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ArcelorMittal to provide steel or Notre Dame rebuilding

ArcelorMittal to provide steel or Notre Dame rebuilding

-- 2019-04-18 18:45:14

ArcelorMittal has offered steel for the restoration of the Notre Dame in Paris after a fire gutted the gothic cathedral's roof and destroyed its iconic spire, the steelmaker said on Thursday. "The co...

Magnitude 6.1 quake rocks Taiwan

Magnitude 6.1 quake rocks Taiwan

-- 2019-04-18 15:13:09

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s coastal city of Hualien on Thursday, shaking buildings and temporarily halting subway services in the capital Taipei, but there were no immediate repor...

Gunmen kill 14 passengers after hijacking bus in Pakistan

Gunmen kill 14 passengers after hijacking bus in Pakistan

-- 2019-04-18 12:42:23

Gunmen killed 14 people after hijacking a passenger bus in southwestern Pakistan, local media said on Thursday. Local TV channels said the passenger bus from Karachi to Gawadar had been missing since...

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern on Time's list of 100 most influential people

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern on Time's list of 100 most influential people

FE Online Desk 2019-04-18 12:31:01

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was acclaimed for her compassionate handling of the aftermath of a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, has been named among the '100 Most In...

Ex-Peruvian president shoots himself before arrest

Ex-Peruvian president shoots himself before arrest

-- 2019-04-18 11:13:16

Former Peruvian President Alan García has died after shooting himself as police arrived at his home to arrest him over bribery allegations. Mr García was rushed to hospital in the capit...

Voting begins in India's second phase of general election

Voting begins in India's second phase of general election

-- 2019-04-18 11:02:56

Voters across swathes of southern India began queuing up early on Thursday in the second phase of a mammoth, staggered general election in which opposition parties are trying to stop Prime Minister Na...

29 die as tour bus overturns on Portugal’s Madeira island

29 die as tour bus overturns on Portugal’s Madeira island

-- 2019-04-18 10:46:17

At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said. T...

N Korea test-fires new weapon with 'powerful warhead'

N Korea test-fires new weapon with 'powerful warhead'

-- 2019-04-18 10:25:11

North Korea says it has test-fired a new "tactical guided weapon" with a "powerful warhead", the first such test since talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ended without agreement. State medi...

Thunderstorm across Indian states kills 60: State radio

Thunderstorm across Indian states kills 60: State radio

-- 2019-04-18 10:15:57

At least 60 people were killed in lightning strikes and by collapsing houses during a thunderstorm across northern and western India, state radio reported on Thursday quoting provincial officials. In...

Myanmar releases 9,000 prisoners under New Year amnesty

Myanmar releases 9,000 prisoners under New Year amnesty

-- 2019-04-17 18:45:32

Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners from jails on Wednesday, after the president announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year. President Win Myint said 9,353 prison...

Indonesia President Widodo leads presidential race

Indonesia President Widodo leads presidential race

-- 2019-04-17 18:25:30

Indonesia's president looks to be on course for re-election, according to unofficial results released within hours of polls closing. Joko Widodo is about 10 percentage points ahead of his rival, ex-g...

Brazil building collapse: Death toll rises to 16

Brazil building collapse: Death toll rises to 16

-- 2019-04-17 15:15:55

The death toll has risen to 16 following the collapse of two buildings in a favela in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, broadcaster Globo reported. Rescuers have found four bodies in the rubble of the two co...

Nearly $1.0b raised to rebuild Paris' Notre Dame

Nearly $1.0b raised to rebuild Paris' Notre Dame

-- 2019-04-17 15:06:34

Nearly 1.0 billion US dollar has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a massive fire. Construction tea...

Heavy shelling kills four in Libya’s Tripoli

Heavy shelling kills four in Libya’s Tripoli

-- 2019-04-17 13:26:17

At least four people were killed in heavy shelling in the Libyan capital Tripoli, an official said on Wednesday as Europe and the Gulf were divided over a push by eastern forces commander Khalifa Haft...

South Korean man sets flat afire, kills five fleeing blaze: Police

South Korean man sets flat afire, kills five fleeing blaze: Police

-- 2019-04-17 12:17:57

South Korean police arrested a 42-year-old man on Wednesday after he set his apartment on fire then stabbed to death five people who tried to flee from the blaze, police said. The man set fire to his...

Trump vetoes bill to end US support in Yemen war

Trump vetoes bill to end US support in Yemen war

-- 2019-04-17 11:28:10

US President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end the country's support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Mr Trump described the resolution as an "unnecessary" and "dangerous" attem...

Socialists battle to stop right-wing surge in Spanish election

Socialists battle to stop right-wing surge in Spanish election

-- 2019-04-17 00:53:49

Spain holds its third general election in four years on 28 April, in a battle between the established parties, Catalan and Basque nationalists, and a rising far-right. This time, however, the elector...

Fire broke out in Al-Aqsa mosque

Fire broke out in Al-Aqsa mosque

-- 2019-04-16 22:50:17

A small fire broke out at a guard's booth in the courtyard at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem but was extinguished and the site remains open, authorities said Tuesday. The blaze b...

Fire out, treasures intact but work ahead for Notre Dame

Fire out, treasures intact but work ahead for Notre Dame

Associated Press 2019-04-16 20:59:17

Firefighters declared success Tuesday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell tow...

Bahrain jails 139 on terrorism charges

Bahrain jails 139 on terrorism charges

-- 2019-04-16 18:20:31

A court in Western-allied Bahrain sentenced 139 people to jail on terrorism charges on Tuesday and revoked the citizenship of all but one of them, the public prosecutor said, in the latest mass trial...

India EC bans BJP leader from election campaign

India EC bans BJP leader from election campaign

-- 2019-04-16 16:28:49

India’s election commission on Monday banned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning for three days after anti-Muslim comments in an election that will end next month. The...

Taiwan hasn’t been intimidated by China drills: President Tsai

Taiwan hasn’t been intimidated by China drills: President Tsai

-- 2019-04-16 14:31:40

Taiwan has not been intimidated by China’s military drills this week, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, after the latest Chinese maneuvers were denounced by a senior US official as “...

Four die in Canada shooting

Four die in Canada shooting

-- 2019-04-16 13:08:17

Four people were killed in a string of shootings at three locations within a five-kilometer radius in Penticton of western Canada on Monday, according to Penticton police. Police, who have arrested a...

London police arrest 52 climate protesters

London police arrest 52 climate protesters

-- 2019-04-16 12:19:23

Thousands of people joined protests across central London as climate change activists blocked roads and vandalised Shell's headquarters. Extinction Rebellion campaigners parked a pink boat at Oxford...

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters win Pulitzer Prize

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters win Pulitzer Prize

-- 2019-04-16 10:27:51

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American m...

We will rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral: Macron

We will rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral: Macron

-- 2019-04-16 09:31:52

A massive fire consumed Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday, gutting the roof of the Paris landmark and stunning France and the world, though firefighters saved the main bell towers and outer walls from co...

Ardern's rating  rises to highest

Ardern's rating rises to highest

-- 2019-04-15 22:36:17

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised at home and abroad for her handling of the Christchurch mosques shooting last month, received her highest approval rating since taking offi...

South Korean president calls for 4th summit with Kim Jong Un

South Korean president calls for 4th summit with Kim Jong Un

-- 2019-04-15 19:56:49

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he’s ready for a fourth summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to help salvage faltering nuclear negotiations between the North and the United...

Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism, arts to be announced soon

Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism, arts to be announced soon

-- 2019-04-15 19:50:45

The newest winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts are set to be revealed. This year’s honourees will be announced Monday (local time) at Columbia University in New York, repo...

Sudan protesters demand trial of past leaders

Sudan protesters demand trial of past leaders

-- 2019-04-15 16:34:50

Organisers of mass protests in Sudan have said they want the full dismantling of the "deep state" left behind by ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. A spokesman said leaders of the past regime should be pu...