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Russian jet catches fire after landing

Russian jet catches fire after landing

-- 2018-09-01 18:26:16

A passenger jet skidded off the runway and caught fire while landing in the Russian city of Sochi, injuring 18 people, officials have said. Flight UT579, a Boeing 737-800 operated by the Utair airlin...

US accuses China of spy campaign on LinkedIn

US accuses China of spy campaign on LinkedIn

-- 2018-09-01 17:06:09

The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company...

Myanmar navy finds answer to ‘ghost ship’ mystery

Myanmar navy finds answer to ‘ghost ship’ mystery

-- 2018-09-01 16:45:32

Myanmar officials investigating a ‘ghost ship’ found mysteriously drifting near the Yangon region this week have found the answer to its fate. The large, empty and rusty container vessel,...

UK minister holds talks in Iran

UK minister holds talks in Iran

-- 2018-09-01 16:08:58

British Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt held talks with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on Saturday, Iran’s television reported. This was the first visit...

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

N Korea prepares for toned-down military parade, say analysts

-- 2018-09-01 15:14:18

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it w...

Protests erupt in Uganda after lawmakers detained at airport

Protests erupt in Uganda after lawmakers detained at airport

-- 2018-09-01 13:47:17

Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said. People demonstra...

Brazil’s electoral court bars Lula from running for president

Brazil’s electoral court bars Lula from running for president

-- 2018-09-01 12:49:45

Brazil’s top electoral court has barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year’s presidential because of his corruption conviction. The widely expecte...

Germany to boost funds for Palestinians after US cut

Germany to boost funds for Palestinians after US cut

-- 2018-09-01 00:00:21

The German government has pledged to significantly increase its funding for the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees after the United States cut its aid, reports Reuters. German Foreign Minis...

Iran moves missiles to Iraq in warning to enemies

Iran moves missiles to Iraq in warning to enemies

-- 2018-08-31 23:59:17

Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi'ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit reg...

BIMSTEC summit 'overlooks' Rohingya crisis

BIMSTEC summit 'overlooks' Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-08-31 21:24:32

The Rohingya crisis, which has received massive international attention, was not discussed in the just concluded fourth BIMSTEC summit in Nepal. The summit of BIMSTEC member-states, which ended on Fr...

Japan boosts defence budget to counter N Korean threat

Japan boosts defence budget to counter N Korean threat

-- 2018-08-31 18:40:33

Japan's Defence Ministry is seeking to more than double spending on missile defence, including purchases of costly American arsenals, to defend against North Korean threats. The record-high 5.3 trill...

BIMSTEC summit ends with Kathmandu declaration

BIMSTEC summit ends with Kathmandu declaration

-- 2018-08-31 18:15:44

The 4th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit successfully concluded in Kathmandu on Friday. Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli handed over...

Trump threatens to pull US out of WTO

Trump threatens to pull US out of WTO

-- 2018-08-31 13:06:09

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming the body treats America unfairly. "If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," M...

NZ PM has two ministers step aside

NZ PM has two ministers step aside

-- 2018-08-31 12:45:04

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since...

Myanmar army fakes photos in book on Rohingya crisis

Myanmar army fakes photos in book on Rohingya crisis

Reuters 2018-08-31 10:06:47

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics...

India may face sanctions if it buys Russia’s missiles: US

India may face sanctions if it buys Russia’s missiles: US

-- 2018-08-30 22:31:17

The United States (US) cannot guarantee India will be exempt from sanctions if it purchases weapons and defence systems from Russia, a top Pentagon official said, reports Al Jazeera. Randall Schriver...

Prince Harry, Meghan attend hit musical Hamilton

Prince Harry, Meghan attend hit musical Hamilton

-- 2018-08-30 22:29:50

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attended a performance of the hit musical Hamilton on Wednesday to raise money for a charity which works with children affected by HIV in southern Africa, reports Reut...

Trump in feud with legendary Watergate journalist

Trump in feud with legendary Watergate journalist

-- 2018-08-30 20:58:55

US President Donald Trump is waging a war of words with legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein over a story about his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. On Wednesday, the president called Mr Bernstein a "...

EU needs strategic relationship with Russia on defence: France

EU needs strategic relationship with Russia on defence: France

-- 2018-08-30 16:16:48

The European Union needs a strategic relationship with Turkey, including in defence matters, and should modernize its post-Cold War relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thur...

10 die in South Africa bus crash

10 die in South Africa bus crash

-- 2018-08-30 15:24:54

At least ten people died after a bus travelling from South Africa’s Cape Town to the Eastern Cape overturned in the early hours of Thursday morning, traffic officials said. The accident occurre...

Egypt's security forces kill 20 ‘militants’ in western desert, Sinai

Egypt's security forces kill 20 ‘militants’ in western desert, Sinai

-- 2018-08-30 13:49:48

Egypt has killed 20 suspected militants in an air strike in its western desert and shootouts in the Sinai peninsula, the military said on Wednesday, part of ongoing operations. The government launche...

Ex-Scottish leader quits over sexual misconduct claims

Ex-Scottish leader quits over sexual misconduct claims

-- 2018-08-30 12:13:01

Former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond has resigned from the party amid allegations of sexual misconduct. In a statement he said he wanted to avoid internal division within the SNP,...

Myanmar dam breach floods 85 villages

Myanmar dam breach floods 85 villages

-- 2018-08-30 11:11:00

As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thu...

Suu Kyi 'should have resigned' on Rohingya crisis

Suu Kyi 'should have resigned' on Rohingya crisis

BBC 2018-08-30 10:24:01

The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military's violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra'ad...

Bolivian woman might be world’s oldest at 118

Bolivian woman might be world’s oldest at 118

-- 2018-08-29 17:45:05

Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years, reports...

West mulls bigger footprint in Pacific to counter China

West mulls bigger footprint in Pacific to counter China

-- 2018-08-29 17:30:29

The United States, Australia, France and Britain will open new embassies in the Pacific, boost staffing levels, and engage with leaders of island nations more often in a bid to counter China’s r...

Texas police search for mystery woman with broken restraints

Texas police search for mystery woman with broken restraints

-- 2018-08-29 17:14:12

Texas authorities were searching on Tuesday for a partially dressed woman who briefly appeared in security camera footage with broken restraints dangling from her wrists before she vanished in a subur...

Trump warns of ‘violence' if Democrats win mid-term elections

Trump warns of ‘violence' if Democrats win mid-term elections

-- 2018-08-29 16:42:06

US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be ‘violently’ overturned if the Democrats win November's mid-term elections, reports BBC. He told Evangelical leaders that the...

Indian political rivals’ clashes kill two

Indian political rivals’ clashes kill two

-- 2018-08-29 16:27:37

Police in eastern India say supporters of rival political parties have exchanged gunfire and hurled crude bombs at each other, killing at least two people and injuring 13. Police officer Abhitjit Ban...

Eight die in car bomb attack on Iraq security checkpoint

Eight die in car bomb attack on Iraq security checkpoint

Reuters 2018-08-29 13:57:23

At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the Qaim district of Iraq’s Anbar province, a local official told Reuters on Wednesday....