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Suicide blast hits Afghan mosque, killing 26 worshippers

Suicide blast hits Afghan mosque, killing 26 worshippers

-- 2018-11-23 18:42:36

A suicide blast at a mosque in an army base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 26 people and wounded 50, security officials in the area said, although there was no immediate claim of res...

Attack on Chinese consulate in Pakistan leaves four dead

Attack on Chinese consulate in Pakistan leaves four dead

-- 2018-11-23 18:19:44

Gunmen have killed at least four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Gunshots were heard at about 09:30 local time (04:30 GMT) outside the consulate in...

Swiss to vote Sunday to decide cows with or without horns

Swiss to vote Sunday to decide cows with or without horns

-- 2018-11-23 17:37:31

Switzerland votes this Sunday on an issue of national importance that has divided the Alpine country - whether to subsidise farmers who let their cows’ and goats’ horns grow naturally. Th...

Ethiopian Airlines steps up hunt for African connections

Ethiopian Airlines steps up hunt for African connections

-- 2018-11-23 16:39:04

Ethiopian Airlines is accelerating its strategy of weaving a patchwork of new African routes to soak up traffic on the continent and fly customers towards its more lucrative flights to rapidly expandi...

Blast at Pakistan market kills at least 25

Blast at Pakistan market kills at least 25

Reuters 2018-11-23 15:58:42

A suicide bomb attack on a crowded festival and market in northwest Pakistan’s northwest killed at least 25 people on Friday and wounded 20, a government official said. The blast occurred at ar...

Trump warns of govt shutdown next month over border security

Trump warns of govt shutdown next month over border security

Reuters 2018-11-23 13:48:16

US President Donald Trump warned on Thursday there could be a government shutdown next month over security on the border with Mexico, suggesting he could hold up a funding deal if no more money is pro...

Modified Boeing 737 used to fight wildfire for first time

Modified Boeing 737 used to fight wildfire for first time

-- 2018-11-23 12:31:38

A modified Boeing 737 has been used to fight a wildfire for the first time, said Australian authorities. The former passenger jet was deployed as a water-bombing aircraft in New South Wales on Thursd...

Karachi attack: Two dead in attack on Chinese consulate

Karachi attack: Two dead in attack on Chinese consulate

-- 2018-11-23 11:45:46

Two policemen have been killed and a security guard injured in an armed attack on the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi on Friday. Gunshots was heard at about 09:30 local tim...

NZ's islands getting closer after 2016 earthquake

NZ's islands getting closer after 2016 earthquake

-- 2018-11-23 10:38:05

New Zealand’s North and South islands are “creeping” closer together in the wake of the devastating Kaikoura earthquake two years ago, the national science body has revealed. The 7....

Spain accuses UK of treachery over Gibraltar Brexit deal

Spain accuses UK of treachery over Gibraltar Brexit deal

Madrid threatens to ‘stop the clock’ on Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement 2018-11-23 10:28:06

Spain accused the UK of “treachery” and acting “under the cover of darkness” in an escalation of a war of words over the future of Gibraltar that risks derailing Theresa May&rs...

Saudi prince demanded Khashoggi be 'silenced': CIA

Saudi prince demanded Khashoggi be 'silenced': CIA

-- 2018-11-23 09:55:00

A Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday CIA director Gina Haspel signalled to Turkish officials last month that the agency had a recording of a call in which Saudi Arabia’s crown prince gave in...

EU, UK agrees on draft Brexit deal

EU, UK agrees on draft Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-22 18:06:45

The EU and UK have agreed a draft agreement on their future relationship, paving the way for a Brexit deal to be finalised this weekend. The political declaration - outlining how trade, security and...

Massive dust storm blankets Australia; health warning issued

Massive dust storm blankets Australia; health warning issued

-- 2018-11-22 13:13:44

A giant dust storm has blanketed communities across south-east Australia, turning skies orange and raising concerns about air quality. Authorities issued a public health alert for Sydney on Thursday...

Denmark suspends weapon exports to Saudi

Denmark suspends weapon exports to Saudi

-- 2018-11-22 13:03:15

Denmark has decided to suspend approvals of weapon and military equipment exports to Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the situation in Yemen, its foreign minister said o...

Russian military intelligence chief Korobov dies

Russian military intelligence chief Korobov dies

-- 2018-11-22 12:29:33

The head of Russian military intelligence agency GRU, General Igor Korobov, has died at the age of 62, Russia's defence ministry says. General Korobov, who took up the post in 2016, is said to have d...

Canada's murder rate hits 10-year high

Canada's murder rate hits 10-year high

-- 2018-11-22 12:15:35

Canada’s murder rate in 2017 jumped by 7 per cent to a near 10-year high and gun-related deaths were the highest in 25 years, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. Police reported 660 homicide v...

Vietnam oil tank truck fire kills six

Vietnam oil tank truck fire kills six

-- 2018-11-22 11:52:21

A petrol tank truck fire broke out Thursday morning in Vietnam’s southern Binh Phuoc province, leaving at least six people, including a family of four, dead and dozens of others injured, local m...

Libyan gunmen release kidnapped Egyptian workers

Libyan gunmen release kidnapped Egyptian workers

-- 2018-11-22 11:03:05

Egyptian workers taken hostage in Libya this week over a financial dispute between Libyan contractors and their Egyptian partner have been freed, a relative of one of the hostages said. The governor&...

US mulls sanctions on Cuban officials aiding crackdown in Venezuela

US mulls sanctions on Cuban officials aiding crackdown in Venezuela

-- 2018-11-22 10:41:49

The Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on Cuban military and intelligence officials who it says are helping Venezuela’s socialist government crackdown on dissent, according t...

At least six die in Haiti as govt car loses control

At least six die in Haiti as govt car loses control

-- 2018-11-22 10:19:08

A Haitian government car went out of control into a group of people on Wednesday, killing at least six and further inflaming unrest in a capital wracked by violent protests. Police spokesman Michel-A...

South Korea revamps the way students study North Korea

South Korea revamps the way students study North Korea

Reuters 2018-11-22 09:57:03

A year of warming relations between North and South Korea has raised the prospects of closer ties, if not some form of unification for the still-warring neighbors far in the future. But it might not b...

Trump clashes with chief justice over judiciary

Trump clashes with chief justice over judiciary

Reuters 2018-11-22 09:51:55

US Chief Justice John Roberts defended the independence of the federal judiciary on Wednesday a day after President Donald Trump called a judge who ruled against his policy barring asylum for certain...

Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'

Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'

BBC 2018-11-21 19:35:45

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says. The number is equivalent to the entire under-five popu...

Mumbai police book Alok Nath for rape

Mumbai police book Alok Nath for rape

-- 2018-11-21 18:26:25

The Mumbai Police have booked film actor Alok Nath on the charge of rape following a complaint lodged by a woman writer-producer over a month ago, an official said Mumbai on Wednesday, according to IA...

EU Commission says Italy faces excessive deficit action

EU Commission says Italy faces excessive deficit action

-- 2018-11-21 18:10:41

Italy’s 2019 budget fails to comply with euro zone rules and so the government should face action from the European Union to reduce its deficit, the European Commission said on Wednesday, accord...

May seeks to cut deal on future EU ties in Brussels

May seeks to cut deal on future EU ties in Brussels

-- 2018-11-21 17:42:17

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Brussels on Wednesday to try to agree a blueprint on post-Brexit ties with the European Union (EU), which the bloc’s diplomats said was being held u...

Senate asks Trump to determine Saudi prince's 'role' in Khashoggi murder

Senate asks Trump to determine Saudi prince's 'role' in Khashoggi murder

BBC 2018-11-21 17:41:11

  US President Donald Trump has been asked to ascertain whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played a role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Republican and Democratic leaders of the U...

China building on new reef in South China Sea, think tank says

China building on new reef in South China Sea, think tank says

-- 2018-11-21 17:16:04

China has installed a new platform on a remote part of the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea which could be used for military purposes, according to recent satellite images reviewed by a...

Iraqi military says it killed 15 IS militants in the north

Iraqi military says it killed 15 IS militants in the north

-- 2018-11-21 16:51:53

Iraqi forces have killed 15 Islamic State militants inside a tunnel during a search operation in the northern Sunni-majority Salahuddin province, the military said on Wednesday, according to Reuters....

Five die as car runs over sleeping labourers in India

Five die as car runs over sleeping labourers in India

-- 2018-11-21 16:35:58

At least five labourers were killed and nine others injured after an over-speeding car ran over them in northern Indian state of Haryana on Wednesday, police said. The labourers were sleeping on an o...