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New Zealand junior doctors strike paralyses hospitals

New Zealand junior doctors strike paralyses hospitals

-- 2019-01-15 11:23:41

Nearly 80 per cent of junior doctors across New Zealand walked off the job at public hospitals on Tuesday after a breakdown in union talks with the government over working conditions and wages. The s...

Ivanka to help select World Bank president: White House

Ivanka to help select World Bank president: White House

-- 2019-01-15 10:31:06

Ivanka Trump will help manage the Trump administration’s selection of a US candidate for the position of World Bank Group president, a White House official said on Monday. The official, who spo...

Heavy smog raises alarm across Asia

Heavy smog raises alarm across Asia

-- 2019-01-14 21:28:57

Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand's hazy capital Bangkok opting to hand out face masks and step up enforcement of p...

Stabbed Polish mayor dies   

Stabbed Polish mayor dies  

-- 2019-01-14 20:32:01

The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk has died in hospital on Monday, a day after being stabbed at a charity event. Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was attacked on stage in front of hundreds of people on Sunda...

UN wants 'rapid and unimpeded' aid access to Rakhine

UN wants 'rapid and unimpeded' aid access to Rakhine

-- 2019-01-14 17:33:12

The United Nations urged the Myanmar government on Monday to allow 'rapid and unimpeded' humanitarian access to Rakhine State, where fighting between government troops and autonomy-seeking rebels has...

Zimbabwean protesters block roads over fuel price hike

Zimbabwean protesters block roads over fuel price hike

-- 2019-01-14 17:20:09

Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in a suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Monday, two days after country's President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a massive fuel price hike in an e...

British politicians will approve Brexit deal, France hopes

British politicians will approve Brexit deal, France hopes

-- 2019-01-14 17:14:43

France is hoping that members of Britain’s parliament will approve Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, an official at French President Macron’s Elysee department said on Monday...

Merkel's CDU successor laments 'crusades' against diesel

Merkel's CDU successor laments 'crusades' against diesel

-- 2019-01-14 17:04:40

German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday accused environmental organisations of mounting “crusades” against diesel vehicles and said that driving bans threaten hundr...

Cambodian PM warns of 'dead' opposition if EU withdraws preferences

Cambodian PM warns of 'dead' opposition if EU withdraws preferences

-- 2019-01-14 17:00:25

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday threatened to retaliate against the opposition if the European Union withdraws duty-free trading access over human rights concerns. The EU in November began...

Brazil wants to save $270 billion with pension reform

Brazil wants to save $270 billion with pension reform

-- 2019-01-14 16:52:39

Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s new government wants to save 1 trillion reais ($269.48 billion) over 10 years via pension reforms. Economists say these reforms are vital to undo...

Greek parliament to hold confidence vote Wednesday

Greek parliament to hold confidence vote Wednesday

-- 2019-01-14 16:48:02

The Greek parliament will open a confidence debate in the government on Tuesday, a parliamentary official said. The vote is expected to be held on Wednesday night, reports Reuters. Greek Prime Minis...

SA bloc urges Congo to recount votes cast in election

SA bloc urges Congo to recount votes cast in election

-- 2019-01-14 14:30:43

An influential African bloc has urged Democratic Republic of Congo to recount votes cast in its disorganised presidential election, raising pressure on Kinshasa to ensure the legitimacy of the next go...

15 die after military cargo plane crashes in Iran

15 die after military cargo plane crashes in Iran

Reuters 2019-01-14 13:47:32

A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the Iranian army said. A flight engineer survived and was tak...

Trump threatens to ‘devastate’ Turkey economically over Syrian Kurds

Trump threatens to ‘devastate’ Turkey economically over Syrian Kurds

-- 2019-01-14 12:15:20

US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria following a planned pullout of US troops. In two tweets on Sunday, Trump...

End govt temporarily: Graham to Trump

End govt temporarily: Graham to Trump

-- 2019-01-14 11:31:45

A Republican senator close to President Donald Trump on Sunday backed a temporary re-opening of the federal government, in the 23rd day of the longest shutdown ever, to allow for talks on a spending a...

Indonesian Lion Air jet's cockpit voice recorder found

Indonesian Lion Air jet's cockpit voice recorder found

-- 2019-01-14 11:27:19

Indonesia has found the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air plane more than two months after the Boeing Co 737 MAX jet crashed into the sea near Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board, search off...

Hong Kong minibus crash kills one, injures 16

Hong Kong minibus crash kills one, injures 16

-- 2019-01-14 11:14:43

The driver of a minibus died and 16 passengers were injured after the vehicle they were traveling in flipped and crashed onto a boundary wall in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Mond...

No Brexit likelier than no deal: May

No Brexit likelier than no deal: May

-- 2019-01-14 10:17:05

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that lawmakers blocking Brexit is now a more likely outcome than Britain leaving the European Union without a deal. Parliament is deadlocked over how to proc...

US government shutdown breaks record

US government shutdown breaks record

-- 2019-01-13 20:54:32

A partial US government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the US-Mexico border entered its 22nd day on Saturday, making it the longest shutteri...

Paris bakery explosion death toll rises

Paris bakery explosion death toll rises

-- 2019-01-13 20:12:28

The death toll from a suspected gas explosion in central Paris has risen to four after rescue workers found the body of a woman in the rubble. Two firefighters and a Spanish tourist were also killed...

Nikki, Ivanka 'under consideration' to lead WB

Nikki, Ivanka 'under consideration' to lead WB

-- 2019-01-13 20:10:36

Former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yo...

Italian militant arrested in Venezuela after jailbreak in 1981

Italian militant arrested in Venezuela after jailbreak in 1981

-- 2019-01-13 18:09:48

Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti, convicted of murder in his home country, has been arrested in Bolivia and will be extradited to Italy, a Brazilian official said. “He will soon...

Iran summons Polish diplomat over Iran-focused summit

Iran summons Polish diplomat over Iran-focused summit

-- 2019-01-13 16:52:12

Iran’s foreign ministry summoned a senior Polish diplomat on Sunday to protest Poland’s jointly hosting a global summit with the United States focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran...

Greek defence minister resigns over Macedonia name deal

Greek defence minister resigns over Macedonia name deal

-- 2019-01-13 16:29:43

Greece’s right-wing Defence Minister Panos Kammenos resigned on Sunday in protest at a deal ending a long running dispute with Macedonia over its name, clouding the future of the coalition gover...

Missing Colombia’s FARC leader re-appears on video

Missing Colombia’s FARC leader re-appears on video

-- 2019-01-13 12:30:38

A former commander of Colombia's FARC rebel group, Iván Márquez, has released a video six months after going into hiding. In the film, he accuses the government of betraying the terms o...

UK’s May warns of breach of trust on Brexit

UK’s May warns of breach of trust on Brexit

-- 2019-01-13 11:16:09

A failure to deliver Brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy", Prime Minister Theresa May has warned. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mrs May pleaded with MPs...

21 die in China coal mine collapse

21 die in China coal mine collapse

-- 2019-01-13 10:22:02

A coal mine roof collapse in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has killed 21 miners, according to a People’s Daily report run by the Reuters on Sunday. Saturday's accident is the deadlie...

Saudi teen Rahaf arrives in Canada with asylum

Saudi teen Rahaf arrives in Canada with asylum

-- 2019-01-12 21:47:37

A Saudi teenager who fled her family and got stranded at a Bangkok airport has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum there. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had been trying to reach Australia via...

Court convicts Indian guru for journalist's murder

Court convicts Indian guru for journalist's murder

-- 2019-01-12 21:12:25

NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (BBC): An Indian guru who is already in jail for rape has been convicted for the 2002 murder of a journalist.Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, was given a...

Venezuela's Maduro government is 'illegitimate': Pompeo

Venezuela's Maduro government is 'illegitimate': Pompeo

-- 2019-01-12 21:03:30

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday described Venezuela’s government under President Nicolas Maduro as illegitimate. Mike Pompeo also said the United States would work with like-minde...