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Putin says he invited Trump to Moscow

Putin says he invited Trump to Moscow

-- 2018-07-27 19:13:46

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he had invited US President Donald Trump to Moscow and both he and Trump are ready for further summits. However, Putin said the conditions needed to be right...

Plane crash leaves Paraguay ministers, two others dead

Plane crash leaves Paraguay ministers, two others dead

-- 2018-07-27 17:24:37

Paraguay Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting, his vice-minister and two others have died when an airplane carrying them to the capital Asuncion crashed into a wetland. National Emergency Secretariat h...

Pakistan's Imran Khan needs coalition to form government

Pakistan's Imran Khan needs coalition to form government

-- 2018-07-27 16:53:28

Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician comfortably ahead in Pakistan elections, but will need a coalition to form the government. His party bagged 110 seats, 27 short of majority mark 137 in 269 seat...

Malians to elect president amid spiralling violence

Malians to elect president amid spiralling violence

-- 2018-07-27 16:35:02

In the five years since Malians last chose a president, they’ve suffered violence from Islamist militants, Tuareg separatists, drug traffickers, ethnic vigilantes and Malian security forces. Ye...

South Korea sends jets to intercept Chinese warplane

South Korea sends jets to intercept Chinese warplane

-- 2018-07-27 16:23:50

South Korea said on Friday it had scrambled military jets to intercept a Chinese military aircraft that entered the South's air defence territory, reports Reuters. The Chinese plane spent more than f...

Australian woman guilty in headless torso murder

Australian woman guilty in headless torso murder

-- 2018-07-27 16:14:26

An Australian woman who dumped her partner's dismembered body next to a road and set it alight has been found guilty of murder. Lindy Williams, 60, was sentenced on Friday to spend a maximum of life...

Nepal holds first digital Cabinet meet

Nepal holds first digital Cabinet meet

-- 2018-07-27 14:31:34

Nepal government held its first digital Cabinet meeting by using laptop computers in the cabinet on Thursday, as part of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s commitment to go paperless. This was th...

Croatian membership to NATO €4.2m

Croatian membership to NATO €4.2m

-- 2018-07-27 14:30:30

Croatia will pay 4.2 million Euros, or 31million Kuna for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) membership this year, the government said. The government said this in response to a question...

Japan braces for category 4 typhoon 'Jongdari'

Japan braces for category 4 typhoon 'Jongdari'

-- 2018-07-27 14:18:43

Outlying Japanese islands were pelted by intense rain on Friday as a powerful typhoon bore down, threatening the main islands with heavy rain at the weekend and putting areas already ravaged by deadly...

Brazil's population to peak at 233.2m in 2047

Brazil's population to peak at 233.2m in 2047

-- 2018-07-27 13:49:29

Brazil's population is expected to peak at 233.2 million in 2047, the local statistics agency has said. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil's population,...

Trump accuses Twitter of silencing Republicans

Trump accuses Twitter of silencing Republicans

-- 2018-07-27 11:41:20

US President Donald Trump has accused Twitter of restricting the visibility of prominent Republicans, without providing evidence, and the avid user of the social media platform promised to investigate...

North Korea returns remains of US soldiers

North Korea returns remains of US soldiers

-- 2018-07-27 10:28:18

North Korea transferred 55 cases carrying the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War, the White House said on Thursday, a first step by Pyongyang to implement an agreement made in a landmark sum...

Tehran will respond to any hostile action

Tehran will respond to any hostile action

-- 2018-07-26 22:36:16

An Iranian military commander said on Thursday that Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of "night clubs and gambli...

Pakistan election: Imran Khan claims victory amid rigging allegations

Pakistan election: Imran Khan claims victory amid rigging allegations

-- 2018-07-26 18:37:13

Former cricketer Imran Khan has claimed victory in Pakistan's election, amid accusations of vote rigging by rivals. In a television address, he said: "We were successful and we were given a mandate."...

West Bengal step closer to becoming ‘Bangla’

West Bengal step closer to becoming ‘Bangla’

-- 2018-07-26 16:16:51

West Bengal is on track to be renamed ‘Bangla’ with all parties in the state approving the name-change in the assembly on Thursday. The new name needs the centre's clearance, according to...

S Africa opens door to future Russian nuke deal

S Africa opens door to future Russian nuke deal

-- 2018-07-26 16:05:39

South African cannot afford large-scale expansion of its nuclear power fleet but would still be open to future nuclear deals with Russia, a ruling party leader said. The African National Congress&rsq...

Vietnam jet fighter crashes, killing two

Vietnam jet fighter crashes, killing two

-- 2018-07-26 14:13:32

A military jet fighter crashed in northern Vietnam on Thursday, killing two servicemen on board, a local official said. “It crashed in a hilly area in Nghia Dan district around lunch time,&rdqu...

California wildfire forces thousands to flee

California wildfire forces thousands to flee

-- 2018-07-26 13:46:42

Thousands of residents in Southern California were forced from their homes by a raging wildfire which remained unchecked early on Thursday as it pushed toward their mountain resort communities. The s...

Oppositions blast Merkel over meeting with Russian officials

Oppositions blast Merkel over meeting with Russian officials

-- 2018-07-26 13:02:38

German opposition parties have criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for not providing more detail of her discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the head of Russia’s military...

IS attacks in southwest Syria leave over 200 dead

IS attacks in southwest Syria leave over 200 dead

-- 2018-07-26 12:17:43

Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of south-western Syria on Wednesday, local officials and a war monitor said, in the group’s...

Pakistan’s Khan leads elections in early counting

Pakistan’s Khan leads elections in early counting

-- 2018-07-26 10:16:38

Pakistani authorities said on Thursday full results of a general election would be delayed as cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in a partial count that opponents said was rigged. The part...

Acting New Zealand PM tells Australia to change flag

Acting New Zealand PM tells Australia to change flag

-- 2018-07-25 19:40:16

New Zealand’s Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has called on Australia to change its flag, accusing its neighbour of copying New Zealand’s own design - a jab at a time of testy relatio...

Thai cave boys ordained as Buddhist novices

Thai cave boys ordained as Buddhist novices

-- 2018-07-25 16:47:31

Eleven boys from a football team, rescued from a flooded Thai cave, were ordained as Buddhist novices on Wednesday. The Buddhist ordination ceremony was held at a temple in Chiang Rai in memory of a...

Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan votes in election

Suicide blast kills 31 as Pakistan votes in election

-- 2018-07-25 13:42:42

A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people near a polling centre as Pakistanis voted on Wednesday in a knife-edge general election pitting cricket hero Imran Khan against the party of jailed ex-Prime...

Blast near Pakistan polling station kills 20

Blast near Pakistan polling station kills 20

-- 2018-07-25 13:16:10

A blast targeting a police van killed more than 20 people in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said, as the South Asian nation goes to the vote to choos...

38 die in multiple attacks in Syria

38 die in multiple attacks in Syria

-- 2018-07-25 13:02:42

Multiple attacks killed at least 38 people and wounded 37 others in Sweida and villages northeast of the Syrian city, the head of the health authority told state-run Ikhbariyah TV. A suicide bomber b...

Poland approves new law to accelerate changes in top court

Poland approves new law to accelerate changes in top court

-- 2018-07-25 12:38:57

The upper chamber of Poland’s parliament has approved an amendment smoothing the way for the ruling party to name the next chief of the Supreme Court, despite street protests and objections from...

Suicide blast causes deaths in Syria’s Sweida

Suicide blast causes deaths in Syria’s Sweida

-- 2018-07-25 11:37:30

A suicide attack in the Syrian city of Sweida caused deaths and injuries, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on its Telegram feed on Wednesday, citing its correspondent. Reuters reported quot...

Pakistan votes in knife-edge election

Pakistan votes in knife-edge election

-- 2018-07-25 11:00:55

Pakistanis began voting on after an election campaign overshadowed by concerns of manipulation and violence. Nearly 106 million people are registered to vote for members of the lower house of parliam...

London taxi drivers suing Uber for over £1.0b

London taxi drivers suing Uber for over £1.0b

-- 2018-07-24 21:16:09

London taxi drivers are drawing up a plan to sue mobile app Uber for over 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion), Sky News reported on Tuesday citing unidentified sources, weeks after it was granted a tempor...