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-- 2017-12-20 12:20:12
Federal prosecutors in Brazil charged a Spanish-Swiss banker with laundering $21.7 million in graft money for clients involved in the country’s largest corruption scandal, including jailed forme...
Reuters 2017-12-20 12:00:00
A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday in the Mexican state of Veracruz as he attended a Christmas celebration at his son’s school, the latest murder in the country’s deadliest year on reco...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Zambia's police force has scrapped plans to employ eight Chinese nationals barely 24 hours after it unveiled the scheme, following a public outcry. The new reservists were commissioned in the capital...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a 10-day unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels to allow Filipinos to celebrate a “stress-free” Christmas season, two weeks after peac...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Myanmar government has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn during her tenure. Lee had been due to visit Myanmar in Janu...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
The US government has lifted a three-year ban on making lethal viruses in the lab, saying the potential benefits of disease preparedness outweigh the risks. Labs will now be able to manufacture strai...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
The host of a popular TV crime series has been sentenced to life in jail a New Delhi court for murdering his wife in 2000. Suhaib Ilyasi, who fronted India's Most Wanted, was found to have stabbed hi...
Reuters 2017-12-20 11:56:40
The 193-member United Nations General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday at the request of Arab and Muslim states on US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognis...
-- 2017-12-20 11:55:15
Myanmar authorities have found 10 bodies buried in a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, the military-run newspaper Myawady reported on Tuesday. The bodies were found a day after th...
-- 2017-12-20 11:18:35
Action has been taken against an alleged Islamist terror plot in the UK that could have happened at Christmas, counter terrorism sources say. Four men were arrested early on Tuesday in South Yorkshir...
-- 2017-12-20 10:48:20
At least 12 tourists have been killed after a bus carrying them from a cruise ship overturned in south-eastern Mexico, officials say. Another 18 people were injured in the crash on Tuesday between Ma...
Reuters 2017-12-20 10:08:01
China has expressed its strong opposition and concern after the Taiwan government began a probe into a tiny but passionately pro-China opposition party for national security reasons, the latest flashp...
-- 2017-12-20 09:25:26
Neighbouring India and Myanmar have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Rakhine State Development Programme with an objective to restore normalcy in Rakhine State and enable the repatriation...
-- 2017-12-20 02:52:45
US President Donald Trump reminded Pakistan that it’s obliged to help America because it receives “massive payments” from Washington every year. Trump said while unveiling his new n...
-- 2017-12-20 02:02:29
A spokesman for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday he had been informed that the police had almost completed their investigation of two arrested Reuters journalists, after which a court...
-- 2017-12-19 12:38:14
Chinese air force planes flew through Tsushima Strait for the first time and conducted drills in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. An air force spokesperson said on Monday. The drills, i...
-- 2017-12-19 12:23:00
Japan's Cabinet has approved a plan to purchase a set of costly land-based US missile combat systems to step up the country's defence capability amid escalating threats from North Korea. Tuesday's ap...
-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00
Argentina's Congress has been debating pension reforms for the second time in a week amid more violent protests in the capital, Buenos Aires. The lower house was due to vote on the bill last Thursday...
-- 2017-12-19 11:38:51
The ruling party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost some seats but held onto power in his home state of Gujarat, despite a stronger-than-usual challenge in local elections. India's Election...
-- 2017-12-19 10:51:38
The US has vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution rejecting President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The text put forward by Egypt affirmed that any d...
-- 2017-12-19 10:51:12
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has selected Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party's leader for the next five year. The country's deputy president defeate...
-- 2017-12-19 10:24:37
At least three people were killed and more than 100 hospitalised with critical injuries after an Amtrak train derailed on Monday during its inaugural run on a faster route from Seattle to Portland, Or...
-- 2017-12-19 10:09:07
The US administration has said North Korea was "directly responsible" for the WannaCry malware attack affecting hospitals, businesses, and banks across the world earlier this year. The attack is said...
-- 2017-12-19 10:00:49
Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity, is to stand in his country's next presidential election. Gaddafi family’s spokes...
-- 2017-12-19 06:41:15
Saudi Arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said “Coalition forces confirm intercepting an Iranian-Houthi missile targe...
-- 2017-12-19 03:53:24
Britain’s biggest ever warship, the new 3.1 billion pound ($4.2 billion) aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, has a leak and needs repairs, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Tuesday. The 6...
-- 2017-12-19 03:49:31
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday he would use a special order that gives the military sweeping powers to lift a ban on political activity that has been in place since a 2014 coup,...
-- 2017-12-19 01:16:30
At least six militants have been killed as security force aircraft targeted a hideout of Taliban group in Torgul village of Shirin Tagab district district of northern Afghanistan's Faryab province on...
-- 2017-12-18 12:52:27
At least 12 people have been killed and four others hospitalised with burns after a fierce fire gutted a snack shop in India's financial capital Mumbai on Monday, according to police. "The blaze star...
-- 2017-12-18 12:32:30
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was set to win an election in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state on Monday, the vote count showed, but with a reduced margin, which will...
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