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California fires: death toll rises to 71, over 1,000 missing

California fires: death toll rises to 71, over 1,000 missing

-- 2018-11-17 18:38:27

Rescue workers said on Friday they were searching for more than 1,000 people reported missing in a northern California town reduced to ashes by the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, as...

Five ministers lobby May to renegotiate Brexit draft text

Five ministers lobby May to renegotiate Brexit draft text

-- 2018-11-17 18:29:17

Five Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are pressing UK prime minister Theresa May to make last-minute changes to her controversial Brexit deal. The leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, is believed to b...

French protesters block road over hiked fuel tax, one dies

French protesters block road over hiked fuel tax, one dies

-- 2018-11-17 18:02:16

A protester has died and there are reports of injuries elsewhere as demonstrators angry at rising fuel prices disrupt traffic across France. The female protester was struck after a driver panicked an...

Australia man, who tried to stop knife-attacker, faces charges

Australia man, who tried to stop knife-attacker, faces charges

-- 2018-11-17 17:30:15

A homeless man who used his shopping trolley to try to ram a knife-wielding attacker in Melbourne has been charged with offences including burglary and theft. Michael Rogers, dubbed "Trolley Man" onl...

UN report exposes atrocities against Rohingya children in Myanmar

UN report exposes atrocities against Rohingya children in Myanmar

-- 2018-11-17 14:38:40

The United Nations has said most of some 669 children killed and 39 maimed reportedly in Myanmar were Rohingyas. Spokesman for the UN Secretary‑General Stephane Dujarric came up with the data flaggin...

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:50

Donald Trump has threatened to walk out of future press briefings if reporters do not act with 'decorum'. The US president was speaking after a Washington DC court ordered the White House to return C...

Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in Congo

Mortar bombs fired at UN peacekeeping base in Congo

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:20

Mortar bombs were fired at a UN peacekeeping base and gunfire could be heard in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, an area which has seen a surge in fighting with rebel gro...

Cyclone 'Gaja' hits southern India, killing 13

Cyclone 'Gaja' hits southern India, killing 13

-- 2018-11-17 10:48:16

A cyclone hit the coast of southern India, killing at least 13 people, damaging homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents on Friday. Cyclone 'Gaja' blew ashore in Tamil Nadu stat...

CIA believes Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi murder

CIA believes Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi murder

Reuters 2018-11-17 10:28:46

The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Tr...

May appoints new Brexit Secretary

May appoints new Brexit Secretary

-- 2018-11-16 22:56:08

Stephen Barclay has been confirmed as the new Brexit Secretary as Theresa May seeks to fill posts in her cabinet. The MP for North East Cambridgeshire and Leave supporter had been serving as a minist...

UK Environment Secretary expresses confidence in May

UK Environment Secretary expresses confidence in May

-- 2018-11-16 18:40:31

Michael Gove says he "absolutely" has confidence in Theresa May as she pursues her Brexit deal. Rumours had been rife that the environment secretary would follow fellow Brexiteers out of the cabinet...

Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of Cambodia genocide

Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of Cambodia genocide

-- 2018-11-16 17:33:00

For the first time, two leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been found guilty of genocide. Nuon Chea, 92, was the deputy of regime leader Pol Pot, and Khieu Samphan, 87, was hea...

Turkish police arrest 12 over failed coup

Turkish police arrest 12 over failed coup

-- 2018-11-16 15:44:52

Turkish police on Friday detained at least 12 people, including academics, in Istanbul over their suspected links to a group believed to be behind a failed coup in 2016. The state-run Anadolu Agency...

Ugandan army to protect Chinese businesses

Ugandan army to protect Chinese businesses

-- 2018-11-16 15:30:39

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the army to protect Chinese companies following a spate of thefts. Addressing a group of 120 Chinese investors on Wednesday, Museveni announced increased...

631 missing in US fire

631 missing in US fire

-- 2018-11-16 15:13:41

The number of people missing in northern California's devastating wildfire has leapt to more than 600, and seven more bodies have been found, according to local authorities. The missing persons' list...

Powerful 6.6 quake strikes Solomon Islands

Powerful 6.6 quake strikes Solomon Islands

Reuters 2018-11-16 11:44:39

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck east of a provincial capital in the Solomon Islands on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said. There was no immediate tsunami threat or reports of da...

China offers Myanmar support over Rohingya issue after US rebuke

China offers Myanmar support over Rohingya issue after US rebuke

Reuters 2018-11-16 10:16:58

China supports the Myanmar government’s efforts to protect domestic stability and approach to resolving the Rohingya issue, Premier Li Keqiang told the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a...

Ex-Nazi guard testifies against his involvement in killing

Ex-Nazi guard testifies against his involvement in killing

-- 2018-11-15 20:57:08

A former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder has testified he was aware that inmates were dying but says he didn't know they were being killed, reports...

Sri Lankan MPs fight in parliament as power struggle deepens

Sri Lankan MPs fight in parliament as power struggle deepens

-- 2018-11-15 19:41:19

Sri Lankan MPs have brawled on the floor of parliament, putting one in hospital, in the latest escalation of the political turmoil that has left the country without an agreed prime minister or cabinet...

May hit by several ministerial resignations over Brexit deal

May hit by several ministerial resignations over Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-15 19:03:41

UK Prime Minister Theresa May battled on Thursday to save a draft divorce deal with the European Union after her Brexit secretary and other ministers quit in protest at an agreement they say will trap...

Death toll reaches 56 in California fire; 130 missing

Death toll reaches 56 in California fire; 130 missing

-- 2018-11-15 18:47:19

As the scope of a deadly Northern California wildfire set in, the sheriff said more than 450 people had now been assigned to comb through the charred remains in search for more bodies. The blaze has k...

As India eases citizenship path for Hindus, Rohingya Muslims fear expulsion

As India eases citizenship path for Hindus, Rohingya Muslims fear expulsion

-- 2018-11-15 18:34:01

Nar Singh can vividly recall the day in 2014 when Narendra Modi promised to provide refuge to Hindus suffering around the world. The 39-year-old shop owner sat awestruck inside his two-bedroom house i...

Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

Taliban attacks kill 30 security forces in western Afghanistan

-- 2018-11-15 15:41:43

Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government’s grip on the region, have killed at least...

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

16 die in Afghanistan gun battle

-- 2018-11-15 15:16:20

Fighting between security forces and Taliban militants have left 16 fighters from both sides dead in Qala-e-Zal district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman in the north...

EU to endorse Brexit deal on Nov 25 as May faces mounting opposition

EU to endorse Brexit deal on Nov 25 as May faces mounting opposition

Reuters 2018-11-15 14:36:55

European Union leaders will meet on November 25 to endorse a Brexit divorce deal but British Prime Minister Theresa May was mauled by opponents, allies and mutinous members of her party who warned the...

Malaysia charges wife of former PM Najib with two counts of corruption

Malaysia charges wife of former PM Najib with two counts of corruption

Reuters 2018-11-15 14:27:47

Malaysia on Thursday accused Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, on charges of soliciting and receiving bribes involving a sum of 189 million ringgit ($45.12 million) from a...

Ethiopia arrests ex-deputy intelligence chief for rights abuses

Ethiopia arrests ex-deputy intelligence chief for rights abuses

-- 2018-11-15 13:07:50

Ethiopia’s former deputy intelligence chief has been arrested, Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye said on Thursday, in the latest move targeting security officials for human rights abuses and corr...

6.5 quake rattles Russia's Kamchatka

6.5 quake rattles Russia's Kamchatka

Xinhua 2018-11-15 11:36:37

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 was registered near the coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, according to Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy o...

Lion Air crash victim's fiancée takes wedding photos alone

Lion Air crash victim's fiancée takes wedding photos alone

-- 2018-11-14 22:07:31

An Indonesian woman whose fiancé was on a Lion Air flight which crashed into the sea has gone ahead with her wedding pictures alone, reports BBC. Intan Syari and Rio Nanda Pratama were due to...

Dozens of migrants refuse to leave container ship in Libya

Dozens of migrants refuse to leave container ship in Libya

-- 2018-11-14 19:37:04

Dozens of migrants have barricaded themselves in a container ship in the Libyan port city of Misrata for the past five days, after being picked up at sea, and refuse to disembark, saying Libya is too...