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Newspaper editorials across US rebuke  Trump for attacks on media

Newspaper editorials across US rebuke Trump for attacks on media

-- 2018-08-16 09:54:10

More than 300 US newspapers have pledged to run editorials on Thursday defending freedom of the press in response to President Donald Trump calling some media organizations enemies of the American peo...

Death toll reaches 39 in Italy bridge collapse

Death toll reaches 39 in Italy bridge collapse

-- 2018-08-15 17:27:57

Italian emergency workers pulled two more bodies out of tons of broken concrete and twisted steel Wednesday after a highway bridge collapsed in Genoa, raising the death toll in the disaster to at leas...

Transgender person wins nomination for Vermont governor

Transgender person wins nomination for Vermont governor

-- 2018-08-15 16:39:49

Vermont Democrats made Christine Hallquist the first openly transgender person to win a major party nomination for statewide office in US history as she clinched Tuesday's primary election for governo...

New Mexico judge gets death threats

New Mexico judge gets death threats

-- 2018-08-15 16:26:13

A New Mexico judge received death threats and Islamophobic abuse on Tuesday a day after she granted bail to five Muslims charged with child abuse and accused of training children at their compound to...

Report reveals decades of sexual abuse by priests

Report reveals decades of sexual abuse by priests

-- 2018-08-15 16:23:11

Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through the ‘weaponisation of faith’ and a systematic cover-up campa...

Indian oil tanker explodes off coast of Oman, three crew missing

Indian oil tanker explodes off coast of Oman, three crew missing

-- 2018-08-15 15:19:02

An Indian shipping company says one of its crude oil tankers suffered an explosion off the coast of Oman and three of its sailors are missing. The Shipping Corporation of India says the explosion str...

Police search addresses after attack at UK parliament

Police search addresses after attack at UK parliament

-- 2018-08-15 13:38:51

Police searched three addresses in central England as part of an investigation into what they said appeared to be a terrorist attack outside Britain’s parliament when a man drove a car into pede...

Uganda cops arrest three MP’s after attack at Museveni’s convoy

Uganda cops arrest three MP’s after attack at Museveni’s convoy

-- 2018-08-15 13:00:33

Ugandan police arrested three opposition lawmakers and scores of others after stones were thrown at the convoy of President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country since 1986. Supporters of indepe...

New Zealand teachers go on strike over low pay

New Zealand teachers go on strike over low pay

-- 2018-08-15 11:55:14

New Zealand school teachers went on strike on Wednesday for the first time in more than 20 years, challenging the Labour government’s plans to balance promised fiscal responsibility against grow...

India to launch first manned space mission by 2022

India to launch first manned space mission by 2022

-- 2018-08-15 11:26:05

India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, which could make it the fourth nation to do so after the United States, Russia and China. In...

24 people, mostly Colombians, die in Ecuador bus crash

24 people, mostly Colombians, die in Ecuador bus crash

-- 2018-08-15 11:16:30

At least 24 people were killed and another 19 injured when a bus from Colombia overturned on a stretch of road into Ecuador’s capital Quito known as the “curve of death”, the emergen...

Erdogan vows US boycott, but diplomats resume talks

Erdogan vows US boycott, but diplomats resume talks

-- 2018-08-14 22:07:19

Turkey's president appeared to escalate a dispute with the United States that has helped foment a Turkish currency crisis, claiming Tuesday that his country will boycott US-made electronic goods, repo...

Merkel, Putin to discuss  Syria, Ukraine, energy

Merkel, Putin to discuss Syria, Ukraine, energy

-- 2018-08-14 22:06:28

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Syria, the conflict in east Ukraine and a disputed pipeline to bring Russian gas to Germany during talks near Berlin on Sa...

‘Dozens dead’ in Italy bridge collapse

‘Dozens dead’ in Italy bridge collapse

-- 2018-08-14 17:51:19

A major bridge has collapsed near the northern Italian city of Genoa, leading to vehicles falling some 100m (328ft). Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said it was likely to be "an immense t...

Suu Kyi's failure over Rohingya crisis disappoints Mahathir

Suu Kyi's failure over Rohingya crisis disappoints Mahathir

-- 2018-08-14 17:45:12

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Myanmar must accept Rohingyas because they are their citizens as they have lived in Myanmar for generations. Mahathir blasted Myanmar's treatment of...

Swedish gangs set 80 cars on fire

Swedish gangs set 80 cars on fire

-- 2018-08-14 17:14:55

Dozens of cars have been set alight in Sweden overnight, in what police say may be a co-ordinated criminal action. Up to 80 vehicles were badly damaged by gangs of black-clad youths, beginning at abo...

Taliban attack at Afghan army base kills 17 soldiers

Taliban attack at Afghan army base kills 17 soldiers

-- 2018-08-14 15:29:05

The spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Kabul says the Taliban have overrun a military base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers and wounding at least 19 troops. Ghafor Ahmad Jawed says the...

Israeli minister confirms Netanyahu met Sisi over Gaza

Israeli minister confirms Netanyahu met Sisi over Gaza

-- 2018-08-14 14:48:53

Israel’s finance minister confirmed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Str...

Car crashes into barriers outside UK parliament, driver held

Car crashes into barriers outside UK parliament, driver held

-- 2018-08-14 14:09:08

A number of people were injured when a car collided with security barriers outside London’s parliament building on Tuesday and the driver was arrested, police said. Police said they could not i...

Koreans divided by war find  little peace 65 years later

Koreans divided by war find little peace 65 years later

-- 2018-08-14 13:21:06

Retired South Korean farmer Hwang Rae-ha would love to see his mother again, but nearly 70 years after he last set eyes on her, he says he would settle for a photograph. “Too much time has pa...

Australian archbishop begins home detention for concealing child abuse

Australian archbishop begins home detention for concealing child abuse

-- 2018-08-14 13:09:19

A former Australian archbishop, the most senior Catholic cleric in the world convicted of concealing child sex abuse, was spared jail on Tuesday when he was ordered to serve his one-year sentence at h...

Fire hits Myanmar hospital

Fire hits Myanmar hospital

-- 2018-08-14 12:49:41

A fire broke out in a hospital in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon late on Monday, forcing staff to evacuate patients on stretchers and in wheelchairs, rescuers said. There were no immediate re...

Trump signs defence policy bill

Trump signs defence policy bill

-- 2018-08-14 11:23:00

US President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion defence policy bill on Monday that authorizes military spending and includes watered-down controls on US government contracts with China’s ZTE Cor...

12 Barcelona fans die in bus crash in Ecuador

12 Barcelona fans die in bus crash in Ecuador

-- 2018-08-14 11:22:15

At least twelve Barcelona SC soccer fans were killed and thirty others injured after a bus, loaded with fans of the team, overturned on a highway in Ecuador after a game, police said. The accident...

Paramilitaries kill at least 40 in Ethiopia

Paramilitaries kill at least 40 in Ethiopia

-- 2018-08-14 10:43:15

At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, a senior regional official said on Monday, in the latest spate of violence driven by ethnic divisions. Unre...

Khamenei rejects Trump offer of talks, chides govt over economy

Khamenei rejects Trump offer of talks, chides govt over economy

-- 2018-08-13 22:18:57

Iran's Supreme Leader on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump's offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the...

Two Korean leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September

Two Korean leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September

-- 2018-08-13 22:17:13

North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step towards boosting cooperation between the old rivals, even as doubts grow over efforts to end the North's...

Nigerian troops protest against redeployment in restive region

Nigerian troops protest against redeployment in restive region

-- 2018-08-13 16:08:20

Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Sunday shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people said. There were no reports of any...

North, South Korea agree on third summit

North, South Korea agree on third summit

-- 2018-08-13 14:43:07

North and South Korea have agreed to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the latest step forward in cross-border ties this year after more high-level talks on Monday, the South’s Unificatio...

Spanish festival platform collapse injures hundreds

Spanish festival platform collapse injures hundreds

-- 2018-08-13 13:45:17

Hundreds of people were hurt, five seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in north-western Spain on Sunday night, state television RTVE reported. There were no report...