-- 2019-02-23 13:58:29
US President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to nominate Kelly Knight Craft, currently working as the US ambassador to Canada, for the country's vacant post of United Nations envoy. Ms Knigh...
-- 2019-02-23 13:55:26
Colombia destroyed an infamous apartment building which was once home to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar in a controlled implosion on Friday, after the site became a tourist destination. The “Mon...
-- 2019-02-23 13:36:55
Brexit should be delayed if Parliament does not approve a deal in the coming days, three cabinet ministers have warned publicly for the first time. Ahead of crucial votes in the Commons, Greg Clark,...
-- 2019-02-23 12:37:51
Indian Railways (IR) has lined up a mega expansion plan, including more than doubling the freight capacity and adding new high-speed trains for which 10 corridors. The IR has already moved a propo...
-- 2019-02-23 12:25:22
The Trump administration said on Friday that taxpayer-funded family planning clinics which primarily serve low-income Americans will no longer be able to refer patients for abortions, a move that crit...
-- 2019-02-23 11:03:57
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, facing the country’s biggest popular protests since he came to power 30 years ago, declared a one-year state of emergency on Friday and called on parliament to po...
-- 2019-02-22 21:15:54
The Irish deputy prime minister has said he hopes that major legislation his government has prepared to manage a no-deal Brexit will never be used. Simon Coveney unveiled the wide-ranging bill on Fri...
-- 2019-02-22 19:27:49
The United States will leave 'a small peacekeeping group' of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a US pullout, the White House said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump pulled ba...
-- 2019-02-22 17:45:45
French President Emmanuel Macron will host Germany’s Angela Merkel in France on February 27 for a working meeting to discuss Brexit, US relations as well as the two countries defence partnership...
-- 2019-02-22 15:47:09
Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of the border with Brazil amid a row over foreign humanitarian aid. The leftist leader went on TV to say he was also cons...
-- 2019-02-22 15:09:10
India says it is building dams to stop its share of water from flowing into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir as it seeks to punish its long-time rival for an attack on paramilitary soldiers last week that...
-- 2019-02-22 14:47:45
Turkey ordered the arrest of 295 serving military personnel on Friday, the prosecutor’s office said, accusing them of links to the network of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara s...
-- 2019-02-22 14:44:19
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine on Friday, saying the world had “focused narrowly on negative aspects” in the state from wh...
-- 2019-02-22 14:25:59
Libyan army on Thursday allowed oil companies' airplanes to resume flights in southern Libya after declaring the region a no-fly zone recently. "The Commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces issued i...
-- 2019-02-22 12:19:05
An Indian government minister reiterated on Thursday the country’s plan to restrict the flow of water to Pakistan from its share of rivers, the latest effort by New Delhi to pressure its neighbo...
-- 2019-02-21 20:32:23
India is pressing for Pakistan to be kept on a terrorism financing watchlist following an attack in disputed Kashmir that was claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group, three Indian government offici...
-- 2019-02-21 18:29:15
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he expects to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again after their planned summit next week in Hanoi, according to Reuters. Speaking at the Whi...
-- 2019-02-21 16:34:27
Dubai Police have rescued 14 Indian sailors stranded off of Palm Deira after their ship hit rocks on the breakwater following engine failure, according to Gulf News. Colonel Saeed Al Madhani, deputy...
-- 2019-02-21 16:27:36
One of the Catholic Church’s most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him. Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is...
-- 2019-02-21 15:53:30
Two people have been killed in the southern German city of Munich after locals reported shots being fired at a construction site on Thursday morning, a police spokesman said, according to Reuters. Po...
-- 2019-02-21 13:25:48
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in China on Thursday, on the third leg of his Asia tour that started in Pakistan, according to Arab News. At the airport, the crown prince was greeted b...
-- 2019-02-20 18:21:14
Three pro-EU lawmakers from Britain’s governing Conservatives quit over the government’s “disastrous handling of Brexit” on Wednesday, in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May&r...
-- 2019-02-20 18:14:49
The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria has doubled to more than 130, the Kaduna state governor said on Tuesday, adding it appeared to have been a deliberate plan to...
-- 2019-02-20 17:55:28
The United States should respect China's right to develop and become prosperous, the Chinese government's top diplomat told a visiting US delegation, reiterating that the country's doors to the outsid...
-- 2019-02-20 15:03:51
Taiwan will not accept any deal that destroys its sovereignty and democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday after the island’s opposition KMT party said it could sign a peace deal with...
-- 2019-02-20 13:47:19
British Prime Minister Theresa May makes another trip to Brussels on Wednesday, hoping European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker may prove more yielding than of late to salvage her Brexit deal. W...
-- 2019-02-20 13:01:10
At least four people have been injured, one seriously, in an avalanche in a popular ski resort in the Swiss Alps. The avalanche was reported at a marked slope in Crans-Montana at about 14:20 local ti...
Reuters 2019-02-20 12:56:51
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants North Korea to end its nuclear programme, but has no pressing time schedule for this, as he dispatched his special envoy to finalise preparations for...
-- 2019-02-20 11:37:55
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke with government protocol to personally welcome Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to New Delhi on Tuesday. Ordinarily, the prime minister...
-- 2019-02-19 21:45:01
Unaccompanied child migrants face dangerous journeys during transit, including abuse and detention, rights organisations have warned, highlighting significant failings in safeguarding unaccompanied mi...
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