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Iranian lawmakers sack finance minister

Iranian lawmakers sack finance minister

-- 2018-08-26 16:59:03

The Iranian parliament has removed economic affairs and finance minister Masoud Karbasian amid a sharp fall in local currency and a deterioration in the economic situation. The house held a vote on S...

Pakistan bans first class air travel by President, PM

Pakistan bans first class air travel by President, PM

-- 2018-08-26 16:37:58

Pakistan imposed a ban on first-class air travel by the president, head of the government, chief justice, Senate chairman and NA speaker of the country. The federal cabinet of the country took the de...

Afghan president declines resignation of top officials

Afghan president declines resignation of top officials

-- 2018-08-26 16:12:30

Afghanistan’s top security officials have tendered their resignation, but President Ashraf Ghani asked them to remain at their posts. The presidential palace said on Sunday that Mr Ghani declin...

US waging ‘psychological warfare’ against us: Iran minister

US waging ‘psychological warfare’ against us: Iran minister

-- 2018-08-26 15:58:30

America is waging a psychological war against Iran and its business partners, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday, according to the Tasnim news agency. “[America's] focus is on...

Cops confront, kill four militants in Egypt

Cops confront, kill four militants in Egypt

-- 2018-08-26 13:05:37

Egyptian security forces on Saturday killed four suspected militants who had tried to attack a police checkpoint in northern Sinai, state news agency MENA reported, as troops pushed ahead with an oper...

Australia's foreign minister resigns

Australia's foreign minister resigns

-- 2018-08-26 12:54:18

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced her resignation from the cabinet. Her move came as new Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to announce his new cabinet after winning a bruis...

Brazil arrests nearly 3,000 for homicide, violence

Brazil arrests nearly 3,000 for homicide, violence

-- 2018-08-26 12:35:28

Brazil detained nearly 3000 people in "Cronos" operation carried out against homicide and social violence in various states, police said on Saturday. During the operation, nearly 450 people were deta...

1,000 Cameroonian soldiers to join UN forces

1,000 Cameroonian soldiers to join UN forces

-- 2018-08-26 12:23:09

Cameroon has deployed a 5th contingent of its troops for a stabilisation and peace-keeping mission to neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR), Cameroon's Defense Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said....

Afghanistan's four top security officials quit

Afghanistan's four top security officials quit

-- 2018-08-26 11:56:47

Afghanistan’s ministers of defence and interior, as well as another security chief, quit on Saturday, government sources said, following the resignation of the president’s national securit...

Strong quake hits Iran, killing one

Strong quake hits Iran, killing one

Reuters 2018-08-26 10:39:53

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the Iranian city of Kermanshah, killing one and wounding 58, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. The casualties were in the city of Tazehabad, northeast...

US Senator John McCain dead at 81

US Senator John McCain dead at 81

-- 2018-08-26 10:19:17

US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump,...

Rahul Gandhi forms panels for polls with veterans, new faces

Rahul Gandhi forms panels for polls with veterans, new faces

-- 2018-08-25 19:00:58

The Congress Saturday formed three crucial committees for the 2019 Lok Sabha election in India to look after coordination, manifesto and publicity in the polls, with the old guard maintaining its posi...

Hotel fire kills 19 people in northeast China

Hotel fire kills 19 people in northeast China

-- 2018-08-25 18:32:02

A fire tore through a hot springs hotel in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin before dawn on Saturday, killing 19 people and causing 23 others to be taken to hospital, city officials said. Autho...

Pope begins Irish visit, to meet clerical abuse victims

Pope begins Irish visit, to meet clerical abuse victims

-- 2018-08-25 18:12:10

Pope Francis has arrived in the Republic of Ireland's first papal visit for almost 40 years. The Pope is expected to meet some victims of clerical sex abuse later on Saturday. In a letter to the wor...

Boiler blast kills 10 in Iran

Boiler blast kills 10 in Iran

-- 2018-08-25 14:19:02

At least ten people were killed and five others injured after a boiler exploded in a residential area of the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Fars News reported in a Twitter post on Saturday....

EU aid for Iran sends wrong message: US official

EU aid for Iran sends wrong message: US official

-- 2018-08-25 13:47:59

The top US envoy on Iran criticized a European Union decision to give $20.7 million (£16.12 million) in aid to Tehran on Friday, saying it sent “the wrong message at the wrong time.&rdqu...

Volcano erupts in PNG, 2,000 villagers flee

Volcano erupts in PNG, 2,000 villagers flee

-- 2018-08-25 13:13:52

An island volcano on the north coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) erupted early on Saturday, forcing 2,000 villagers to flee from lava flows, the PNG National Disaster Centre said. Manam Island, just 10...

Trump calls off Pompeo's trip to North Korea

Trump calls off Pompeo's trip to North Korea

-- 2018-08-25 13:04:44

US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his top diplomat’s planned trip to North Korea on Friday, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearise...

Kofi Annan’s burial on Sept 13 in Ghana

Kofi Annan’s burial on Sept 13 in Ghana

-- 2018-08-25 11:52:21

Former United Nations chief and Noble prize laureate Kofi Annan will be buried in his home country Ghana on Sept 13, the West African nation’s president said on Friday. Nana Akufo-Addo told a d...

China hotel fire claims lives of 18

China hotel fire claims lives of 18

Reuters 2018-08-25 10:15:48

A fire early on Saturday morning at a hot springs hotel in the far northeastern Chinese city of Harbin killed 18 people, with 19 injured, authorities in the city said. The cause of the blaze was unde...

Trump cuts $200m in US aid to Palestinians

Trump cuts $200m in US aid to Palestinians

-- 2018-08-25 00:00:00

The United States is cutting more than $200 million (£155.7 million) in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department has said, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadershi...

Saudi-led airstrike kills 22 children: Yemen rebels

Saudi-led airstrike kills 22 children: Yemen rebels

-- 2018-08-24 20:07:26

At least 22 children and nine women were killed in a Saudi-led airstrike on a camp of internally displaced families south of Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Thursday. Houthi rebel-controlled...

Spain’s socialist government to unearth remains of fascist dictator

Spain’s socialist government to unearth remains of fascist dictator

-- 2018-08-24 19:37:41

Spain's socialist government has passed a decree to exhume the remains of the late fascist dictator Francisco Franco from a huge mausoleum near Madrid. The Valley of the Fallen, 50km (30 miles) from...

'Military solution for Syria's Idlib would be a disaster'

'Military solution for Syria's Idlib would be a disaster'

-- 2018-08-24 18:19:51

A military solution in the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib, an enclave which the Syrian government says it aims to recapture, would be disastrous. Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu c...

Sri Lanka suffers dengue fever outbreak

Sri Lanka suffers dengue fever outbreak

-- 2018-08-24 18:05:16

Sri Lanka is facing a dengue epidemic as 41 people died and over 36,000 patients infected by the virus across the country till August this year. Epidemiology Unit of Sri Lanka on Friday said 1,075 pa...

Eight people gets killed in Mexican resort town

Eight people gets killed in Mexican resort town

-- 2018-08-24 17:58:45

Eight dead bodies have been discovered throughout Cancun, Mexico -- a popular resort destination -- each killed in grisly fashion, local prosecutors told The Associated Press. While none of the bodie...

Indonesia earthquake death toll rises to 555

Indonesia earthquake death toll rises to 555

-- 2018-08-24 16:16:47

The death toll from a major earthquake that hit the Indonesian island of Lombok rose to 555 on Friday. Spokesman for the national disaster agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho announced the the new casualty c...

Russia may ban more US politicians over sanctions

Russia may ban more US politicians over sanctions

-- 2018-08-24 15:57:37

Moscow may ban more US politicians from entering Russia as part of a response to a new round of US sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with a Russian magazine publis...

Saudi 'detains' Makkah imam over remarks

Saudi 'detains' Makkah imam over remarks

-- 2018-08-24 15:40:35

Saudi Arabia has detained a prominent imam and preacher at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, activists said, after he reportedly delivered a sermon criticising mixed public gatherings. The social media advo...

Hurricane Lane batters Hawaii

Hurricane Lane batters Hawaii

Reuters 2018-08-24 15:24:28

Hurricane Lane, a powerful Category 3 storm, lashed Hawaii on Thursday with high winds and torrential rain, causing flash floods, landslides and raging surf as residents hunkered down to ride out the...