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Six die in Sydney seaplane crash

Six die in Sydney seaplane crash

-- 2017-12-31 03:29:19

A seaplane crashed into a Sydney river on Sunday, killing six people on a “wine and dine” sightseeing flight ahead of the city’s harbor-centred New Year’s Eve celebrations. Po...

South Korea seizes another ship over oil transfer to North Korea

South Korea seizes another ship over oil transfer to North Korea

Reuters 2017-12-31 03:11:19

South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday. The KOTI...

Kenya road crash claims 30 lives

Kenya road crash claims 30 lives

-- 2017-12-31 01:57:39

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured as a Nairobi-bound passenger bus collided head-on with a truck on Nakuru-Eldoret highway in Kenya on Sunday morning. Police said the accident oc...

Beijing may be starting to win its battle against smoke

Beijing may be starting to win its battle against smoke

-- 2017-12-30 12:43:43

Beijing may have turned a corner in its battle against the city’s notorious smoke and the Chinese government deserves much of the credit for introducing tough anti-pollution measures. The Chine...

Price protests in Iran turn political

Price protests in Iran turn political

Reuters 2017-12-30 12:23:47

Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran on Friday, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrat...

Football star wins presidential polls in Liberia

Football star wins presidential polls in Liberia

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

Former football star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia's presidential run-off election with 61.5 per cent of the vote based on 98.1 per cent of ballots cast, the ele...

IS claims Russia supermarket blast

IS claims Russia supermarket blast

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group says it was behind Wednesday's bombing of a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg that injured at least 13 people. IS made the claim on its...

29 preschoolers sick with suspected food poisoning in China

29 preschoolers sick with suspected food poisoning in China

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

A total of 29 kindergarten children have been sent to hospital with suspected food poisoning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said Saturday. The suspected food poisoning occ...

Study fails to tie social media with violence

Study fails to tie social media with violence

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

Violent extremists use the Internet to attract younger audiences, disseminate contents and foster direct dialogue with young people, a United Nations agency-backed study found, but more research is ne...

22 Indian teens go missing in France

22 Indian teens go missing in France

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

The CBI has registered an FIR after 22 minors from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi were illegally taken to France by three travel agents last year in the garb of giving them rugby coaching and went missing....

China jails 36 over extortion, homicide, illegal casinos

China jails 36 over extortion, homicide, illegal casinos

-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00

A Chinese court has sentenced 36 people to prison terms of up to 25 years for gang crimes including homicide, assault and setting up illegal casinos. Hainan gang leader Huang Tuwang was sentenced to...

Tanzania threatens to shut churches after Magufuli criticism

Tanzania threatens to shut churches after Magufuli criticism

-- 2017-12-30 11:56:46

Tanzanian authorities have threatened to shut down churches which mix religion and politics after a cleric criticised President John Magufuli. The cleric, Zachary Kakobe, used a Christmas sermon to s...

Turkey, Russia secure anti-missile system deal

Turkey, Russia secure anti-missile system deal

-- 2017-12-30 11:38:38

Turkey has finalised a deal with Moscow for the purchase of Russia's S-400 anti-missile system, Turkish defense officials announced Friday, despite concerns voiced by some of the NATO member's allies....

Child playing with stove causes fatal New York fire

Child playing with stove causes fatal New York fire

-- 2017-12-30 10:54:06

A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building leaving 12 people dead, including four children on Friday. The toddler had a history...

Massive anti-govt protests rock Iran

Massive anti-govt protests rock Iran

-- 2017-12-30 10:33:42

Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrations since...

Man takes 11 hostages in Ukraine

Man takes 11 hostages in Ukraine

-- 2017-12-30 09:37:00

A man believed to be strapped with explosives has taken nine adults and two children hostage in a post office in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Regional police said on Saturday that the unidentified...

Russian court upholds ban against Putin's rival

Russian court upholds ban against Putin's rival

-- 2017-12-30 07:07:32

Russian Supreme Court has upheld the ban against country's opposition leader Alexei Navalny from next year’s presidential election. The court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Alexei Navalny a...

Egypt jails Morsi, 19 others for insulting judiciary

Egypt jails Morsi, 19 others for insulting judiciary

-- 2017-12-30 05:23:22

A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday on charges of insulting the judiciary. The court also fined Morsi 2 million...

Myanmar frees journalists working for Turkish broadcaster

Myanmar frees journalists working for Turkish broadcaster

-- 2017-12-30 02:13:11

Myanmar on Friday freed two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster, their local interpreter and a driver after they completed a two-month jail sentence for violating an aircraft law...

New York City apartment fire kills 12

New York City apartment fire kills 12

-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00

Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were critically injured on Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in New York City’s borough of the Bronx, said Mayor Bill de Blasio...

Tension rises as India listing 'illegal Bangladeshis'

Tension rises as India listing 'illegal Bangladeshis'

FE Online Desk 2017-12-29 12:00:00

India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in a sensitive border state ahead of the publication of a list of its citizens. The drive will be used to detect and deport illegal im...

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei offer 144-hour visa-free transit

Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei offer 144-hour visa-free transit

-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00

China extended its visa-free period for people transiting through Beijing to 144 hours Thursday, and added neighbouring Hebei Province and Tianjin City to the program. Transit air, train, and ship pa...

Mumbai's Kamala Mills fire kills 14

Mumbai's Kamala Mills fire kills 14

-- 2017-12-29 11:22:55

Fourteen people were killed and many others injured in a late night fire at a multi-storey building in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel in Mumbai. The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the...

Korea seizes oil supplying ship to DPRK

Korea seizes oil supplying ship to DPRK

-- 2017-12-29 09:56:29

South Korea on Friday has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions. Officials said the Lighthouse Winmore...

Gunman attacks Egypt church, 10 die

Gunman attacks Egypt church, 10 die

-- 2017-12-29 06:49:41

At least 10 people have died after a gunman opened fire on a Coptic church near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The attacker tried to enter Mar Mina Church in Helwan City, south of Cairo, on Friday. Sec...

Masked men beat prominent Russian environmentalist

Masked men beat prominent Russian environmentalist

-- 2017-12-29 05:48:40

The leader of a prominent Russian environmental group has been brutally beaten by unknown attackers, his deputy said Friday. The Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus for years has exposed illega...

No illicit oil sales to North Korea: China

No illicit oil sales to North Korea: China

-- 2017-12-29 05:03:56

After facing after US President Donald Trump's criticism, China has denied the reports of illicitly selling oil products to North Korea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporte...

Army warns US against ‘unilateral action’ in Pakistan

Army warns US against ‘unilateral action’ in Pakistan

-- 2017-12-29 03:53:17

The military warned the US against ‘unilateral action’, saying that despite its desire for cooperation on Afghanistan, there could be no compromise on national respect and sovereignty. &l...

India rounds up over 103 men for ISIS link

India rounds up over 103 men for ISIS link

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 12:00:00

At least 103 people accused of having links with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested in India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the central counter t...

UN calls for pressure on China, Russia over Myanmar abuses

UN calls for pressure on China, Russia over Myanmar abuses

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar....