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Trump holds firm on border wall

Trump holds firm on border wall

-- 2019-01-07 11:19:48

US President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday not to bend in his demand for a wall along the southern border with Mexico but said the barrier could be made of steel instead of concrete as a potential co...

Sudan security forces arrest Khartoum University lecturers

Sudan security forces arrest Khartoum University lecturers

-- 2019-01-07 11:10:05

Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious chal...

Macron reeling as stance against protesters backfires

Macron reeling as stance against protesters backfires

Reuters 2019-01-07 10:59:38

Emmanuel Macron intended to start the new year on the offensive against the ‘yellow vest’ protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations. Wha...

Strong earthquake hits Indonesia again

Strong earthquake hits Indonesia again

-- 2019-01-07 10:32:21

An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia’s Molucca islands late on Sunday, followed by a series of aftershocks,...

Rivals seek to move into east of Syria as US leaving

Rivals seek to move into east of Syria as US leaving

-- 2019-01-06 21:59:49

The planned US troop withdrawal opens up a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are converging to fill it, reports AP. The sudd...

30 die in Afghanistan gold mine collapse

30 die in Afghanistan gold mine collapse

-- 2019-01-06 17:55:50

At least 30 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in north-eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials say. The collapse occurred in the Kohistan district of Badakhshan province, report...

Malay king steps down from throne before completing tenure

Malay king steps down from throne before completing tenure

-- 2019-01-06 17:41:36

Malaysia’s King Muhammad V has resigned on Sunday, the first time a ruling monarch has stepped down from the throne before completing their five-year tenure. The king’s resignation took e...

Belgium bans religious animal slaughter

Belgium bans religious animal slaughter

-- 2019-01-06 17:23:04

A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a clash across Europe over the balance between animal welfare and religio...

Iran plans naval drills with Russia in Caspian Sea

Iran plans naval drills with Russia in Caspian Sea

-- 2019-01-06 14:50:40

Iran and Russia are preparing to hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea, including rescue and anti-piracy drills, the commander of the Iranian navy was quoted on Sunday as saying. “Tacti...

Tour bus overturns in Bangkok, killing six

Tour bus overturns in Bangkok, killing six

-- 2019-01-06 13:48:13

Six people were killed and 54 others injured when a tour bus overturned on a slippery road on Thai capital Bangkok's northern outskirts in the wee hours of Sunday, police said. The six dead included...

UK cops arrest four during yellow vest pro-Brexit march in London

UK cops arrest four during yellow vest pro-Brexit march in London

-- 2019-01-06 13:32:18

Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested Saturday during a yellow vest pro-Brexit march in central London. Around 100 people in yellow vests marched through Westminster towards Trafal...

Congo election results delayed past Sunday deadline

Congo election results delayed past Sunday deadline

Reuters 2019-01-06 13:03:45

Preliminary results from Democratic Republic of Congo’s tumultuous presidential election will be delayed past Sunday’s deadline, the head of the election commission told Reuters. The comm...

One dead, two missing after blizzards hit Greece

One dead, two missing after blizzards hit Greece

-- 2019-01-06 12:48:21

An elderly woman was found dead and two men were missing after blizzards hit parts of Greece, police officials said on Saturday. Temperatures in central and northern Greece have remained below zero f...

Bolton warns Syria against use of chemical weapons

Bolton warns Syria against use of chemical weapons

-- 2019-01-06 11:59:01

US National Security Advisor John Bolton has warned the Syrian government it should not see the impending US military withdrawal from the country as an invitation to use chemical weapons. US Presiden...

Explosives expert dies defusing bomb near Cairo church

Explosives expert dies defusing bomb near Cairo church

Reuters 2019-01-06 11:43:37

An Egyptian police officer was killed on Saturday while attempting to defuse a bomb found near a church in an eastern Cairo suburb, state television reported, less than two days before Egypt’s C...

UK's May could seek more time before final Brexit vote

UK's May could seek more time before final Brexit vote

-- 2019-01-06 11:34:04

British Prime Minister Theresa May might again push back a final vote in parliament on her Brexit deal, less than three months before the country is due to leave the European Union, a newspaper report...

Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text

Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text

-- 2019-01-06 11:27:42

A new regulation in Saudi Arabia is set to stop Saudi women from not knowing about their own divorce. Starting from Sunday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their...

Third senior Pentagon official quits

Third senior Pentagon official quits

-- 2019-01-06 10:52:51

US Department of Defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney has resigned, a month after the Defence Secretary James Mattis announced his departure. Rear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that "the time i...

No breakthrough in US shutdown talks

No breakthrough in US shutdown talks

Reuters 2019-01-06 10:12:09

Senior Trump administration officials and Democratic congressional staffers failed on Saturday to break a deadlock over a proposed border wall and end a two-week-old partial government shutdown, but w...

India court declares Mallya a ‘fugitive economic offender’

India court declares Mallya a ‘fugitive economic offender’

-- 2019-01-05 19:04:51

An Indian court on Saturday declared tycoon Vijay Mallya a ‘fugitive economic offender,’ a ruling that empowers authorities to confiscate his properties and other assets. Judge M.S. Azmi'...

Five children die in Florida while heading to Disney

Five children die in Florida while heading to Disney

-- 2019-01-05 17:53:26

A church van packed with children was headed to Walt Disney World when it got caught in a fiery pileup involving two 18-wheelers. Seven people, including five of the youngsters, died in the crash. On...

US deploys small military force in Congo

US deploys small military force in Congo

-- 2019-01-05 16:30:05

President Donald Trump said on Friday that US military personnel had deployed to Gabon in response to possible violent demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a presidential election...

'Multiple victims' in California shooting

'Multiple victims' in California shooting

-- 2019-01-05 16:28:51

US police are dealing with a suspected mass shooting at a California bowling alley on Saturday with reports of 'multiple victims'. Police and local media said the incident took place at the Gable Hou...

China's population set to peak at 1.44b in 2029

China's population set to peak at 1.44b in 2029

-- 2019-01-05 15:42:13

China’s population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of “unstoppable” decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published o...

School bus falls into gorge in India, killing six

School bus falls into gorge in India, killing six

-- 2019-01-05 15:16:09

At least six people including five school children were killed and seven others injured Saturday after a bus carrying them skidded off a mountainous road and fell into gorge in northern Indian state o...

Iran finds new ‘potential’ oil buyers

Iran finds new ‘potential’ oil buyers

-- 2019-01-05 14:34:10

All countries that were granted a waiver from the United States to continue buying a certain amount of Iranian oil imports are complying with US sanctions, a senior Iranian energy official said on Sat...

Five teen girls die in Polish escape room fire

Five teen girls die in Polish escape room fire

-- 2019-01-05 14:18:48

Five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out while they were playing an escape game in northern Poland. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured in the blaze which started at around 17:00 local...

Mexican president owns no cars or real estate, but his wife does

Mexican president owns no cars or real estate, but his wife does

-- 2019-01-05 13:37:59

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country’s politicians of shift...

China's Xi calls on army to be battle-ready

China's Xi calls on army to be battle-ready

-- 2019-01-05 11:56:29

China’s armed forces must strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of top brass on Friday. China is keen to beef u...

Taiwan calls for international support to defend democracy

Taiwan calls for international support to defend democracy

-- 2019-01-05 10:47:04

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s co...