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Moscow to retaliate by expelling British diplomats

Moscow to retaliate by expelling British diplomats

-- 2018-03-15 18:31:29

Russia will expel UK diplomats "soon", said its foreign minister on Thursday, in response to the expulsion of 23 of its diplomats by Britain. Sergei Lavrov told Russian media the expulsions would "de...

Spy poisoning: Russia calls May’s accusations ‘insane’

Spy poisoning: Russia calls May’s accusations ‘insane’

-- 2018-03-15 16:00:04

A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman on Thursday described allegations by British Prime Minister Theresa May that Russia was to blame for the nerve agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal as in...

Theranos founder faces $700m fraud charges

Theranos founder faces $700m fraud charges

-- 2018-03-15 13:53:40

The founder of a US start-up that promised to revolutionise blood testing has agreed to settle charges that she raised over $700 million fraudulently. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a...

Human smuggling: Libya issues warrants for 205 ‘traffickers’

Human smuggling: Libya issues warrants for 205 ‘traffickers’

-- 2018-03-15 13:43:23

Libya has issued 205 arrest warrants for Libyans and foreigners suspected of being involved in a smuggling network for migrants heading to Europe. They include accusations of human trafficking, tortu...

Slovenia PM Cerar steps down

Slovenia PM Cerar steps down

-- 2018-03-15 13:17:24

Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned late on Wednesday, hours after a key investment project hit a legal obstacle, saying he had also had enough of obstruction from his coalition partners an...

Turkey foreign minister postpones US visit

Turkey foreign minister postpones US visit

-- 2018-03-15 13:02:55

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu’s planned visit to Washington on March 19 has been postponed, his spokesman said on Thursday, following the US decision to replace Rex Tillerson as secr...

US Navy jet crash kills two crew members

US Navy jet crash kills two crew members

-- 2018-03-15 12:48:19

Two crew members of a US Navy fighter jet were killed after the aircraft crashed Wednesday off the coast of Key West, Florida. The F/A-18 Super Hornet was on approach to land at the naval air station...

US supports UK expulsion of Russian diplomats

US supports UK expulsion of Russian diplomats

-- 2018-03-15 12:27:36

The White House says it ‘stands in solidarity’ with ‘its closest ally’ the UK and supports its decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats. PM Theresa May said the diplomats would...

Trump names TV commentator Kudlow as economic adviser

Trump names TV commentator Kudlow as economic adviser

-- 2018-03-15 12:27:31

US television commentator and conservative economic analyst Larry Kudlow will replace Gary Cohn as President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, the White House and Kudlow said on Wednesday, ad...

Seven die in blast near Nawaz Sharif residence

Seven die in blast near Nawaz Sharif residence

-- 2018-03-15 11:25:43

At least seven people, including three policemen have been killed in a powerful explosion that occurred near the residence of Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday night. T...

Britain to expel 23 Russian diplomats over nerve attack

Britain to expel 23 Russian diplomats over nerve attack

-- 2018-03-14 19:30:03

Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. "Under the Vienna Convention, the Uni...

World War II bomb wake-up causes mass evacuation in Italy town

World War II bomb wake-up causes mass evacuation in Italy town

-- 2018-03-14 18:04:22

Some 23,000 people have been evacuated in a town in central Italy after an unexploded bomb from World War Two was found during excavation work. Officials in Fano had said the British-made bomb might...

German parliament re-elects Merkel for fourth term

German parliament re-elects Merkel for fourth term

-- 2018-03-14 15:37:53

German lawmakers voted on Wednesday to re-elect Angela Merkel as chancellor for a fourth, and likely final, term that may prove her most challenging yet as she leads a fragile coalition with her stand...

Five die as Turkish airstrikes hit pro-govt forces in Syria

Five die as Turkish airstrikes hit pro-govt forces in Syria

-- 2018-03-14 15:24:00

Three Turkish air strikes hit a checkpoint held by pro-Syrian-government Shi’ite militiamen on the road to Afrin in north-western Syria on Wednesday, killing five fighters, said a pro-government...

Philippines to withdraw from ICC over drugs inquiry

Philippines to withdraw from ICC over drugs inquiry

-- 2018-03-14 15:07:28

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he plans to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it began examining the country’s drugs war. A statement said th...

German lawmakers meet to re-elect Merkel

German lawmakers meet to re-elect Merkel

-- 2018-03-14 14:42:27

Germany’s parliament is meeting to elect Angela Merkel for a fourth term as chancellor, ending nearly six months of political drift in Europe’s biggest economy. Merkel needs the support o...

Nerve attack: Britain, Russia in showdown

Nerve attack: Britain, Russia in showdown

-- 2018-03-14 13:01:11

Britain braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime Minister Theresa May expired without an explanation from Moscow about how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was use...

Insurgents attack Afghan security checkpoint, killing 10

Insurgents attack Afghan security checkpoint, killing 10

-- 2018-03-14 12:47:14

At least 10 security personnel have been killed after militants attacked a security checkpoint in western Afghanistan early Wednesday, officials said. Abdul Samad Salehi, a member of the Farah provin...

Trump-Russia probe: Democrats find ‘significant evidence’ of collusion

Trump-Russia probe: Democrats find ‘significant evidence’ of collusion

-- 2018-03-14 12:31:50

Democratic members of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said they would keep investigating Russia and the 2016 US election, despite a decision by Republicans on the panel to shut...

US health spending twice than other countries with worse results

US health spending twice than other countries with worse results

-- 2018-03-14 12:13:12

The US spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care but has the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates, according to a new study. More doctor visits and...

Ethiopia bus plunge takes 38 lives

Ethiopia bus plunge takes 38 lives

-- 2018-03-14 11:34:23

Thirty-eight people have died in Ethiopia after the bus in which they were travelling, plunged off a cliff, officials say. The accident occured in Legambo district in the country’s Amhara regio...

Stephen Hawking no more

Stephen Hawking no more

-- 2018-03-14 10:21:56

World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said. The Briton was known for his work with b...

Putin faces UK deadline to explain nerve attack on former spy

Putin faces UK deadline to explain nerve attack on former spy

-- 2018-03-13 20:19:37

Britain gave President Vladimir Putin until midnight on Tuesday to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to B...

Trump sacks Tillerson, replaces him with CIA director

Trump sacks Tillerson, replaces him with CIA director

-- 2018-03-13 19:07:22

President Donald Trump Tuesday ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with current CIA director Mike Pompeo. The Washington Post first reported news of the latest staff shakeup for...

‘Assassination’ attempt on Palestinian PM’s convoy in Gaza

‘Assassination’ attempt on Palestinian PM’s convoy in Gaza

-- 2018-03-13 18:51:17

An explosion struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday while making a rare visit to Gaza. The prime minister’s Fatah party said it was an assassination attem...

National Geographic admits ‘racist’ coverage

National Geographic admits ‘racist’ coverage

-- 2018-03-13 18:16:19

US magazine National Geographic says its past coverage of people around the world was racist. It ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic or savage, propagating "every type o...

13 die as Turkish bus rams into truck

13 die as Turkish bus rams into truck

-- 2018-03-13 15:29:22

At least 13 people have been killed as a passenger bus burst into flames after hitting a truck on a highway in the central Turkish province of Corum on Tuesday, says Turkey's state-run news agency. A...

Car bomb hits Yemen military kitchen, killing four

Car bomb hits Yemen military kitchen, killing four

-- 2018-03-13 15:11:46

A car bomb ripped through a military kitchen in Aden used to prepare meals for Yemeni forces trained and backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing at least four people on Tuesday. According t...

US mulls lifting Chad travel ban, says Tillerson

US mulls lifting Chad travel ban, says Tillerson

-- 2018-03-13 13:32:07

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to an ally in the fight against Islamist militant groups in West Africa....

South India road crash claims five lives

South India road crash claims five lives

-- 2018-03-13 13:10:47

At least five people have died in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after a car in which they were travelling, collided head-on with a state-run bus the state's Krishnagiri district, a senior po...