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Mother Teresa India charity ‘sold 14-day-old baby’

Mother Teresa India charity ‘sold 14-day-old baby’

-- 2018-07-05 19:12:15

A woman working at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby. Two other women employees from the centr...

India mass deaths: CCTV footage supports suicide theory

India mass deaths: CCTV footage supports suicide theory

-- 2018-07-05 15:57:58

India police investigating the deaths of 11 family members found dead in their home in the capital Delhi say they have recovered CCTV footage which supports a theory of mass suicide. The footage show...

UK sets out some details of new Brexit customs plan

UK sets out some details of new Brexit customs plan

-- 2018-07-05 13:44:22

Downing Street has set out some of the detail of how customs could be handled after Brexit. No 10 says its new plan - dubbed the "facilitated customs arrangement" - offers "the best of both worlds"....

Wiltshire pair 'poisoned by' same nerve agent as Russian spy

Wiltshire pair 'poisoned by' same nerve agent as Russian spy

-- 2018-07-05 13:00:24

A man and woman found unconscious in Britain's Wiltshire were poisoned by Novichok - the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say. The couple, believed to be Charlie R...

Ethiopia sacks senior prison officials over human rights violation

Ethiopia sacks senior prison officials over human rights violation

-- 2018-07-05 12:03:16

Ethiopia has fired senior prison officials hours before the release of a Human Rights Watch report detailing torture and other abuses in one notorious prison and urging the government to hold official...

More rains threaten Thai cave boys

More rains threaten Thai cave boys

-- 2018-07-05 11:34:56

Rescuers in Thailand were no closer on Thursday to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found this week, pale and weak but oth...

Mexico mulls $10m fine for poll victors

Mexico mulls $10m fine for poll victors

-- 2018-07-05 11:20:39

Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party could face a $10 million fine for violations of campaign finance rules, the national electoral institute said on Wednesday following t...

Malaysia suspends major Belt and Road rail project

Malaysia suspends major Belt and Road rail project

-- 2018-07-04 18:39:12

Malaysia has suspended construction of East Coast Railway Link as the country seeks to renegotiate the terms of the deal with China. The project owner of the $20 billion has told its main Chinese con...

China’s HNA Group boss dies from fall in France

China’s HNA Group boss dies from fall in France

-- 2018-07-04 18:31:26

The co-founder and chairman of the giant Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has died in a fall in southern France, his company has confirmed. Wang Jian, 57, "accidentally fell" in Provence, while on a bu...

Ecuador orders arrest of former president Correa

Ecuador orders arrest of former president Correa

-- 2018-07-04 15:42:26

A court in Ecuador has ordered the arrest of former president Rafael Correa over his alleged involvement in the 2012 kidnapping of an opponent. Correa, who now lives in his wife's native Belgium, den...

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

-- 2018-07-04 13:47:33

Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave and keen to end a harrowing 11...

Bus, truck collision leaves nine dead in Kenya

Bus, truck collision leaves nine dead in Kenya

Reuters 2018-07-04 12:22:17

Nine people were killed and dozens injured when a bus and truck collided early on Wednesday on a busy highway southeast of Kenya’s capital, media reported. The accident, which resulted in a fir...

Turkey issues decree transferring some powers to president

Turkey issues decree transferring some powers to president

-- 2018-07-04 12:08:40

Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday transferring some powers to the president, in line with its move to an executive presidential system resulting from last month’s presidential and parliamentar...

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

-- 2018-07-04 11:49:00

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Wednesday related to a probe into allegations of corruption at state fund 1MDB, less than two months after...

Three-year-old birthday girl dies after knife attack

Three-year-old birthday girl dies after knife attack

-- 2018-07-03 17:12:53

A three-year-old girl died of her injuries on Monday, after a knife attack at her birthday party left nine injured in Boise, Idaho, US police say. They believe Saturday's attack at a complex, home to...

Saudi crown prince appoints former Siemens CEO as advisor

Saudi crown prince appoints former Siemens CEO as advisor

-- 2018-07-03 16:28:55

Klaus Kleinfeld, a former chief executive of industrial conglomerate Siemens and giant aluminum producer Alcoa, has been appointed an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman....

SA court summons Zuma’s son over fatal car crash

SA court summons Zuma’s son over fatal car crash

-- 2018-07-03 16:03:40

Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane has been summoned to appear in court next week to answer homicide charges over a fatal car crash in 2014. State prosecutors initially de...

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

-- 2018-07-03 15:39:57

Malaysian anti-corruption agents arrested former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday following a probe into how money went missing from a state fund he founded almost a decade ago and he was expecte...

Kenya to prosecute county governor in graft case

Kenya to prosecute county governor in graft case

-- 2018-07-03 13:20:46

Kenya’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that a county governor face charges including abuse of office and conspiracy to steal public funds, the latest move in the country’s anti-graft ca...

Germany's Seehofer drops threat to resign after talks with Merkel

Germany's Seehofer drops threat to resign after talks with Merkel

-- 2018-07-03 11:50:33

Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer dropped his threat to quit after hours of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), saying the two conservative parties ha...

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

-- 2018-07-03 11:40:01

A Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most s...

Afghan Sikhs, Hindus grieve  after suicide attack kills 20

Afghan Sikhs, Hindus grieve after suicide attack kills 20

-- 2018-07-02 21:52:00

Grief mixed with anger among Afghanistan's minority Sikh and Hindu community on Monday, reports Agencies. They prepared for funerals of loved ones, including an election candidate, killed in a suicid...

Syrian civil war leaves 270,000 homeless in south-west

Syrian civil war leaves 270,000 homeless in south-west

-- 2018-07-02 18:59:37

At least 270,000 people have fled their homes in south-western Syria since the military launched an assault on rebel-held areas two weeks ago, the UN says. Many of those displaced by the fighting in...

Sophia meets Ethiopian PM after recovering lost body parts

Sophia meets Ethiopian PM after recovering lost body parts

-- 2018-07-02 18:48:00

Sophia, the famous humanoid robot, has finally met Ethiopia’s prime minister after her lost body parts were found. A bag containing some of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport last week, wh...

Mexico leftist gets landslide victory, vows crackdown on corruption

Mexico leftist gets landslide victory, vows crackdown on corruption

-- 2018-07-02 18:33:56

Mexico’s new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would pursue friend and foe alike in a crackdown on corruption after voters handed him a powerful mandate for government with a landsli...

Over 1,000 drown in Mediterranean this year

Over 1,000 drown in Mediterranean this year

-- 2018-07-02 17:14:09

More than 1,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean this year sailing from Libya to Europe, with a rush in the past few days to beat an anticipated crackdown by the European Union, The Internati...

Malaysia freezes 408 bank accounts, summons Najib's stepson

Malaysia freezes 408 bank accounts, summons Najib's stepson

-- 2018-07-02 17:04:37

Malaysia has frozen more than 400 bank accounts as part of a probe into a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB. A task force looking into 1MDB came up with the statement on Monday, reports...

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

-- 2018-07-02 14:25:13

A Philippine provincial city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified...

India condemns deadly attack on Hindus, Sikhs in Afghanistan

India condemns deadly attack on Hindus, Sikhs in Afghanistan

-- 2018-07-02 13:50:56

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned a deadly bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed 20 people and wounded 20 others, officials said. “We strongly condemn the terror attacks in Afg...

German interior minister offers to step down over migrants

German interior minister offers to step down over migrants

-- 2018-07-02 12:43:58

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has offered to resign as both minister and as chairman of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union at a closed meeting of the party’s presidency, party sour...