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UK MPs instruct May to renegotiate Brexit; EU says ‘No’

UK MPs instruct May to renegotiate Brexit; EU says ‘No’

-- 2019-01-30 11:52:50

British lawmakers have instructed Prime Minister Theresa May to reopen a Brexit treaty with the European Union to replace a controversial Irish border arrangement - and promptly received a flat reject...

Grenade attack on Philippines mosque kills two

Grenade attack on Philippines mosque kills two

-- 2019-01-30 10:29:29

A grenade thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines killed two people and wounded four, security officials said on Wednesday, three days after twin bombings at a church on a nearby island kille...

Venezuela court slaps travel ban on Guaido, freezes assets

Venezuela court slaps travel ban on Guaido, freezes assets

Reuters 2019-01-30 10:13:27

Venezuela’s government struck back at self-declared interim president Juan Guaido on Tuesday, with the Supreme Court imposing a travel ban and freeze on his bank accounts despite a warning from...

Arctic air to turn two-thirds of US into ice box

Arctic air to turn two-thirds of US into ice box

-- 2019-01-29 18:49:52

Two-thirds of the continental United States will be a frozen ice box, as the so-called polar vortex of frigid arctic air spins across the US Midwest, clips the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and pushes...

Duterte says church bombing was 'suicide' attack

Duterte says church bombing was 'suicide' attack

-- 2019-01-29 18:29:52

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday twin explosions that killed 20 people in a church on a southern island at the weekend may have been a suicide attack, citing a briefing given to hi...

Palestinian PM, government resign

Palestinian PM, government resign

-- 2019-01-29 17:23:42

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah has tendered his resignation and that of his unity government to President Mahmoud Abbas. The announcement would be a blow to faltering reconciliation eff...

Russia describes US sanctions on Venezuela oil company as illegal

Russia describes US sanctions on Venezuela oil company as illegal

-- 2019-01-29 17:09:22

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described US sanctions, imposed on Venezuela’s state oil company, as illegal. The Russian foreign minister said the sanctions amounted to an attempt b...

Mahathir seeks China's understanding on scrapped rail project

Mahathir seeks China's understanding on scrapped rail project

-- 2019-01-29 16:35:24

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday asked for China’s understanding over Malaysia’s plan to cancel a $20-billion rail project that spearheads China’s infrastructure push in th...

12 die in India road crash

12 die in India road crash

-- 2019-01-29 15:17:26

Twelve people including an entire family of five were killed and three others were injured in a horrific road accident near Ujjain when an overloaded van collided with a car on Monday midnight. The de...

Azov Sea standoff: Danish FM calls for EU sanctions on Russia

Azov Sea standoff: Danish FM calls for EU sanctions on Russia

-- 2019-01-29 13:38:20

Denmark’s foreign minister called on Tuesday for European Union-wide sanctions on Russia over a standoff with Ukraine in the Azov Sea. Anders Samuelsen will meet Ukraine’s foreign ministe...

Cameroon arrests main opposition leader for protest

Cameroon arrests main opposition leader for protest

-- 2019-01-29 13:15:05

Cameroonian authorities arrested opposition leader Maurice Kamto on Monday, his lawyer said, after weekend protests that security forces dispersed with live bullets, wounding six people. Kamto has be...

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

-- 2019-01-29 11:24:01

Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The pla...

US, Taliban agree peace deal draft

US, Taliban agree peace deal draft

-- 2019-01-28 21:17:03

US and Taliban negotiators have agreed on a draft framework for a peace deal seeking to put an end to the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan, Washington's top negotiator has said. US negotiators held si...

Greek PM to announce minimum wage increase

Greek PM to announce minimum wage increase

-- 2019-01-28 19:44:55

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to announce an increase in the minimum wage during a cabinet meeting on Monday, the first such wage hike in the country in almost a decade. Greece emer...

Brexit: Boris Johnson tells May to ditch Irish backstop

Brexit: Boris Johnson tells May to ditch Irish backstop

-- 2019-01-28 14:18:40

The most prominent Brexit campaigner in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative party said on Monday that she would get widespread support if she got the European Union to ditch the Irish back...

Death toll mounts to 58 in Brazil dam collapse

Death toll mounts to 58 in Brazil dam collapse

-- 2019-01-28 13:49:53

Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday (local time) for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 and was expected to...

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

-- 2019-01-28 12:21:09

A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power. Human Rights Watch said the sentencing made a “mockery” of the Chines...

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

FE Report 2019-01-28 11:03:26

Fifteen people were killed at a wedding in Peru on Sunday after a wall at the hotel where the celebration was held collapsed under heavy rains, the head of Peru’s civil defence institute said....

Shootout in Mexico kills ten

Shootout in Mexico kills ten

Reuters 2019-01-28 10:53:57

Ten people were killed and two wounded in a shootout on Sunday between two armed groups in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, the state government said. The gunfight occurred at around 3:00p...

US lifts sanctions on Putin ally's firms

US lifts sanctions on Putin ally's firms

Reuters 2019-01-28 09:59:49

US President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on aluminium giant Rusal and other Russian firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, defying a Democratic-led push in the US Congre...

US warns of response to Venezuela threats against diplomats

US warns of response to Venezuela threats against diplomats

-- 2019-01-28 09:35:02

The US has warned Venezuela that any threats against American diplomats or opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be met with "a significant response". National Security Adviser John Bolton said a...

Indonesia death toll from floods, landslides climbs to 68

Indonesia death toll from floods, landslides climbs to 68

-- 2019-01-27 19:25:25

At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado battered the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in the past week, aut...

Risk of new Brazil dam burst forces 24,000 to evacuate homes

Risk of new Brazil dam burst forces 24,000 to evacuate homes

-- 2019-01-27 18:58:41

Fire fighters called for the evacuation to higher ground of some 24,000 people from the Brazilian town hit by deadly mud flow from an earlier mining dam rupture, as a second dam threatened to collapse...

Maduro rejects international ultimatum to call election

Maduro rejects international ultimatum to call election

-- 2019-01-27 18:54:43

Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro rejected an international ultimatum to call elections within eight days and said opposition leader Juan Guaido had violated the country’s con...

Sudanese president fights for survival as protests spread

Sudanese president fights for survival as protests spread

-- 2019-01-27 17:42:49

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir does little to hide his contempt for the young men and women who have been protesting for more than a month to demand an end to his three-decade rule. Addressing sol...

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

-- 2019-01-27 15:24:19

At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. Two died an...

Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash

Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash

-- 2019-01-27 14:04:50

The Duke of Edinburgh has written to a woman injured in a car crash he was involved in near Sandringham at Norfolk in England to say that he is "deeply sorry". Prince Philip wished Emma Fairweather a...

Death toll in Brazil dam burst climbs to 34

Death toll in Brazil dam burst climbs to 34

Reuters 2019-01-27 13:40:34

Brazilian rescue workers halted searches for the night on Saturday for hundreds of people missing and feared dead under a sea of mud after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, ki...

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

-- 2019-01-27 13:08:43

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which re...

Egypt opens new int’l airport in Giza for trial flights

Egypt opens new int’l airport in Giza for trial flights

-- 2019-01-27 11:40:02

Egypt opened a new international airport on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday for an initial trial period, in a bid to ease pressure from Cairo’s main airport and help boost tourism. The...