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Plane crashes with 25 aboard in Canada

Plane crashes with 25 aboard in Canada

-- 2017-12-14 12:30:04

A plane carrying 25 people crashed late Wednesday in southern Canada, injuring several people, local media reported. The plane is an ATR-42 carrying 22 passengers and three crew members, according to...

US agency to vote on net neutrality rules despite outcry

US agency to vote on net neutrality rules despite outcry

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Internet service providers clashed with Democrats and celebrities like “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill ahead of a vote on the Trump administration’s plan to revoke net neutrality rules...

Myanmar arrests two journos covering Rohingya crisis

Myanmar arrests two journos covering Rohingya crisis

Reuters 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Myanmar’s government said on Wednesday that police had arrested two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The reporters had been working on stories about a military crackdown on the Rohi...

US lawmaker accused of assault ‘kills self’

US lawmaker accused of assault ‘kills self’

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, died in an apparent suicide Wednesday night...

13 cops die in Somalia suicide bombing

13 cops die in Somalia suicide bombing

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police officers, officials said. Police spokesm...

Call for Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital

Call for Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Muslim leaders on Wednesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.They also called on the world to respond by recognizing East Jerusalem as th...

Court sentences Ecuador's vice-president to six years imprisonment

Court sentences Ecuador's vice-president to six years imprisonment

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

A criminal court in Ecuador on Wednesday sentenced the suspended vice-president, Jorge Glas, to six years in prison for illegal association in the bribery scheme of Brazilian construction firm, Odebre...

6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar!

6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar!

BBC 2017-12-14 12:00:00

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said it believes at least 6,700 Rohingyas were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August. Based on surveys of refugees in Bangladesh, the nu...

Mass child rape: Congo militiamen get life term

Mass child rape: Congo militiamen get life term

-- 2017-12-14 11:58:32

A group of 11 militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been jailed for life for raping about 40 children, including at least one baby. The girls they raped between 2013 and 2016 were aged...

Setback for May government in key Brexit vote

Setback for May government in key Brexit vote

-- 2017-12-14 11:12:10

The UK government has been narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by 11 Tory MPs. In a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, MPs voted to give Parliament a legal guarantee...

Israeli 'invites Saudi crown prince'

Israeli 'invites Saudi crown prince'

-- 2017-12-14 10:25:48

Amid growing concern over the contentious Jerusalem issue, Israel's Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz has invited Saudi Arabia's crown prince to visit Israel in an interview with a Saudi news outlet,...

White House contradicts Tillerson on talks with North Korea

White House contradicts Tillerson on talks with North Korea

-- 2017-12-14 09:56:20

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appears to have been contradicted by the White House and his own department, after suggesting the US had softened its position on talks with North Korea, reports Ag...

Suu Kyi to lose another award

Suu Kyi to lose another award

-- 2017-12-14 03:37:42

Dublin City Councillors have voted to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's Freedom of Dublin City award. Musician Bob Geldof handed back his Freedom of Dublin award last month to protest against the inclusion o...

Israel shuts down Gaza border crossings

Israel shuts down Gaza border crossings

-- 2017-12-14 03:12:12

Israel announced the closure of its Gaza border crossings on Thursday in response to daily rocket fire from the enclave over the past week after US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusa...

Terrorist sniper kills 2 army men in Libya's Benghazi

Terrorist sniper kills 2 army men in Libya's Benghazi

-- 2017-12-14 02:56:31

Two of Libya's eastern-based army soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a terrorist sniper in the eastern city of Benghazi, a military official said. "A terrorist sniper in Ekhrebish area (in central...

Boko Haram attack kills two in Cameroon

Boko Haram attack kills two in Cameroon

-- 2017-12-13 12:50:25

At least two people, including one civilian, have been killed in a suicide attack executed by terror group Boko Haram in the Cameroonian Far North Region, a local source told Xinhua. The attack occur...

New York bombing suspect warned Trump on Facebook

New York bombing suspect warned Trump on Facebook

-- 2017-12-13 12:45:20

The man who faces terror charges over Monday's bus terminal bombing in New York posted a warning to President Donald trump just before the attack. "Trump you failed to protect your nation," it read....

Let’s just meet: US to North Korea

Let’s just meet: US to North Korea

-- 2017-12-13 12:00:00

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered to begin direct talks with North Korea without pre-conditions, backing away from a key US demand that Pyongyang must first accept that giving up its nuclear...

Turkey for East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

Turkey for East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

-- 2017-12-13 12:00:00

Turkey appealed on Wednesday for the world to recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, as it opened an Islamic summit called in response to a US decision to recognise the city a...

Indian court sentences 6 to death in "honor killing" case

Indian court sentences 6 to death in "honor killing" case

-- 2017-12-13 12:00:00

A court in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has sentenced six people to death for killing a man from Dalit community in an incident of "honor killing", officials said on Wednesday. "The Tiruppur d...

Palestine terms US decision on Jerusalem 'greatest crime'

Palestine terms US decision on Jerusalem 'greatest crime'

-- 2017-12-13 12:00:00

The Trump administration’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was the “greatest crime” and a flagrant violation of international law, said Palestinian President...

Saudis offer help to fight militancy in West Africa

Saudis offer help to fight militancy in West Africa

-- 2017-12-13 11:59:03

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attending a summit in Paris on Wednesday aimed at accelerating efforts to set up a West African force to battle Islamist militants, a sign Gulf Arab state...

Beijing house fire kills five, wounds nine

Beijing house fire kills five, wounds nine

-- 2017-12-13 10:54:32

Five people have been killed and nine others taken to hospital with burn wounds after a fierce fire broke out at residential house in Beijing’s Chaoyang District in China early Wednesday. Fire...

San Francisco gets first Afro-American mayor

San Francisco gets first Afro-American mayor

-- 2017-12-13 10:32:12

San Francisco native London Breed has become the city's acting mayor following the sudden death of Mayor Ed Lee on Tuesday. She is the first African-American woman to lead the city in the midst of a...

Turkey launches construction of first nuclear plant

Turkey launches construction of first nuclear plant

-- 2017-12-13 08:05:18

Turkey has formally launched construction of its first ever nuclear power plant recently. Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) issued limited construction permit (LCP) to construct the plant, Akkuyu n...

Democrat Jones wins U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in blow to Trump

Democrat Jones wins U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in blow to Trump

-- 2017-12-13 03:58:14

Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Tuesday, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by sexual misconduct accusa...

Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza, responding to rocket fire

Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza, responding to rocket fire

-- 2017-12-13 02:56:11

The Israeli military says it has carried out airstrikes in Gaza is response to rocket fire toward southern Israel. The military says it struck a Hamas military compound in southern Gaza early on Wedn...

Mozambique president sacks four ministers

Mozambique president sacks four ministers

-- 2017-12-13 01:49:03

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked four ministers, including those with the foreign affairs and energy portfolios, his office said in a statement late on Tuesday. No reasons were given for...

US chopper window falls on Japan school

US chopper window falls on Japan school

-- 2017-12-13 01:42:31

A window fell from a US helicopter onto a school sports field near a US Marines air base on Okinawa on Wednesday, the Marines said, the latest in a series of accidents that have fanned safety concerns...

Under Putin, Russia increases whack in the Middle East

Under Putin, Russia increases whack in the Middle East

-- 2017-12-13 01:31:32

President Vladimir Putin sought to save his ally from imminent collapse and break Russia’s international isolation over a crisis in Ukraine at the time of launching a military campaign in Syria...