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Damning evidence of Rohingya massacre in Myanmar

Damning evidence of Rohingya massacre in Myanmar

-- 2018-02-09 11:12:52

Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbours dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of September 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to deat...

US dismisses fears of wider war in Syria

US dismisses fears of wider war in Syria

-- 2018-02-09 11:01:17

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis dismissed concerns on Thursday that the United States was being dragged into a broader conflict in Syria, after a major clash with pro-Syrian government forces overnigh...

Bangkok issues warning as air pollution hits danger level

Bangkok issues warning as air pollution hits danger level

-- 2018-02-08 17:59:48

Residents in Bangkok, one of the world's top tourist destinations, were warned on Thursday the city's air quality had hit dangerous levels just days after the country's pollution control agency appeal...

Philippines security forces shoot dead three ‘terrorists’

Philippines security forces shoot dead three ‘terrorists’

-- 2018-02-08 15:52:13

Philippine security forces on Thursday shot dead three terror suspects allegedly involved in the attack of the southern Philippine city of Marawi in May last year. Brigadier General William Alunday o...

Eight die in China construction site collapse

Eight die in China construction site collapse

-- 2018-02-08 14:53:02

Eight people have been killed and nine others taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries as a construction site collapsed at Foshan city in southern China’s Guangdong province. The ci...

South Korea's Moon to meet North Koreans

South Korea's Moon to meet North Koreans

-- 2018-02-08 14:38:35

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet members of North Korea’s Olympics delegation on Saturday, including North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, the Blue House said on Thursday....

Hot-air balloon crash wounds seven in Australia

Hot-air balloon crash wounds seven in Australia

-- 2018-02-08 14:22:11

At least seven people have been injured after a hot-air balloon carrying them, was hit by a surprise weather change and crash-landed on Thursday in a field near Australia’s southern city of Melb...

Pence seeks peaceful solution to N Korea crisis

Pence seeks peaceful solution to N Korea crisis

-- 2018-02-08 12:37:15

US Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday the United States wants to peacefully dismantle North Korea’s nuclear programme. But he warned Pyongyang not to underestimate US military strength...

Macron refuses to make Corsican language official

Macron refuses to make Corsican language official

-- 2018-02-08 11:12:35

France's Emmanuel Macron has said he will not recognise Corsican as an official language on his first visit to the French Mediterranean island. The president also rejected another demand by Corsican...

SA mine collapse takes two lives

SA mine collapse takes two lives

-- 2018-02-08 10:28:49

Two workers have been killed after a section of Sibanye-Stillwater’s Kloof gold mine in South Africa collapsed, the company said. The incident occurred on Wednesday, a week after more than 1,00...

Kenya deports rival lawyer

Kenya deports rival lawyer

-- 2018-02-08 10:18:30

Kenyan authorities deported a lawyer charged with treason for attending the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga. The move prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justic...

Senior Trump aide quits amid abuse allegations

Senior Trump aide quits amid abuse allegations

-- 2018-02-08 09:50:46

US White House staff secretary Rob Porter said he would resign following accusations of domestic abuse from two former wives. On Wednesday, he did not clarify when his resignation would be effective....

N Korea set for military show on Olympic eve

N Korea set for military show on Olympic eve

-- 2018-02-08 09:42:27

North Korea is set to hold its 70th anniversary military parade, a day ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Pyongyang's annual parade, marking the founding of its armed forces, h...

Pak court awards death sentence to one over ‘blasphemy’ murder

Pak court awards death sentence to one over ‘blasphemy’ murder

-- 2018-02-07 22:11:13

A Pakistani court has sentenced one man to death and handed life terms to five others for murdering a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Twenty-five others were convicted of lesser offence...

Angela Merkel reaches deal with SPD to form coalition government

Angela Merkel reaches deal with SPD to form coalition government

-- 2018-02-07 21:13:28

Angela Merkel's conservatives (CDU/CSU) have finally hashed out a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) that could break months of political deadlock in Germany. Negotiators have...

Kim Jong-un’s sister to make landmark visit to South Korea

Kim Jong-un’s sister to make landmark visit to South Korea

-- 2018-02-07 18:12:47

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is to attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, which are being held in the South, ministers in Seoul say. Kim Yo-jong, a...

India PM Narendra Modi’s wife survives fatal car crash

India PM Narendra Modi’s wife survives fatal car crash

-- 2018-02-07 16:51:27

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s estranged wife, Jashodaben, survived a fatal crash on Wednesday on a national highway. One of her relatives died when their vehicle collided with a truck i...

Trump calls for another shutdown over immigration deal

Trump calls for another shutdown over immigration deal

-- 2018-02-07 13:50:31

President Donald Trump has said he would "love to see" the US government shut down if Congress does not agree an immigration deal. "If we don't change it let's have a shutdown. We'll do a shutdown, a...

Assailants shoot Mexico president's cousin dead

Assailants shoot Mexico president's cousin dead

-- 2018-02-07 13:26:39

A distant relative of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was killed in the leader’s home city of Atlacomulco in the state of Mexico, the state prosecutors and president’s offices said on...

Jeep falls into ravine, killing nine in India

Jeep falls into ravine, killing nine in India

-- 2018-02-07 13:19:40

Nine people have been killed after a jeep in which they were travelling, skidded off a road in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand and fell into a ravine on Wednesday, said police. The incident occu...

Court hands death sentence to Somali truck bomber

Court hands death sentence to Somali truck bomber

-- 2018-02-07 12:49:14

Somalia's military court has sentenced a man to death for his role in the country's deadliest bomb attack last year that killed at least 500 people in the capital Mogadishu. Hassan Adan Isaq was accu...

Maldives high court cancels order freeing jailed politicians

Maldives high court cancels order freeing jailed politicians

-- 2018-02-07 12:09:44

Three Maldives Supreme Court justices on Tuesday annulled their own order to free a group of imprisoned opposition politicians after two of the court’s justices were arrested amid a political cr...

Trudeau faces criticism over ‘peoplekind’ comment

Trudeau faces criticism over ‘peoplekind’ comment

-- 2018-02-07 11:58:17

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a backlash for correcting a woman who used the term ‘mankind’. During a town hall event in Edmonton, Alberta, last week, Trudeau interrupt...

West London house fire kills one

West London house fire kills one

-- 2018-02-07 11:19:13

A fierce fire broke out at a house in west London’s Holland Park, killing a man and prompting evacuation of several residents, the fire brigade said early on Wednesday. Around 12 fire engines a...

Poland’s Duda signs Holocaust bill defying criticisms

Poland’s Duda signs Holocaust bill defying criticisms

-- 2018-02-07 10:53:05

Polish president has signed a controversial bill that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, prompting sharp criticism from Israel and the United States. Andrze...

Four die, scores missing as 6.4 quake strikes Taiwan

Four die, scores missing as 6.4 quake strikes Taiwan

FE Online Desk 2018-02-07 10:12:13

Rescuers combed through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 60 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the popular Tai...

SA postpones Zuma’s speech amid mounting pressure for resignation

SA postpones Zuma’s speech amid mounting pressure for resignation

-- 2018-02-06 20:57:23

South African President Jacob Zuma's state of the nation speech in parliament has been postponed, as pressure grows on him to resign. Parliament speaker Baleka Mbete made the announcement, without gi...

Court jails Vietnam activist for livestreaming pollution march

Court jails Vietnam activist for livestreaming pollution march

-- 2018-02-06 20:50:52

One central Vietnamese court has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant's spill of toxins into the ocean....

Gunmen storms Indian hospital, escaped with Pakistani prisoner

Gunmen storms Indian hospital, escaped with Pakistani prisoner

-- 2018-02-06 17:42:43

Gunmen stormed a hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir and escaped with a high-profile Pakistani prisoner who was undergoing a medical check-up. Two Indian police officers were killed in the attack...

Maldives ex-President seeks India, US intervention

Maldives ex-President seeks India, US intervention

-- 2018-02-06 17:32:08

Former president of the Maldives on Tuesday has called from exile for other countries to intervene in a political crisis engulfing the island nation. Mohammed Nasheed asked India to help release pris...