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China, Maldives to increase Belt, Road cooperation

China, Maldives to increase Belt, Road cooperation

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

China and the Maldives onThursday agreed to jointly promote the Belt and Road Initiative to energize bilateral ties.The consensus was reached during talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pres...

US warns Palestine against scrapping Pence talks

US warns Palestine against scrapping Pence talks

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

The US has warned Palestinians against cancelling talks with Vice-President Mike Pence, after Washington recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital. It would be "counterproductive" to scrap talks betwe...

Israel allows Jerusalem mosque access despite 'day of rage'

Israel allows Jerusalem mosque access despite 'day of rage'

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Israeli police preparing for a Palestinian “day of rage” increased their presence in Jerusalem on Friday but set no extra restrictions on access for worshippers at the flashpoint Al Aqsa M...

HR values must be shielded: Zeid

HR values must be shielded: Zeid

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Values enshrined in Universal Declaration of Human Rights under attack, must be protected, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. “We see a backlash against man...

‘US decision on Jerusalem will have negative impact’

‘US decision on Jerusalem will have negative impact’

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a phone call on Thursday that the U.S. decision on Jerusalem will negatively impact the region’s peace and stabili...

Trump's recognition of Jerusalem sparks West Bank clashes

Trump's recognition of Jerusalem sparks West Bank clashes

-- 2017-12-08 11:54:52

US missions across the Middle East are braced for a second day of violent protests over Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital after widespread clashes between Palesti...

Polish finance chief to be new PM

Polish finance chief to be new PM

-- 2017-12-08 11:54:09

Poland's conservative ruling party named Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki the country's new prime minister, replacing Beata Szydlo, who resigned Thursday. The conservative party took the risk of t...

Trump celebrates Jerusalem decision

Trump celebrates Jerusalem decision

-- 2017-12-08 11:30:30

US President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated an "especially special" Hanukkah at the White House, a day after declaring Jerusalem Israel's capital and setting off criticism and clashes. "Right no...

Assailant kills woman priest in Tokyo shrine

Assailant kills woman priest in Tokyo shrine

-- 2017-12-08 11:05:42

Three people, including a female priest, were killed in a stabbing attack at a prominent shrine in Tokyo, including the head priest and the attacker, who apparently took his own life. Tokyo Metrop...

Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli army

Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli army

-- 2017-12-08 09:44:50

Two Palestinians were killed in clashes over US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli soldiers shot dead one Palestinian...

Palestinians observe 'Day of Rage' over Jerusalem

Palestinians observe 'Day of Rage' over Jerusalem

-- 2017-12-08 07:42:07

Thousands of Palestinians protested in a “day of rage” on Friday in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and in East Jerusalem against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the ancient...

'US decision on Jerusalem contradicts common sense'

'US decision on Jerusalem contradicts common sense'

-- 2017-12-08 05:50:29

Russia has said that the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by the United States runs counter to common sense. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came up with the statement on Fri...

World rejects Trump's Jerusalem move

World rejects Trump's Jerusalem move

-- 2017-12-07 12:17:54

Arabs and Muslims across the Middle East on Wednesday condemned the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as an incendiary move in a volatile region and Palestinians said Washington wa...

Airstrike hits Somalia's capital, targeting Shabaab

Airstrike hits Somalia's capital, targeting Shabaab

-- 2017-12-07 12:14:58

An air strike hit a village south of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and a local official said the attack targeted Islamist al Shabaab militants fighting to topple the country’s central govern...

Defiant Trump recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Defiant Trump recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed decades of US policy and recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allie...

Putin to run again for Russian president

Putin to run again for Russian president

BBC 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another term as president in next year's election. He made the announcement in a speech to workers at a car factory in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod....

Indian drone ‘invades’ China’s airspace

Indian drone ‘invades’ China’s airspace

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

An Indian drone has "invaded China's airspace and crashed" on its territory, Chinese state media said. Zhang Shuili, deputy director of the western theatre combat bureau, said the incident took place...

Congo human crisis 'worse than middle east’

Congo human crisis 'worse than middle east’

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing "a mega-crisis", aid agencies say. This means that for the second consecutive year, D...

War is inevitable as allies continue war games: NK

War is inevitable as allies continue war games: NK

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

A nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea involving hundreds...

Tremor jolts Kashmir valley

Tremor jolts Kashmir valley

-- 2017-12-07 11:41:59

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Kashmir in the early hours of Thursday, sources in the disaster management department said. The epicentre of the quake was near J&K-Xingjian border and its coord...

Nepal votes in final rou

Nepal votes in final rou

-- 2017-12-07 11:24:46

Nepalis began voting in the final round of parliamentary elections on Thursday. A key step will be completed a near decade-long democratic transition after the abolition of the centuries-old monarchy...

Southern India road crash claims nine lives

Southern India road crash claims nine lives

-- 2017-12-07 03:05:46

At least nine people have been killed and four others sustained injuries after a van in which the victims were travelling collided with a stationary truck at Thuvarankurichi near Trichy district in so...

Most vulnerable dying in ‘America’s Finest City’

Most vulnerable dying in ‘America’s Finest City’

-- 2017-12-07 02:29:23

Christine Wade found a haven in the tent she shared with six children, pitched in an asphalt parking lot. It was, at least, far better than their previous home in the city, a shelter where rats ate t...

California inferno threatens over 12,000 homes

California inferno threatens over 12,000 homes

Reuters 2017-12-07 02:25:22

More than 1,000 firefighters battled an unrelenting wildfire on Wednesday that threatened more than 12,000 homes in and around Ventura, the biggest of several uncontrolled Southern California blazes f...

Trump's son questioned in Congress

Trump's son questioned in Congress

Reuters 2017-12-07 01:41:24

President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., declined to discuss with lawmakers on Wednesday a conversation he had with his father about emails related to a June 2016 meeting he attend...

British-Bangladeshi man remanded over UK PM killing plot

British-Bangladeshi man remanded over UK PM killing plot

-- 2017-12-07 01:21:35

A man, introducing himself as a British-Bangladeshi, has been remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of a plot to bomb Downing Street’s security gates and then kill Theresa May. W...

California communities under seize from wind-driven fire

California communities under seize from wind-driven fire

-- 2017-12-06 12:25:24

Wind-driven fires tore through California communities Tuesday for the second time in two months, leaving hundreds of homes feared lost and uprooting tens of thousands of people. The most damaging fir...

German train crash wounds six

German train crash wounds six

-- 2017-12-06 12:03:37

Six people have been injured in a train crash near the German city of Düsseldorf, emergency services say. A passenger train collided with a freight train in the town of Meerbusch, according to r...

Trump prepares to recognise Jerusalem as Israel capital

Trump prepares to recognise Jerusalem as Israel capital

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and set in motion the relocation of the US Embassy to the ancient city, senior US officials said, a decision that...

UN political chief in Pyongyang on four-day visit

UN political chief in Pyongyang on four-day visit

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The United Nations political affairs chief begins a rare four-day visit to Pyongyang on Tuesday, reports BBC. The trip by Jeffrey Feltman is the first by a senior UN official in six years. North Kor...