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‘Expected and unexpected' moves if US exits nuke deal: Rouhani

‘Expected and unexpected' moves if US exits nuke deal: Rouhani

-- 2018-04-21 18:38:43

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear de...

Assailants kill Palestinian scholar in Malaysia

Assailants kill Palestinian scholar in Malaysia

-- 2018-04-21 18:21:59

A Palestinian scholar was shot dead by two assailants in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Fadi al-Batsh, a 35-year-old Palestinian academic and member of Hamas, was killed by gunmen...

Death penalty for child rapist in India

Death penalty for child rapist in India

-- 2018-04-21 17:42:43

India’s cabinet approved the death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The meeting headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the decision on Saturday...

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

-- 2018-04-21 14:20:05

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has shaken Myanmar’s Bago region on early Saturday. The quake, with an epicentre of 40 km southwest of Phyu city, struck at 04:58:42 local time, said the Meteorol...

Tourist bus plunges into ravine in Peru, two die

Tourist bus plunges into ravine in Peru, two die

-- 2018-04-21 11:48:35

At least two German tourists were killed and 10 others injured when their minibus went off the road and fell into a ravine in the Andes Mountains, authorities in Peru said. Highway police chief Jorg...

SA’s Ramaphosa cuts UK visit short to deal with protests

SA’s Ramaphosa cuts UK visit short to deal with protests

-- 2018-04-21 11:44:04

South Africa’s president has cut short a visit to Britain to return home and deal with violent protests in a provincial capital. President Cyril Ramaphosa left the Commonwealth summit in London...

Democrats sue Russia, Trump campaign over election ‘conspiracy’

Democrats sue Russia, Trump campaign over election ‘conspiracy’

-- 2018-04-21 10:39:20

The Democratic Party sued the Russian government, US President Donald Trump’s campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they carried out a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 US...

Airstrike kills twenty in southwest Yemen, say residents

Airstrike kills twenty in southwest Yemen, say residents

-- 2018-04-21 10:33:46

An air strike lunched by a Saudi-led military coalition in south-western Yemen killed twenty people on Friday, residents said. The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of Taiz province,...

Uruguay turns down US request to expel Russian diplomats

Uruguay turns down US request to expel Russian diplomats

-- 2018-04-21 10:11:44

Uruguay says it has rejected a request by the United States to expel Russian diplomats from the South American country in response to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain. The decision was a...

Kim announces nuke test halt ahead of summit

Kim announces nuke test halt ahead of summit

-- 2018-04-21 09:45:58

North Korea will immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, the North’s state media said on Saturday, ahead of pl...

Democratic party files lawsuit against Russia, Trump campaign

Democratic party files lawsuit against Russia, Trump campaign

-- 2018-04-20 22:49:10

The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan against the Russian government, the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and numerous others close to the president, alleging they...

Boat carrying 76 Rohingya lands in Indonesia

Boat carrying 76 Rohingya lands in Indonesia

-- 2018-04-20 20:02:36

A boat carrying 76 Rohingya Muslims landed in northwest Indonesia on Friday, the latest in what rights groups expect will be a wave of dangerous sea crossings by members of the persecuted minority fro...

Australia has ‘perfect right’ to navigate in South China Sea: Turnbull

Australia has ‘perfect right’ to navigate in South China Sea: Turnbull

-- 2018-04-20 19:21:16

Australia’s prime minister said the Australian navy has a “perfect right” to traverse the South China Sea after a media report Friday that the Chinese navy had challenged three Austr...

C'wealth leaders approve Charles to succeed Queen

C'wealth leaders approve Charles to succeed Queen

-- 2018-04-20 19:08:55

Commonwealth leaders have approved Prince Charles as the successor to Queen Elizabeth II as head of the group. The group’s heads of government took the decision at a meeting at Windsor Castle i...

Indian Chief Justice faces impeachment motion

Indian Chief Justice faces impeachment motion

-- 2018-04-20 18:38:31

India’s opposition parties launched an unprecedented bid to impeach the country’s top judge on Friday. They submitted a motion to vice president Venkaiah Naidu accusing the chief justice...

Malaysian aircraft skids off Nepal airport runway

Malaysian aircraft skids off Nepal airport runway

-- 2018-04-20 18:05:44

A Malaysian aircraft with 139 people on board aborted its takeoff and skidded off the runway of Tribuvan International Airport in Nepal on Friday. All 132 passengers and 7 crew on board of the Mali...

Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth hopes

Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth hopes

-- 2018-04-20 16:32:11

Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her hope that Prince Charles will succeed her as the head of Commonwealth, the association of Britain and its former colonies. The Queen also urged Commonwealth leade...

Man linked to 9/11 attacks nabbed in Syria

Man linked to 9/11 attacks nabbed in Syria

-- 2018-04-20 15:35:54

US-backed forces in Syria nabbed a man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Pentagon has announced. “We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German n...

Kenya suspends land allocation as nine injured in attacks

Kenya suspends land allocation as nine injured in attacks

Reuters 2018-04-20 15:31:00

Kenya suspended a land distribution programme on Thursday after nine people were shot or attacked with crude weapons in six days, with local officials facing investigation for their role. Land minist...

Seize Dawood Ibrahim’s property: Indian court

Seize Dawood Ibrahim’s property: Indian court

-- 2018-04-20 14:56:53

The Indian Supreme Court on Friday directed the government to take over most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim’s properties worth millions in the city of Mumbai, dismissing petitions by his sister...

WW2 bomb prompts mass evacuation in Berlin

WW2 bomb prompts mass evacuation in Berlin

BBC 2018-04-20 13:24:46

A large-scale evacuation is to take place in Berlin on Friday morning (local time) to allow experts to defuse a World War Two bomb. Buildings will be cleared from 09:00 (07:00 GMT) in an 800m (2,625f...

Austrian train crash injures dozens

Austrian train crash injures dozens

-- 2018-04-20 12:30:33

Two passenger trains were involved in a crash while being coupled together at the main station in the Austrian city of Salzburg early on Friday, and up to 40 people were slightly injured, police said....

Philippines decries European Parliament's 'interference'

Philippines decries European Parliament's 'interference'

-- 2018-04-20 11:59:10

The Philippines decried what it said was interference in its internal affairs by the European Parliament, which urged the Southeast Asian nation in a resolution to end “extrajudicial killings&rd...

Italian PM in Romania to discuss future post Brexit

Italian PM in Romania to discuss future post Brexit

-- 2018-04-19 22:14:47

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday discussed the future of Europe after Britain leaves the European Union next year in talks with top Romanian leaders. Gentiloni met Romanian counterp...

Angry protesters confront  Modi in London

Angry protesters confront Modi in London

-- 2018-04-19 21:16:16

Hundreds of noisy protesters greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he arrived in London on Wednesday, demonstrating over a rising tide of sexual violence at home, including two particularly...

China ‘ready’ to deal with any fallout from US trade row

China ‘ready’ to deal with any fallout from US trade row

-- 2018-04-19 19:00:13

China is well prepared to handle any negative effects from its trade dispute with the United States, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, adding that Beijing’s tariff hikes on US imports will...

911 operator faces jail term for hanging up

911 operator faces jail term for hanging up

-- 2018-04-19 17:48:23

Former 911 operator in Houston, Texas has been found guilty of hanging up on emergency calls. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation for interfering with...

Attackers throw acid at three Pakistani female students

Attackers throw acid at three Pakistani female students

-- 2018-04-19 16:18:19

A group of men on motorcycles hurled acid at three female students when they were on their way to university in the city of Gujrat, say Pakistani police. Officer Umair Hayat says one of the three me...

5.9 quake shakes southern Iran

5.9 quake shakes southern Iran

-- 2018-04-19 15:07:43

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Kaki region in Iran’s southern Bushehr province at 11:05am local time (0635 GMT) on Thursday, Iran Seismological Center said. With a depth of 18 km, the ea...

US orders jet engine checks after midair blast

US orders jet engine checks after midair blast

BBC 2018-04-19 13:33:02

US aviation authorities are to order inspections of jet engines after a mid-air explosion that punctured an airliner's window, killing a passenger. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday sa...