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Dispute over South China Sea a security challenge: Philippines

Dispute over South China Sea a security challenge: Philippines

-- 2018-03-26 16:27:20

The territorial dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea remained a security challenge despite an improvement in bilateral ties, the Philippine defence chief said on Monday as he accepted three m...

Myanmar to hold presidential election on March 28

Myanmar to hold presidential election on March 28

-- 2018-03-26 15:33:40

Myanmar will hold the presidential election on Wednesday to fill the presidency vacancy left by U Htin Kyaw who resigned from the post last week, the Union Parliament announced Monday. It was anno...

Modi app faces data theft claims

Modi app faces data theft claims

-- 2018-03-26 14:00:51

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s official mobile application has been criticised for sending personal user data to a third party without their consent. A security researcher had tweeted that the app w...

US sanctions Pakistani companies over nuclear trade

US sanctions Pakistani companies over nuclear trade

-- 2018-03-26 13:04:01

The United States has imposed sanctions on seven Pakistani companies over suspicion they have links to the nuclear trade, potentially hurting Pakistan’s ambitions to join the Nuclear Suppliers G...

Saudis intercept missiles fired by Houthis; one dead

Saudis intercept missiles fired by Houthis; one dead

-- 2018-03-26 12:48:34

Saudi forces say they have shot down seven missiles launched into Saudi territory by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Three of the missiles were fired at the capital, Riyadh, and one person was killed when...

South India road crash leaves 10 dead

South India road crash leaves 10 dead

-- 2018-03-26 12:35:26

A vehicle carrying some 14 people, plunged into a well in southern Indian state of Telangana on Sunday evening, killing at least 10 people, police said. The accident occurred in Mendora in the state&...

Malaysia proposes 10 years' jail for 'fake news'

Malaysia proposes 10 years' jail for 'fake news'

-- 2018-03-26 12:09:56

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government tabled a bill in parliament on Monday outlawing “fake news”, with hefty fines and up to 10 years in jail, raising more concerns abou...

Australia condemns Myanmar violence

Australia condemns Myanmar violence

-- 2018-03-26 11:38:11

Australia has told Myanmar that international observers must be allowed into the isolated Rakhine state to monitor the situation of Rohingya still living there, and to supervise the return of any of t...

Egypt goes to polls

Egypt goes to polls

-- 2018-03-26 11:08:05

Egyptians begin three days of voting on Monday to elect a new president in an election expected to produce a landslide for the sitting president. There are few doubts that incumbent Abdul Fattah al-S...

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

-- 2018-03-26 10:47:10

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday, five months after entering self-imposed exile from Spain, where he faces up to 25 years in prison for organising an illegal s...

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

-- 2018-03-26 10:08:10

At least 64 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. Many of the victims are children, Russian officials say, an...

Russia, Taliban discard US collusion claim

Russia, Taliban discard US collusion claim

-- 2018-03-25 20:55:03

Russia and the Taliban have separately rejected comments made by the head of US forces in Afghanistan that Moscow has been supporting, and even supplying weapons to, the insurgent group. Gen John Nic...

France to pay tribute to officer who swapped himself for hostage

France to pay tribute to officer who swapped himself for hostage

-- 2018-03-25 18:35:20

France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an ISIS terrorist, President...

Zuckerburg apologises to Britons via full-page newspaper ads

Zuckerburg apologises to Britons via full-page newspaper ads

-- 2018-03-25 18:14:29

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologised to Britons on Sunday over a "breach of trust", taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after a political consultancy got its hands...

Japan's Abe vows to revise constitution

Japan's Abe vows to revise constitution

-- 2018-03-25 14:33:29

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ratings in a slump amid a suspected cronyism scandal and cover-up, apologised again on Sunday for causing anxiety and loss of confidence in his government. Pro...

Bomb rocks Egypt city days before election, killing two

Bomb rocks Egypt city days before election, killing two

-- 2018-03-25 14:23:12

Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in a bomb attack that targeted the local security chief two days before a presidential election. Five other people were wounded by the b...

Italian centre-right, populists join forces

Italian centre-right, populists join forces

-- 2018-03-25 12:56:44

Italy's centre-right bloc and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement joined forces Saturday to elect a speaker for each chamber of parliament, in what could be a test run for a possible government...

Historic Australia-UK flight lands in London

Historic Australia-UK flight lands in London

-- 2018-03-25 12:55:36

The first scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK has touched down in London’s Heathrow Airport. Qantas Flight QF9 completed its 14,498km (9,009-mile) journey from Perth in just...

13 rebels die in clashes with Congolese army

13 rebels die in clashes with Congolese army

-- 2018-03-25 12:39:16

Congo’s military said it had killed 13 militiamen during clashes with an unidentified group after coming under attack in the country’s volatile northeastern Ituri province. Ituri is the l...

Seven die in Rio shootout as army takeover continues

Seven die in Rio shootout as army takeover continues

-- 2018-03-25 12:28:05

At least seven people were killed in a confrontation with police in Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela on Saturday and several others were injured, as an army takeover of Rio’s security servi...

China air force drills again in South China Sea

China air force drills again in South China Sea

-- 2018-03-25 11:03:50

China’s air force has held another round of drills in the disputed South China Sea and the Western Pacific after passing though Japan’s southern islands, the air force said on Sunday, call...

Police, politicians 'were behind' Sri Lanka's anti-Muslim riots

Police, politicians 'were behind' Sri Lanka's anti-Muslim riots

-- 2018-03-25 10:29:14

Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Muslim riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month, according to witne...

Man could cause extinction of half of African species

Man could cause extinction of half of African species

-- 2018-03-24 21:00:46

The actions of mankind could lead to the extinction of half of African birds and mammals by the end of 2100, a UN-backed study has said. The report conducted by 550 experts from around the world said...

14 yrs jail to Lalu Prasad in fodder scam

14 yrs jail to Lalu Prasad in fodder scam

-- 2018-03-24 19:14:11

A powerful Indian politician was sentenced Saturday to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees ($570,000) from a state government’s treasury while he was the state’s top electe...

Malaysia arrests seven with Islamic State links

Malaysia arrests seven with Islamic State links

-- 2018-03-24 18:49:49

Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Islamic State militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets Inspector-General of Malaysian Poli...

Finland receives warrant to arrest former Catalan leader

Finland receives warrant to arrest former Catalan leader

-- 2018-03-24 18:06:10

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont faces arrest in Finland after authorities there received an international warrant for his detention issued by Spain. If he returns to Spain, Puigdemont faces u...

Trump bans some transgender from military service

Trump bans some transgender from military service

-- 2018-03-24 18:04:10

US President Donald Trump Saturday has signed a memorandum that bans some transgender people from US military service but rolls back the blanket ban he ordered last year. The new directive adopts rec...

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits near Papua New Guinea

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits near Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-03-24 17:58:04

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck on Saturday around 180 kilometres southwest of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was measured at a depth of 60 km...

Mexico police find Iowa family dead in Tulum resort

Mexico police find Iowa family dead in Tulum resort

-- 2018-03-24 14:37:18

A family of four from Iowa have been found dead inside their rented holiday home in Mexico, authorities say. The Sharp family had been expected to attend a basketball game in Illinois on Wednesday. A...

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

Kashmir shootout kills two militants

-- 2018-03-24 14:24:31

Two militants were killed in an overnight gunfight with contingents of police and army in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Saturday. The gunfight erupted Friday night at Shistargam loca...