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Scientists record largest wave in southern hemisphere

Scientists record largest wave in southern hemisphere

-- 2018-05-11 20:32:29

Scientists in New Zealand have documented what they believe is the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. The 23.8m (78ft) wave was measured by a buoy on New Zealand's Campbell Island...

Iran condemns heaviest Israeli air strikes in Syria

Iran condemns heaviest Israeli air strikes in Syria

-- 2018-05-11 20:27:28

Iran on Friday has backed Syria's "right to defend itself" after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria. In the first comments by Iran since Thursday...

Lawmakers pushing Noble committee award Trump peace prize

Lawmakers pushing Noble committee award Trump peace prize

-- 2018-05-11 20:18:29

Barack Obama has won it. So did Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Now, Donald Trump’s supporters are pushing for him to be the next US leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize, as...

Anwar Ibrahim to get royal pardon: Mahathir

Anwar Ibrahim to get royal pardon: Mahathir

-- 2018-05-11 19:32:59

Malaysia's king has agreed to pardon Anwar Ibrahim, a politician whose case has gripped national politics for two decades. Country's new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad made the announcement at a new...

Cancer-stricken top Indian policeman kills himself

Cancer-stricken top Indian policeman kills himself

-- 2018-05-11 19:29:41

One of India's most senior police officials has killed himself in the western city of Mumbai, senior officials have confirmed.  Himanshu Roy, 55, who was the head of the anti-terrorism squad in...

Pakistan mulls reciprocal restrictions on US diplomats

Pakistan mulls reciprocal restrictions on US diplomats

-- 2018-05-11 17:12:12

Pakistan is considering imposing reciprocal restrictions on US diplomats after Washington announced that it would impose travel restrictions on Pakistani diplomats starting from Friday, the media repo...

Chinese bombers conduct drill around Taiwan

Chinese bombers conduct drill around Taiwan

-- 2018-05-11 16:35:33

Bombers and fighter jets from China’s air force conducted encirclement drills around Taiwan on Friday, the latest round of increasingly frequent military manoeuvres near the self-ruled island th...

Philippines court removes chief justice

Philippines court removes chief justice

-- 2018-05-11 16:00:56

The Philippine Supreme Court voted on Friday to remove its top judge, whom President Rodrigo Duterte called an “enemy” for voting against controversial government proposals, citing violati...

Moped crime in London rises by 30 times in 5 years

Moped crime in London rises by 30 times in 5 years

-- 2018-05-11 15:36:02

The number of offences carried out by criminals using mopeds in London has increased by 30 times in last five years, data showed. The data, obtained by the BBC, showed a jump from 827 offences in 2...

France condemns US move to re-impose sanctions on Iran

France condemns US move to re-impose sanctions on Iran

-- 2018-05-11 15:07:06

France has condemned the US move to re-impose sanctions on companies trading with Iran. The US says firms have six months to halt business and cannot enter into new contracts or they will face sanct...

Iran supports Syria’s right of self-defence against Israel

Iran supports Syria’s right of self-defence against Israel

Reuters 2018-05-11 13:56:34

Iran says Syria has every right to defend itself against Israel: TV Iran on Friday supported Syria’s right to defended itself against aggression from Israel, state TV reported, accusing others...

Five of a family die in explosion in Pakistan

Five of a family die in explosion in Pakistan

-- 2018-05-11 13:21:25

At least five people of one family were killed and two others injured after an explosion at a hotel in northwest Pakistan on Friday morning, police said. Peshawar city Police Chief Qazi Jamilur Reh...

Australian police find seven dead, including four children

Australian police find seven dead, including four children

-- 2018-05-11 11:24:25

Australian police found seven dead people on Friday, including four children, in a rural town in the Margaret River wine-growing region, and said guns were involved in the killings. The bodies of f...

Death toll from Kenya dam wall collapse climbs to 47

Death toll from Kenya dam wall collapse climbs to 47

-- 2018-05-11 09:48:40

The death toll from flooding caused by a burst dam wall in Kenya’s Rift Valley rose to 47 on Thursday and could go higher as more bodies are pulled from the mud, the local police chief said on T...

104-year-old scientist ends his life by assisted suicide

104-year-old scientist ends his life by assisted suicide

-- 2018-05-10 21:44:38

Scientist David Goodall, 104, has died after choosing to end his life at a clinic in Switzerland, a right-to-die organisation says. The lauded London-born ecologist and botanist, who was not terminal...

Mahathir sworn in after shock comeback victory

Mahathir sworn in after shock comeback victory

-- 2018-05-10 21:12:00

Mahathir Mohamad has been sworn in as prime minister of Malaysia again after a shock election victory, 15 years after he stood down. Supporters waved flags and cheered outside the Istana Negara palac...

Trump-Kim meet on June 12

Trump-Kim meet on June 12

-- 2018-05-10 21:03:19

US President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June, he has said. In April, Mr Trump stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet Mr Kim in an unpreced...

Malaysia likely to negotiate China deals, says Mahathir

Malaysia likely to negotiate China deals, says Mahathir

-- 2018-05-10 18:17:32

Malaysia may renegotiate some deals with China, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday, just hours after his coalition clinched a stunning election win against the government of Najib...

21 killed in Kenya dam bursts

21 killed in Kenya dam bursts

-- 2018-05-10 16:34:45

A dam burst in Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a torrent of water that smashed into two villages killing at least 21 people and causing ‘huge destruction’, rescue services...

Russia urges de-escalation of tensions between Iran, Israel

Russia urges de-escalation of tensions between Iran, Israel

-- 2018-05-10 14:02:18

Russia is concerned about growing military tensions between Israel and Iran over Syria and calls for them to de-escalate after recent missile strikes, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bo...

Pompeo to hold talks with allies on Iran, say US officials

Pompeo to hold talks with allies on Iran, say US officials

-- 2018-05-10 13:17:07

Immediately on returning from North Korea on Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on talks with allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to try to persuade them to press Iran to c...

Najib dubious of Mahathir succeeding him

Najib dubious of Mahathir succeeding him

Reuters 2018-05-10 13:01:25

Malaysia's Najib Razak appeared to raise doubt on Thursday that his mentor-turned-foe Mahathir Mohamad would succeed him as prime minister following the stunning defeat of his ruling coalition in the...

Thunderstorm claims 12 lives in northern India

Thunderstorm claims 12 lives in northern India

-- 2018-05-10 12:17:25

Thunderstorm in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours has left at least 12 people dead, said officials on Thursday. A disaster management official said, “While four pe...

Al-Shabab stones Somali woman to death for polyandry

Al-Shabab stones Somali woman to death for polyandry

-- 2018-05-10 11:42:05

A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times...

Israel fires dozens of rockets into Syria

Israel fires dozens of rockets into Syria

Reuters 2018-05-10 10:46:03

Israel launched dozens of rockets into Syria early on Thursday, destroying a radar installation and hitting an ammunitions dump, Syrian state media reported after Israel’s military said Iranian...

Mahathir scores shock election victory

Mahathir scores shock election victory

Reuters 2018-05-10 09:58:44

Mahathir Mohamad, who pulled off a stunning general election win, will not be sworn in as the new prime minister of Malaysia on Thursday, a spokesman for the King’s palace said, but gave no reas...

Mahathir Mohamad, 92, claims win over ruling coalition

Mahathir Mohamad, 92, claims win over ruling coalition

-- 2018-05-09 22:52:07

Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad claimed that the opposition alliance he leads had won enough parliament seats in Wednesday’s general election to form the next government. Official results fro...

Trump's decision on Iran nuclear deal misguided: Obama

Trump's decision on Iran nuclear deal misguided: Obama

-- 2018-05-09 20:35:33

Former US President Barack Obama has said that President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal was “misguided.” “I believe that the decision to put th...

North Korea releases three American detainees

North Korea releases three American detainees

FE Online Desk 2018-05-09 20:12:33

North Korea has freed three Americans detained in labour camps of the country, removing a bitter and emotional obstacle ahead of historic US-North Korean summit. The three Americans are now on their...

India for early BIMSTEC meet to boost connectivity

India for early BIMSTEC meet to boost connectivity

-- 2018-05-09 17:19:43

India is likely to urge Nepal to soon hold the fourth summit of the seven-member grouping of BIMSTEC. The summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation...