse of company information, and had also commenced i...
-- 2019-08-13 11:54:47
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has warned anti-government protesters not to push the city into an "abyss", in an emotional press conference on Tuesday, reports BBC. Ms Lam warned that Hong Kong had "rea...
-- 2019-08-13 11:01:36
Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable" disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said. Four drugs were trialled on patients in the Demo...
-- 2019-08-13 11:00:44
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing tensions with Pakistan over the abrogation of the Article 370, Pakistani forces have started moving equipment to their forward bases close to Ladakh, according to a report...
-- 2019-08-13 10:48:41
Almost unnoticed, two key leaders in Congress have questioned Modi’s India on Kashmiri rights, according to a article by www.forbes.com. This was a joint statement, by Senator Robert Menendez...
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