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Fire cuts cellphone service in Cuba

Fire cuts cellphone service in Cuba

-- 2018-06-26 13:25:24

A fire broke out on Monday at a technological facility in the telecommunications centre in Villa Clara province and severely affected cellphone service in central and western Cuba. The state-owned te...

Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to appeal jailing order

Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to appeal jailing order

-- 2018-06-26 12:53:52

Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in W...

Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport

Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport

-- 2018-06-26 11:22:05

Syrian state news agency SANA said two Israeli missiles hit in the vicinity of Damascus international airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning, without giving further details. The Syrian Observa...

US prosecutors cancel meeting with Stormy Daniels

US prosecutors cancel meeting with Stormy Daniels

-- 2018-06-25 21:25:26

A meeting between adult film actress Stormy Daniels and federal prosecutors in New York investigating US President Donald Trump’s long time personal attorney Michael Cohen scheduled for Monday h...

At least 86 die in Nigeria in communal clashes

At least 86 die in Nigeria in communal clashes

-- 2018-06-25 18:15:09

At least 86 people have been killed in attacks in central Nigeria, police said, an incident that has the potential to exacerbate ethnic tensions in an increasingly volatile region. The violence, thou...

US airstrikes kill six IS militants in Afghanistan

US airstrikes kill six IS militants in Afghanistan

-- 2018-06-25 14:48:56

At least six Islamic State (IS) militants were killed after NATO and US-led coalition forces launched airstrikes on IS hideouts in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar Sunday night, authorities...

Trump wants deportations without judicial process

Trump wants deportations without judicial process

-- 2018-06-25 14:44:05

US President Donald Trump has said that people who enter the country illegally should be sent back immediately to where they came from without any judicial process, likening them to invaders who are t...

Strong earthquake strikes Greece

Strong earthquake strikes Greece

-- 2018-06-25 13:17:02

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook the southwestern area of the Peloponnese in Greece in the early hours of Monday. Its epicentre was offshore, 26 km (16 miles) west of the town of Methoni at a depth o...

Mexico arrests 28 cops over political murder

Mexico arrests 28 cops over political murder

-- 2018-06-25 12:58:56

Twenty-eight police officers in the western Mexican state of Michoacan have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a candidate for mayor in the municipality of Ocampo, local media...

Flash floods, landslides leave seven dead in Vietnam

Flash floods, landslides leave seven dead in Vietnam

-- 2018-06-25 11:38:52

Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least seven people and left 12 missing in northern Vietnam since Saturday, the government’s Disaster Management Authority...

Erdogan wins presidential election

Erdogan wins presidential election

-- 2018-06-25 10:11:41

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan greet supporters gathered in front of the AKP headquarters in Ankara, Turkey Jun 25, 2018. Reuters Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's presidential...

Nigeria imposes curfew as 70 die in communal clashes

Nigeria imposes curfew as 70 die in communal clashes

-- 2018-06-25 10:10:58

Nigeria imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Sunday in central Plateau state after least 70 people died in communal clashes between farmers and semi-nomadic herders over the weekend. Strife in the decade...

US reunites 522 children separated under 'Zero Tolerance' policy

US reunites 522 children separated under 'Zero Tolerance' policy

-- 2018-06-24 16:20:25

The US Homeland Security Department said late Saturday the government has reunited 522 children separated from adults as part of a "Zero Tolerance" initiative and plans to reunite another 16 children...

Pakistani Taliban names new leader

Pakistani Taliban names new leader

-- 2018-06-24 15:35:27

Pakistani Taliban said the group has named Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud as the new chief and Mufti Mazaham alias Mufti Hazratas his deputy after confirming the death of Mullah Fazlullah by a US drone attack...

Trump defends policies on border, North Korea

Trump defends policies on border, North Korea

-- 2018-06-24 12:06:52

President Donald Trump defended his tough stance on immigrants crossing the US border with Mexico on Saturday, praising his administration for a job well done and saying his approach will make the Uni...

Turkey votes for president in crucial test for Erdogan

Turkey votes for president in crucial test for Erdogan

-- 2018-06-24 11:36:27

Turks vote for a new president and parliament on Sunday in elections that pose the biggest challenge to Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and...

Ex-Vatican diplomat gets five-year jail term over child porn

Ex-Vatican diplomat gets five-year jail term over child porn

-- 2018-06-24 11:22:29

A former Vatican diplomat has been sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography offences. Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella pleaded guilty at a Vatican court, which heard that dozens of porn...

Three kidnapped Turkish engineers freed in Libya

Three kidnapped Turkish engineers freed in Libya

-- 2018-06-24 11:07:38

Three Turkish engineers kidnapped last year in the southern Libyan town of Ubari have been released, the UN-backed Libyan government said. In November, an unknown armed group kidnapped four engineers...

Saudi women hit the roads as decades-old driving ban ends

Saudi women hit the roads as decades-old driving ban ends

Agencies 2018-06-24 11:05:44

Women in Saudi Arabia took to the roads at midnight on Sunday, ending a decades-old driving ban, long seen as an emblem of women’s repression in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom. The chan...

North Korea still a major threat: Trump

North Korea still a major threat: Trump

-- 2018-06-23 20:29:33

US President Donald Trump has renewed sanctions on North Korea, citing an "extraordinary threat" from its nuclear weapons - just 10 days after saying there was no risk from Pyongyang. "There is no lo...

Explosion rocks Zimbabwe president's rally

Explosion rocks Zimbabwe president's rally

-- 2018-06-23 20:15:15

An explosion has hit a rally attended by Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the city of Bulawayo. Footage from the blast at White City Stadium appears to show Mr Mnangagwa leaving the stage aft...

US judge may rule next week on reuniting migrant children

US judge may rule next week on reuniting migrant children

-- 2018-06-23 19:12:48

A federal judge said on Friday he could rule as soon as the middle of next week on a request to order the US government to reunite thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their parents...

Explosion at Ethiopian PM’s rally kills one

Explosion at Ethiopian PM’s rally kills one

-- 2018-06-23 18:34:54

An explosion struck a huge rally for Ethiopia’s reformist new prime minister on Saturday shortly after he spoke and was waving to the cheering crowd that turned out to support sweeping changes i...

Blast strikes new Ethiopian PM’s rally

Blast strikes new Ethiopian PM’s rally

-- 2018-06-23 14:09:28

An explosion has shaken a rally for Ethiopia’s new PM Abiy Ahmed which was being attended by thousands of people in Addis Ababa. Ahmed was taken away by security personnel immediately after his...

Assad launches bomb attacks in Southwest Syria

Assad launches bomb attacks in Southwest Syria

-- 2018-06-23 13:41:43

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country’s southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U...

S Sudan rules out rebel leader Machar’s participation in govt

S Sudan rules out rebel leader Machar’s participation in govt

-- 2018-06-23 13:31:19

South Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government on Friday, but ruled out Riek Machar, saying they had “had enough” of the rebel leader after five years of civil...

Cambodian cops discover 33 pregnant women in surrogacy raid

Cambodian cops discover 33 pregnant women in surrogacy raid

-- 2018-06-23 11:20:56

Thirty-three pregnant Cambodian women who were carrying babies on behalf of Chinese clients have been discovered during a raid on an illegal commercial surrogacy operation, police said on Saturday. F...

Greece hails 'historic' Eurozone debt relief deal

Greece hails 'historic' Eurozone debt relief deal

-- 2018-06-22 21:13:41

Eurozone countries have agreed a long-awaited debt relief deal for Greece, which has been hailed as "historic". The deal gives Athens more time to repay €96.9 billion (£85b) worth of loans...

Trump threatens 20pc tariff on EU cars

Trump threatens 20pc tariff on EU cars

-- 2018-06-22 21:03:00

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European Union (EU)-assembled cars coming into the United States. The threat came a month after the administration launched...

UN says Venezuelan security forces killed hundreds

UN says Venezuelan security forces killed hundreds

-- 2018-06-22 20:55:48

Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body said on Friday. In a report, it cites "shocking" accounts of y...