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Trump Foundation to shut down amid lawsuit

Trump Foundation to shut down amid lawsuit

-- 2018-12-19 18:01:37

US President Donald Trump’s namesake charitable foundation has agreed to dissolve under court supervision in the wake of a succession of scandals and a looming lawsuit which exposed a shocking p...

Congo ethnic clashes leave 100 dead this week

Congo ethnic clashes leave 100 dead this week

-- 2018-12-19 17:39:04

More than 100 people have died in clashes between rival ethnic groups in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo this week, local activists said on Wednesday. The fighting in Mai-Ndombe province is...

Zimbabwe ex-first lady faces arrest warrant

Zimbabwe ex-first lady faces arrest warrant

-- 2018-12-19 17:24:43

South African prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Zimbabwe's ex-first lady, Grace Mugabe, for allegedly assaulting a model in 2017, police say. The move comes after a court annulled her dip...

China ‘detains third Canadian citizen’

China ‘detains third Canadian citizen’

-- 2018-12-19 15:07:06

A third Canadian citizen has been detained in China, Canada’s National Post newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing the Canadian foreign ministry. China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hu...

Belgian PM offers to resign amid row over migration

Belgian PM offers to resign amid row over migration

-- 2018-12-19 14:26:44

Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel offered to resign on Tuesday after opponents tabled a no confidence vote in a political crisis triggered by differences over immigration. In office since 2014, M...

Algeria, S Korea eye boosting strategic partnership

Algeria, S Korea eye boosting strategic partnership

-- 2018-12-19 14:12:37

Algeria and South Korea have agreed that a great potential can be exploited in their bilateral partnership. The conclusion was drawn up at the end of the visit by South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-...

India arrests journo for calling state leader a Modi puppet

India arrests journo for calling state leader a Modi puppet

-- 2018-12-19 14:11:01

An Indian television journalist has been detained for criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on social media under laws intended to ensure national security, leading to protests in th...

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts over Myanmar army links

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts over Myanmar army links

-- 2018-12-19 11:47:44

Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and link...

Brazil arrests 50 cops over ‘drug gang links’

Brazil arrests 50 cops over ‘drug gang links’

-- 2018-12-19 11:10:56

More than 50 police officers who patrolled the same area at Sao Paulo in Brazil were arrested on Tuesday, accused by state prosecutors of taking bribes from Brazil’s largest drug gang to allow i...

Mexico recovers bodies of two Honduran migrant youths

Mexico recovers bodies of two Honduran migrant youths

-- 2018-12-19 10:53:26

The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers facing Central Americans in Mexic...

'Journalists faced unprecedented hostility this year'

'Journalists faced unprecedented hostility this year'

-- 2018-12-18 18:21:49

More journalists were killed, abused and subjected to violence in 2018 than in any other year on record, with those in the profession facing an "unprecedented level of hostility," a new report has fou...

ASEAN must take tough measures over Rohingya crisis: Mahathir

ASEAN must take tough measures over Rohingya crisis: Mahathir

-- 2018-12-18 16:42:41

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar to end atrocities against the Rohingya people. "W...

S Korean fire dept recovers bodies of three teens from motel

S Korean fire dept recovers bodies of three teens from motel

-- 2018-12-18 14:27:26

South Korean fire department officials say three teenage boys were presumed dead and seven other boys were being treated for injuries after they were found unconscious at a motel in the seaside town o...

Court frees Salvadoran woman jailed under anti-abortion laws

Court frees Salvadoran woman jailed under anti-abortion laws

-- 2018-12-18 12:36:39

A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court on Monday after more th...

Jeremy Corbyn tables Theresa May no-confidence motion

Jeremy Corbyn tables Theresa May no-confidence motion

BBC 2018-12-18 11:24:43

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The PM had delayed the vote from last week, admit...

Russia ‘used social media for widespread meddling in US politics’

Russia ‘used social media for widespread meddling in US politics’

-- 2018-12-18 11:23:32

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race and extreme ideology, said repor...

Turkey may start new Syria operation at any moment

Turkey may start new Syria operation at any moment

-- 2018-12-17 19:17:32

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment. Erdogan made the comments during a speech in the central province of Konya on Mo...

Italy coalition govt agrees on new budget, expects EU approval

Italy coalition govt agrees on new budget, expects EU approval

-- 2018-12-17 17:47:02

Italy’s coalition government has agreed on the “numbers and contents” of the budget it will propose to Brussels in an effort to avoid disciplinary action over its plans to hike defic...

Turkey will not let US hold it back in Syria

Turkey will not let US hold it back in Syria

-- 2018-12-17 17:27:48

Turkey pledged on Monday to press ahead with plans to target a Kurdish militia in northern Syria, brushing off what it said were American efforts to stymie Turkish military operations east of the Euph...

Car blast claims nine lives in Syrian city near Turkey border

Car blast claims nine lives in Syrian city near Turkey border

-- 2018-12-17 15:06:02

At least nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, in the latest such attack in towns under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, w...

Canada gets consular access to second man detained in China

Canada gets consular access to second man detained in China

-- 2018-12-17 14:55:33

Canadian diplomats gained consular access on Sunday to the second of two men detained by China over the past week, Canada’s foreign ministry said in a statement that gave few details, as China s...

Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway project

Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway project

-- 2018-12-17 13:42:05

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched the Maya Train - an ambitious project to build a railway through five south-eastern states. At an indigenous ceremony near the...

1984 Sikh riots: Indian Congress leader Sajjan Kumar gets lifer

1984 Sikh riots: Indian Congress leader Sajjan Kumar gets lifer

-- 2018-12-17 13:06:40

An Indian court has sent a senior Congress party politician to jail for life in what is being seen as the most important conviction so far over the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Sajjan Kumar was found gui...

Explosion near Greece’s SKAI TV smashes windows

Explosion near Greece’s SKAI TV smashes windows

-- 2018-12-17 11:14:21

A device exploded near the premises of SKAI TV in Athens early on Monday, smashing windows and causing extensive damage to the building but no injuries. Police said a makeshift explosive device went...

Aussie lawmaker quits over ‘website date’ on Hong Kong trip

Aussie lawmaker quits over ‘website date’ on Hong Kong trip

-- 2018-12-17 11:03:30

An Australian government lawmaker on Monday resigned from Cabinet over a media report he used a website to meet a younger woman while on a Hong Kong work trip — overshadowing the government post...

11 die in Zimbabwe road crash

11 die in Zimbabwe road crash

-- 2018-12-17 10:51:46

At least eleven people were killed late Sunday afternoon after two minibuses collided head-on 49 km from Harare along the highway to Nyamapanda border, police said. Spokesperson Paul Nyathi said t...

New Brexit vote would 'break faith' with UK, says May

New Brexit vote would 'break faith' with UK, says May

Reuters 2018-12-17 10:39:16

Prime Minister Theresa May will state her opposition to a second Brexit referendum on Monday, telling parliament such a vote would "break faith" with British people and do "irreparable damage" to poli...

Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate’s ‘interference’

Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate’s ‘interference’

-- 2018-12-17 10:32:55

Saudi Arabia has denounced US Senate resolutions to end US military aid for a Riyadh-led war in Yemen and to blame the country's crown prince for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi f...

'Cyclone Phethai' intensifies, likely to hit India coast

'Cyclone Phethai' intensifies, likely to hit India coast

-- 2018-12-17 10:28:40

Coastal areas in India's Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are on high alert as the cyclonic storm developing over the Bay of Bengal is set to make landfall around Kakinada on Monday afternoon, according...

Denuclearisation at risk after US sanctions: N Korea

Denuclearisation at risk after US sanctions: N Korea

Reuters 2018-12-17 10:17:03

North Korea on Sunday condemned the US administration for stepping up sanctions and pressure on the nuclear-armed country, warning of a return to "exchanges of fire" and that disarming Pyongyang could...