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Mali gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders as UN visits

Mali gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders as UN visits

-- 2019-03-24 12:10:54

Gunmen killed at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali on Saturday, a local mayor said, the deadliest such attack of recent times in a region reeling from worsening ethnic and jihadist violence. T...

Thailand goes to polls in first post-coup election

Thailand goes to polls in first post-coup election

-- 2019-03-24 12:02:03

Thai voters went to the polls on Sunday in a long-delayed election following a 2014 coup, in a race that pits a military junta chief seeking to retain power against a "democratic front" led by the pop...

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

-- 2019-03-24 11:39:52

Mexican police and federal officials on Saturday detained 107 Central American migrants seeking to enter the United States in the border city of Reynosa, the government of the northeastern state of Ta...

Scores march in London for fresh Brexit referendum

Scores march in London for fresh Brexit referendum

-- 2019-03-23 20:59:59

Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sink...

Death toll hits 64 in China factory blast

Death toll hits 64 in China factory blast

-- 2019-03-23 19:36:09

Rescuers in eastern China pulled a survivor from rubble early on Saturday, two days after a massive explosion at a pesticide plant killed at least 64 people, flattening nearby buildings and shattering...

Al Shabaab car bomb blast rocks Somali ministry building

Al Shabaab car bomb blast rocks Somali ministry building

-- 2019-03-23 15:32:38

Central Mogadishu was shaken on Saturday by a car bomb blast at a government ministry building, with Islamist group al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack in the Somali capital. “The...

Britain's May faces mammoth task to change minds on Brexit

Britain's May faces mammoth task to change minds on Brexit

-- 2019-03-23 14:38:08

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday began the mammoth struggle of persuading a deeply divided parliament to back her Brexit deal after an EU summit granted her more time but little to help ch...

US-backed forces in Syria declare victory over IS

US-backed forces in Syria declare victory over IS

-- 2019-03-23 13:42:24

Islamic State has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared ‘calip...

New Zealand reopens mosques that were attacked; many 'march for love'

New Zealand reopens mosques that were attacked; many 'march for love'

-- 2019-03-23 11:59:20

Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week reopened their doors on Saturday, with many survivors among the first to...

26 die in China tour bus fire

26 die in China tour bus fire

-- 2019-03-23 10:44:53

Twenty six people were killed after a tour bus in which they were travelling caught fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Friday, local authorities said. The 28 injured in the incident were...

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

-- 2019-03-23 10:25:17

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his long-awaited report on alleged collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The Attorney General William Barr will now summari...

Pyongyang quits liaison office after US sanctions

Pyongyang quits liaison office after US sanctions

-- 2019-03-22 21:14:07

North Korea pulled out of a liaison office on Friday with the South, in a major setback for Seoul, just hours after the United States (US) imposed the first new sanctions on the North since the second...

New Zealanders wear headscarves in display of solidarity

New Zealanders wear headscarves in display of solidarity

-- 2019-03-22 19:58:55

New Zealanders of all religions donned headscarves on Friday in a symbol of unity as a mass funeral was held for dozens of victims of last week's mosque attacks, reports AP. Worshipers were gunned do...

Gunfight in Kashmir leaves two militants dead

Gunfight in Kashmir leaves two militants dead

-- 2019-03-22 13:05:12

At least two militants were killed and three troopers were wounded in a fierce gunfight between them in restive India-controlled Kashmir, police said on Friday. The gunfight broke out Thursday mornin...

Brazil police arrest ex-president Michel Temer

Brazil police arrest ex-president Michel Temer

-- 2019-03-22 12:47:24

Former Brazilian President Michel Temer has been arrested in São Paulo as part of a massive corruption investigation. Mr Temer, a 78-year-old lawyer who was in office from 2016 to 2018, is bei...

Trump backs Israeli sovereignty over disputed Golan

Trump backs Israeli sovereignty over disputed Golan

-- 2019-03-22 11:59:19

US President Donald Trump says it is time to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in US policy and giving a boost to Isr...

"We are one" says PM Ardern as NZ mourns with prayers, silence

"We are one" says PM Ardern as NZ mourns with prayers, silence

-- 2019-03-22 11:24:31

The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed by a lone gunman at two mosques a week ago. Prime Mini...

China chemical plant explosion leaves 47 dead, 640 injured

China chemical plant explosion leaves 47 dead, 640 injured

Reuters 2019-03-22 10:43:09

An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has ange...

New Zealand marks a week of mosque attack

New Zealand marks a week of mosque attack

-- 2019-03-22 10:39:33

New Zealanders on Friday marked one week since a mass shooting killed 50 Muslim worshippers in the South Island city of Christchurch, holding nationwide prayers and wearing headscarves to show their s...

Ferry capsize kills nearly 80 in Iraq

Ferry capsize kills nearly 80 in Iraq

Reuters 2019-03-22 10:17:02

At least 79 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying families on an outing sank in the Tigris river in Mosul in northern Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. Most of the casualties on...

Poland snubs Russia ahead of WWII commemoration

Poland snubs Russia ahead of WWII commemoration

-- 2019-03-21 19:55:12

Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Krzysztof Szczerski, an aide to the Polish presiden...

Youngest captain, loving son: Ethiopian pilots honoured in death

Youngest captain, loving son: Ethiopian pilots honoured in death

-- 2019-03-21 15:02:42

The dreams of the two young men soared as high as the Ethiopian Airlines planes they proudly flew. Handsome, cosmopolitan Yared Getachew was to marry another plane captain this year. Studious, seriou...

Bullet-riddled NZ mosques to reopen for Friday prayers

Bullet-riddled NZ mosques to reopen for Friday prayers

Reuters 2019-03-21 14:28:14

The bullet-riddled Al Noor mosque in Christchurch was being repaired, painted, and cleaned ahead of Friday prayers, as grieving families buried more victims of New Zealand’s worst mass shooting....

Brexit: Labour’s Corbyn to discuss ‘alternative’ plan with EU

Brexit: Labour’s Corbyn to discuss ‘alternative’ plan with EU

-- 2019-03-21 12:35:50

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will travel to Brussels on Thursday to discuss an ‘alternative’ Brexit plan with European Union (EU) leaders, including the bloc’s chief negotiato...

Nicaragua govt agrees to release all opposition prisoners

Nicaragua govt agrees to release all opposition prisoners

-- 2019-03-21 11:55:21

The Nicaraguan government has agreed to release all opposition prisoners within 90 days in a bid to restart stalled peace talks. Mediators said the government would free more than 700 people detained...

New Zealand bans types of weapons used in mosque attacks

New Zealand bans types of weapons used in mosque attacks

-- 2019-03-21 10:19:58

New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ard...

Ardern calls for global anti-racism fight

Ardern calls for global anti-racism fight

-- 2019-03-20 20:36:52

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week's deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch. In one of her first...

Fugitive Indian jeweller Nirav Modi arrested in London

Fugitive Indian jeweller Nirav Modi arrested in London

-- 2019-03-20 18:10:34

Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi was arrested in London on behalf of the Indian authorities, British police said on Wednesday. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, one of the...

Brazil police arrest teen involved in school shooting

Brazil police arrest teen involved in school shooting

-- 2019-03-20 15:23:08

Police arrested a teen identified as for allegedly helping plan the school attack in Sao Paulo on March 13 that left 10 dead, the local police has said. The 17-year-old man was arrested at his home i...

Death toll in Mozambique cyclone crosses 200

Death toll in Mozambique cyclone crosses 200

-- 2019-03-20 14:06:09

The number of people killed after a powerful cyclone and flooding hit Mozambique has risen to above 200, President Filipe Nyusi said on Tuesday (local time) after a cabinet meeting on the disaster. C...