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Trump administration moves to curb migrants' asylum claims

Trump administration moves to curb migrants' asylum claims

-- 2018-11-09 10:33:37

The Trump administration unveiled new rules on Thursday to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the US southern border illegally from seeking asylum. Immigrant advocat...

White House bars CNN reporter

White House bars CNN reporter

-- 2018-11-08 21:16:46

The White House has suspended the credentials of CNN's chief White House correspondent hours after a testy exchange with President Donald Trump. Jim Acosta was asking a question at a news conference...

13 dead, including gunman, at shooting in California bar

13 dead, including gunman, at shooting in California bar

-- 2018-11-08 17:47:27

Thirteen people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” Wednesday in Southern California, sending hundreds fleeing in terror...

Deadly smog returns to Delhi

Deadly smog returns to Delhi

-- 2018-11-08 14:23:22

Air pollution in the Indian capital Delhi has risen to hazardous levels after firecrackers were set off to celebrate Diwali despite a court ban. Residents awoke on Thursday to find the city blanketed...

At least 13 die in Tajik prison riot

At least 13 die in Tajik prison riot

-- 2018-11-08 14:20:58

Security forces in Tajikistan have killed at least 13 inmates at a prison in the city of Khujand where a riot broke out late on Wednesday, three security sources told Reuters news agency on Thursday....

Australia launches $1.5 billion Pacific fund to counter China's influence

Australia launches $1.5 billion Pacific fund to counter China's influence

-- 2018-11-08 13:59:09

Australia will offer Pacific countries up to A$3 billion ($2.18 billion) in grants and cheap loans to build infrastructure, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, as Canberra seeks to counter...

Pakistan frees Asia Bibi after blasphemy acquittal

Pakistan frees Asia Bibi after blasphemy acquittal

-- 2018-11-08 12:39:45

A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says. Some reports say Asia Bibi has boarded a plane but its destinat...

Trump expects Kim summit early next year

Trump expects Kim summit early next year

-- 2018-11-08 12:36:48

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expects to meet again with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un early next year and that a meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Kor...

Trump ousts Sessions, vows to fight Democrats if they launch probes

Trump ousts Sessions, vows to fight Democrats if they launch probes

-- 2018-11-08 10:37:57

President Donald Trump forced out his attorney general on Wednesday and threatened to fight back if Democrats use their new majority in the US House of Representatives to launch investigations into hi...

South Africa likely to hold elections in May next year

South Africa likely to hold elections in May next year

-- 2018-11-07 20:38:16

South Africa will hold parliamentary elections sometime between May 7 and August 5 next year, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, raising the likelihood of a vote in May which is the preferenc...

Eight Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

Eight Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

-- 2018-11-07 16:02:24

An Afghan official says the Taliban killed eight policemen and wounded three in an attack on two checkpoints in western Farah province. A member of the provincial council, Dadullah Qani, says the att...

Joe Biden leads potential 2020 Democratic field, poll shows

Joe Biden leads potential 2020 Democratic field, poll shows

Reuters 2018-11-07 14:47:59

Former US Vice President Joe Biden is the early leader for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos Election Day opinion poll found, in a field likely to quickly take shape as candidates...

Cameroon 'separatists' release all 78 child hostages

Cameroon 'separatists' release all 78 child hostages

-- 2018-11-07 14:23:59

All 78 children and a driver kidnapped in west Cameroon have been released on Wednesday, but a principal and one teacher are still being held by the armed men that took them, a priest conducting neg...

US to impose chemical weapons sanctions on Russia

US to impose chemical weapons sanctions on Russia

-- 2018-11-07 12:32:53

The US State Department has said that it would impose additional sanctions on Russia after Moscow failed to give reasonable assurances it would not use chemical weapons after a nerve agent attack on a...

Activists sue US states over EVM delays

Activists sue US states over EVM delays

-- 2018-11-07 11:54:55

Voting rights activists successfully sued Georgia and Texas asking them to extend voting hours in some counties after problems with voting machines led to delays and long lines thanks to a big turnout...

France arrests six on suspicion of plotting to attack Macron

France arrests six on suspicion of plotting to attack Macron

-- 2018-11-07 10:49:10

Six people have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning to carry out a "violent" attack on President Emmanuel Macron, officials say. The individuals, reported to be five men and a woman, wer...

US Democrats take House in blow to Trump

US Democrats take House in blow to Trump

-- 2018-11-07 10:48:54

The US Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections, dealing a serious blow to President Donald Trump. Taking control of the lower chamber of Congress for...

US to slap more chemical weapons-related sanctions on Russia

US to slap more chemical weapons-related sanctions on Russia

-- 2018-11-07 10:21:20

The US State Department said it would impose additional sanctions on Russia after Moscow failed to give reasonable assurances it would not use chemical weapons after a nerve agent attack on a former R...

Crashed Indonesia jet was cleared to fly despite airspeed problems

Crashed Indonesia jet was cleared to fly despite airspeed problems

-- 2018-11-06 19:28:08

Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights, but US authorities responded cautiously to sugge...

ADB Knowledge Forum kicks off in Manila

ADB Knowledge Forum kicks off in Manila

-- 2018-11-06 18:41:35

The first ADB Knowledge Forum kicked off on Tuesday at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila with participation of more than 150 representatives from multilateral organisations, fina...

Texas newlyweds die in helicopter crash

Texas newlyweds die in helicopter crash

-- 2018-11-06 14:01:15

A young couple from Texas were killed when a helicopter carrying them away from their own wedding crashed late on Saturday night, according to officials. Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman Byler were bot...

5.5 magnitude quake batters southern Philippines

5.5 magnitude quake batters southern Philippines

-- 2018-11-06 13:50:35

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 rattled the southern Philippine Davao Occidental province on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the ear...

Seven die in Siberia residential house fire

Seven die in Siberia residential house fire

-- 2018-11-06 13:00:53

Seven people have died in a fire in a residential house in the town of Yugra in Russia’s southwestern Siberian Kemerovo Region, a source in emergencies services told TASS on Tuesday. “The...

Philippine police colonel on Duterte drug list dies in 'shootout'

Philippine police colonel on Duterte drug list dies in 'shootout'

-- 2018-11-06 12:14:27

A police colonel on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s wanted list for alleged drug links was killed in a reported shootout with police during an anti-drug operation, a senior police officia...

Pompeo to hold fresh talks with North Korean official Thursday

Pompeo to hold fresh talks with North Korean official Thursday

-- 2018-11-06 10:39:51

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold a new round of talks with a senior North Korean official in New York on Thursday, hoping to open the way for a second summit of the two countries’ lea...

Facebook should do more to help prevent violence in Myanmar: Report

Facebook should do more to help prevent violence in Myanmar: Report

-- 2018-11-06 10:15:50

Facebook said Monday that an independent report it commissioned found the company hasn't always done enough to prevent its platform from being used to spread hate speech that has fuelled deadly violen...

80 people, mostly school children, abducted in Cameroon

80 people, mostly school children, abducted in Cameroon

-- 2018-11-05 19:22:02

More than 80 people, mostly children, were kidnapped from a school in the city of Bamenda in western Cameroon on Monday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the English-spe...

Trust growing with Ethiopia, but more work needed: Afwerki

Trust growing with Ethiopia, but more work needed: Afwerki

-- 2018-11-05 17:58:02

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki says Eritrea and Ethiopia have built trust since signing a peace deal in July, but need to iron out further elements of their ties to make their cooperation sustai...

Indonesia jet crash: Tearful relatives of victims demand answers

Indonesia jet crash: Tearful relatives of victims demand answers

-- 2018-11-05 17:00:20

Relatives of the victims of recent Indonesia jet crash have demanded answers as to why the plane was passed fit to fly and called for no let up in the search for loved ones. They raised the questions...

Jailed Reuters reporters lodge appeal against conviction

Jailed Reuters reporters lodge appeal against conviction

-- 2018-11-05 15:36:15

Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Monday against their conviction on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act. The appeal cit...