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Brazil bridge collapses after ferryboat hit

Brazil bridge collapses after ferryboat hit

-- 2019-04-07 14:08:06

A ferryboat has collided with a bridge in Brazil's northern state of Pará, plunging a 200 metre (657ft) section into the Moju River. Witnesses said two small cars fell into the water after the...

UK prince completes three-week work with security services

UK prince completes three-week work with security services

-- 2019-04-07 13:53:45

Britain’s Prince William has concluded a three-week attachment with the country’s security and intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, his office said on Sunday. William started his assi...

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank settlements

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank settlements

-- 2019-04-07 11:59:03

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likel...

Avengers assemble to unveil $5.0m donation for seriously ill children

Avengers assemble to unveil $5.0m donation for seriously ill children

-- 2019-04-06 19:34:43

Some of Marvel’s top Avengers have assembled to support a $5.0 million donation to benefit seriously ill children in hospitals around the globe. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Joh...

Fresh evacuations underway in flood-hit Iran

Fresh evacuations underway in flood-hit Iran

-- 2019-04-06 19:26:06

Flood-hit Iran is evacuating more towns and villages, with further rain expected on Saturday. Three weeks of heavy rainfall have left much of the country submerged and cost at least 70 lives. More d...

Iran, US threaten to blacklist each other's military as terrorists

Iran, US threaten to blacklist each other's military as terrorists

-- 2019-04-06 16:30:50

Iran may put the US military on its terror list if Washington designates the Iranian elite Revolutionary Guards as terrorists, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday. The United States is expecte...

World powers, UN condemn fresh fighting in Libya

World powers, UN condemn fresh fighting in Libya

-- 2019-04-06 14:02:13

World powers and the United Nations have condemned fresh fighting in Libya as rebel forces from the east of the country march on the capital. The G7 group of rich countries urged all parties "to imme...

Thai rising political star charged with sedition

Thai rising political star charged with sedition

-- 2019-04-06 13:18:11

The leader of a new party that has challenged Thailand’s military government was charged on Saturday with sedition, the latest legal action facing the rising star after a disputed March election...

Pakistan to release 360 Indian prisoners

Pakistan to release 360 Indian prisoners

-- 2019-04-06 12:59:18

Pakistan will release 360 Indian prisoners this month, the foreign office said on Friday, as the nuclear-armed neighbours scale back from a confrontation that prompted world powers to urge restraint....

Brexit: UK issuing passports without ‘European Union’ label

Brexit: UK issuing passports without ‘European Union’ label

-- 2019-04-06 11:47:30

British passports are being issued without the words 'European Union' on the cover, despite the delay to Brexit. The new burgundy passports were introduced from 30 March, the day after the UK was sup...

Priyanka Gandhi charms but may struggle to win votes

Priyanka Gandhi charms but may struggle to win votes

-- 2019-04-05 21:12:52

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra became the latest member of India's storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to enter politics in January, but the boost she brings the opposition campaign may not turn the tide against Indi...

Amazon boss agrees $35b divorce settlement

Amazon boss agrees $35b divorce settlement

-- 2019-04-05 19:30:57

The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his wife MacKenzie have agreed a record-breaking divorce settlement of at least $35 billion. Ms Bezos keeps a 4.0 per cent stake in the online...

Canada expects foreign meddling in October election

Canada expects foreign meddling in October election

-- 2019-04-05 18:43:15

Canadian foreign minister said on Friday it was likely that foreign actors would meddle in her country’s October elections and her British counterpart said a deterrent to stop countries like Rus...

Wildfires force thousands to flee homes in South Korea

Wildfires force thousands to flee homes in South Korea

-- 2019-04-05 18:34:01

South Korea has declared a national emergency in response to one of the largest wildfires on record. At least one person has died and more than 4,000 people have been evacuated. Thousands of soldier...

Tariff on cars from Mexico instead of border shutdown: Trump

Tariff on cars from Mexico instead of border shutdown: Trump

-- 2019-04-05 18:11:17

Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the US from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to st...

Myanmar military attacking civilians in Rakhine again

Myanmar military attacking civilians in Rakhine again

-- 2019-04-05 17:51:49

Myanmar military is again carrying out attacks against its own civilians in Rakhine, said the United Nations on Friday. The UN also said they are "deeply disturbed" by the intensification of conflic...

Serbia sentences four over killing of prominent journalist

Serbia sentences four over killing of prominent journalist

-- 2019-04-05 17:27:20

Four people were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison by a Serbian court on Friday over the killing in 1999 of opposition journalist and newspaper publisher Slavko Curuvija, during the rule of late s...

UK asks EU for further Brexit extension until 30 June

UK asks EU for further Brexit extension until 30 June

-- 2019-04-05 17:13:16

British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to request a further delay to Brexit until 30 June. The UK is currently due to leave the EU on 12 April and, as yet, no withdrawal...

Algerian intelligence chief removed

Algerian intelligence chief removed

-- 2019-04-05 15:28:32

Algeria’s intelligence chief, Athmane Tartag, has been removed from his post, Reuters reported on Friday citing private Ennahar television station. Tartag, a retired army general, was an ally o...

Carrollton-based motel pays $12m to settle lawsuit

Carrollton-based motel pays $12m to settle lawsuit

-- 2019-04-05 13:35:20

Motel 6, the national hotel chain owned by Carrollton-based G6 Hospitality, agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit of sharing guest lists with US immigration. Washington State filed the case c...

Chinese firm to build rural road in Nigeria

Chinese firm to build rural road in Nigeria

-- 2019-04-05 13:13:09

A Chinese construction firm has formally commenced the construction of a road to open up rural areas in Nigeria's northeastern state of Gombe, aiming to boost the local economy. The road construction...

NZ judge orders mental health tests for mosque attack suspect

NZ judge orders mental health tests for mosque attack suspect

-- 2019-04-05 12:37:23

The man accused of killing 50 people in last month's attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been ordered to undergo mental health tests. He would be seen by experts to decide if he...

Taliban attack kills dozens in Afghanistan

Taliban attack kills dozens in Afghanistan

-- 2019-04-05 12:30:02

Hundreds of Taliban fighters stormed a district in Afghanistan’s western Badghis province, with both Afghan government forces and the insurgent group suffering dozens of casualties, officials sa...

Gunmen kidnap American in Uganda; $500,000 ransom demanded

Gunmen kidnap American in Uganda; $500,000 ransom demanded

-- 2019-04-04 11:42:20

An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and U...

New Zealand mosque attacker to face 50 murder charges: Police

New Zealand mosque attacker to face 50 murder charges: Police

-- 2019-04-04 10:58:17

The Australian man arrested over New Zealand’s mosques shooting massacre will face a total of 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges when he appears in court on Friday, police said....

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

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

MPs have voted by a majority of one to force the prime minister to ask for an extension to the Brexit process, in a bid to avoid any no-deal scenario. Labour's Yvette Cooper led the move, which the C...

European parliament body backs visa-free travel for Britons post-Brexit

European parliament body backs visa-free travel for Britons post-Brexit

-- 2019-04-03 17:34:35

A European Parliament committee on Wednesday backed giving Britons the right to travel to the European Union without visas after Brexit, following weeks of controversy over the way the draft legislati...

Brunei defends tough laws for adultery, homosexuality

Brunei defends tough laws for adultery, homosexuality

-- 2019-04-03 17:17:01

Brunei has defended its right to implement 'Islamic' laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality against growing global criticism. The Muslim-majority former British protect...

Algeria's Bouteflika ends 20-year rule after mass protests

Algeria's Bouteflika ends 20-year rule after mass protests

Reuters 2019-04-03 14:23:09

Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned on Tuesday, succumbing to six weeks of largely peaceful mass protests driven by youth and pressure from the powerful army against his 20-...

Myanmar imposes curfew in five Rakhine townships

Myanmar imposes curfew in five Rakhine townships

-- 2019-04-03 14:02:05

A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed in five townships in Myanmar's western Rakhine state starting from Tuesday, a Rakhine state parliamentary representative told Xinhua news agency on Wednesday. The fi...