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Major reshuffle in KSA government posts

Major reshuffle in KSA government posts

-- 2018-12-28 17:23:07

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including a new foreign minister, after the international fallout from the killing of the Saudi writer Jamal K...

Bahrain to resume work at embassy in Syria

Bahrain to resume work at embassy in Syria

-- 2018-12-28 15:25:48

Bahrain says it will resume operations at its embassy in Syria some seven years after it shuttered its embassy in Damascus in the early days of the civil war. The move, announced one day after the Un...

Indian airports set to install body scanners

Indian airports set to install body scanners

-- 2018-12-28 15:21:04

Indian airports will be able to use body scanners from next year and spare “clean” passengers physical frisking, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) said. The BCAS is soon going...

Morocco's navy rescue 367 migrants

Morocco's navy rescue 367 migrants

-- 2018-12-28 14:19:28

Morocco's navy coast guards have rescued 367 illegal migrants in the Mediterranean, the Moroccan army said. The rescued were onboard several boats, the army added. The majority of the rescued are f...

Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes Indonesia

Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes Indonesia

-- 2018-12-28 12:40:34

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, causing nervous residents to panic about a week after a tsunami killed hundre...

New Istanbul airport will be fully open March 3

New Istanbul airport will be fully open March 3

-- 2018-12-28 12:02:42

The newly build airport in Istanbul will be fully operational on March 3, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper has reported, after the $12 billion project was twice hit by delays. The airport, which off...

More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Poll

More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Poll

-- 2018-12-28 10:39:12

More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial US government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, as the closure stretched into i...

Taiwanese protest higher taxes for third time

Taiwanese protest higher taxes for third time

-- 2018-12-27 21:19:50

Thousands of Taiwanese, taking a page from France's yellow vest movement, protested on Thursday for the third time in a week to demand lower taxes and the fair handling of tax disputes, reports AP. W...

France drops probe into 1994 Rwanda attack

France drops probe into 1994 Rwanda attack

-- 2018-12-27 15:40:18

French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death in 1994 was a trigger of the genocide....

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

-- 2018-12-27 13:21:46

An explosive device wounded a police officer when it went off outside a church in central Athens in Greece early on Thursday, state TV ERT said. The blast occurred outside the Saint Dionysios church...

China detains Canadian citizen on drugs charges

China detains Canadian citizen on drugs charges

Reuters 2018-12-27 12:37:26

A Chinese court will try a Canadian citizen on drugs charges on Saturday, a government-run news portal said, in a case that could further test already difficult relations between Beijing and Ottawa....

Indonesia reroutes all flights around erupting Anak Krakatau volcano

Indonesia reroutes all flights around erupting Anak Krakatau volcano

-- 2018-12-27 11:10:17

Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest, and ordered all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at leas...

Iraqi lawmakers criticise Trump visit as blow to Iraqi sovereignty

Iraqi lawmakers criticise Trump visit as blow to Iraqi sovereignty

-- 2018-12-27 10:47:47

Iraqi political and militia leaders condemned US President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, and lawmakers said a meetin...

In a first, Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq

In a first, Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq

-- 2018-12-27 10:17:53

President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of...

China tries rights lawyer in ‘sham’ case

China tries rights lawyer in ‘sham’ case

-- 2018-12-26 20:39:41

The subversion trial of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer in what Amnesty International called a ‘sham’ hearing ended on Wednesday without a verdict being announced. Wang Quanzhang,...

Russia ready to deploy its first hypersonic missile

Russia ready to deploy its first hypersonic missile

-- 2018-12-26 19:11:10

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic we...

Martial law expires in Ukraine

Martial law expires in Ukraine

-- 2018-12-26 18:54:52

Martial law, imposed on Nov 25 in some Ukrainian areas after Russia captured three Ukrainian ships, expired on Wednesday, President Petro Poroshenko told the country’s security council. Poroshe...

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Sicily

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Sicily

-- 2018-12-26 18:03:37

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit an area north of Catania on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily early on Wednesday, damaging buildings and injuring about 30 people, officials said. It occurr...

Afghanistan postpones presidential election

Afghanistan postpones presidential election

-- 2018-12-26 17:30:12

Afghanistan's election commission says the presidential vote scheduled for April will be postponed for several months to allow time to fix technical problems that surfaced during October's parliamenta...

UK’s Jeremy Hunt orders review into persecuted Christians’ plight

UK’s Jeremy Hunt orders review into persecuted Christians’ plight

-- 2018-12-26 16:15:50

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review into the plight of persecuted Christians around the world and how much help they get from the UK. The review, led by the Bishop of Truro, will look...

Media freedom in Macedonia unimproved in 2018

Media freedom in Macedonia unimproved in 2018

-- 2018-12-26 14:15:03

Media freedom and journalists' safety in Macedonia has seen no major changes during 2018, the Association of Journalists in Macedonia declared during its annual report presentation on Tuesday. Dragan...

Arab League condemns deadly Tripoli attack

Arab League condemns deadly Tripoli attack

-- 2018-12-26 13:41:25

The Arab League (AL) has condemned a terror attack on the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli that killed three and injured several others. Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said this "heinous crime...

Indonesian rescuers use drones as tsunami death toll hits 429

Indonesian rescuers use drones as tsunami death toll hits 429

-- 2018-12-26 11:45:01

Indonesian rescuers have used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people. Thick ash clouds continued to s...

Japan to restart commercial whaling in July

Japan to restart commercial whaling in July

-- 2018-12-26 11:37:41

Japan says it is to restart commercial whaling in July in a move that is likely to draw international criticism. It said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body ta...

Three die in China chemical plant blast

Three die in China chemical plant blast

-- 2018-12-26 11:07:51

A blast at a chemical plant in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region has killed three people and severely injured six, the official Tianshan news website reported on Wednesday. The ex...

Eight-year-old migrant boy dies in US custody

Eight-year-old migrant boy dies in US custody

Reuters 2018-12-26 10:45:34

An eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died shortly after midnight on Tuesday after being detained by US border agents, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said, making him the second migrant...

Democrats cross swords with Trump over shutdown

Democrats cross swords with Trump over shutdown

-- 2018-12-25 21:28:58

President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse...

Pope urges people to see differences as asset

Pope urges people to see differences as asset

-- 2018-12-25 19:34:48

Pope Francis has urged the people of the world to see differences as a source of richness instead of danger and called for reconciliation in places torn apart by conflict. Francis made the call on Tu...

Two dead, 11 wounded in Iraq car bomb in Iraq

Two dead, 11 wounded in Iraq car bomb in Iraq

-- 2018-12-25 19:19:45

At least two people were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, a former Islamic State stronghold, the military said. Tal Afar, about 80 km (50 miles)...

Suicide attack on Libyan foreign ministry leaves three dead

Suicide attack on Libyan foreign ministry leaves three dead

-- 2018-12-25 19:14:34

At least three people were killed when suicide bombers attacked Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, the health ministry said. The assailants were suspected to be Islamic State milit...