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Colombia kills Marxist insurgent

Colombia kills Marxist insurgent

-- 2018-12-22 16:23:09

Colombian armed forces killed Marxist insurgent commander Walter Patricio Arizala in an operation aimed at ending his attacks on civilians after he kidnapped and shot dead three Ecuadorean media worke...

UK police arrest two over Gatwick drone disruption

UK police arrest two over Gatwick drone disruption

-- 2018-12-22 15:59:05

Police have arrested a man and a woman after rogue drone operators crippled London’s Gatwick Airport for three days by repeatedly flying onto the airfield, sparking a major security response. B...

Iran executes businessman for economic crimes

Iran executes businessman for economic crimes

-- 2018-12-22 15:21:16

Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption tha...

Blasts hit Somali capital city centre

Blasts hit Somali capital city centre

-- 2018-12-22 14:01:53

A car bomb exploded in the city centre of Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, causing huge clouds of smoke to rise above the city, followed by a second explosion nearby. “A suici...

Nepal bus crash kills 21

Nepal bus crash kills 21

-- 2018-12-22 13:52:47

A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured, police said. The bus plunged d...

Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are innocent

Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are innocent

Reuters 2018-12-22 12:54:32

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had s...

US govt partially shuts down over Trump's border wall

US govt partially shuts down over Trump's border wall

Reuters 2018-12-22 11:16:23

The US government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. Af...

Yellow vest protesters to march in France’s Versailles

Yellow vest protesters to march in France’s Versailles

-- 2018-12-22 10:56:22

Yellow vest protesters, who have blocked roads across France and fought running battles with police since mid-November, will march in the former royal city of Versailles on Saturday in their fight aga...

US, Canada call on China to free two detained Canadians

US, Canada call on China to free two detained Canadians

-- 2018-12-22 10:35:49

The United States joined Canada on Friday in calling on Beijing to release two Canadians detained in what are widely believed to be tit-for-tat arrests related to the high-profile detention in Canada...

London’s Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos

London’s Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos

-- 2018-12-21 19:22:43

Flights resumed at London’s Gatwick Airport on Friday after drones sparked about 36 hours of travel chaos including the shutdown of the airfield, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded...

US to pull ‘7,000 troops’ from Afghanistan

US to pull ‘7,000 troops’ from Afghanistan

-- 2018-12-21 18:19:21

The Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, US media say. Reports, citing unnamed officials, say about 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military...

NATO hails contribution of Jim Mattis

NATO hails contribution of Jim Mattis

-- 2018-12-21 17:09:05

The NATO has hailed the contribution of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strong and said it was ready to work closely with his successor, underlining the importance of...

Catalonia protesters block roads for PM's visit

Catalonia protesters block roads for PM's visit

-- 2018-12-21 17:01:54

Police dragged Catalan separatist protesters off highways on Friday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez began a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona in an attempt at reconciliation....

Japan accuses South Korea of 'locking radar' on Japanese plane

Japan accuses South Korea of 'locking radar' on Japanese plane

-- 2018-12-21 16:43:59

Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya protested to South Korea after a South Korean destroyer locked its targeting radar on an Japanese surveillance plane, he said on Friday. Iwaya, speaking to rep...

Vladimir Putin hints he may marry again

Vladimir Putin hints he may marry again

-- 2018-12-21 16:13:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would probably have to get married again, but did not say to whom. Putin, 66, who jealously protects his privacy and that of his close family, was...

US House passes bill for Trump's border wall

US House passes bill for Trump's border wall

-- 2018-12-21 15:38:24

The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill, including money for the president's border wall, to keep US agencies open until February. The measure now heads to the Senate, where it is...

Media regulator in Russia starts checking legality of BBC's operations

Media regulator in Russia starts checking legality of BBC's operations

-- 2018-12-21 15:05:10

Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said on Friday it would carry out checks to determine if the BBC World News channel and BBC internet sites complied with Russian law. The regulator descr...

Nigeria opens new airport terminal in Abuja

Nigeria opens new airport terminal in Abuja

-- 2018-12-21 14:36:54

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the newly built Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport terminal, the largest airport in West Africa, in the capital city Abuja. The "ultra-modern" fa...

Migrant workers' struggles push Uzbekistan to open up

Migrant workers' struggles push Uzbekistan to open up

Reuters 2018-12-21 13:55:30

Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back as the Russian economy flound...

US to withdraw more than 5,000 troops from Afghanistan

US to withdraw more than 5,000 troops from Afghanistan

Reuters 2018-12-21 11:57:16

President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 5,000 of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday, in the latest sign Trump’s patience is thinning with Americ...

US defence chief Mattis quits after clashing with Trump

US defence chief Mattis quits after clashing with Trump

Reuters 2018-12-21 10:12:53

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, including surprise decisions to yank troops from Syri...

Thousands protest economic hardship in Sudan

Thousands protest economic hardship in Sudan

-- 2018-12-20 17:34:21

Thousands have taken to the streets in several Sudanese towns to protest economic hardship, especially higher bread prices, with a mob in the northern city of Atbara torching the ruling party's office...

Putin issues chilling warning on rising nuclear war threat

Putin issues chilling warning on rising nuclear war threat

-- 2018-12-20 17:09:47

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, saying “it could lead to the destruction of civilization as a whole and maybe even o...

Gunmen kill Nigeria's ex-defence chief

Gunmen kill Nigeria's ex-defence chief

-- 2018-12-20 15:16:02

A former defence chief in Nigeria has been killed in an ambush outside the capital, Abuja. Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh died from gunshot wounds in an attack on his vehicle by unknown gunmen. The Ex...

EU takes step to boost monitoring of money laundering at banks

EU takes step to boost monitoring of money laundering at banks

-- 2018-12-20 14:57:34

European Union governments have reached a preliminary deal to clamp down on money laundering by strengthening bank supervision through the European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU said on Wednesday....

Trump's Syria withdrawal plan stuns allies

Trump's Syria withdrawal plan stuns allies

-- 2018-12-20 14:32:50

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria has been met with strong criticism. Trump made the announcement on Wednesday, asserting that the Islamic State (IS) group had be...

Hundreds of South Koreans sue govt over wartime labour

Hundreds of South Koreans sue govt over wartime labour

-- 2018-12-20 12:48:27

Hundreds of South Koreans have sued the government for compensation over their forced labour at Japanese firms during World War Two, representatives said on Thursday, in a fresh twist to one of severa...

Britain’s Corbyn accused of calling May 'stupid woman'

Britain’s Corbyn accused of calling May 'stupid woman'

-- 2018-12-19 21:06:45

Britain’s House of Commons erupted in anger on Wednesday when Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth the words “stupid woman” after a lively exchange with Prime Min...

‘Full’ withdrawal of US troops from Syria likely

‘Full’ withdrawal of US troops from Syria likely

-- 2018-12-19 20:57:13

The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US media are quoting defence officials as saying. One official told CNN that the planning was for a "full" and "rapid" withdrawal. Presiden...

Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

-- 2018-12-19 19:06:23

Nepal's government has stopped eight Italian contractors from leaving the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed water supply project for the capital. Nepalese officia...