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Weinstein surrenders to police to face sexual misconduct charges

Weinstein surrenders to police to face sexual misconduct charges

-- 2018-05-25 18:43:21

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to New York police, where he is expected to face sexual misconduct charges. The charges have not been announced but US media say some may relate...

Iraq to probe ‘irregularities’ in May 12 elections

Iraq to probe ‘irregularities’ in May 12 elections

-- 2018-05-25 18:38:29

Iraq's prime minister has ordered the creation of a high-powered commission to look into alleged irregularities in the parliamentary elections held May 12. An official statement said an emergency Cab...

US defence act includes sanctions on Myanmar military officials

US defence act includes sanctions on Myanmar military officials

-- 2018-05-25 17:58:06

The US House of Representatives has passed the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defence Authorisation Act that includes sanctions on Myanmar officials responsible for ethnic cleansing, reports UNB.  "T...

New law in Indonesia after attacks using children

New law in Indonesia after attacks using children

-- 2018-05-25 16:36:46

Indonesia's parliament unanimously approved a tougher anti-terrorism law on Friday, lengthening detention periods and involving the military in counter-terrorism operations, spurred into action by rec...

UK plans to build own satellite system: Hammond

UK plans to build own satellite system: Hammond

-- 2018-05-25 14:28:42

The United Kingdom would develop its own separate satellite navigation system if it lost access to the Galileo project, the European Union’s version of GPS, Britain’s finance minister sa...

Bombing at restaurant leaves 15 injured in Canada

Bombing at restaurant leaves 15 injured in Canada

-- 2018-05-25 13:53:31

At least fifteen people were injured as two unidentified men bombed an Indian restaurant in the Canadian city of Mississauga on Thursday, authorities said. The injured were taken to hospital from t...

River boat capsize kills 49 in Congo: Official

River boat capsize kills 49 in Congo: Official

-- 2018-05-25 13:25:37

A boat tipped over in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning 49 people on board while about the same number survived the accident, a local official told a Congolese radio station....

Car bomb blast claims seven lives in Benghazi, Libya

Car bomb blast claims seven lives in Benghazi, Libya

-- 2018-05-25 12:56:02

At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the centre of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a hospital medic said. The bomb expl...

Pakistani mob destroys 100-year-old minority Ahmadi mosque

Pakistani mob destroys 100-year-old minority Ahmadi mosque

-- 2018-05-25 12:34:04

A mob led by right-wing Muslim clerics tore down the dome and minarets of a 100-year old Pakistani mosque belonging to the marginalised Ahmadi community, officials and the community said on Thursday....

Malaysia police seize $28.6m in 1MDB-linked raids

Malaysia police seize $28.6m in 1MDB-linked raids

-- 2018-05-25 11:44:35

Malaysian police said on Friday that cash worth 114 million ringgit ($28.6 million) and over 400 luxury handbags were seized from several apartments as part of an anti-graft probe into a state fund...

North Korea still open to talks with US

North Korea still open to talks with US

Reuters 2018-05-25 10:03:07

North Korea responded on Friday with measured tones to US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a historic summit with leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, saying Pyongyang hoped...

Pak parliament passes tribal areas reform

Pak parliament passes tribal areas reform

-- 2018-05-24 22:22:02

Pakistan's lower house of Parliament has passed a landmark constitutional amendment extending widespread political, administrative and human rights reforms to the country's northwestern tribal areas,...

Mob kills five in India over ‘rumours’ on child kidnapping gangs

Mob kills five in India over ‘rumours’ on child kidnapping gangs

-- 2018-05-24 21:57:28

Mobs in southern India have killed at least five people and injured 20 on Thursday others amid social media rumours about "child kidnapping gangs". Police say the messages, which were being spread wi...

Cinema hall collapse in Argentina kills at least three

Cinema hall collapse in Argentina kills at least three

-- 2018-05-24 21:28:51

At least three people were killed on Thursday when an old cinema collapsed in the city of Tucumán in northern Argentina. The building was being refurbished when it crumbled in a cloud of dust,...

Trump cancels summit with Kim

Trump cancels summit with Kim

-- 2018-05-24 20:54:03

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying the world had "lost a great opportunity for lasting peace". He said his decision was because of "tremendo...

N Korea ‘destroys’ nuclear test site

N Korea ‘destroys’ nuclear test site

-- 2018-05-24 17:25:56

North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site, in a move to reduce regional tensions. Foreign journalists at the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site said they witnessed a hug...

Canada undertakes fresh strategy to respond to Rohingya crisis

Canada undertakes fresh strategy to respond to Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-05-24 17:24:44

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled his country’s strategy to step up its response and meet the need of most vulnerable and displaced Rohingyas. Canada will dedicate significant...

Missile that downed flight MH17 owned by Russian brigade: Investigators

Missile that downed flight MH17 owned by Russian brigade: Investigators

-- 2018-05-24 17:06:06

The missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 belonged to a Russian brigade, international investigators say. For the first time, the Dutch-led team said the missile...

Amnesty accuses Nigerian troops of ‘starving women rape’

Amnesty accuses Nigerian troops of ‘starving women rape’

-- 2018-05-24 16:43:29

Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them,...

Pentagon uninvites China from major US military exercise

Pentagon uninvites China from major US military exercise

-- 2018-05-24 14:36:09

The Pentagon on Wednesday uninvited China from a major US-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing’s militarisation of islands in the South China Sea, a decision China called un...

Italy train accident leaves two dead, 18 wounded

Italy train accident leaves two dead, 18 wounded

-- 2018-05-24 14:21:27

Two people have died and 18 others suffered injured when a regional train crashed into a truck in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, emergency services said on Thursday. The five-carriage train...

Iran's Khamenei sets terms to remain in nuclear deal

Iran's Khamenei sets terms to remain in nuclear deal

-- 2018-05-24 13:57:08

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set out a series of conditions for European powers if they want Tehran to stay in a nuclear deal after the US exit, including steps by European banks...

Beijing's South China Sea building boom fuels concerns

Beijing's South China Sea building boom fuels concerns

Reuters 2018-05-24 13:09:28

At first glance from above it looks like any clean and neatly planned small town, complete with sports grounds, neat roads and large civic buildings. But the town is on Subi reef in the Spratlys arc...

Malaysia's anti-graft body takes ex-PM Najib’s statement

Malaysia's anti-graft body takes ex-PM Najib’s statement

-- 2018-05-24 11:42:59

Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, whose near 10-year rule ended two weeks ago, returned to an anti-graft agency on Thursday to resume his explanation for the suspicious transfers of $10.6 million...

US expels two Venezuelan envoys in retaliation

US expels two Venezuelan envoys in retaliation

-- 2018-05-24 11:06:12

The US State Department has said it has ordered two Venezuelan diplomats to leave the United States within 48 hours, a move that follows Venezuela’s decision to expel two American diplomats. Th...

North Korea calls Pence ‘stupid’

North Korea calls Pence ‘stupid’

-- 2018-05-24 10:53:52

A senior North Korean official has accused US Vice-President Mike Pence of being ‘stupid’ and warned of possible ‘nuclear showdown’ if diplomacy fails. Choe Son-hui said Pyong...

Malaysia to slash ministers' salaries by 10pc

Malaysia to slash ministers' salaries by 10pc

-- 2018-05-23 22:59:39

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced to reduce salaries of cabinet ministers by 10 per cent. The ninety-two-year-old Mahathir made the announcement after his first cabinet meeting...

Saudi releases photo of crown prince

Saudi releases photo of crown prince

-- 2018-05-23 20:20:19

The Saudi Royal family has released a photograph of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman amid speculation he has been assassinated.  Salman had not been seen since April 21 when Iranian media report...

Mahathir to review MH370 search contract

Mahathir to review MH370 search contract

-- 2018-05-23 17:36:14

Malaysia will review and possibly end its agreement with a private US firm searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday. Flight MH370,...

Trump doubtful about summit with Kim

Trump doubtful about summit with Kim

-- 2018-05-23 15:05:30

US President Donald Trump said there was a ‘substantial chance’ his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not take place as planned on June 12 amid concerns that Kim is resistan...