Reuters 2019-07-17 11:40:32
The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday (local time) to condemn President Donald Trump for “racist comments” against four minority Democratic congresswomen, a symbolic measure aim...
Reuters 2019-07-17 10:09:40
The United States has announced sanctions on the Myanmar military’s Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders it said were responsible for extrajudicial killings of Rohingya...
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The woman nominated to head the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has pledged to launch a "green deal for Europe", in a bid for MEPs' support, reports BBC. Mrs von der Leyen set out her agenda in...
FE Online Report 2019-07-16 19:28:54
More than 820 million people are suffering from hunger across the world, a UN report has said. Besides, the income inequality has been increasing the likelihood of severe food insecurity, the report...
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A four-storey building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, trapping dozens in the rubble, with at least four people confirmed dead, a fire department official said. It...
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Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday. Elite police forces searched properties across northern...
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Pakistan’s airspace has been reopened to civil aviation with immediate effect, its aviation authority said on Tuesday, following months of restrictions imposed in the wake of a standoff with nei...
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An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck south of Indonesia’s Bali on Tuesday, the European earthquake monitoring agency EMSC said, causing minor damage and prompting residents and...
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Starkly injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, President Donald Trump said four congresswomen of colour should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they ca...
Reuters 2019-07-15 13:38:12
Former South African president Jacob Zuma will be questioned at a public inquiry into state graft on Monday, a dramatic fall from grace for a politician who has cast a long shadow over the country&rsq...
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Most players would have been broken by what happened at the end of the T20 World Cup final in 2016 but Ben Stokes, the bowler destroyed by West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite, is made of sterner stuf...
-- 2019-07-15 11:51:38
Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on...
Reuters 2019-07-15 01:12:22
England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time after New Zealand matched their 15 in a Super Over but lost on fewer boundaries scored in the match after an extraordinary final at Lord's was tied...
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The Cricket World Cup final will be decided by a Super Over after England were all out for 241 on the last ball of their innings, chasing New Zealand's 241-8 at Lord's on Sunday. England scored 14 of...
-- 2019-07-14 20:10:00
England will chase 242 to win the Cricket World Cup for the first time after Liam Plunkett’s 3-40 helped to limit New Zealand to another middling total in the final at Lord’s on Sunday. E...
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck southeast of the city of Ternate on Sunday, in the Moluccas in the eastern area of Indonesia, the US Geological Survey reported. The earthquake occurred...
-- 2019-07-14 17:27:58
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat in the final of the Cricket World Cup against England which will produce a new 50-overs champion at the Lord’s on Sunday. Mor...
-- 2019-07-14 12:20:43
An armed man who attacked an immigration detention centre in the US city of Tacoma died after police officers opened fire, authorities say. Police said they received reports that a man, armed with a...
-- 2019-07-14 11:22:22
A Canadian citizen has been detained in the Chinese city of Yantai, a Canadian government spokesman said on Saturday, an incident that comes amid chilly diplomatic relations between the two countrie...
-- 2019-07-14 11:10:55
Flash floods and landslides in Nepal triggered by monsoon rains killed 15 people and injured 12 overnight while another 18 have gone missing, officials said on Saturday. The latest deaths took to 30...
-- 2019-07-14 10:40:36
The number of bodies recovered by Tunisia after a ship packed with migrants sank off its coast last week has risen to 82, in one of the worst disasters in recent years, the Tunisian Red Crescent said...
-- 2019-07-14 10:39:23
A wide swath of New York’s Manhattan borough was plunged into darkness Saturday after a transformer explosion knocked out power to subways, stores and Broadway theaters, but the city’s mai...
-- 2019-07-13 18:22:55
New Zealanders have started handing over their semi-automatic weapons on Saturday as part of a buyback scheme following a ban after the Christchurch attacks. Gun reforms were enacted after a gunman s...
-- 2019-07-13 17:19:45
Thousands of Hong Kong people marched on Saturday to protest against mainland Chinese traders in a town near the border, tapping into anger behind huge demonstrations against an extradition bill to hi...
-- 2019-07-13 14:35:15
The death toll from Somalia’s Kismayu hotel attack on Friday has risen to 26, including Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians, Jubbaland region’s president said on Saturday. A presi...
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China said on Friday it would impose sanctions on US firms involved in a deal to sell $2.2-billion worth of tanks, missiles and related equipment to Taiwan, saying it harmed China’s sovereignty...
-- 2019-07-13 11:24:43
At least seven people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in southern Somalia, including Canadian-Somali TV journalist Hodan Nalayeh, reports say. Officials and survivors say a suicide bomber ra...
-- 2019-07-12 20:58:49
President Donald Trump said Friday that Alex Acosta, his embattled secretary of labour, will resign following controversy over his handling of a sex crimes case involving the financier, Jeffrey Epstei...
-- 2019-07-12 17:46:44
Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution observers said was possibly aimed at preparing for a peace treaty with the...
-- 2019-07-12 17:35:41
Turkey has received the first parts of a Russian S-400 missile defence system despite opposition from the US. The shipment arrived in an airbase in the capital Ankara on Friday, the Turkish defence m...
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