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US driver in 'Bird Box blindfold' crashes in Utah

US driver in 'Bird Box blindfold' crashes in Utah

-- 2019-01-12 17:53:33

Police in the US state of Utah have taken the unusual step of urging residents not to drive blindfolded after an online challenge inspired by a horror film led to a crash. A teenager with her hat ove...

'Gas explosion' injures at least 20 in Paris

'Gas explosion' injures at least 20 in Paris

-- 2019-01-12 16:51:51

Firefighters have been tackling a blaze in a business in the centre of Paris after a powerful explosion which injured at least 20 people on Saturday, police say. Cars were wrecked and other buildings...

Canada grants asylum to Saudi teenager Rahaf

Canada grants asylum to Saudi teenager Rahaf

-- 2019-01-12 16:20:46

Canada has granted asylum to an 18-year-old Saudi woman, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who fled her family saying she feared for her life and Thai officials confirmed that the teen was en route to Toronto....

Israeli warplanes fired missiles toward Damascus, Syria says

Israeli warplanes fired missiles toward Damascus, Syria says

-- 2019-01-12 11:21:44

The Syrian state news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defense that shot down most of them.  “The results...

Macedonian parliament agrees to change country name

Macedonian parliament agrees to change country name

-- 2019-01-12 11:08:19

Macedonia’s parliament passed an amendment to the constitution on Friday to rename the country Republic of North Macedonia, in line with an agreement with Greece to put an end to a 27-year-old d...

Trump stops short of emergency declaration in border wall fight

Trump stops short of emergency declaration in border wall fight

Reuters 2019-01-12 10:42:37

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not declare a national emergency “right now” to end a standoff over border security that has idled large swaths of the US government, all but...

Three die in Canada bus crash

Three die in Canada bus crash

-- 2019-01-12 10:39:22

Three people were killed and nearly two dozen were injured on Friday when a double-decker bus struck a bus shelter in the Canadian capital of Ottawa during rush hour, city officials said. Part of the...

Workers miss payday as US shutdown bites

Workers miss payday as US shutdown bites

BBC 2019-01-12 10:11:51

Hundreds of thousands of US government workers have missed their first payday of the year as the partial shutdown of federal agencies bites deeper. Employees such as prison guards, airport staff and...

Bus crash kills at least seven in Cuba

Bus crash kills at least seven in Cuba

-- 2019-01-11 21:43:00

At least seven people were killed and dozens others injured after a bus carrying tourists and locals crashed in Cuba on Thursday, state-run media say. Citizens from the UK, Canada, France, Mexico and...

Asylum-seeker Saudi teen closes Twitter account over death threats

Asylum-seeker Saudi teen closes Twitter account over death threats

-- 2019-01-11 18:54:26

A Saudi teenager who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her deleted her Twitter account on Friday after getting death threats, a friend said, while she awaits a decision on where...

Poland arrests Huawei employee for ‘spying’

Poland arrests Huawei employee for ‘spying’

-- 2019-01-11 18:22:28

Poland has arrested a Chinese employee of Huawei and a Polish national involved in cyber business on allegations of spying, Polish media reported on Friday, deepening the controversy over Western crit...

Europe at standstill due to snow

Europe at standstill due to snow

-- 2019-01-11 17:54:34

Heavy snowfalls brought chaos to parts of Germany and Sweden on Friday, leaving roads blocked, trains halted and schools shut. The Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the southern German...

Police evacuate six German courts after bomb threats

Police evacuate six German courts after bomb threats

-- 2019-01-11 17:51:33

Police searched courtrooms in at least six cities across Germany after emailed bomb threats and other security alerts on Friday. Local police said they evacuated a court in the eastern city of Potsda...

Suitcase of cash stolen from Mugabe

Suitcase of cash stolen from Mugabe

-- 2019-01-11 14:35:28

A suitcase containing $150,000 (£117,600) in cash was stolen from ousted Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, a court in Harare has heard. Three suspected thieves have appeared in the court who...

Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters reporters

Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters reporters

-- 2019-01-11 14:04:41

A Myanmar court on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act, saying the defence had not provided sufficient...

Portuguese cos to hire disabled people

Portuguese cos to hire disabled people

-- 2019-01-11 14:01:13

Portuguese public and private companies of medium and large size are obliged to hire between 1.0 per cent and 2.0 per cent of the disabled people respectively, according to legislation published Thurs...

Gunmen kill four volunteers at school in Thailand

Gunmen kill four volunteers at school in Thailand

-- 2019-01-11 13:47:13

Gunmen disguised as state security personnel fatally shot four paramilitary volunteers guarding a school in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, police said. The attackers approached the armed terri...

Gang battle near US border leaves 21 dead

Gang battle near US border leaves 21 dead

-- 2019-01-11 11:36:32

The charred remains of 21 people killed in a suspected gang battle have been found in a Mexican border town, just over the river from where US President Donald Trump was seeking to win support on Th...

US begins moving military equipment out of Syria

US begins moving military equipment out of Syria

-- 2019-01-11 11:19:02

Some US military ground equipment has been withdrawn from Syria in recent days, US media reported on Thursday. "Some cargo has already moved," CNN quoted an administration official with direct knowle...

Trump warns of possible emergency declaration

Trump warns of possible emergency declaration

-- 2019-01-11 10:25:11

Flanked by border agents who are going without paychecks during a government shutdown, US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for a wall on...

Kim for results in next summit with Trump

Kim for results in next summit with Trump

-- 2019-01-10 21:11:33

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly told the leader of his only major ally, China, that he wants to "achieve results" on the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula during a second summit...

Belgium to discuss Congo elections in UN council

Belgium to discuss Congo elections in UN council

-- 2019-01-10 19:26:23

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders says his country plans to raise concerns over Congo’s contested election at the UN Security Council, where Belgium has just taken a two-year seat. Reynd...

Drone attack on Yemen government base kills soldiers

Drone attack on Yemen government base kills soldiers

-- 2019-01-10 18:53:10

A drone attack on a Yemeni government base by the rebel Houthi movement has reportedly killed six soldiers. The drone exploded above a podium at al-Anad base, in the southern province of Lahj, where...

Taliban kill more than 30 Afghan soldiers

Taliban kill more than 30 Afghan soldiers

-- 2019-01-10 18:41:56

The Taliban launched a series of attacks on security checkpoints in four Afghan provinces early on Thursday, killing 32 members of the security forces and pro-government militias, provincial officials...

German airport strikes lead to cancelation of 600 flights

German airport strikes lead to cancelation of 600 flights

-- 2019-01-10 14:30:33

More than 640 flights in Germany were canceled on Thursday due to security staff strikes at Duesseldorf, Cologne and Stuttgart airports in a bid to put pressure on management in wage talks. Out of 1,...

Australian police charge man over parcels sent to consulates

Australian police charge man over parcels sent to consulates

-- 2019-01-10 13:27:51

Australian police on Thursday charged a 49-year-old man for sending as many as 38 packages containing a hazardous material to diplomatic embassies and consulates across the country. More than a dozen...

Omdurman protests kill three Sudanese

Omdurman protests kill three Sudanese

-- 2019-01-10 11:53:25

Three Sudanese protesters were killed during demonstrations in the city of Omdurman on Wednesday, the state news agency SUNA said. Sudan’s second-largest city “witnessed riots and illegal...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce

-- 2019-01-10 10:47:24

Amazon.com Inc founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, and his wife MacKenzie Bezos are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the couple said on Twitter on Wednesday....

Trump storms out of talks on shutdown

Trump storms out of talks on shutdown

-- 2019-01-10 10:20:59

US President Donald Trump stormed out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday over funding for a border wall with Mexico and reopening the government, complaining the meeting at th...

Maldives govt asks citizens to report graft of ex-president

Maldives govt asks citizens to report graft of ex-president

-- 2019-01-09 21:22:29

The Maldives' government has asked citizens to report information regarding allegations of corruption and abuse of power during the tenure of the strongman leader defeated in elections last year, re...