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India SC rejects petitions seeking probe into judge’s death

India SC rejects petitions seeking probe into judge’s death

-- 2018-04-19 13:06:57

India’s Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when he was presiding over a case against a top political aide of...

Trump warns of walking away from North Korea summit

Trump warns of walking away from North Korea summit

-- 2018-04-19 12:54:18

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he hoped an unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be successful after a recent visit to Pyongyang by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but...

Puerto Rico suffers island-wide blackout

Puerto Rico suffers island-wide blackout

-- 2018-04-19 12:37:00

Puerto Rico has suffered an island-wide power outage nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island’s infrastructure and power grid. The US territory’s power autho...

Eastern Libya army chief survives bomb attack; one dead

Eastern Libya army chief survives bomb attack; one dead

-- 2018-04-19 12:14:34

A car bomb hit a convoy of the chief of staff of the eastern Libyan military outside Benghazi, leaving one person dead and at least two others wounded, security and military officials said. Abdel-Raz...

Cuba set to swear in new president to replace Raul Castro

Cuba set to swear in new president to replace Raul Castro

-- 2018-04-19 11:32:32

An era will end in Communist-run Cuba on Thursday when President Raul Castro retires, likely handing over the reins to his right hand man Miguel Diaz-Canel, born the year after brothers Fidel and Raul...

Turkey declares early elections

Turkey declares early elections

-- 2018-04-18 21:59:52

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called a snap presidential and parliamentary election on June 24 this year with an aim to increase his powers. Erdogan announced on Wednesday that elections origi...

French rail workers’ strike disrupts train service again

French rail workers’ strike disrupts train service again

-- 2018-04-18 16:02:53

Striking French rail workers disrupted train services for the seventh day this month on Wednesday, spurning government calls to end the industrial action over reforms at the state-owned SNCF railway c...

CIA director 'had a secret Kim Jong-un meeting'

CIA director 'had a secret Kim Jong-un meeting'

-- 2018-04-18 13:17:53

CIA director Mike Pompeo, who is US President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, recently travelled to Pyongyang for a secret meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, US media report....

China sees Nepal as a natural area for cooperation with India

China sees Nepal as a natural area for cooperation with India

-- 2018-04-18 13:04:49

Nepal is a natural area for cooperation between China and India, the Chinese government’s top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi said on Wednesday, as he invited India to participate in connectiv...

Nigerian cops fire teargas at Shi’ite Muslim protesters

Nigerian cops fire teargas at Shi’ite Muslim protesters

-- 2018-04-18 11:49:28

Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi’ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, witnesses s...

Mini-truck falls off bridge in India, killing 21

Mini-truck falls off bridge in India, killing 21

-- 2018-04-18 11:39:17

A mini-truck carrying members of marriage party fell from a bridge in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, leaving at least 21 people dead and 12 others injured, said police. The accident took pla...

UK’s Corbyn under fire for inciting anti-Semitism

UK’s Corbyn under fire for inciting anti-Semitism

-- 2018-04-18 11:34:41

Britain’s governing Conservative Party took aim at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday, blaming him for fuelling anti-Semitism in his opposition party by failing to tackle a culture that has...

US passenger jet engine explodes midair, killing one

US passenger jet engine explodes midair, killing one

FE Online Desk 2018-04-18 11:02:21

An engine on a US passenger jet with 149 people aboard exploded and broke apart in mid-air, killing one passenger and nearly sucking another out of a shattered window, according to airline and federal...

Former US First Lady Barbara Bush dies at 92

Former US First Lady Barbara Bush dies at 92

Reuters 2018-04-18 10:22:53

Former US first lady Barbara Bush, the only woman to see her husband and son both sworn in as president, died on Tuesday, the Bush family said. She was 92. Bush was the wife of the 41st president,...

Thousands rally against Sarksyan’s appointment as Armenia PM

Thousands rally against Sarksyan’s appointment as Armenia PM

-- 2018-04-18 00:00:00

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in the centre of the Armenian capital to protest as parliament voted to allow former president Serzh Sarksyan to become prime minister in the former Soviet r...

May apologises to Caribbean countries for treatment of post-war migrants

May apologises to Caribbean countries for treatment of post-war migrants

-- 2018-04-17 22:27:57

British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized to 12 Caribbean nations on Tuesday for immigration officials’ recent harsh treatment of people from those countries who migrated to Britain as child...

EU in 'civil war' over democracy: Macron

EU in 'civil war' over democracy: Macron

-- 2018-04-17 20:14:45

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that "there seems to be a European civil war" between liberal democracy and rising authoritarianism. He urged the EU to renew its commitment to democracy,...

Turkey ruling party to discuss call for early polls

Turkey ruling party to discuss call for early polls

-- 2018-04-17 17:46:44

Turkish deputy prime minister said the ruling AK Party will discuss a suggestion by the nationalist MHP party to hold the presidential election in August this year, more than a year before the Novembe...

Poland violates EU law in ancient Bialowieza forest

Poland violates EU law in ancient Bialowieza forest

-- 2018-04-17 17:38:05

Poland violated EU law by ordering large-scale logging in one of Europe’s oldest woodlands, the Bialowieza forest, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Bialowieza forest has been designated...

Teenager dies in stabbing attack in London

Teenager dies in stabbing attack in London

-- 2018-04-17 15:00:25

A teenager has been stabbed to death in east London. The victim, believed to be aged 18, was found injured in Chestnut Avenue, Forest Gate, on Monday night. He died at the scene at about 23:30 BST....

Myanmar to free 8,000 prisoners

Myanmar to free 8,000 prisoners

-- 2018-04-17 13:58:32

Myanmar’s new president said on Tuesday over 8,000 prisoners will be freed in an amnesty, a move the government said would bring about humanitarian support amid the country’s political ref...

India crockery factory fire kills two

India crockery factory fire kills two

-- 2018-04-17 11:59:52

A devastating fire inside a crockery-manufacturing factory in Indian capital city of New Delhi left at least two people dead on Monday night, said officials on Tuesday. “The fire broke out in t...

Three die in Australia 'explosion'

Three die in Australia 'explosion'

-- 2018-04-17 11:55:39

Three people have died in a house fire in Australia following reports of an explosion, police have said. Authorities found the bodies of two women and a man after flames engulfed the home in Brisba...

Kenya election officials resign, pressure mounts on chairman

Kenya election officials resign, pressure mounts on chairman

-- 2018-04-17 11:55:06

Three Kenyan election officials resigned on Monday, increasing chaos at the electoral Commission following last year’s botched presidential vote that had to be rerun and was then boycotted by th...

Canada pulls diplomats’ families out of Cuba

Canada pulls diplomats’ families out of Cuba

-- 2018-04-17 11:11:14

The Canadian government has recalled families of its diplomatic staff in the Cuban capital, Havana. The move comes as 10 Canadians continue to show unexplained brain symptoms, government officials sa...

Syria air defence intercepts missiles fired at two air bases

Syria air defence intercepts missiles fired at two air bases

-- 2018-04-17 10:50:21

Syrian anti-aircraft defences shot down missiles fired at the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late on Monday and another base northeast of the capital, Damascus, Syria’s state televi...

South Carolina prison fight kills seven inmates, wounds 17

South Carolina prison fight kills seven inmates, wounds 17

-- 2018-04-16 22:18:09

Seven inmates were killed and at least 17 others were seriously injured after fights broke out between prisoners inside a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon ann...

UAE minister slams Qatar Emir’s absence from Arab summit  

UAE minister slams Qatar Emir’s absence from Arab summit  

-- 2018-04-16 22:07:33

The no-show by the Emir of Qatar at the 29th Arab summit held in Dhahran on Sunday is an obvious case of arrogance, a UAE senior official has said. “The absence of the Emir of Qatar from the Dh...

Judge resigns after acquitting all in Mecca Masjid blast case

Judge resigns after acquitting all in Mecca Masjid blast case

-- 2018-04-16 21:48:17

The special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court judge of Hyderabad K Ravinder Reddy resigned on Monday, barely hours after acquitting the five accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case, a senior ju...

US troops to leave Syria after fulfilling their ‘goals’

US troops to leave Syria after fulfilling their ‘goals’

-- 2018-04-16 18:38:05

US President Donald Trump wants to bring troops back from Syria as soon as possible but not before their ‘goals’ are fulfilled, said the White House. Earlier, the French president said h...