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Woman guilty of attempted murder in Sydney axe attack

Woman guilty of attempted murder in Sydney axe attack

-- 2018-08-03 17:06:32

A woman who attacked two people with an axe in an Australian convenience store has been convicted of attempted murder. Evie Amati, 26, carried out the unprovoked attack in Sydney last year. After en...

Assailants burn down 11 schools in Pakistan

Assailants burn down 11 schools in Pakistan

-- 2018-08-03 14:32:02

Assailants in apparently coordinated attacks burnt down 11 schools for boys and girls in Pakistan's north before fleeing, a local police officer and residents say. Police officer Mohammad Bashir says...

Europe's heat nears record

Europe's heat nears record

-- 2018-08-03 13:27:06

As Europe bakes in another heatwave, forecasters say the all-time temperature record could be broken in the coming days. The current European record is 48°C (118.4°F) set in Athens in July 19...

US senators introduce Russia sanctions 'bill from hell'

US senators introduce Russia sanctions 'bill from hell'

-- 2018-08-03 13:22:51

Republican and Democratic US senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia and combat cyber crime, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interferen...

Costa Rica seizes two tons of cocaine from boat

Costa Rica seizes two tons of cocaine from boat

-- 2018-08-03 13:15:21

Law enforcers in Costa Rica recovered two tons of cocaine from a low-profile boat, a kind of boat frequently used by drug traffickers because they are difficult to detect by radar, in the Pacific Oc...

India sends extradition request to UK for fugitive billionaire

India sends extradition request to UK for fugitive billionaire

-- 2018-08-03 13:12:43

India has asked Britain to extradite billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, one of the main accused in the $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). Modi’s whereabouts have been u...

Power outage hits New Zealand parliament, courts

Power outage hits New Zealand parliament, courts

-- 2018-08-03 11:53:05

Parts of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation’s parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged busines...

Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe poll

Mnangagwa wins Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe poll

-- 2018-08-03 11:36:36

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday won a election as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. The former s...

Imran Khan invites former Indian cricketers to oath-taking ceremony

Imran Khan invites former Indian cricketers to oath-taking ceremony

-- 2018-08-02 21:44:16

Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11, report...

Business shut down in Zimbabwe, army on patrol

Business shut down in Zimbabwe, army on patrol

-- 2018-08-02 19:23:16

Businesses have shut in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, as the nation awaits the release of heavily disputed presidential election results. Armed soldiers and police are on patrol, ordering people to "be...

Ethiopia's exiled Bishop returns

Ethiopia's exiled Bishop returns

-- 2018-08-02 19:22:10

The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia's powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, met him...

WHO’s Ebola team arrives in Congo

WHO’s Ebola team arrives in Congo

-- 2018-08-02 19:15:35

An international delegation has arrived in the town of Beni in Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 km (18 miles) from where an Ebola outbreak was declared, said the World Health Organization on Thursday....

Imran Khan invites former cricketers to oath ceremony

Imran Khan invites former cricketers to oath ceremony

-- 2018-08-02 17:23:10

Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11. Pakistan Teh...

Turkish minister mocks US sanctions against him

Turkish minister mocks US sanctions against him

-- 2018-08-02 15:28:19

A Turkish minister has defiantly mocked US sanctions against him, saying his only asset in the United States is a US-based Muslim cleric whom Turkey blames for a failed coup and wants extradited. The...

Militants kill three foreigners in Afghan capital: Police

Militants kill three foreigners in Afghan capital: Police

-- 2018-08-02 14:34:55

Militants killed three foreign nationals working for an international company in the Afghan capital, Kabul, two security officials said on Thursday. “An Indian, a Malaysian and a Macedonian cit...

Trump thanks Kim for keeping word on war remains

Trump thanks Kim for keeping word on war remains

-- 2018-08-02 13:54:17

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he looked forward to meeting Kim Jong Un soon and thanked the North Korean leader for sending the suspected remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-1953 Ko...

Three die in Zimbabwe troops, protesters clash

Three die in Zimbabwe troops, protesters clash

-- 2018-08-02 11:00:11

Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare on Wednesday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidentia...

‘Shoot’ Bangladeshi immigrants: BJP leader

‘Shoot’ Bangladeshi immigrants: BJP leader

-- 2018-08-01 14:28:24

Bangladeshi and other illegal Rohingyas settlers should be shot if they did not return to their countries, an Indian political party leader has said. Telangana Legislative Assembly representing the G...

Zimbabwe ruling party wins majority of seats in parliament

Zimbabwe ruling party wins majority of seats in parliament

-- 2018-08-01 13:12:53

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President...

Plane crashes in Mexico after take-off, no deaths reported

Plane crashes in Mexico after take-off, no deaths reported

-- 2018-08-01 10:50:29

A plane has crashed in the capital of Mexico's Durango state, television images show, with the state governor confirming nobody was killed. Governor José Aispuro tweeted that there were no dea...

North Korea working on new missiles, claims US officials

North Korea working on new missiles, claims US officials

-- 2018-07-31 19:05:11

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration and pledges to denuclearise, BBC says citing reports. Unnamed US officials on Tuesd...

California fire scorches over 100,000 acres

California fire scorches over 100,000 acres

-- 2018-07-31 18:15:07

Fire fighters are making progress in battling a deadly wildfire in Northern California but the fire that's levelled hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee the area has now crossed...

Small plane crash leaves three dead in Maine

Small plane crash leaves three dead in Maine

-- 2018-07-31 16:03:08

Three people were kelled in a small plane crash in rural Maine , the northeasternmost US state, after the aircraft departed for Prince Edward Island in Canada, polce said. The twin-engine plane crash...

Girl killed was on her way to mosque: UK Police

Girl killed was on her way to mosque: UK Police

-- 2018-07-31 16:01:55

A six-year-old girl who was hit and killed by car had been heading for prayers at a mosque with her father, police have said. The girl, Jannatul Bakya, was hit while crossing Oldbury Road in Smethwic...

Zimbabwe's president, rival both confident of election win

Zimbabwe's president, rival both confident of election win

-- 2018-07-31 14:28:39

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too earl...

North Korea 'working on new missiles'

North Korea 'working on new missiles'

-- 2018-07-31 12:15:12

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration, media reports say. Unnamed US officials told the Washington Post that spy satellit...

10 die as van explodes at Philippine military checkpoint

10 die as van explodes at Philippine military checkpoint

-- 2018-07-31 12:06:43

An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, in what officials said may have been a bombing by militants with ties to th...

Indonesia invites North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Asian Games

Indonesia invites North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Asian Games

-- 2018-07-31 11:41:40

Indonesia has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Jakarta in August following a similar invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, offic...

Tamil Nadu ex-CM Karunanidhi  in hospital

Tamil Nadu ex-CM Karunanidhi in hospital

-- 2018-07-30 21:09:12

Massive crowds have gathered outside a hospital in southern India's Tamil Nadu state where a politician who has served as chief minister (CM) five times was admitted on Saturday, reports Reuters. M...

IS holds women, children as captives in Suweida attack

IS holds women, children as captives in Suweida attack

-- 2018-07-30 20:54:09

Islamic State (IS) militants are holding more than 30 women and children hostage in south-western Syria, a monitor and local media said. They are believed to have been seized in last week's IS attack...