-- 2019-07-21 18:10:09
Some 1,000 firefighters are working to contain wildfires in central Portugal that have already injured eight firefighters and 12 civilians, authorities said Sunday. Portugal’s Civil Protection...
-- 2019-07-21 10:57:15
British ministers are making plans aimed at targeting Iran with sanctions in the aftermath of the Iranian seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf, Reuters reported citing a Daily Telegraph...
Reuters 2019-07-21 10:34:20
Britain has denounced Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a “hostile act” and rejected Tehran’s explanation that it seized the vessel because it had b...
-- 2019-07-20 19:51:40
The death toll in monsoon flooding in South Asia has risen to 152 as millions of people and animals continue to face the brunt in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. At least 90 people have died in Nepal an...
-- 2019-07-20 18:10:23
Pakistan has agreed on a plan to overhaul instruction at madrasas or religious schools to bring the institutions closer into line with conventional schools and curb extremist teaching, Education Minis...
-- 2019-07-20 12:33:09
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday that Mexico has followed through on its commitment to the United States to reduce migration from Central America, as a deadline in a bilateral pa...
-- 2019-07-20 11:26:07
A man suspected of torching an animation studio and killing 33 people in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades had been convicted of robbery and carried out the attack because he believed his nove...
-- 2019-07-20 10:41:55
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would talk to the United Kingdom after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf. Trump made the commen...
-- 2019-07-20 10:15:13
Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international...
-- 2019-07-19 19:52:49
A powerful bomb exploded outside the gates of Kabul University in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding 33, according to police and health officials. Several of the...
-- 2019-07-19 19:52:40
An explosion on Friday near a gate to the campus of Kabul University in the Afghan capital killed six people and injured at least 27 as students waited to take an examination, officials said, reports...
-- 2019-07-19 19:48:22
A strong earthquake has shaken the Greek capital of Athens, knocking out phone networks and power in parts of the city, reports BBC. The earthquake was registered at 5.1 magnitude with an epicentre...
-- 2019-07-19 19:34:17
Iran on Friday denied President Donald Trump’s assertion that the US Navy has destroyed one of its drones, saying all of its unmanned planes were accounted for, amid growing international concer...
-- 2019-07-19 17:21:09
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of India's Congress party, was detained on Friday near Varanasi by the Uttar Pradesh police. Local police prevented her from travelling to Sonbhadra distr...
-- 2019-07-19 15:32:18
Japanese police have identified the man suspected to have started a fire at an animation studio that killed 33 people as Shinji Aoba, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday. Aoba, who has been in cust...
-- 2019-07-19 13:03:29
Indian warships escorting merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf will remain deployed for the longer term, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said, as tensions between Iran and Western powers...
-- 2019-07-19 11:30:01
Heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides across three countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India and Nepal - have killed at least 93 children, and put the lives of millions more at risk. UNICEF estim...
-- 2019-07-19 10:20:27
The United States said on Thursday that a US Navy ship had "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel, but Iran said it had no information about losi...
-- 2019-07-18 17:37:48
At least 33 people are dead and dozens injured after a suspected arson attack at an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan, local emergency officials have said. Local media quoted police as saying a man br...
-- 2019-07-18 14:17:19
A Myanmar judge on Thursday charged filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi for Facebook posts he made about the powerful military, meaning he will stand trial despite concern over his health and an outcry from...
Reuters 2019-07-18 11:58:06
US President Donald Trump stepped up his vilification of four liberal lawmakers as un-American at a raucous rally on Wednesday, underscoring that the attacks will form a key part of his strategy for w...
Reuters 2019-07-18 10:54:10
Transnational crime syndicates are growing more powerful in Southeast Asia and raking in profit by exploiting rampant corruption, weak law enforcement, and lax border controls, the United Nations said...
Reuters 2019-07-18 10:33:32
More than 10 people are feared dead in a suspected case of arson at an animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto on Thursday, local media reported. About 10 people were found lying on the seco...
-- 2019-07-17 22:47:12
The Australian government has called on China to allow an ethnic Uighur mother and son to leave the country, following a public plea from the child's father, reports BBC. Rights groups say China is h...
-- 2019-07-17 14:39:12
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday arrested Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terror finance charges, a spokesman for the chief...
-- 2019-07-17 13:18:02
At least four people were injured after an airstrike hit a field hospital in south of the capital Tripoli, said the Health Ministry of Libya's UN-backed government on Tuesday. "The field hospital in...
-- 2019-07-17 13:11:05
Mexico has succeeded in "substantially" curbing the flow of undocumented Central American migrants passing through its southern border, the foreign ministry has said. "The flow of irregular entry at...
-- 2019-07-17 13:03:57
The death toll from a building collapse in Mumbai rose to 14, while eight people have been rescued and hospitalised, Mumbai police said Wednesday. Many people are still feared trapped as the rescue m...
-- 2019-07-17 13:03:23
The rate of death in Australia is the lowest it has ever seen, according to data released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Wednesday. Data revealed that the rate of death i...
-- 2019-07-17 12:54:02
Bulgarian police have detained a suspect in a hacking attack on the Balkan country’s National Revenue Agency that led to the leak of personal and financial data of millions of people, an interio...
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