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Girl dies in safety drill in India

Girl dies in safety drill in India

-- 2018-07-13 19:03:04

Indian police on Friday have arrested a training instructor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after a 19-year-old college student died in a safety exercise. Police said N Logeshwari died after she...

Water rushes into Thai cave soon after rescue

Water rushes into Thai cave soon after rescue

-- 2018-07-13 18:15:49

Just hours after a boys football team was rescued from a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand, water rushed back into the mouth of the vast underground cave network, Thai officials said. Chiang R...

Authorities drop ‘politically motivated’ charges against Stormy Daniels

Authorities drop ‘politically motivated’ charges against Stormy Daniels

-- 2018-07-13 17:58:39

Authorities dropped the charges against adult film star Stormy Daniels Thursday after she was taken into custody during a performance at a strip club in Ohio, which her lawyer called a "politically mo...

Imran Khan fathered illegitimate children, claims ex-wife

Imran Khan fathered illegitimate children, claims ex-wife

-- 2018-07-13 17:47:56

Journalist Reham Khan, who was briefly married to Imran Khan, has claimed in her autobiography that the cricketer-turned-politician told her that he sired at least five illegitimate children, includin...

Trump tweets 'very nice note' from Kim

Trump tweets 'very nice note' from Kim

-- 2018-07-13 17:43:36

US President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted a letter to him from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un heralding "epochal progress" in U.S.-North Korea relations, despite signs that path-finding diplomacy...

Where are your manners, Mr President?: UK minister asks Trump

Where are your manners, Mr President?: UK minister asks Trump

-- 2018-07-13 17:03:03

A junior minister in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government asked Donald Trump: “Where are your manners, Mr President?” after the US leader criticised her Brexit strategy in an inte...

Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan to face jail

Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan to face jail

-- 2018-07-13 16:54:35

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, both sentenced to lengthy jail terms in absentia, are due to return to Pakistan on Friday in a high-stakes gamble to galvanise the...

Shopping mall collapses in Mexico City

Shopping mall collapses in Mexico City

Associated Press 2018-07-13 15:24:59

A newly opened shopping mall on Mexico City's south side partly collapsed Thursday after structural problems led the mall's operators to quickly evacuate the area, and no injuries were reported. Of...

Isaias Afwerki to visit Ethiopia

Isaias Afwerki to visit Ethiopia

-- 2018-07-13 15:14:40

Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki will make a historic visit to Ethiopia this weekend, cementing a stunning rapprochement with his giant neighbour after a generation of mutual hate and mistrust. Th...

Finland to reinstates border checks

Finland to reinstates border checks

-- 2018-07-13 15:02:39

Finland will reinstate border controls for travellers from Schengen countries for four days during a summit in Helsinki between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “...

Brexit plan kills hope of a US trade deal: Trump

Brexit plan kills hope of a US trade deal: Trump

-- 2018-07-13 13:23:28

US President Donald Trump directly criticised British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy, saying her proposals had probably killed off hope of a US trade deal. Trump also said she h...

19 die in China chemical plant blast

19 die in China chemical plant blast

-- 2018-07-13 10:50:31

An explosion at a chemical plant in China has killed 19 people and injured 12, authorities said on Friday, the latest deadly industrial incident in the world’s largest producer of chemicals....

Sexism outside stadium mars World Cup

Sexism outside stadium mars World Cup

-- 2018-07-12 19:49:42

The World Cup has been marred by an estimated 300 cases of sexism on the streets tarnishing an otherwise positive tournament, the head of an anti-discrimination group said on Tuesday. Piara Powar, th...

Taliban attack leaves 29 Afghan soldiers dead

Taliban attack leaves 29 Afghan soldiers dead

-- 2018-07-12 19:30:38

A Taliban attack on an army outpost near the northern city of Kunduz in Afghanistan has killed at least 29 soldiers. Meanwhile, air strikes in other parts of the country killed dozens of insurgents,...

Germany is Russia’s captive, says Trump

Germany is Russia’s captive, says Trump

-- 2018-07-12 19:02:09

US President Donald Trump accused Germany of being a “captive” of Russia on Wednesday as Western leaders gathered in Brussels for a NATO summit where Mr. Trump wants Europeans to pay more...

Trump 'fine' with UK protests ahead of tour

Trump 'fine' with UK protests ahead of tour

-- 2018-07-12 18:26:46

US President Donald Trump on Thursday has said he is "fine" about the protests expected to be held during his UK visit, saying Britons "like me a lot". Speaking at the Nato summit before travelling t...

Thai cave to be turned into museum

Thai cave to be turned into museum

-- 2018-07-12 18:04:55

The cave complex in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped for more than two weeks is set to be turned into a museum. Rescue officials said the museum would showcase ho...

Stormy Daniels arrested at US strip club, lawyer says

Stormy Daniels arrested at US strip club, lawyer says

-- 2018-07-12 15:51:40

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels has been arrested in a strip club in Columbus, Ohio in the US, according to her lawyer. Daniels was arrested for allegedly letting a customer touch her on stage &ldq...

Turkey coup trial: Court sentences 72 plotters to life in jail

Turkey coup trial: Court sentences 72 plotters to life in jail

-- 2018-07-12 14:44:49

A Turkish court sentenced 72 defendants to life in prison on Thursday for their roles in clashes on a suspension bridge in Istanbul in which 34 people were killed during an attempted coup two years ag...

Landslide kills 10 in Afghanistan

Landslide kills 10 in Afghanistan

-- 2018-07-12 14:24:59

At least 10 people were killed and 300 homes damaged as a landslide swept through an Afghan village where residents were using only basic digging tools to search for survivors, officials said. Two...

Nigeria to sign African free-trade agreement soon

Nigeria to sign African free-trade agreement soon

-- 2018-07-12 13:06:04

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said the country will sign up soon to a $3 trillion African free-trade agreement. Nigeria is one of Africa’s two largest economies, the other bein...

Japan flood toll reaches 195

Japan flood toll reaches 195

-- 2018-07-12 11:45:52

The death toll from record-breaking floods in western Japan has reached at least 195 as rescue workers searched for dozens missing in hardest-hit Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures. Intense heat and w...

North Korea needs food, medicine, clean water: UN

North Korea needs food, medicine, clean water: UN

-- 2018-07-12 11:36:27

A senior UN official visiting North Korea is highlighting malnutrition, drinking water and a shortage of medicines as problems facing the country. Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark...

Magnitude 5.0 quake hits southern Myanmar

Magnitude 5.0 quake hits southern Myanmar

-- 2018-07-12 11:31:26

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake rattled Myanmar's southern coast on Thursday, said the meteorology and hydrology department. The quake struck at 9:10 am local time (0240 GMT), reports Xinhua. Its epice...

Thai cave rescue could be a fitting plot for Hollywood

Thai cave rescue could be a fitting plot for Hollywood

-- 2018-07-11 17:45:41

The nail-biting rescue of a Thai boys soccer team and their coach from a flooded cave complex transfixed news viewers around the world, and the story could be headed for a retelling by Hollywood, acco...

Egypt security forces kill 11 insurgents in Sinai

Egypt security forces kill 11 insurgents in Sinai

-- 2018-07-11 16:06:58

Egypt’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula. MENA quoted an unnamed security official Wednesday as say...

German court sentences neo-Nazi murderer to life in jail

German court sentences neo-Nazi murderer to life in jail

-- 2018-07-11 15:08:05

A German woman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for her part in the murders of 10 people during a seven-year campaign of violence by a neo-Nazi gang. The Higher Regional Court in Munich r...

India landslides kill eight children, one woman

India landslides kill eight children, one woman

FE Online Desk 2018-07-11 14:48:47

Torrential rains triggered landslides in northeastern India on Wednesday, killing eight children and a woman, an official said. Heavy rains set off landslides in Tamenglong, about 155 kilometres (96...

Roadside bomb blast leaves five Afghan civilians dead

Roadside bomb blast leaves five Afghan civilians dead

-- 2018-07-11 14:44:54

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in the western Farah province in Afghanistan, killing five civilians, including two women and a small child. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman f...

Greece to expel two Russian diplomats over ‘Macedonia interference’

Greece to expel two Russian diplomats over ‘Macedonia interference’

-- 2018-07-11 14:19:13

Greece will expel two Russian diplomats and ban entry to another two over suspicions they tried to undermine an agreement between Athens and the neighbouring Macedonia last month, Greek newspaper Kath...