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Trump threatens years-long US govt shutdown

Trump threatens years-long US govt shutdown

Reuters 2019-01-05 10:35:57

President Donald Trump threatened to keep the US government partially shut for months or years on Friday after he and Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump’s request for...

Trump blames financial market 'disruption' on Democrats

Trump blames financial market 'disruption' on Democrats

-- 2019-01-04 19:30:23

President Donald Trump on Friday sought to cast blame for recent gyrations in financial markets on Democrats takeover of US House of Representatives and aimed to soothe investors’ worries saying...

Hackers post personal data of hundreds of German politicians

Hackers post personal data of hundreds of German politicians

-- 2019-01-04 18:32:17

Hackers have posted personal data from hundreds of German politicians from major parties, including credit card details and mobile phone numbers, ARD TV said on Friday. The data, published on a Twitt...

10 al-Shabab extremists killed in US airstrike in Somalia

10 al-Shabab extremists killed in US airstrike in Somalia

-- 2019-01-04 17:32:46

The US military says it has carried out an airstrike in southwestern Somalia that killed 10 members of the al-Shabab extremist group. The US Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred Wedne...

Worst storm in 30 yrs hits Thailand

Worst storm in 30 yrs hits Thailand

-- 2019-01-04 17:09:40

Tropical storm Pabuk has begun pelting southern Thailand with rain and wind, in what is expected to be the worst storm to hit the region in 30 years. The storm made landfall on Friday at 12:45 local...

Japan's Abe plans to push for peace treaty with Russia

Japan's Abe plans to push for peace treaty with Russia

-- 2019-01-04 14:09:06

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday he intends to push forward towards a World War Two peace treaty with Russia, which has been stymied for decades by a territorial row, during a summit...

New US House moves to end shutdown, without wall money

New US House moves to end shutdown, without wall money

Reuters 2019-01-04 10:58:56

Democrats wasted no time flexing their new power in the US House of Representatives on Thursday by approving legislation backed by new Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would end a 13-day partial government s...

Iran's health minister resigns over proposed budget cuts

Iran's health minister resigns over proposed budget cuts

-- 2019-01-03 18:04:21

Iranian state TV says the health minister has resigned over spending cuts in a budget submitted to parliament last week. It says President Hassan Rouhani accepted Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Ha...

Protests paralyse India’s Kerala after women enter temple

Protests paralyse India’s Kerala after women enter temple

-- 2019-01-03 14:50:35

Conservative Hindu groups forced India’s southern state of Kerala to a standstill on Thursday as they protested against the state government for allowing two women to defy an ancient ban and ent...

Death toll jumps to 37 in Russian apartment gas explosion

Death toll jumps to 37 in Russian apartment gas explosion

-- 2019-01-03 14:16:26

Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a Russian apartment building that partially collapsed this week after an apparent gas explosion, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday....

UK crime agency arrests two over English Channel migrant crossings

UK crime agency arrests two over English Channel migrant crossings

-- 2019-01-03 12:57:26

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it has made two arrests on suspicion of arranging illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into Britain. A 33-year-old Iranian national...

US, Colombia vow to reduce coca production

US, Colombia vow to reduce coca production

-- 2019-01-03 11:33:11

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "deeply concerned" about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia. At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duqu...

Trump gives no timetable for Syria exit

Trump gives no timetable for Syria exit

-- 2019-01-03 10:55:27

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would get out of Syria slowly “over a period of time” and would protect the US-backed Kurdish fighters in the country as Washi...

China executes ‘Jack the Ripper’ for killing 11

China executes ‘Jack the Ripper’ for killing 11

-- 2019-01-03 10:38:51

A Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed. Gao Chengyong, dubbed ‘Jack the Ripper’ by Chinese media, followed his victims h...

Danish train accident kills six

Danish train accident kills six

-- 2019-01-02 17:35:15

A passenger train on a bridge linking central Denmark's islands hit an "unknown object" early Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 16 others, Danish police said. The rail operator, Danish Railw...

Death toll from Philippine landslides, floods climbs to 85

Death toll from Philippine landslides, floods climbs to 85

-- 2019-01-02 16:48:11

The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the central Philippines triggered by a tropical depression climbed to 85, officials said on Wednesday, and 20 people were missing as rescuers s...

Somalia govt orders top UN official to leave

Somalia govt orders top UN official to leave

-- 2019-01-02 14:04:41

Somalia’s government has ordered the top United Nations official in the country to leave, accusing him of interfering with national sovereignty days after he raised concerns about the actions of...

US soldiers fire tear gas at ‘violent mob’ near Mexico border

US soldiers fire tear gas at ‘violent mob’ near Mexico border

-- 2019-01-02 13:05:45

US border agents launched tear gas into Mexico early on Tuesday to deter a group of migrants that one official called ‘a violent mob’ from crossing over from Tijuana, according to a Reuter...

Indonesia landslides death toll climbs to 15

Indonesia landslides death toll climbs to 15

-- 2019-01-02 12:41:36

Indonesian rescue teams were searching for victims of a series of landslides that killed at least 15 people on New Year’s Day, officials said, after a year of natural disasters killed thousands....

Armed men kill 37 Fulani civilians in Mali

Armed men kill 37 Fulani civilians in Mali

-- 2019-01-02 11:40:57

Armed men killed 37 Fulani civilians on Tuesday in central Mali, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives last year, the government said. Violence between Fulani and rival communities has compoun...

Two Indian women defy centuries-old ban by entering temple

Two Indian women defy centuries-old ban by entering temple

-- 2019-01-02 11:25:53

Two women defied a centuries-old ban on entering a Hindu temple in India’s southern state of Kerala in the early hours of Wednesday, the state’s chief minister said, raising fears of a bac...

Taiwan independence would be a disaster, says Xi

Taiwan independence would be a disaster, says Xi

-- 2019-01-02 11:24:24

Taiwan independence would lead to “disaster”, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, pledging efforts for peaceful “reunification” with the self-ruled island but warni...

US, Israel formally quit UNESCO claiming 'anti-Israel bias'

US, Israel formally quit UNESCO claiming 'anti-Israel bias'

-- 2019-01-01 20:03:53

The United States and Israel officially pulled out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, the culmination of a pr...

Thousands march in Hong Kong against 'repression'

Thousands march in Hong Kong against 'repression'

-- 2019-01-01 16:39:01

Thousands of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Comm...

Thai king to be crowned in ceremonies May 4-6

Thai king to be crowned in ceremonies May 4-6

-- 2019-01-01 15:28:50

Thailand’s king will be officially crowned in elaborate ceremonies on May 4-6 as the latest ruler in the centuries-old monarchy, the royal palace said on Tuesday. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66,...

Taliban attacks kill 15 Afghan policemen

Taliban attacks kill 15 Afghan policemen

-- 2019-01-01 14:51:50

An Afghan official says the Taliban launched two blistering attacks in northern Sar-e-Pul province, killing 15 members of the country's security forces. In one attack, on the outskirts of the provinc...

Cooperation best for both China and US, Xi tells Trump

Cooperation best for both China and US, Xi tells Trump

-- 2019-01-01 14:04:19

History shows that cooperation is the best choice for both China and the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a congratulatory message on Tuesday to mark 40 ye...

Russian gas blast death toll rises to seven

Russian gas blast death toll rises to seven

Reuters 2019-01-01 13:06:19

As many as 40 people could still be trapped in the rubble of a Russian apartment block that partially collapsed in a gas explosion on Monday, killing at least seven people, news agencies reported. Th...

Landslides kill at least two in Indonesia; 41 missing

Landslides kill at least two in Indonesia; 41 missing

-- 2019-01-01 12:06:51

Landslides on Indonesia’s heavily populated island of Java killed at least two people and left 41 missing, an official at the country’s disaster agency said on Tuesday. The landslides, wh...

Democrats to end shutdown, without wall money

Democrats to end shutdown, without wall money

-- 2019-01-01 10:46:18

Democrats in the US House of Representatives plan to vote on Thursday on a funding package to end the 10-day-old partial US government shutdown, without providing the $5 billion President Donald Trump...