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China sentences second Canadian to death

China sentences second Canadian to death

-- 2019-04-30 18:34:44

A court in China has sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine. Fan Wei, whose gender was not specified, is the second Canadian to be sentenced to death thi...

India asks Rahul Gandhi to clear citizenship status

India asks Rahul Gandhi to clear citizenship status

-- 2019-04-30 18:04:59

India’s government has asked Rahul Gandhi, the president of the main opposition Congress party, to respond to a complaint by a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party accusing h...

Trump sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One

Trump sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One

-- 2019-04-30 16:56:34

US President Donald Trump, three of his children and seven of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with f...

Japanese Emperor Akihito declares historic abdication

Japanese Emperor Akihito declares historic abdication

-- 2019-04-30 16:22:34

Japanese Emperor Akihito, in his final remarks as his three-decade reign drew to a close on Tuesday, thanked the people for their support and expressed hope for a peaceful future. Akihito, 85, the fi...

‘Explosive device’ found, man arrested in New Zealand’s Christchurch

‘Explosive device’ found, man arrested in New Zealand’s Christchurch

-- 2019-04-30 15:44:50

New Zealand police said on Tuesday a man was arrested and bomb disposal officers found a package with a suspected explosive device at a vacant property in Christchurch, where 50 people were killed in...

Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

-- 2019-04-30 13:28:46

Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports that Islamist militants were planning fresh attacks b...

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences

-- 2019-04-30 12:05:54

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on Tuesday for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, amid heightened tension between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a Huawei Technolo...

US deputy attorney general quits

US deputy attorney general quits

-- 2019-04-30 12:03:16

Rod Rosenstein, the US deputy attorney general who oversaw the special counsel inquiry into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, has resigned. Mr Rosenstein, who had a fraught working relati...

Trump directs officials to toughen asylum rules

Trump directs officials to toughen asylum rules

Reuters 2019-04-30 11:37:17

US President Donald Trump directed officials to toughen rules for asylum seekers on Monday, including by introducing a fee for their applications and barring those who entered the country illegally fr...

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences: Global Times

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences: Global Times

-- 2019-04-30 10:54:16

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, the Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling C...

Xi pledges zero tolerance for graft

Xi pledges zero tolerance for graft

Shahiduzzaman Khan, back from Beijing 2019-04-30 09:46:07

Beijing wore a festive look last week when as many as 37 world leaders gathered in the Chinese capital to attend the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). More than 5,000...

Gunmen kill six in Burkina Faso church

Gunmen kill six in Burkina Faso church

-- 2019-04-29 18:32:56

Gunmen have opened fire on a church in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least six people, officials say. The attackers reportedly arrived on seven motorbikes at the end of Sunday's service and kille...

UAE spy suspect committed suicide in prison, Turkey says

UAE spy suspect committed suicide in prison, Turkey says

-- 2019-04-29 17:37:54

A man held by Turkey on suspicion of spying for the United Arab Emirates has committed suicide by hanging himself in prison, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The suspect, named...

Tourist arrivals in Colombo to drop by 50pc after bombings

Tourist arrivals in Colombo to drop by 50pc after bombings

-- 2019-04-29 17:22:19

Tourist arrivals in Colombo will fall by 50 per cent over the next two months following the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people, Sri Lanka’s Tourism Bureau Chairman Kishu Gom...

Socialists win Spain election amid far-right breakthrough

Socialists win Spain election amid far-right breakthrough

-- 2019-04-29 17:13:58

Spain's governing Socialists won the country's third election in four years on Monday, but have fallen short of a majority. PM Pedro Sánchez's party polled 29 per cent and will need the help o...

Indonesia floods, landslides claim 29 lives

Indonesia floods, landslides claim 29 lives

-- 2019-04-29 14:02:09

Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 29 people in Indonesia, the disaster agency said on Monday, with thousands taking shelter in evacuation centres amid fears of di...

Sri Lanka on high alert after warnings of more attacks

Sri Lanka on high alert after warnings of more attacks

Reuters 2019-04-29 13:01:06

Sri Lankan security officials have warned that the Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s deadly suicide bombings were planning more attacks imminently, using a van and bombers disguised in m...

Poland unlikely to leave EU: Juncker

Poland unlikely to leave EU: Juncker

-- 2019-04-29 12:34:14

Poland is unlikely to leave the European Union, even if the ruling eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party wins re-election this year, EU executive head Jean-Claude Juncker said in an interview publis...

Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

-- 2019-04-29 11:37:37

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. President Maithruipala Sisirsena said he was...

Bollywood stars, rich Indians vote in fourth phase of election

Bollywood stars, rich Indians vote in fourth phase of election

-- 2019-04-29 11:34:33

Some of India’s richest families, Bollywood stars and others voted early on Monday in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country as the fourth phase of a massive, staggered general election got underwa...

How 'laid back' Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike

How 'laid back' Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike

-- 2019-04-29 11:03:02

A week ago, Sri Lankan tourist guide Ricky Costa was preparing for a typically easy Sunday ferrying backpackers between Colombo’s tea shops and beach bars in his canary-yellow rickshaw. Then the...

Crane falls from Google building in Seattle killing four

Crane falls from Google building in Seattle killing four

-- 2019-04-28 17:55:35

A construction crane fell from a building on Google's new Seattle campus during a storm that brought wind gusts, crashing down onto one of the city's busiest streets and killing four people, reports A...

Ukrainians will reject Putin’s passport offer: Zelenskiy

Ukrainians will reject Putin’s passport offer: Zelenskiy

-- 2019-04-28 14:37:29

Russian President Vladimir Putin should not expect many Ukrainians to take up his offer of a Russian passport, Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while offering Ukrainian citize...

More than 270 election staff die from overwork in Indonesia

More than 270 election staff die from overwork in Indonesia

-- 2019-04-28 14:24:19

Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions...

Australia PM promises migration cut if re-elected

Australia PM promises migration cut if re-elected

-- 2019-04-28 13:21:03

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, trailing in opinion polls ahead of a May 18 election, on Sunday campaigned on the hot-button issue of immigration, promising to cut annual migrant numbers and...

Woman dies in US Synagogue shooting; three wounded

Woman dies in US Synagogue shooting; three wounded

-- 2019-04-28 11:53:03

A gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue in the US crowded with Sabbath worshippers on Saturday and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding three others i...

Islamic State claims attack on east coast city of Sri Lanka

Islamic State claims attack on east coast city of Sri Lanka

Reuters 2019-04-28 11:31:03

Islamic State claimed on Saturday that three of its members clashed with Sri Lankan police for several hours before detonating their explosive vests on them in the east coast city of Kalmunai late on...

Sri Lanka bans groups suspected to be behind attacks

Sri Lanka bans groups suspected to be behind attacks

-- 2019-04-28 10:02:19

Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday outlawed two Islamist groups suspected to be behind the suicide bombings on churches and hotels while the wife and child of the suspected ringleader were wounde...

Relatives of Sri Lanka bombings’ mastermind wounded in shootout

Relatives of Sri Lanka bombings’ mastermind wounded in shootout

-- 2019-04-27 20:56:26

The wife and a daughter of the suspected mastermind of suicide attacks on churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka were wounded in a gunbattle that erupted following a raid in the east of the country, po...

Sri Lanka police chief refusing to quit despite president's request

Sri Lanka police chief refusing to quit despite president's request

-- 2019-04-27 17:05:25

Sri Lanka’s police chief has refused a request by President Maithripala Sirisena to step down following suicide bombings on churches and hotels, two sources at the president’s office said...