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Nawaz Sharif's wife passes away in London

Nawaz Sharif's wife passes away in London

-- 2018-09-11 19:19:18

Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died on Tuesday in London after a long battle with cancer. Kulsoom had been undergoing treatment at London's Harley St...

Hanoi urges residents to stop eating dog meat

Hanoi urges residents to stop eating dog meat

-- 2018-09-11 19:08:00

Authorities in Vietnam's capital are urging residents to stop eating dog meat because it hurts the city's image and improper raising and slaughtering of the animals could spread rabies, reports AP. F...

Over 100 migrants drown off Libyan coast

Over 100 migrants drown off Libyan coast

-- 2018-09-11 18:53:37

More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, an aid agency says. Two rubber boats set off on 1 September but one of the vessels deflated and sank, Medecins...

India court rejects appeal to save tigers

India court rejects appeal to save tigers

-- 2018-09-11 18:11:39

India's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal to stop forest rangers from killing a "man eating" tigress in the western state of Maharashtra. The court said it would not interfere if forest rangers a...

Over 40 die in bus accident in India

Over 40 die in bus accident in India

-- 2018-09-11 16:39:15

Over 40 people, including six children, have died in a bus accident in Telangana, a southern state India. A state-owned commercial bus carrying 70 people skidded off the ghat road near in Jagtiyal di...

Russia launches biggest military drills since Cold War

Russia launches biggest military drills since Cold War

-- 2018-09-11 15:39:53

Russia has launched its biggest military exercise since the Cold War, involving about 0.3 million (300,000) service personnel, in eastern Siberia. China is sending 3,200 troops to take part in "Vosto...

Quake-hit Hokkaido's power supply remains tight

Quake-hit Hokkaido's power supply remains tight

Reuters 2018-09-11 11:58:40

Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko said on Tuesday that electricity supply will remain tight in Hokkaido in the wake of last week’s powerful earthquake until Friday, when the northern island...

Trump admin targets International Criminal Court, PLO

Trump admin targets International Criminal Court, PLO

-- 2018-09-11 11:47:48

The Trump administration on Monday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO’s...

Nigeria gas tanker blast leaves 35 dead

Nigeria gas tanker blast leaves 35 dead

-- 2018-09-11 11:34:34

At least 35 people were killed and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa and started a blaze, the state emergency agency said. The State Emergency Managem...

Republicans urge more tax cuts as elections near

Republicans urge more tax cuts as elections near

-- 2018-09-11 11:23:48

With congressional elections looming, Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday proposed more deficit-expanding tax cuts, an effort seen by some tax experts as unlikely to become law an...

US braces for 'extremely dangerous' storm, orders evacuations

US braces for 'extremely dangerous' storm, orders evacuations

-- 2018-09-11 11:02:31

Evacuations have been ordered as the US East Coast braces for Hurricane Florence - in what may be the strongest storm to hit the region in decades. South Carolina's governor on Monday ordered the eva...

Kim writes to Trump for another summit

Kim writes to Trump for another summit

-- 2018-09-11 10:35:41

US President Donald Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, Wh...

May’s Brexit plans opposed by 80 rebels in her party

May’s Brexit plans opposed by 80 rebels in her party

-- 2018-09-10 23:24:51

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against, a for...

UN finds strong evidence of genocide at Rakhine state

UN finds strong evidence of genocide at Rakhine state

-- 2018-09-10 17:51:55

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said there is strong evidence indicating genocide, extermination and deportation of the Rohingya in addition to crimes against humanity and war...

Six die in Somalia Al Shabaab attack

Six die in Somalia Al Shabaab attack

-- 2018-09-10 15:33:14

At least six people were killed on Monday in al Shabaab attack on a local government building in Somalia’s capital, the director of an ambulance service and a Reuters witness said. “We ha...

Turkey detains 56 over alleged Gulen links

Turkey detains 56 over alleged Gulen links

Reuters 2018-09-10 13:17:22

Turkish authorities detained 48 soldiers and eight others over alleged links to the US-based cleric who Ankara says orchestrated a failed 2016 coup against President Tayyip Erdogan, the Hurriyet new...

Mali's Keita names new defence, mines ministers for 2nd term

Mali's Keita names new defence, mines ministers for 2nd term

-- 2018-09-10 12:02:21

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named new defence, mines and foreign ministers on Sunday as he began his second five-year term presiding over a country ravaged by jihadist and inter-ethnic vio...

Trump to go tough on ICC

Trump to go tough on ICC

-- 2018-09-10 11:11:45

The United States on Monday will adopt an aggressive posture against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, threatening sanctions against its judges if they proceed with an investigation...

Japan quake death toll mounts to 44

Japan quake death toll mounts to 44

-- 2018-09-10 10:59:24

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said on Monday, as electricity supply remained short. The pre-dawn, 6.7-magnitude qu...

Sweden faces political deadlock  after gains by far-right party

Sweden faces political deadlock after gains by far-right party

-- 2018-09-10 10:51:22

Sweden headed for a hung parliament after an election on Sunday that saw support for the nationalist Sweden Democrats surge, as one of Europe’s most liberal nations turned right amid fears over...

Obama takes swipe at Trump in political rally

Obama takes swipe at Trump in political rally

-- 2018-09-09 21:05:22

Former President Barack Obama said on Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans “a chance to restore some sanity in our politics,” taking another swipe at his successor...

China detaining Muslims in vast numbers

China detaining Muslims in vast numbers

-- 2018-09-09 19:39:08

On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire j...

18 dead as plane crashes in South Sudan

18 dead as plane crashes in South Sudan

-- 2018-09-09 18:57:44

JUBA, South Sudan: A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday, killing 18 people, a local official said. The 19-seater commercial Baby Air plane had been travelling from the capi...

China engages in Australia's largest maritime drill for first time

China engages in Australia's largest maritime drill for first time

-- 2018-09-09 15:50:40

China is participating for the first time in Australia’s largest maritime exercise as more than 3,000 personnel from 27 countries engage in joint training off the strategic northern port of Darw...

Plane crashes in South Sudan, killing  six

Plane crashes in South Sudan, killing six

Reuters 2018-09-09 15:08:59

At least six people died in South Sudan on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, an eye witness said.  “We are st...

N Korea holds 70th anniv parade without displaying missiles

N Korea holds 70th anniv parade without displaying missiles

-- 2018-09-09 13:23:08

With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea staged a military parade on Sunday focused on peace and economic development, filled with coloured balloons and flowers to mark the 70th anniversary...

Sweden goes to polls amid anti-immigration surge

Sweden goes to polls amid anti-immigration surge

-- 2018-09-09 11:54:21

Swedish voters are set to vote in a general election dominated by the rise of an anti-immigration party. The nationalist Sweden Democrats (SD), which polls suggest have 20 per cent support, are tippe...

Trump cuts $25m in medical aid to Palestinians

Trump cuts $25m in medical aid to Palestinians

-- 2018-09-09 11:35:13

US President Donald Trump has ordered that $25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of a review of aid, a State Department official...

Many feared dead after Islamist attack in Nigeria

Many feared dead after Islamist attack in Nigeria

-- 2018-09-08 22:15:11

Many people are feared dead after an Islamist militant attack on the northeast Nigerian town of Gudumbali, two residents and a vigilante said on Saturday, reports Reuters. The Nigerian government in...

Islamist attack in northeast Nigeria kills dozens

Islamist attack in northeast Nigeria kills dozens

-- 2018-09-08 21:33:47

Many people are feared dead after an Islamist militant attack on the northeast Nigerian town of Gudumbali, two residents and a vigilante said on Saturday. The Nigerian government in June ordered thou...