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Leftist Obrador set to win Mexico election

Leftist Obrador set to win Mexico election

-- 2018-07-02 10:46:49

Left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is heading for a landslide victory in Mexico's presidential election, exit polls indicate. The former mayor of Mexico City, who was the...

Kim urges Xi to help end sanctions against N Korea

Kim urges Xi to help end sanctions against N Korea

-- 2018-07-01 22:25:21

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump, reports Agencies. A Japanese n...

'US to dismantle North Korea's nuclear programme in year'

'US to dismantle North Korea's nuclear programme in year'

-- 2018-07-01 21:28:40

An official of the United States has said Washington plans to dismantle the bulk of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes. White House national security adviser John...

Egypt's nuclear plant construction to begin in next two years

Egypt's nuclear plant construction to begin in next two years

-- 2018-07-01 20:19:26

Egypt will begin the construction of its first nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia, in the next two to two-and-a-half years. The 4,800 megawatt (MW) capacity plant at Dabaa in the north of the...

Gangster breaks out of French prison on helicopter

Gangster breaks out of French prison on helicopter

-- 2018-07-01 20:04:29

A notorious gangster has escaped by helicopter from a prison in the Paris region, the French authorities say. Redoine Faid was helped by several heavily armed men who created a diversion at the priso...

Two French soldiers die in Mali car bomb attack

Two French soldiers die in Mali car bomb attack

-- 2018-07-01 19:35:50

At least two French soldiers were killed in an attack after a car bomb was detonated in Mali on Sunday. One Malian military source said another 10 people had been killed, including civilians, in the...

Bus plunges into gorge in India killing 48

Bus plunges into gorge in India killing 48

-- 2018-07-01 12:22:00

At least 48 passengers were killed in Indian state Uttarakhand when their bus fell into a gorge on Sunday morning. While 45 of them died on the spot, the critically injured were rushed to the hospital...

Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel likely to win

Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel likely to win

-- 2018-07-01 11:54:19

Mexicans vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions...

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

-- 2018-07-01 10:58:03

North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea’s Defence Ministry...

11 of a family found dead in Delhi home

11 of a family found dead in Delhi home

-- 2018-07-01 10:49:49

Bodies of eleven members of a family were found at a house in Delhi's Burari area early on Sunday morning. Ten bodies were found hanging and blindfolded, while a 75-year-old woman's body was found on...

Pakistan back on terror-financing watch list,  strike-off persuasion falls flat

Pakistan back on terror-financing watch list, strike-off persuasion falls flat

-- 2018-06-30 21:21:00

Placed back on a terror financing watch list this week, Pakistan to tighten regulations and follow an action plan to curb money laundering and terror financing. Pakistani officials attending a meetin...

Italy closes ports to NGO boats with migrants

Italy closes ports to NGO boats with migrants

-- 2018-06-30 18:42:09

Migrants saved by non-governmental organisations (NGO) boats will not be allowed into Italy, said rightwing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Mr Salvini has often accused the NGOs of encouraging the...

Thousands to protest in US over migrant separations

Thousands to protest in US over migrant separations

-- 2018-06-30 18:04:59

Tens of thousands of people are expected to join nationwide protests across the US over the Trump administration's strict migrant policy. More than 630 events are planned calling for migrant families...

Egyptian court delays verdict in mass trial

Egyptian court delays verdict in mass trial

-- 2018-06-30 17:21:33

An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed a final ruling in a case against 739 people involved in a 2013 sit-in protest that was broken up by security forces. "Defendants could not be transferred to the...

US intelligence believes N Korea ups fuel production for nuclear bombs: NBC

US intelligence believes N Korea ups fuel production for nuclear bombs: NBC

-- 2018-06-30 17:12:30

US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nucle...

Syrian army seize seized more towns in southwest

Syrian army seize seized more towns in southwest

-- 2018-06-30 17:09:55

The Syrian army seized more towns in the southwest on Saturday, as air strikes pounded others that still held out against the rapid offensive. On the other hand, the rebels said they had begun negoti...

German parliament approves Greece aid package

German parliament approves Greece aid package

-- 2018-06-30 16:56:42

Germany’s parliament on Friday approved a financial aid package for Greece that is designed to ensure Athens can stand on its own feet after it exits a third bailout programme in August. The pa...

‘US govt holds right to detain border-crossing parents with children’

‘US govt holds right to detain border-crossing parents with children’

-- 2018-06-30 16:29:20

The US government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the US border illegally for the duration of their immigration proceedings. A 19...

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

-- 2018-06-30 15:51:01

Five Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed and another six injured when huge boulders rolled down on their bus following a mudslide triggered by monsoon rains in India’s remote northeast, pol...

US Senate passes Farm Bill to fund  Puerto Rico’s food assistance

US Senate passes Farm Bill to fund Puerto Rico’s food assistance

FE Online Desk 2018-06-30 13:23:05

The US Senate has passed the 2018 Farm Bill that includes an amendment to fund Puerto Rico's Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program with up to 635 million in dollars. More than 0.7 million peop...

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

-- 2018-06-30 12:49:31

Malaysia’s new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the US State Department reported a lack of progress in the c...

Bali airport reopens as volcano rumbles

Bali airport reopens as volcano rumbles

-- 2018-06-30 11:43:40

The airport on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali reopened on Friday after ash from a volcano forced a brief closure and the cancellation of more than 300 flights. Mount Agung in northeastern B...

100 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya

100 migrants die as boat capsizes off Libya

-- 2018-06-30 11:37:58

At least 100 migrants, including three children, are feared dead after their boat capsised off the coast of Libya, the Libyan navy said Friday. The navy rescued 16 migrants, the Libyan navy spokesm...

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

-- 2018-06-30 10:51:03

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning, reportedly in frustration at remarks made by President Donald Trump about America’s European allies. James D Melville revealed in a Facebook post that...

Mali militant attack kills six

Mali militant attack kills six

-- 2018-06-30 10:31:17

Islamist militants armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead on Friday, a spokesman for the force sai...

Malaysia to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia

Malaysia to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-06-29 21:32:06

Malaysia's new government has announced to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia in a bid to keep the country safe from regional conflict. Defence minister of Malaysia Mohammed Sabu made the announce...

Libyan militia takes control of radical Islamist city

Libyan militia takes control of radical Islamist city

-- 2018-06-29 19:09:30

Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar says that his forces now fully control the coastal city of Derna - until now the last radical Islamist stronghold in the east of the country. Gen Haftar declared...

Iraq executes 12 terrorists Thursday

Iraq executes 12 terrorists Thursday

-- 2018-06-29 19:00:18

Iraq has executed at least 12 people convicted of terrorism offences. On Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the "immediate application" of death sentences against convicted terror...

Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing five, was undergoing major repairs

Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing five, was undergoing major repairs

-- 2018-06-29 18:23:55

A small plane that crashed into a construction site in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier...

US ends 70 years of military presence in Seoul

US ends 70 years of military presence in Seoul

-- 2018-06-29 17:41:49

The United States formally ended seven decades of military presence in South Korea’s capital on Friday with the opening of a new headquarters farther from the tense border with North Korea, repo...