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75 people get death penalty in Egypt over 2013 sit-in

75 people get death penalty in Egypt over 2013 sit-in

-- 2018-09-08 15:35:17

Egypt has sentenced 75 people to death, including prominent Islamist leaders, over a 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters, judicial sources said on...

UK, France fail to agree on scallop fishing deal

UK, France fail to agree on scallop fishing deal

-- 2018-09-08 14:58:35

The UK and France have failed to agree a deal to end a dispute over scallop fishing in the English Channel. Crews clashed in the waters last month over laws that allow British boats to gather scallop...

Strong quake shakes southern Philippines

Strong quake shakes southern Philippines

-- 2018-09-08 14:34:43

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage from the quake...

US sends Iran messages constantly to start negotiations: Rouhani

US sends Iran messages constantly to start negotiations: Rouhani

-- 2018-09-08 13:54:29

The United States constantly sends messages to Iran to begin negotiations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech broadcast on state television. Tensions ramped up between Iran...

Obama rebukes Trump for ‘abuses of power’

Obama rebukes Trump for ‘abuses of power’

-- 2018-09-08 12:24:39

Former US President Barack Obama assailed President Donald Trump and Republicans on Friday, urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore...

Ex-Trump aide gets 14 days in jail in Mueller probe

Ex-Trump aide gets 14 days in jail in Mueller probe

-- 2018-09-08 11:23:56

The former Trump adviser whose remarks in a London pub sparked the US inquiry into possible collusion with Russia has been sentenced to 14 days in jail. George Papadopoulos, 31, told the court in Was...

Reuters journalists get punishment from independent court: Myanmar

Reuters journalists get punishment from independent court: Myanmar

-- 2018-09-07 21:08:29

Myanmar has claimed that two journalists of Reuters got punishment from an independent court that followed due process. Myanmar’s government spokesman Zaw Htay came up with the statement at a n...

Amnesty welcomes ICC ruling over Rohingya exodus

Amnesty welcomes ICC ruling over Rohingya exodus

-- 2018-09-07 19:36:48

Amnesty International has welcomed a ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishing its jurisdiction over alleged crimes against Rohingya people by Myanmar military. On Thursday, the I...

Jail term for Turkish filmmaker for portraying Erdogan’s execution

Jail term for Turkish filmmaker for portraying Erdogan’s execution

-- 2018-09-07 19:21:53

A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed at his head as his family lay dead all ar...

Xi Jinping to meet Putin next week

Xi Jinping to meet Putin next week

-- 2018-09-07 16:27:40

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Asian giants. The summit will take place during Xi’s worki...

Mass graves with 166 bodies found in Mexico

Mass graves with 166 bodies found in Mexico

-- 2018-09-07 14:44:41

The bodies of at least 166 people have been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, prosecutors said on Thursday, the latest in a string of grim discoveries made in the eastern region in recent years....

Supreme Court nominee steers clear of Trump criticism

Supreme Court nominee steers clear of Trump criticism

-- 2018-09-07 11:47:46

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stressed on Thursday that he believes the judiciary has broad authority to check the power of the White House, but refused to criticise the man who selected hi...

Brazil's presidential front-runner stabbed at rally

Brazil's presidential front-runner stabbed at rally

-- 2018-09-07 11:28:23

A front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has been stabbed during a campaign rally. The far-right politician was attacked in the midst of a crowd in the south-eastern state of...

Japan quake death toll doubles to 16

Japan quake death toll doubles to 16

-- 2018-09-07 10:24:24

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido doubled to at least 16, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, with more than half the island’s...

Kim aims for denuclearisation within Trump's first term

Kim aims for denuclearisation within Trump's first term

-- 2018-09-06 21:35:10

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line to achieve denuclearization, aiming for the end of US President Donald Trump's first term, and has agreed to a third summit with his South Korea...

Russia to involve 300,000 troops in biggest military drill

Russia to involve 300,000 troops in biggest military drill

-- 2018-09-06 21:18:24

Russia's military chief of staff says that the military exercises that begin next week, expected to be the biggest in three decades, will involve nearly 300,000 troops. The Vostok 2018 exercises in c...

Brazil rejects jailed ex-president’s appeal to run for presidency

Brazil rejects jailed ex-president’s appeal to run for presidency

-- 2018-09-06 18:16:01

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday rejected the latest appeal by jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he be allowed to run in next month’s election, reports Reuters....

S Sudan soldiers face jail terms for raping aid workers

S Sudan soldiers face jail terms for raping aid workers

-- 2018-09-06 16:43:59

A military court in South Sudan has sentenced 10 soldiers to jail terms ranging from seven years to life for raping foreign aid workers and murdering a local journalist. The court also ordered South...

UK warship sails close to disputed S China islands, angering Beijing

UK warship sails close to disputed S China islands, angering Beijing

-- 2018-09-06 15:58:22

Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation...

Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea

Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea

-- 2018-09-06 13:36:12

Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders reopened Ethiopia’s embassy in the Eritrean capital Asmara on Thursday, state affiliated Ethiopian Fana Broadcasting said. Reuters reported citing Fana Broadcasti...

Blasts hit Kabul wrestling club, killing 20

Blasts hit Kabul wrestling club, killing 20

-- 2018-09-06 12:56:05

A suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shi’ite neighbourhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists at the site killed at l...

Top Indian court lifts ban on gay sex

Top Indian court lifts ban on gay sex

-- 2018-09-06 12:55:26

The Supreme Court of India lifted a colonial-era ban on gay sex on Thursday, in a landmark judgement activists hope will improve rights for the LGBT community in the country. A five-judge panel in th...

Trump aide writes op-ed on resistance in govt

Trump aide writes op-ed on resistance in govt

-- 2018-09-06 11:53:01

Many senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump offic...

Kim wants to denuclearise during Trump’s first term: Seoul

Kim wants to denuclearise during Trump’s first term: Seoul

-- 2018-09-06 11:14:39

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during US President Donald Trump’s first term, as he agreed to hold a third summit with his South Korean counte...

Two dead, 38 missing after 6.7 quake hits Japan

Two dead, 38 missing after 6.7 quake hits Japan

-- 2018-09-06 10:28:51

At least two people were killed and 38 went missing after a powerful earthquake paralysed Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, media reported, but the death toll was likely to rise a...

UK names two Russian nerve agent suspects

UK names two Russian nerve agent suspects

-- 2018-09-05 17:20:49

Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. There is ‘sufficient evidence’ to charge Alexander P...

Elevator plummets at Tehran construction site, killing six

Elevator plummets at Tehran construction site, killing six

-- 2018-09-05 14:32:13

Iran's official IRNA news agency reports that an elevator at a construction site plummeted multiple floors, killing six construction workers in the capital Tehran. Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Teh...

Turkey refuses to fulfil ‘unlawful requests’ on US pastor case

Turkey refuses to fulfil ‘unlawful requests’ on US pastor case

-- 2018-09-05 11:07:04

Turkey cannot fulfil unlawful requests” regarding US Pastor Andrew Brunson’s ongoing case, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper early on Wednesda...

Release Reuters journos: US Vice President to Myanmar

Release Reuters journos: US Vice President to Myanmar

Reuters 2018-09-05 10:42:22

US Vice President Mike Pence has called on Myanmar’s government to reverse a court ruling that imprisoned two Reuters journalists for seven years and to release them immediately. The journali...

Storm Gordon batters US gulf coast, emergency declared

Storm Gordon batters US gulf coast, emergency declared

-- 2018-09-05 10:39:06

A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana and Mississippi as Tropical Storm Gordon batters the US Gulf Coast. Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border, the National...