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Mexico nightclub shooting leaves 15 dead

Mexico nightclub shooting leaves 15 dead

Reuters 2019-03-10 14:17:15

At least 15 people were killed and another seven wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early on Saturday (local time) in Mexico’s violence-wracked Guanajuato state, according to the local prosecu...

Rakhine rebel attack kills nine Myanmar police: Official

Rakhine rebel attack kills nine Myanmar police: Official

-- 2019-03-10 13:42:05

Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, a local official said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large part of the...

Malaysia deports six Egyptians despite concerns over rights abuses

Malaysia deports six Egyptians despite concerns over rights abuses

-- 2019-03-10 13:13:54

Malaysia has deported six Egyptians and a Tunisian suspected of being linked to Islamist militant groups abroad, despite protests from human rights groups. The suspects include five people who allege...

UK ‘strips citizenship from two more IS brides’

UK ‘strips citizenship from two more IS brides’

-- 2019-03-10 12:37:31

Two more women from the UK who are being held in Syrian camps with their young children have been stripped of their citizenship, a report says. It comes after the death in a Syrian camp of the baby s...

Nicaragua pledges to free anti-government protesters

Nicaragua pledges to free anti-government protesters

-- 2019-03-10 11:24:57

Nicaragua’s government said on Saturday it would release prisoners rounded up in months of protests and implement electoral reforms, as talks continue with the opposition to end the country&rsqu...

Severe turbulence injures 29 Turkish Airlines passengers

Severe turbulence injures 29 Turkish Airlines passengers

-- 2019-03-10 10:56:52

More than two dozen people were injured and at least 10 were taken to a hospital after a Turkish Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on its approach to New York’s John F Kennedy Intern...

Tunisia's health minister resigns after death of 11 babies

Tunisia's health minister resigns after death of 11 babies

Reuters 2019-03-10 10:55:33

Tunisia’s health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned on Saturday after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP said. The health minis...

Fourteen die in Colombia plane crash

Fourteen die in Colombia plane crash

-- 2019-03-10 10:31:01

Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta on Saturday, the country’s civil aviation agency has said. The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronau...

'Forbidden city' tells Germany's complex military history

'Forbidden city' tells Germany's complex military history

-- 2019-03-09 18:58:06

Werner Borchert grinds out a cigarette with his leather boot, zips up his down jacket and unlocks a rusty door with a sign reading "Do not enter." He's entering anyway. Borchert is stepping into the...

DPRK preparing missile launch: BBC   

DPRK preparing missile launch: BBC  

-- 2019-03-09 18:47:47

Satellite images of a facility near Pyongyang suggest that North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite. The increase in activity is around a site known as Sanumdong, where North K...

Malaysian gets 10 years jail for insulting Islam on social media

Malaysian gets 10 years jail for insulting Islam on social media

-- 2019-03-09 13:16:44

A Malaysian was sentenced to more than 10 years’ jail and three others were charged over insults against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on social media, police said on Saturday. The sentence is...

Anti-Pakistan wave could help Modi win second term

Anti-Pakistan wave could help Modi win second term

-- 2019-03-09 12:39:00

Bleeding support in the countryside because of falling farm incomes, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could still persuade just enough rural voters to give him a second term after ordering an air s...

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

-- 2019-03-09 11:54:36

Colombia will allow Venezuelans to cross the border using expired passports in view of the difficulty of renewing travel documents in the neighbouring country in the midst of its economic crisis, the...

IS bride Shamima’s baby dies, SDF confirms

IS bride Shamima’s baby dies, SDF confirms

-- 2019-03-09 10:44:54

The infant son of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria, has died, a spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday. Begum, who...

China calls on Pakistan, India to settle disagreement

China calls on Pakistan, India to settle disagreement

-- 2019-03-08 11:53:30

China hopes Pakistan and India will replace confrontation with dialogue, settle disagreement with goodwill and create a better future with cooperation, the country's State Councilor and Foreign Minist...

At least 25 migrants die in Mexico road accident

At least 25 migrants die in Mexico road accident

Xinhua 2019-03-08 11:31:40

At least 25 Central American migrants were killed and 29 others injured after a truck overturned on a highway in southern state of Chiapas in Mexico, said the state attorney general on Thursday (local...

Trump ex-aide gets lenient jail term for fraud

Trump ex-aide gets lenient jail term for fraud

-- 2019-03-08 10:51:40

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Thursday by a US judge to less than four years in prison - far shy of federal sentencing guidelines - for financial cri...

Hundreds of IS fighters surrender in N Syria

Hundreds of IS fighters surrender in N Syria

-- 2019-03-07 21:22:15

Hundreds of Islamic State fighters surrendered on Wednesday and hundreds more of their comrades were caught trying to escape the jihadist group's last, tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria, said a comm...

Pakistan seizes 182 madrasas in crackdown on militants

Pakistan seizes 182 madrasas in crackdown on militants

-- 2019-03-07 18:49:44

Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants on Thursday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious schools (madrasas) and detained more than 100 people as...

Blast injures 18 in India’s Jammu and Kashmir: Police

Blast injures 18 in India’s Jammu and Kashmir: Police

-- 2019-03-07 13:46:26

A grenade explosion at a bus stand in the Indian city of Jammu wounded at least 18 people on Thursday, police said, in an attack just weeks after a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 paramilitary...

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

-- 2019-03-07 12:41:46

Retired General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, defended the US-Saudi relationship on Wednesday as lawmakers accused the kingdom of a litany of m...

Huawei sues US govt over equipment ban

Huawei sues US govt over equipment ban

-- 2019-03-07 10:13:30

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Thursday confirmed it is suing the US government over a section of a defence bill passed into law last year that restricted its business...

China defends Tibet travel restrictions

China defends Tibet travel restrictions

-- 2019-03-06 19:54:28

Foreigners can’t handle Tibet’s high altitude so China needs to restrict access, the top Chinese official in charge of the remote and mountainous region said on Wednesday, defending tough...

UK will set out tariff plan after no-deal Brexit: Minister

UK will set out tariff plan after no-deal Brexit: Minister

-- 2019-03-06 13:54:27

Britain will set out its approach to tariffs on imported goods only if it has taken a decision to leave the European Union without a deal, business minister Greg Clark said on Wednesday. Britain curr...

N Korea 'rebuilding rocket test site' after failed talks

N Korea 'rebuilding rocket test site' after failed talks

-- 2019-03-06 13:02:12

New satellite images of North Korea suggest it is restoring a rocket launch site it had pledged to dismantle, say analysts. The images were taken two days after talks between the leaders of the US an...

Labour strike grounds flights at Kenya’s main airport

Labour strike grounds flights at Kenya’s main airport

-- 2019-03-06 12:57:50

A strike prompted by a labour dispute grounded flights at Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, domestic media said, with flag carrier Kenya Airways saying flights we...

Pakistan says it has arrested key suspects in Kashmir attack

Pakistan says it has arrested key suspects in Kashmir attack

-- 2019-03-06 11:05:48

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry says authorities have arrested dozens of suspects, including the brother of the leader of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad group that India has blamed for the February...

Burundi forces United Nations to shut human rights office

Burundi forces United Nations to shut human rights office

-- 2019-03-05 19:00:09

Burundi, a country in east-central Africa, has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday....

Pakistani drone shot down in Rajasthan

Pakistani drone shot down in Rajasthan

-- 2019-03-05 14:35:00

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of Pakistan was shot down by the Indian Air Force (IAF) near the International Border over Bikaner in Rajasthan on Monday, defence sources said. “An aerial intr...

Kenya police summon minister over dams scandal

Kenya police summon minister over dams scandal

Reuters 2019-03-05 13:28:14

Kenyan police have summoned Finance Minister Henry Rotich for questioning for a second time over a multi-million dollar scandal involving advance payments for two dam projects, the head of the Directo...