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20 burnt to death in Mexico bus crash

20 burnt to death in Mexico bus crash

-- 2019-05-30 10:56:29

At least 20 people died in a fiery accident in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Wednesday (local time) when a bus collided with a cargo truck, a state official and various local media out...

Nigerian president sworn in for second term

Nigerian president sworn in for second term

-- 2019-05-29 19:14:12

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term as head of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, facing heightened pressure to defeat Islamic extremism and boost the oil-dependent econ...

Myanmar gets one year for framework of conducive condition in Rakhine

Myanmar gets one year for framework of conducive condition in Rakhine

FE Online Report 2019-05-29 18:14:08

The UN has given the Myanmar government one year to establish a framework in order to creating conducive condition in Rakhine state for the voluntary Rohingya return. To this effect, the Memorandum o...

India FM will not join Modi govt for ill health

India FM will not join Modi govt for ill health

-- 2019-05-29 17:46:50

Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister, has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to give him a ministerial position in the new government due to ongoing health problems. Jaitley’s absen...

Boris Johnson to face court over Brexit comments

Boris Johnson to face court over Brexit comments

-- 2019-05-29 16:47:35

Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, must appear in court over allegations he lied to the public about Brexit, a judge ruled on Wednesday. The judge at Londo...

Papua New Guinea PM quits after turmoil

Papua New Guinea PM quits after turmoil

-- 2019-05-29 13:45:09

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Peter O’Neill quit on Wednesday after losing the confidence of parliament during weeks of political turmoil in the South Pacific nation, but government supp...

Libya, UNICEF sign deal to provide education for Libyan children

Libya, UNICEF sign deal to provide education for Libyan children

-- 2019-05-29 12:22:20

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Libyan Ministry of Education on Tuesday signed an agreement to provide education for children affected by the armed conflict in the country. "Towar...

Modi to host Xi for an informal summit

Modi to host Xi for an informal summit

Reuters 2019-05-29 12:18:12

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host the Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year for an informal summit, an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday. “...

Myanmar court issues arrest warrant for radical monk Wirathu

Myanmar court issues arrest warrant for radical monk Wirathu

-- 2019-05-29 11:59:12

A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, on a charge of sedition, police said on Wednesday. Wirathu is known for his rhetoric against minority Muslims,...

Huawei files new legal action against US ban

Huawei files new legal action against US ban

Reuters 2019-05-29 11:33:01

China’s Huawei Technologies has filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit against the US government, according to a court filing in the United States, in the telecoms equipment maker&...

Amnesty Int’l charges Myanmar military with new abuses

Amnesty Int’l charges Myanmar military with new abuses

-- 2019-05-29 11:28:44

Myanmar's military, accused of massive human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingya minority less than two years ago, is committing war crimes and other atrocities as it engages in new military...

Merkel, Macron at odds over top EU job

Merkel, Macron at odds over top EU job

-- 2019-05-29 11:05:36

France and Germany have disagreed on who should take one of the EU's key roles as leaders from the bloc met following parliamentary elections. The vote saw the big centrist blocs lose their majoritie...

Australia’s ‘Egg Boy’ gives donations to NZ attack victims

Australia’s ‘Egg Boy’ gives donations to NZ attack victims

-- 2019-05-29 11:00:43

An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a controversial far-right senator's head says he has given almost A$100,000 (£55,000; $69,000) to survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks. Will C...

Malaysia to send back plastic waste to four rich nations

Malaysia to send back plastic waste to four rich nations

-- 2019-05-28 21:38:39

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 (AP): Malaysia will send back some 3,300 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the US, UK, Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground...

Child among two killed in Japan knife attack

Child among two killed in Japan knife attack

-- 2019-05-28 21:35:11

A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in the Japanese city of Kawasaki near Tokyo. At least 18 people were injured in a residential area. Two of them, an 11-ye...

North Koreans survive by paying bribes: UN

North Koreans survive by paying bribes: UN

-- 2019-05-28 19:12:36

North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country where corruption is "endemic" and repression rife, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday in a report that...

US must clarify its China approach

US must clarify its China approach

Global Times 2019-05-28 18:18:23

The Chinese people are so confused: What on earth does the US want with China? Does it want fair trade or does the US refuse to accept China's development and seek to break the Chinese economy as its...

Five die after drinking spurious liquor in India

Five die after drinking spurious liquor in India

-- 2019-05-28 14:10:21

Five people died and 19 were being treated in hospital after drinking spurious liquor in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, a district official said on Tuesday. The victims fell ill...

Austrian parliament ousts Chancellor Kurz after video scandal

Austrian parliament ousts Chancellor Kurz after video scandal

-- 2019-05-28 13:43:37

Austria's parliament has removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from office in a special parliamentary session. His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), and the opposition Soci...

Egypt’s security forces committed war crimes in Sinai, HRW says

Egypt’s security forces committed war crimes in Sinai, HRW says

-- 2019-05-28 11:39:43

Egyptian security forces have committed widespread abuses against civilians in restive northern Sinai peninsula, some of which amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, urging ot...

India snubs Pakistan for Modi's swearing-in ceremony

India snubs Pakistan for Modi's swearing-in ceremony

-- 2019-05-28 11:02:12

India will not invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who starts his second term as India’s prime minister, two sources in the forei...

PNG to hold key parliament session amid leadership turmoil

PNG to hold key parliament session amid leadership turmoil

-- 2019-05-28 10:59:46

Papua New Guinea’s lawmakers gathered on Tuesday for a crucial sitting of parliament, with opponents vowing to topple the government of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, who clings on despite...

At least 40 inmates found strangled in Brazil prison clashes

At least 40 inmates found strangled in Brazil prison clashes

-- 2019-05-28 10:38:12

At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 dead the day before,...

Two dead, 15 injured after knife attack in Japan

Two dead, 15 injured after knife attack in Japan

-- 2019-05-28 10:02:39

A schoolgirl and an adult man were killed and 15 other young girls injured in a stabbing at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, Japanese national broadcaster NHK cited authorities as saying, and...

Ethiopia apologises for map that erases Somalia

Ethiopia apologises for map that erases Somalia

-- 2019-05-27 19:39:03

Ethiopia's foreign ministry has apologised after a map of Africa on its website incorporated neighbouring Somalia within its own borders. "We sincerely regret any confusion and misunderstanding this...

Trade war won’t destroy China’s supply chain

Trade war won’t destroy China’s supply chain

Global Times 2019-05-27 17:18:30

The current trade war with the US cannot destroy China's advantages in the supply chain and will in fact help the country's manufacturing base to climb faster and higher up the value chain, Chinese in...

Trump says he backs Japan’s efforts to talk with Iran

Trump says he backs Japan’s efforts to talk with Iran

-- 2019-05-27 12:29:04

President Donald Trump on Monday backed the Japanese prime minister’s interest in using his country’s good relations with Iran to help broker a possible dialogue between the US and its nem...

Trump presses Japan over trade gap

Trump presses Japan over trade gap

-- 2019-05-27 12:14:09

US President Donald Trump pressed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday to even out a trade imbalance with the United States and expressed confidence, despite Japanese wariness, that “goo...

Three separate explosions in Kathmandu kill four

Three separate explosions in Kathmandu kill four

-- 2019-05-27 12:04:00

Four people were killed and seven others injured on Sunday (local time) in three separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, and police said they suspected a Maoist splinter group may have b...

Former head of notorious Ethiopian prison arrested

Former head of notorious Ethiopian prison arrested

-- 2019-05-27 11:54:27

The former head of a notorious Ethiopian prison has been arrested and is expected to face trial. Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, also known as Hassan Dhere, was arrested in neighbouring Somalia in a town wher...