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India strips nationality for 4.0m people in Assam

India strips nationality for 4.0m people in Assam

-- 2018-07-30 18:45:15

India has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who...

Greek wildfire death toll rises to 91

Greek wildfire death toll rises to 91

-- 2018-07-30 14:44:14

The death toll of the Greek wildfire, Europe's deadliest forest fire in more than a century, rose to 91 after four people succumbed to their injuries in hospitals, fire officials said. On July 23,...

Sharif's party calls for investigation of election 'rigging'

Sharif's party calls for investigation of election 'rigging'

-- 2018-07-30 11:09:44

Pakistan’s main opposition party has called for a judicial investigation into what it said was rigging at an election this week that it lost. Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Pak...

California fire: Deadly blazes continues to grow

California fire: Deadly blazes continues to grow

-- 2018-07-30 11:09:05

California's deadliest current wildfire is getting larger, officials warn, despite thousands of firefighters battling it. "Erratic winds" and dry conditions have caused the Carr fire to grow early on...

NYT urges Trump to end 'enemy' rhetoric

NYT urges Trump to end 'enemy' rhetoric

BBC 2018-07-30 10:58:17

The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters "enemies of the people", saying it could "lead to violence" against the media. AG Sulzberger m...

Vietnam bus crash kills groom, 12 wedding guests

Vietnam bus crash kills groom, 12 wedding guests

Reuters 2018-07-30 10:38:51

Thirteen people were killed and four injured when a minibus carrying guests on the way to a wedding in central Vietnam collided head-on with a large container truck on Monday, the government said in...

Zimbabweans vote in first election since Mugabe's removal

Zimbabweans vote in first election since Mugabe's removal

-- 2018-07-30 10:06:24

Zimbabweans go to the polls on Monday in the first election since the removal of Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote they hope will rid the country of its global pariah status and spark a recovery in its...

New Orleans shooting: At least 3 dead, manhunt underway

New Orleans shooting: At least 3 dead, manhunt underway

-- 2018-07-29 19:32:21

A manhunt is underway for two suspects accused of killing three people and injuring seven others in New Orleans, said the city's police chief. The suspects, who police say were wearing hoodies, fired...

Nawaz Sharif’s health deteriorates, doctors recommend hospitalisation

Nawaz Sharif’s health deteriorates, doctors recommend hospitalisation

-- 2018-07-29 19:31:05

Doctors are concerned about the health of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and have requested prison authorities in Rawalpindi to transfer him to a hospital, a government official s...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe rejects Mnangagwa in election

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe rejects Mnangagwa in election

-- 2018-07-29 18:46:40

Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe on Sunday emerged to address the nation for the first time since stepping down in November and just hours before Monday’s historic election, declarin...

Polling concludes in Cambodia in with no main opposition

Polling concludes in Cambodia in with no main opposition

-- 2018-07-29 18:33:36

Polling has now ended in Cambodia in a general election that lacked any serious challengers to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985. Critics had called the vote a sham as the Camb...

Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM before Pakistan's independence day: Party

Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM before Pakistan's independence day: Party

-- 2018-07-29 17:11:37

Imran Khan will be sworn in as Pakistan's new Prime Minister before the country's independence day on August 14, his party has announced as it is trying to reach out to smaller parties and independent...

Three babies among six die in Turkey boat capsize

Three babies among six die in Turkey boat capsize

Reuters 2018-07-29 15:46:09

Six people including three babies died on Sunday when an inflatable boat carrying 16 people capsized off the coast of western Turkey, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Nine people were rescued...

EU trying to ‘swindle’ UK, says Italy’s interior minister

EU trying to ‘swindle’ UK, says Italy’s interior minister

-- 2018-07-29 13:41:25

Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has accused the European Union of trying to cheat Britain out of the Brexit it voted for, according to extracts from a newspaper interview pu...

Malians vote in presidential election

Malians vote in presidential election

-- 2018-07-29 12:02:33

Malian voters were due to decide on Sunday on whether or not to give President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita a second term, despite widespread ethnic and jihadist violence that has dramatically worsened sinc...

Israeli Arab MP quits over ‘nation state’ law

Israeli Arab MP quits over ‘nation state’ law

-- 2018-07-29 11:12:43

An Israeli Arab politician has resigned in opposition to a controversial new law which declares Israel to be the nation state of the Jewish people. Zouheir Bahloul, 67, branded parliament "racist" an...

Texas nursing home shooting leaves five dead

Texas nursing home shooting leaves five dead

-- 2018-07-29 11:00:32

Five people were shot dead, including the suspected gunman, in a Friday night attack at a Texas nursing home and the home of one of the people slain, city officials said. Police in Robstown, Texas, o...

Strong quake strikes Indonesia, killing 12

Strong quake strikes Indonesia, killing 12

-- 2018-07-29 10:09:18

A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 12 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid colla...

Indian Muslims shaken by citizenship test

Indian Muslims shaken by citizenship test

-- 2018-07-29 09:46:51

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he is a citizen of the Hi...

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism

-- 2018-07-29 09:25:08

Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago. The Twitter hashtag “L...

US cardinal resigns over sexual abuse claims

US cardinal resigns over sexual abuse claims

-- 2018-07-28 21:58:11

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago. Theodore McCarrick, 88, a former Archbishop of Washington, must als...

Egyptian zoo comes under criticism for painting donkeys like zebras

Egyptian zoo comes under criticism for painting donkeys like zebras

-- 2018-07-28 18:47:02

An Egyptian zoo has come under criticism after being accused of painting donkeys to make them look like zebras. The zoo in Nasr City has denied the allegation but Mahmoud Sarhan, a recent high school...

California wildfire nearly levels community

California wildfire nearly levels community

-- 2018-07-28 18:30:10

A raging wildfire in Northern California that swelled in size Friday has killed two people and injured at least three firefighters and destroyed around 500 establishments, officials said. Another nea...

Imran Khan to launch coalition talks Saturday

Imran Khan to launch coalition talks Saturday

-- 2018-07-28 17:31:01

Pakistan’s likely new prime minister Imran Khan is expected to launch coalition talks on Saturday with smaller parties after the electoral commission announced long-delayed full results of an el...

Japan braces for strong typhoon

Japan braces for strong typhoon

-- 2018-07-28 15:29:04

More than 100 flights were cancelled in Japan and residents already reeling from deadly floods sand-bagged rivers and prepared for more evacuations as a powerful typhoon neared on Saturday. Typhoon J...

37 die in India after monsoon rains trigger house collapses

37 die in India after monsoon rains trigger house collapses

-- 2018-07-28 14:19:03

At least 37 people have been killed this week as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide swaths of land in northern India, officials said Saturday. Weather officials have predicted m...

UN running out of cash, chief warns

UN running out of cash, chief warns

-- 2018-07-28 12:38:19

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned staff that the world body is running out of cash and urged member states to pay what they owe as soon as possible, according to letters seen by Reuters...

1,500 migrants die in Mediterranean in 2018: UN

1,500 migrants die in Mediterranean in 2018: UN

-- 2018-07-28 12:21:39

For the fifth consecutive year, at least 1,500 migrants were perished in the Mediterranean so far this year, the UN migration agency has said. Between Libya and Italy being the deadliest route, cla...

Pence meets with Ethiopian PM, praises reform efforts

Pence meets with Ethiopian PM, praises reform efforts

-- 2018-07-28 12:12:27

US Vice President Mike Pence met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday and praised “the historic reform efforts” undertaken by Abiy since assuming power in April, the White Ho...

Trump thanks Kim for transferring remains of missing US soldiers

Trump thanks Kim for transferring remains of missing US soldiers

-- 2018-07-27 21:54:06

North Korea transferred 55 small, flag-draped cases carrying the suspected remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War on Friday, officials said, a first step in implementing an agreement reached...