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Pakistan's PM faces security check at US airport

Pakistan's PM faces security check at US airport

-- 2018-03-28 21:47:49

Security personnel of New York's John F Kennedy International airport searched Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi recently. The people of Pakistan have expressed anger in social media des...

France honours policeman who gave life to save hostage

France honours policeman who gave life to save hostage

-- 2018-03-28 20:32:39

Tributes have been paid across France to the police officer who died after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage in an Islamist attack. The coffin carrying Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame was driven in...

N Korea, China focus on strong ties after Kim’s secret Beijing trip

N Korea, China focus on strong ties after Kim’s secret Beijing trip

-- 2018-03-28 19:19:16

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping sought to portray strong ties between the long-time allies despite a recent chill as both countries on Wednesday confirmed Mr. Ki...

Preparations on for Trump-Kim meet: White House

Preparations on for Trump-Kim meet: White House

-- 2018-03-28 18:13:02

The United States continues to move forward on the proposed summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the White House has said. White House Press Secretary Sa...

SA jails ex-estate agent over racist abuse

SA jails ex-estate agent over racist abuse

-- 2018-03-28 15:48:17

A former estate agent has become the first person in South Africa to be sentenced to prison for racist abuse. A court jailed Vicky Momberg for three years, with one year suspended, for using a deroga...

Diplomat expulsion: Russia to access hostility levels before retaliation

Diplomat expulsion: Russia to access hostility levels before retaliation

-- 2018-03-28 15:31:59

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has said that Moscow would assess the levels of hostility which Washington and London feel towards Russia before retaliating over the expulsion of Russian diplom...

Suu Kyi ally Myint becomes Myanmar president

Suu Kyi ally Myint becomes Myanmar president

-- 2018-03-28 14:22:22

Myanmar’s parliament has elected Win Myint as the country’s next president, a week after the resignation of his predecessor. Win Myint, a close aide of Aung San Suu Kyi, has been a speake...

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition backs Abiye Ahmed as new PM

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition backs Abiye Ahmed as new PM

-- 2018-03-28 13:05:20

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said Tuesday...

Trump ending Liberians’ deportation protection in US

Trump ending Liberians’ deportation protection in US

-- 2018-03-28 11:55:19

The Trump administration is ending a program that allows citizens of Liberia living in the US to avoid deportation. But it’s allowing a one-year ‘wind-down’ period to ease their retu...

Seven die in Philippines truck crash

Seven die in Philippines truck crash

-- 2018-03-28 11:05:19

Seven people have been killed and five other wounded after a truck, carrying sugarcane ploughed through a roadside eatery and five parked vehicles in a town in Batangas province of the Philippines on...

Kim jong-un visited China, confirmed

Kim jong-un visited China, confirmed

-- 2018-03-28 09:55:14

After days of speculation, it has been confirmed that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has visited China. The visit, confirmed by China and North Korea, was Mr Kim's first known foreign trip since ta...

UN expresses shock over comments of Myanmar military chief

UN expresses shock over comments of Myanmar military chief

-- 2018-03-27 21:14:25

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed shock at recent comments of Myanmar’s military chief about citizenship of Rohingya people. Recently Senior General Min Aung Hlaing sa...

Russia condemns officials over fire disaster

Russia condemns officials over fire disaster

-- 2018-03-27 19:28:22

Thousands of people on Tuesday are protesting in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, angry at Russian officials over the leisure complex fire that killed at least 64 people, 41 of them children. President...

Rumours going round about Kim’s top secret visit to China

Rumours going round about Kim’s top secret visit to China

-- 2018-03-27 18:28:50

There is widespread speculation that a senior North Korean official who made a surprise day-long visit to Beijing was Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. Japanese media outlets first reported that a high-pro...

20m Indians vying for 100,000 railway jobs

20m Indians vying for 100,000 railway jobs

-- 2018-03-27 18:11:33

India's state-run railways have received more than 20 million applicants for about 100,000 jobs, a railway ministry official has said. The number of applicants is expected to rise further as the dead...

Russia to respond appropriately to US expulsion of diplomats

Russia to respond appropriately to US expulsion of diplomats

-- 2018-03-27 16:07:27

Moscow will respond appropriately to the US expulsion of Russian diplomats and closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, RIA news agency reported....

41 children among those killed in Russia mall inferno: Report

41 children among those killed in Russia mall inferno: Report

Reuters 2018-03-27 15:15:01

Forty one children were killed in the Kemerovo shopping mall fire in Russia, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a list of victims made available to relatives. A total of 64 people h...

Turkey forces kill 11 Kurds

Turkey forces kill 11 Kurds

-- 2018-03-27 13:20:49

Turkey’s military forces opened fire and killed 11 Kurdish militants after spotting them in the country’s southern Hatay province bordering Syria, the governor’s office said on Tuesd...

Vietnam nabs dissident singer Mai Khoi

Vietnam nabs dissident singer Mai Khoi

-- 2018-03-27 13:01:46

Vietnamese singer and activist Do Nguyen Mai Khoi, an outspoken campaigner for free speech, was detained in the capital Hanoi on Tuesday after flying home from Europe, her husband said. Often dubbed...

Putin blames ‘criminal negligence’ for shopping mall fire

Putin blames ‘criminal negligence’ for shopping mall fire

-- 2018-03-27 12:23:51

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited the scene of a fire in a shopping mall that killed at least 64 people, and hit out at ‘criminal negligence’ which he said was to blame f...

White house declines Stormy Daniels’ claims

White house declines Stormy Daniels’ claims

-- 2018-03-27 12:04:00

The White House has denied allegations that Donald Trump had an affair with an adult-film actress. Stormy Daniels gave details about the alleged 2006 affair during an interview on CBS News’ 60...

Australia to oust two Russian diplomats over spy attack

Australia to oust two Russian diplomats over spy attack

-- 2018-03-27 11:19:31

Australia will expel two Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that the British government has blamed on Moscow, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said...

Half of Japanese want Abe out

Half of Japanese want Abe out

-- 2018-03-27 10:48:25

Nearly half of Japanese voters believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should quit to take responsibility over a cronyism scandal and cover-up that have sent his support sliding, according to an opinion pol...

Sierra Leone postpones presidential runoff till Saturday

Sierra Leone postpones presidential runoff till Saturday

-- 2018-03-27 10:45:27

Sierra Leone's Supreme Court on Monday approved the election commission's request to delay Tuesday's runoff presidential vote until the weekend after the lifting of an interim injunction that had stal...

Dust waves from Africa cover parts of Greece

Dust waves from Africa cover parts of Greece

-- 2018-03-26 22:57:10

Swaths of Greece have been shrouded in haze as persistent southerly winds have carried waves of dust from the African continent across the Mediterranean, reports AP. The dust cloud has reduced visibi...

US-Mexico wall to begin immediately: Trump

US-Mexico wall to begin immediately: Trump

-- 2018-03-26 22:49:04

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that construction of his much-touted wall along the US-Mexico border will begin “immediately” given that Congress last week approved $1.6 billion t...

US expels 60 Russian diplomats, closes consulate in Seattle

US expels 60 Russian diplomats, closes consulate in Seattle

FE Online Desk 2018-03-26 19:48:18

US President Donald Trump has ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the United States. The White House also announced on Monday that Trump ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in...

Investigators conduct search at Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

Investigators conduct search at Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

-- 2018-03-26 17:51:31

Investigators from Britain's data watchdog searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the centre of a storm over allegations it improperly harvested Facebook data t...

Pakistan declines Pervez Musharraf's request for security

Pakistan declines Pervez Musharraf's request for security

-- 2018-03-26 17:41:54

The Pakistan government has rejected former dictator Pervez Musharraf's request for security on returning to the country to face a special court trying him on treason charges, according to a media rep...

India minister sparks row over ‘naked visa’ remark

India minister sparks row over ‘naked visa’ remark

-- 2018-03-26 16:44:00

An Indian minister has sparked a social media storm with his comments on the country's controversial biometric identity scheme. Alphons Kannanthanam said Indians had no problem "getting naked" for a...