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Dozens die as bus plunges off Peru cliff

Dozens die as bus plunges off Peru cliff

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

At least 36 people were killed in Peru on Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck and careened off a cliff along a sharply curving highway north of the capital, Lima, the country’s health minis...

Ensure equal opportunity, democracy: US to Myanmar

Ensure equal opportunity, democracy: US to Myanmar

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

The United States has called on Myanmar to take further steps to ensure that everyone has full and equal access to the opportunities and the benefits of the latter's democratic system. "For decades,...

Foreign powers behind unrest, Iran claims

Foreign powers behind unrest, Iran claims

Xinhua 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday warned of what he calls the enemies' all-out efforts, including inciting unrest, to harm the Islamic republic. The enemy has been always seekin...

Pakistan can review cooperation with US if it is not appreciated : Maleeha Lodhi

Pakistan can review cooperation with US if it is not appreciated : Maleeha Lodhi

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi condemned the United States (US) administration's aggressive remarks against Pakistan and said that Islamabad could "review its cooperati...

Two die climbing SA Table Mountain

Two die climbing SA Table Mountain

-- 2018-01-03 11:55:26

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a tourist and his guide from South Africa's Table Mountain following an accident that trapped hundreds of people at the top of the popular attraction. The man, h...

Ten missing as cargo vessel sinks off Shanghai

Ten missing as cargo vessel sinks off Shanghai

Reuters 2018-01-03 11:37:17

Ten crew members were missing after a cargo vessel collided with another vessel in Wusongkou anchorage at Shanghai, China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Shanghai Maritime...

Trump threatens to cut off Palestine aid

Trump threatens to cut off Palestine aid

-- 2018-01-03 11:16:11

US President Donald Trump has said in tweets that the United States may withhold future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of being “no longer willing to talk peace” with Israel....

Deadly motorway crash claims six lives in Italy

Deadly motorway crash claims six lives in Italy

-- 2018-01-03 10:37:49

A fiery motorway crash in northern Italy has taken the lives of six people, Italian news reports say. Five of the dead, including two children were travelling together in a car, said RAI state TV sai...

What brings Iranians to streets?

What brings Iranians to streets?

Reuters 2018-01-03 10:26:47

Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009. How serious...

Iran revolutionary chief declares defeat of 'sedition'

Iran revolutionary chief declares defeat of 'sedition'

-- 2018-01-03 08:36:05

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has declared the defeat of the "sedition" in the country, referring to a wave of anti-government protests. Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari made the...

Don't care for US threats: Nawaz

Don't care for US threats: Nawaz

-- 2018-01-03 05:22:34

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a press conference on Wednesday asserted that the PML-N government does not care for US threats to cut funding to Islamabad in the war against terrorism. The for...

11 die in suicide bombing in Nigeria

11 die in suicide bombing in Nigeria

-- 2018-01-03 04:59:02

A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram. The bomber hit the mosque in the town...

Trump plans awards for fake news!

Trump plans awards for fake news!

-- 2018-01-03 04:38:53

US President Donald Trump plans to present awards for dishonesty and poor reporting in the media. The ‘THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR’ will be presented at 5pm...

Zambia’s foreign minister quits amid party feud

Zambia’s foreign minister quits amid party feud

-- 2018-01-03 04:37:34

Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has resigned, he said on his Facebook page, as a struggle in the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) over President Edgar Lungu’s ambitions to run fo...

Muslim woman to run against Putin

Muslim woman to run against Putin

FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 03:31:52

Journalist and head of Russia's largest Muslim media holding Aina Gamzatova submitted registration papers to the Central Elections Committee to fight for the 2018 presidential election. She was nom...

Strike by low-caste workers hits businesses in Mumbai

Strike by low-caste workers hits businesses in Mumbai

Reuters 2018-01-03 03:12:39

Many businesses in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai closed on Wednesday as protesters from a low-caste community blocked traffic and shopping malls and staged sit-ins on railway lines after clashes...

S Korea offers high-level talks with N Korea

S Korea offers high-level talks with N Korea

-- 2018-01-02 12:57:59

South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myong-gyon offered on Tuesday high-ranking government talks with North Korea next week at the border village of Panmunjom. Cho told a media conference he expects...

Pope distributes cards  with photo of Nagasaki N bombing victims

Pope distributes cards with photo of Nagasaki N bombing victims

-- 2018-01-02 12:46:44

 Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words "the fruit of war." The photo captures a boy carry...

Pakistan summons US envoy over Trump tweet

Pakistan summons US envoy over Trump tweet

-- 2018-01-02 12:41:33

Pakistan summoned US ambassador in Islamabad late Monday and lodged protest over US President Donald Trump's tweet in which he doubted Pakistan's role against terrorism, according to local reports. U...

Court orders dentist son to repay mother for raising him

Court orders dentist son to repay mother for raising him

-- 2018-01-02 12:00:00

A top court has ordered a man to pay his mother almost $1m for raising him and funding his dentistry training. The mother in Taiwan signed a contract with her son in 1997, when he was 20 years o...

Venezuelan soldier held over killing pregnant woman

Venezuelan soldier held over killing pregnant woman

-- 2018-01-02 11:20:07

A Venezuelan soldier who shot dead a pregnant woman on Christmas Eve has been arrested. Alexandra Conopoi, 18, was killed as she waited for subsidised pork that the government had promised to million...

Brazil prison violence claims lives of nine

Brazil prison violence claims lives of nine

-- 2018-01-02 10:36:16

Nine inmates were ikilled, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil’s continuing difficulties maintaining con...

German MP faces probe over anti-Muslim remarks

German MP faces probe over anti-Muslim remarks

-- 2018-01-02 10:35:30

A German politician is facing a police investigation over inflammatory comments made on New Year's Eve. Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany's far-right AfD party, had her Twitter account sus...

Egypt extends state of emergency

Egypt extends state of emergency

-- 2018-01-02 09:58:51

Egypt is to extend its ongoing state of emergency for three months from January 13. The country’s state-owned news agency MENA said it on Tuesday. Egypt first imposed the current state of emer...

Bronx fire injures 16, four critical

Bronx fire injures 16, four critical

-- 2018-01-02 09:37:39

The Fire Department of New York says 16 people are hurt, four of them seriously, in a fire raging through a Bronx building. Officials say over 200 firefighters have responded to the blaze at a four-s...

Iranian protesters attack police stations

Iranian protesters attack police stations

-- 2018-01-02 09:26:23

Iranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical lead...

YouTuber blasted for showing dead body

YouTuber blasted for showing dead body

-- 2018-01-02 06:35:09

An American YouTube star has prompted a barrage of criticism after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan. The video showed Logan Paul and friends at the Aokig...

Japanese cake that kill people

Japanese cake that kill people

-- 2018-01-02 06:12:32

Two people have died in Japan and several are in a critical condition after choking on traditional rice cakes as part of the new year celebrations. They may seem harmless, but each year the hard-to-e...

New Year’s Day explosion kills three in Nigeria

New Year’s Day explosion kills three in Nigeria

-- 2018-01-02 02:58:03

At least three people have been killed after an explosion hit Nigeria's northeastern town of Madagali, local officials said Tuesday. The blast on Monday followed the planting of a bomb on a busy road...

Afghan airstrikes kill 26 IS militants

Afghan airstrikes kill 26 IS militants

-- 2018-01-02 02:25:34

A total of 26 militants including seven foreign nationals have been confirmed dead after unmanned planes targeted the positions of Islamic State (IS) militants in Darzab district of the northern Jawzj...