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Turkey retaliates against US travel ban

Turkey retaliates against US travel ban

-- 2018-01-12 07:08:32

Turkey has issued travel alert on its citizens planning to travel in the United States after similar warning given by US to Americans. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday in t...

Trump makes ‘racist’, ‘shameful’ remarks at immigrants

Trump makes ‘racist’, ‘shameful’ remarks at immigrants

FE Online Desk 2018-01-12 06:29:25

US President Donald Trump used vulgar terms expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from. "Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?", aske...

Indian SC judges lash out at chief justice

Indian SC judges lash out at chief justice

-- 2018-01-12 05:56:40

Four Indian top court judges has exposed a rift with country's Chief Justice over administrative issues including distribution of cases to judges and judicial appointments. Justices Kurian Joseph, Ja...

Saudi women to enter stadiums for first time

Saudi women to enter stadiums for first time

-- 2018-01-12 04:22:06

Saudi women will be allowed for the first time to enter a sports stadium to watch a soccer match between two local teams. They will be segregated from the male-only crowd with designated seating in t...

German coalition talks reach breakthrough

German coalition talks reach breakthrough

Xinhua 2018-01-12 03:40:51

Coalition talks between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have achieved a breakthrough, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported Friday. Progress has been made in such key issues...

Police recover all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

Police recover all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

-- 2018-01-12 02:46:57

French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Three axe-wi...

France recovers all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

France recovers all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

Reuters 2018-01-12 01:45:07

French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Three axe-wi...

Cameroon crackdown triggers refugee exodus to Nigeria

Cameroon crackdown triggers refugee exodus to Nigeria

Reuters 2018-01-12 01:03:06

More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The o...

Top advisers to waive Iran sanctions urge Trump

Top advisers to waive Iran sanctions urge Trump

-- 2018-01-11 12:51:38

Two senior administration officials said on Wednesday that Trump’s top advisers were recommending that he not ramose sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the agreement between Iran, the Unit...

Myanmar army admits to killing Rohingyas

Myanmar army admits to killing Rohingyas

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

Myanmar’s military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim “terrorists” during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the capt...

9 Indians die after consuming food at relative's home

9 Indians die after consuming food at relative's home

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

At least nine people died allegedly after consuming food at a relative's home in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said onThursday. The incident took place at village Thal Khurd of Ba...

US for "unconditional" release of Reuters journos

US for "unconditional" release of Reuters journos

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

The United States has expressed "disappointment" over Wednesday's court decision in Myanmar to allow prosecution of Reuter's journalists -- Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo -- under the Official Secrets Act....

Death toll mounts to 17 in California mudslides

Death toll mounts to 17 in California mudslides

-- 2018-01-11 11:03:02

The death toll from devastating mudslides in affluent communities along a stretch of Southern California coastline rose to 17 on Wednesday after two more bodies were recovered, the local sheriff said,...

Ethiopia bans foreign adoptions

Ethiopia bans foreign adoptions

BBC 2018-01-11 10:42:53

Ethiopia has banned the adoption of children by foreigners amid concerns they face abuse and neglect abroad. Ethiopia is one of the biggest source countries for international adoptions by US citizens...

Europe urges Trump to honour Iran deal

Europe urges Trump to honour Iran deal

-- 2018-01-11 10:39:59

Senior European diplomats have urged the United States (US) not to kill off the Iran nuclear deal, as President Donald Trump mulls whether to re-impose sanctions on the country on Friday. Trump had v...

Tunisia deploys army after violent protests intensify

Tunisia deploys army after violent protests intensify

Reuters 2018-01-11 03:25:56

Over 300 protesters were arrested overnight and the army was deployed in several Tunisian cities in violent demonstrations over prices, taxes and unemployment that have swept the country. In Thala, n...

Robbers loot millions from Paris hotel

Robbers loot millions from Paris hotel

-- 2018-01-11 01:36:48

Axe-wielding robbers looted jewelry on Wednesday possibly worth more than $5 million from a store in the famed Ritz Paris hotel, police said. Five thieves carried out the heist at the luxury hotel in...

UK’s May vows to eliminate plastic waste by 2042

UK’s May vows to eliminate plastic waste by 2042

Reuters 2018-01-11 01:09:46

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge on Thursday to eliminate avoidable plastic waste within 25 years, in an attempt to shift the focus away from her government’s divisions ove...

Pakistan blast targeting police truck kills seven

Pakistan blast targeting police truck kills seven

-- 2018-01-10 12:21:40

A bomb went off in the centre of the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of the province of Balochistan, killing seven people and wounding 23 on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said. The blast t...

7.6 quake off Caribbean Sea triggers tsunami alert

7.6 quake off Caribbean Sea triggers tsunami alert

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck north of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, sparking a tsunami warning in the area, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The US Geological Surv...

Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe's PhD

Zimbabwe investigates Grace Mugabe's PhD

Reuters 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption agency is investigating whether former first lady Grace Mugabe was wrongly awarded a university doctorate more than three years ago, an official said on Tuesday. Grac...

Rohingya children remain stranded in Myanmar without parents: UN

Rohingya children remain stranded in Myanmar without parents: UN

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

About 100 Rohingya children are stranded in Myanmar without their parents after military operations drove 655,000 people into Bangladesh since August, the United Nations said. Another 60,000 Rohingya...

Weather disasters cost US record $306 billion in 2017

Weather disasters cost US record $306 billion in 2017

Reuters 2018-01-10 11:51:24

Weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, the third-warmest year on record, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday. Th...

Iranian oil tanker could burn for a month: Seoul

Iranian oil tanker could burn for a month: Seoul

Reuters 2018-01-10 11:28:05

The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a four...

Two Reuters reporters due in Myanmar court today

Two Reuters reporters due in Myanmar court today

Reuters 2018-01-10 10:51:42

Two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar are due to appear in court today (Wednesday), when prosecutors could request that charges be filed against them over an accusation they broke the country&rs...

13 die in California mudslides

13 die in California mudslides

-- 2018-01-10 10:48:53

Mudslides, boulders and tons of debris killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in communities along California’s scenic coastline ravaged by a series of intense wildfires that burned off protective...

Bannon leaves Breitbart News

Bannon leaves Breitbart News

BBC 2018-01-10 09:55:43

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's ex-chief strategist, has stepped down from the right-wing Breitbart News organisation where he built his reputation. The move comes amid a furore over remarks he reported...

California mudslides claims at least 13 lives

California mudslides claims at least 13 lives

-- 2018-01-10 08:24:38

Mudslides, boulders and tons of debris killed at least 13 people on Tuesday in California. Heavy downpours struck before dawn on Tuesday after thousands of residents in Santa Barbara County along the...

Another blow for Trump: Judge blocks DACA abolishment

Another blow for Trump: Judge blocks DACA abolishment

-- 2018-01-10 06:33:26

A San Francisco judge temporarily barred US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a programme that protects young people brought to the country illegally by their parent...

Pakistan reporter cut and runs armed abductors

Pakistan reporter cut and runs armed abductors

-- 2018-01-10 04:53:07

A prominent Pakistani journalist has escaped an attempt to abduct him by armed men in the capital Islamabad. Taha Siddiqui says 10-12 unidentified men beat him and threatened to kill him on his way t...