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Quake hits central Italy, minor damage reported

Quake hits central Italy, minor damage reported

-- 2018-04-10 11:50:40

An earthquake measuring 4.7 magnitude on Tuesday hit an area of central Italy that was devastated by a major quake in 2016, officials said. Early reports said the Tuesday quake caused some minor dama...

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

Nigeria’s Buhari confirms he’s running in 2019

-- 2018-04-10 11:43:59

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that he will seek another term in elections next year, ending months of speculation about his future after bouts of ill health. The 75-year-old sa...

Blast kills five civilians in Afghanistan

Blast kills five civilians in Afghanistan

-- 2018-04-10 11:38:54

At least five people, including some children, were killed and seven others injured as a blast ripped through a bazaar in Shindand district of Afghanistan's western Herat province on Monday. The anti...

Malaysia to hold polls on May 9

Malaysia to hold polls on May 9

-- 2018-04-10 11:10:41

Malaysia’s Election Commission says it has fixed May 9 for general elections that could determine scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak’s political survival. Analysts say the move to...

Colombia detains top FARC leader on drug charges

Colombia detains top FARC leader on drug charges

-- 2018-04-10 10:45:15

One of the top leaders of Colombia’s former rebel group, the FARC, has been arrested in Bogota following a request from the United States. Jesus Santrich, a former peace negotiator, is accused...

27 children among 30 die in Himachal Pradesh bus crash

27 children among 30 die in Himachal Pradesh bus crash

-- 2018-04-10 09:52:14

At least 30 people, most of them children, have died after a school bus fell into a gorge in a mountainous region of India, officials say. Most of the passengers were below the age of 10, police sa...

India, Nepal move for closer ties

India, Nepal move for closer ties

-- 2018-04-09 21:35:41

Last week, India and Nepal started a new journey together towards understanding and cooperation, moving away from an era of covert and overt conflict, reports Reuters. And surprisingly, the attempt t...

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

Somali parliament speaker resigns, ending political crisis

-- 2018-04-09 12:57:44

The speaker of Somalia’s parliament, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, has resigned ahead of a confidence motion against him, a lawmaker said, ending weeks of political tension. “We were in th...

Bus hits overpass, injuring six in NY

Bus hits overpass, injuring six in NY

-- 2018-04-09 12:17:38

A charter bus carrying teenagers returning from a spring break trip has struck a bridge overpass on Long island, seriously injuring six passengers and mangling the entire length of the top of the bus....

Philippines continues search for 17 missing marines

Philippines continues search for 17 missing marines

-- 2018-04-09 11:55:19

The Philippine coast guard has been searching for 17 crew of a landing craft that went adrift south of the capital, Manila, one of three weekend accidents at sea, an agency spokesman said. Sea accide...

6.1 quake rattles Japan; four wounded

6.1 quake rattles Japan; four wounded

-- 2018-04-09 11:28:45

A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Shimane Prefecture in western Japan on early Monday, injuring four people in one of the hardest-hit areas, local media reported. Accordin...

N Korea 'ready to discuss denuclearisation'

N Korea 'ready to discuss denuclearisation'

-- 2018-04-09 11:03:31

North Korea has promised the US it is ready to discuss the future of its nuclear arsenal when the two nations' leaders meet, US officials say. Preparations for the summit have included secret, direct...

Suspected US missiles hit Syrian air base

Suspected US missiles hit Syrian air base

-- 2018-04-09 11:01:09

Syrian state TV said there were casualties in what it said was a suspected US missile attack on a major air base in central Syria but the United States denied it had launched any air strikes against t...

Hungary’s Eurosceptic PM wins third term

Hungary’s Eurosceptic PM wins third term

BBC 2018-04-09 10:36:01

Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's general election. The 54-year-old will serve a third consecutive term in office, with his party Fidesz pro...

Cops arrest 24 MPs for protesting near Modi's residence

Cops arrest 24 MPs for protesting near Modi's residence

-- 2018-04-08 22:02:43

Indian police on Sunday detained as many as 24 lawmakers from a regional party for holding a sit-in protest outside the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital, repo...

High turnout in Hungary’s parliamentary election

High turnout in Hungary’s parliamentary election

-- 2018-04-08 21:50:35

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched a last-ditch effort to mobilise supporters in Hungary’s parliamentary election on Sunday, as interim turnout ran even higher than in a 2002 v...

Cyber attack in Iran leaves US flag on screens

Cyber attack in Iran leaves US flag on screens

-- 2018-04-08 20:00:10

Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran where they left the image of a US flag on screens along with a warning: “Don’t mess with our election...

Muenster attacker had mental problems: German minister

Muenster attacker had mental problems: German minister

-- 2018-04-08 19:47:33

The man who drove a camper van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the German city of Muenster on Saturday acted alone and appears to have had mental health problems, the regional i...

Man ‘kept son in cage for over 20 years’

Man ‘kept son in cage for over 20 years’

-- 2018-04-08 13:41:01

Japanese police have arrested a 73-year-old man suspected of keeping his son in a wooden cage for over 20 years. Yoshitane Yamasaki said he locked up his son, now 42, because he suffered mental probl...

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

Ethiopian PM vows to end violence in clash-torn region

-- 2018-04-08 12:53:45

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip since being sworn in as premier five days ago. Violence along the border...

Myanmar not ready for Rohingya return, UN official says

Myanmar not ready for Rohingya return, UN official says

-- 2018-04-08 12:40:07

Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, said the most senior United Nations official to visit the Southeast Asian country this year, after Myanmar was accused of instigating et...

French rail workers’ strike halts transport again

French rail workers’ strike halts transport again

-- 2018-04-08 11:50:15

Millions of French commuters and holidaymakers faced another wave of crippling transport stoppages on Sunday, as rail workers protested at President Emmanuel Macron’s economic reform plans and s...

Trump Tower fire kills one

Trump Tower fire kills one

-- 2018-04-08 10:59:50

One man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, in a blaze that was quickly doused, fire officials said....

Brazil's Lula surrenders to police, ending standoff

Brazil's Lula surrenders to police, ending standoff

-- 2018-04-08 09:56:23

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on Saturday, ending a day-long standoff to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption that derails his bid...

70 die in Syria 'gas attack'

70 die in Syria 'gas attack'

-- 2018-04-08 09:31:40

Rescuers and medics say at least 70 people have died in Syria in a suspected gas attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta. Volunteer rescue force the White Helmets on Saturday tw...

Van drives into crowd in Germany, three dead

Van drives into crowd in Germany, three dead

-- 2018-04-07 21:03:30

Three people have been killed in the city of Muenster, in western Germany, on Saturday after a van drove into pedestrians. The driver of the vehicle killed himself, police said, without providing fur...

India to augment rail, water transport with Nepal

India to augment rail, water transport with Nepal

-- 2018-04-07 20:46:44

India on Saturday has agreed to construct a rail link to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and to open up inland waterways. The agreement emerged at the end of talks in New Delhi between Indian Prime...

Two Koreas hold talks to  discuss Moon-Kim hotline

Two Koreas hold talks to discuss Moon-Kim hotline

-- 2018-04-07 20:33:27

SEOUL, Apr 07 (Xinhua): South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday held a working-level talks to discuss setting up a hotline between leaders of the two countries, Se...

Army in Mali kills 14 jihadist suspects

Army in Mali kills 14 jihadist suspects

-- 2018-04-07 19:03:02

Mali’s army said on Saturday it had killed 14 jihadist suspects who were trying to escape detention in its central region, the latest in a string of killings by the armed forces that have provok...

Russian embassy asks meeting with Johnson over spy poisoning

Russian embassy asks meeting with Johnson over spy poisoning

-- 2018-04-07 18:51:58

The Russian Embassy in London on Saturday has requested a meeting between its ambassador and UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the Salisbury poisoning. An embassy spokesperson said it was "high...