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Ex-CIA agent held on espionage charges

Ex-CIA agent held on espionage charges

-- 2018-01-17 11:30:15

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer has been arrested on charges of unlawful retention of classified information, the US justice department says. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US...

Back Brexit law or risk chaos: May's party

Back Brexit law or risk chaos: May's party

-- 2018-01-17 11:26:31

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party urged MPs to back the government’s Brexit legislation at a vote in parliament later on Wednesday, warning opponents that trying to block the...

Myanmar army gains ground amid Rohingya crackdown

Myanmar army gains ground amid Rohingya crackdown

AP 2018-01-17 11:22:28

In this October 29, 2017, file photo, participants with national and military flags attend a ceremony supporting the country's military and government servants in Yangon, Myanmar. AP Activist Nyo Tun...

Nigeria releases 244 ‘Boko Haram’ militants

Nigeria releases 244 ‘Boko Haram’ militants

-- 2018-01-17 10:59:35

Nigerian military has released 244 "repentant" Boko Haram suspects who have undergone rehabilitation. The authorities say they have been de-radicalised and can re-enter society, but critics are scept...

H&M model’s family moves house over security concerns

H&M model’s family moves house over security concerns

-- 2018-01-17 10:37:21

The mother of the five-year-old H&M model caught up in a racism row has said her family has moved house in Sweden "for security reasons." Last week, photos of Liam Mango modelling a "coolest monk...

Koreas to form unified hockey team for Winter Olympics

Koreas to form unified hockey team for Winter Olympics

-- 2018-01-17 10:35:14

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a combined women’s ice hockey team to take part in next month’s Winter Olympics in the South. The arch-rivals Koreas took the decision duri...

Ex-CIA officer held 'in China spying case'

Ex-CIA officer held 'in China spying case'

FE Online Desk 2018-01-17 06:43:53

A former CIA officer has been arrested in the US on charges of unlawful retention of classified information. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US citizen, was held at New York's JFK airport on Mond...

Muslim in china bars children from religion

Muslim in china bars children from religion

-- 2018-01-17 05:06:08

Most of the Muslim countries in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break. An education bureau said in a notice posted online, as authorities step up contr...

Mexico cops discover 33 human skulls

Mexico cops discover 33 human skulls

-- 2018-01-17 02:54:35

Police have discovered at least 33 human skulls buried in western Mexico, authorities said on Tuesday, the latest grisly find in a region that has suffered from increasing violence between warring dru...

Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles Taiwan

Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles Taiwan

-- 2018-01-17 02:06:39

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook the Beitou District of Taiwan's capital city of Taipei at 1:59 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, says Taiwan's meteorological authority. The epicentre was monitored at 25.15...

Trump’s peace efforts 'slap of the century’

Trump’s peace efforts 'slap of the century’

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has described US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace efforts as the "slap of the century". At a meeting of Palestinian leaders, he stressed he would not acc...

US cops rescue 13 siblings found shackled in home

US cops rescue 13 siblings found shackled in home

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

Two parents have been arrested in California after police found 13 people allegedly being held captive at their home, including some "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks". David Allen Tur...

Libya airport attack claims 20 lives

Libya airport attack claims 20 lives

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

Twenty people including civilians have been killed and 69 others injured in an attack at the Mitiga international airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a medical source confirmed on Monday. Abdud...

Colombia bridge collapse leaves 10 dead

Colombia bridge collapse leaves 10 dead

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

Ten construction workers have died after a bridge they were building in central Colombia collapsed, Colombian officials say. Civil Defence authorities say the labourers were working on drainage along...

UAE to lodge complaint to UN over Qatar jet

UAE to lodge complaint to UN over Qatar jet

-- 2018-01-16 12:00:00

The United Arab Emirates will lodge a complaint against Qatar at the United Nations’ aviation agency on Tuesday after Qatari war planes allegedly intercepted UAE civilian aircraft, a UAE officia...

Belgium building collapses after blast, several wounded

Belgium building collapses after blast, several wounded

-- 2018-01-16 11:24:45

A blast has brought down a residential building in the Belgian city of Antwerp, injuring several people. The origin of the explosion on the central street of Paardenmarkt is not clear, says a BBC rep...

Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 38, wounds 105

Suicide attack in Baghdad kills at least 38, wounds 105

-- 2018-01-16 11:16:25

Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up at a busy market in central Baghdad in back-to-back explosions that killed at least 38 people, Iraqi officials say. The attackers struck during rush hour...

Libya’s coast guard rescues 360 migrants

Libya’s coast guard rescues 360 migrants

-- 2018-01-16 10:57:34

Libya’s coastal guard has rescued 360 illegal migrants off Libya's western coast, according to a Coast Guards official. "Patrol members on Monday received a distress call off the coast of Garra...

Taliban claims it was behind Bhutto's assassination

Taliban claims it was behind Bhutto's assassination

-- 2018-01-16 10:19:07

Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, saying it killed her as she allegedly planned to collaborate with the US against the...

Malaysia plans special court on human trafficking

Malaysia plans special court on human trafficking

-- 2018-01-16 04:21:16

Malaysia is setting up a special court to tackle increasing numbers of human trafficking cases, in a move welcomed by campaigners. The Southeast Asian nation relies heavily on foreign domestic worker...

Pope lands in Chile amid fury over priest abuse

Pope lands in Chile amid fury over priest abuse

-- 2018-01-16 03:23:53

Pope Francis has arrived in Chile on a visit overshadowed by child sexual abuse accusations against almost 80 members of Chilean clergy. Some priests have been convicted by the Vatican's court, but p...

Philippines shuts more schools as volcano spews ash , lava

Philippines shuts more schools as volcano spews ash , lava

-- 2018-01-16 01:06:38

The Philippines' most active volcano spewed lava that cascaded downslope and emitted ash that fell on nearby towns, state volcanologists said on Tuesday, prompting to shut more schools. Mount Mayon,...

Merkel likely to join Macron for Trump clash

Merkel likely to join Macron for Trump clash

-- 2018-01-15 12:44:39

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering joining French President Emmanuel Macron at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week in what could turn into an epic clash of competing w...

Donald Trump denies being racist

Donald Trump denies being racist

Reuters 2018-01-15 12:00:00

President Trump has denied that he is racist, after a row broke out over his alleged use of the word "shithole" to describe African nations. Mr Trump reportedly used the term last week during a bipar...

Liberia’s ruling party expels outgoing president Sirleaf

Liberia’s ruling party expels outgoing president Sirleaf

-- 2018-01-15 12:00:00

Liberia's outgoing president has been expelled from her own party, for allegedly failing to support its candidate to succeed her. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is accused of encouraging people to vote agains...

Twin suicide blast rocks Baghdad, killing 25

Twin suicide blast rocks Baghdad, killing 25

-- 2018-01-15 12:00:00

At least 25 people were killed and 63 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi health ministry said on its Facebook page. The attack targeted Aviation Square, a comme...

Philippines volcano fears grow for possible eruption

Philippines volcano fears grow for possible eruption

-- 2018-01-15 11:47:40

The Philippines’ chief volcanologist warned on Monday of a possible hazardous eruption at Mount Mayon “within weeks or even within days”, as magma continued to pile up at the summit...

Tunisia police use tear gas as protests continue

Tunisia police use tear gas as protests continue

-- 2018-01-15 11:35:59

Violent protests erupted again in two areas of the capital Tunis and another town after a relatively calm two days, the latest protests in the country against austerity measures. After nearly a week...

Sri Lanka legally bars women from buying alcohol

Sri Lanka legally bars women from buying alcohol

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 11:02:37

Sri Lanka has legally barred women from buying alcohol, a right preserved only to men. A move to grant women to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday. He...

China highway crash claims eight lives

China highway crash claims eight lives

-- 2018-01-15 11:01:39

Eight people were killed and another six wounded in a highway collision in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Monday. The accident happened on Sunday when a coach rear-ended a tru...