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Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

Missing Italians: Mexico launches probe

-- 2018-02-20 12:43:04

Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of three Italian men in the western state of Jalisco. The Naples natives reportedly went missing on Jan 31 after being detained by police at a...

NZ braces for ‘Gita’, emergency declared

NZ braces for ‘Gita’, emergency declared

-- 2018-02-20 11:54:53

Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island has declared a state of emergency as former cyclone Gita approaches the country. Dozens of schools have been shut and roads closed as the South Island brace...

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

-- 2018-02-20 11:35:32

A Russian Member of Parliament, Vladislav Reznik, and 17 other suspects have gone on trial in Madrid accused of massive money-laundering for a Russian mafia gang. The alleged gang bosses Gennady Petr...

Three Iranian cops die in clashes with Sufis

Three Iranian cops die in clashes with Sufis

-- 2018-02-20 11:04:45

Clashes erupted between Iranian police and members of a Sufi Muslim religious community in Tehran, leaving three officers dead, said the law enforcers. A protest by dervishes at a police station in n...

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

Nigerian police detain three village massacre masterminds

-- 2018-02-20 10:42:20

Nigerian local police have arrested three people suspected to have masterminded an attack which led to the killing of at least 36 villagers in the north-western state of Zamfara last week. Kenneth Em...

Syria govt attack claims lives of 77 civilians: Monitor

Syria govt attack claims lives of 77 civilians: Monitor

Agencies 2018-02-20 10:34:33

Bombardments by Syrian government forces have killed dozens of civilians in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, activists say. At least 77 civilians, including 20 children, were kill...

Myanmar 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave’ to hide evidence

Myanmar 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave’ to hide evidence

-- 2018-02-19 21:36:28

Myanmar government is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, according to a rights monitoring group, acco...

Trump supports 'improved gun background checks'

Trump supports 'improved gun background checks'

-- 2018-02-19 21:18:25

US President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve the federal background check system for gun purchases, the White House has said. Mr Trump spoke to Republican Senator John Cornyn about gun legis...

Gambia suspends capital punishment

Gambia suspends capital punishment

-- 2018-02-19 20:52:05

The Gambia's President has announced suspension of the death penalty as the West African country seeks to rebuild its international standing following the removal of its authoritarian ruler last year....

Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills 17

Mozambique rubbish dump collapse kills 17

-- 2018-02-19 20:40:25

At least 17 people have been killed on Monday after heavy rains caused the partial collapse of a rubbish dump in Mozambique. A 15-metre high pile of rubbish collapsed, destroying seven houses, and re...

Israel tests advanced missile defence system

Israel tests advanced missile defence system

-- 2018-02-19 18:07:49

Israel has successfully tested the country's advanced missile defence system capable of defending against ballistic missile threats outside the atmosphere. According to Israel Defence Ministry, The M...

Oxfam Haiti scandal suspects threaten key witnesses: Report

Oxfam Haiti scandal suspects threaten key witnesses: Report

FE Online Desk 2018-02-19 17:54:38

Three members of the controversial Oxfam Haiti team that was under investigation for sexual exploitation and other breaches physically threatened a colleague to ensure that person’s silence The...

Indonesia’s Sinabung volcano erupts, spews ash

Indonesia’s Sinabung volcano erupts, spews ash

-- 2018-02-19 15:30:31

Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of Indonesia spewed columns of volcanic ash as high as about five kilometres into the air, as it erupted on Monday. Head of National Volcanology Agency Kasban...

Maldives president wants extension of state of emergency

Maldives president wants extension of state of emergency

-- 2018-02-19 15:06:07

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has sought parliamentary approval to extend a state of emergency for 15 days. Parliament’s Deputy Secretary General, Fathmath Niusha has told the legislature o...

Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode

Trump blasts Oprah over 60 Minutes episode

-- 2018-02-19 14:41:17

US President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes programme and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in t...

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

-- 2018-02-19 14:32:23

An avalanche in the French Alps has taken the lives of a father and his daughter while they were skiing, say rescue officials. The man, 43, and his 11-year-old daughter were from the Paris region and...

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

Another strong quake jolts Mexico

-- 2018-02-19 14:00:55

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has shaken the southern parts of Mexico, the country's National Seismological Service reported on early Monday. The strong quake struck 43 km east of...

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

Cops free 18 hostages as Brazil prison riot ends

-- 2018-02-19 13:40:21

Brazilian police have freed 18 hostages, who were held by armed inmates at a Rio de Janeiro jail, say officials. Officials at Brazil’s Milton Dias Moreira prison said eight prison wardens and 1...

Landmine blast kills poll candidate in Meghalaya

Landmine blast kills poll candidate in Meghalaya

-- 2018-02-19 13:03:30

An election candidate has been killed along with three other people after a landmine explosion occurred in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya, police said on Monday. The attack happened o...

Kurds strike deal with Syrian army to enter Afrin

Kurds strike deal with Syrian army to enter Afrin

-- 2018-02-19 11:37:26

Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official said. Badran Jia...

Ex-Oxfam director admits hiring prostitutes

Ex-Oxfam director admits hiring prostitutes

-- 2018-02-19 11:06:45

Oxfam's country director in Haiti admitted to using prostitutes at his residence during a relief mission before resigning in 2011, according to an internal investigation into allegations of sexual mis...

Egypt jails 65 Brotherhood members over incitement

Egypt jails 65 Brotherhood members over incitement

-- 2018-02-19 10:55:16

A court in Egypt has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to prison over inciting anti-state riots, protests and violence. Prosecutors say the group was caught with inflammator...

Nazi symbol found at Polish embassy in Israel

Nazi symbol found at Polish embassy in Israel

-- 2018-02-19 10:38:59

Swastika, a German Nazi symbol and profanities were found drawn on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles...

'IS attack' on Russia churchgoers leaves five women dead

'IS attack' on Russia churchgoers leaves five women dead

BBC 2018-02-19 09:47:33

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a Christian church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a national guardsman, were injured, Russian offi...

Now US just wants European commitment to better Iran deal

Now US just wants European commitment to better Iran deal

-- 2018-02-19 00:00:00

The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran nuclear deal over time in return for US President Donald Trump keeping th...

Pak transgenders to act as hajj volunteers!

Pak transgenders to act as hajj volunteers!

-- 2018-02-18 18:03:43

A team of Pakistani transgenders, for the first time in the country’s history, will serve as volunteers during 2018 hajj pilgrimage, a media report has said. According to the report, the transg...

Plane with 66 aboard crashes in Iran

Plane with 66 aboard crashes in Iran

-- 2018-02-18 14:05:29

All 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane have died as the plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday. The plane operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines crashed in a mountainous area near the town o...

Netanyahu slams Polish PM over ‘Jewish perpetrator’ remark

Netanyahu slams Polish PM over ‘Jewish perpetrator’ remark

-- 2018-02-18 13:39:00

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticised his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying the Jews were among the perpetrators in World War Two. Poland passed a law this month impos...

Ethiopia state of emergency to last six months

Ethiopia state of emergency to last six months

-- 2018-02-18 13:03:53

The Ethiopian defence minister has said the newly imposed state of emergency will last for six months as authorities seek to tamp down unrest in the Horn of Africa country. The country’s Counci...

Australia issues red alert for ‘Kelvin’ in western coast

Australia issues red alert for ‘Kelvin’ in western coast

-- 2018-02-18 12:30:28

Australian authorities have issued a red alert warning as the tropical cyclone Kelvin has hammered the Western coast with deadly winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour on Sunday morning. In a warning...