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Palestinians threaten to cut US ties

Palestinians threaten to cut US ties

-- 2017-11-19 10:31:23

The Palestine Liberation Organisation has warned it will freeze its ties with the US if it carries out a threat to close the PLO office in Washington. In a video on Twitter, PLO Secretary General Sae...

'Party set to sack Mugabe'

'Party set to sack Mugabe'

Reuters 2017-11-19 10:18:33

The leaders of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party will meet on Sunday to approve the dismissal of President Robert Mugabe, the only leader the southern African nation has known since independence 3...

Zimbabwe ruling party expels Mugabe, wife

Zimbabwe ruling party expels Mugabe, wife

-- 2017-11-19 06:42:33

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has expelled country's President Robert Mugabe as the leader of the party on Sunday. The party replaced Mugabe by his former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa. His wife Grace...

Satellite detects N Korea ballistic submarine

Satellite detects N Korea ballistic submarine

-- 2017-11-19 05:29:52

North Korea is on "an aggressive schedule to build and deploy its first operational ballistic missile submarine", according to an analysis of new satellite images by the expert website 38 North. The...

Moscow blocks extension of Syria chemical attacks probe

Moscow blocks extension of Syria chemical attacks probe

-- 2017-11-18 12:16:27

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended an international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria. It is the 10th time Moscow has used its veto powers at the...

Trump reverses elephant trophy import policy

Trump reverses elephant trophy import policy

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

President Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration. Imports of trophies from elephants legally hunted in Zambia and...

Syria toxic gas inquiry to end

Syria toxic gas inquiry to end

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

An international investigation into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria will end on Friday after Russia blocked for the third time in a month attempts at the United Nations to renew...

Five die as Kenya Police battle Odinga supporters

Five die as Kenya Police battle Odinga supporters

-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00

Five people have been killed in Kenya's capital Nairobi as police broke up crowds of opposition supporters. At least two of the victims were shot dead, reports said, while others may have been stoned...

Hariri leaves Saudi Arabia

Hariri leaves Saudi Arabia

BBC 2017-11-18 11:53:30

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has left Saudi Arabia for France, a TV channel owned by his family says. Mr Hariri earlier denied claims he was being held hostage in the Gulf kingdom, tweeting th...

Strong quake rattles Tibet

Strong quake rattles Tibet

-- 2017-11-18 10:35:59

A strong 6.9- magnitude earthquake shook Nyingchi, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region at 6:34 am Saturday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). No casualty wa...

Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era nears end

Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era nears end

-- 2017-11-18 07:45:59

Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of Harare on Saturday to demand the resignation of President Robert Mugabe. They flooded the streets of the capital, singing, dancing and hugging...

Cops arrest 19 in southern Sri Lanka

Cops arrest 19 in southern Sri Lanka

-- 2017-11-18 01:51:28

Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested at least 19 people after violentclashes erupted in the southern Galle District Friday night. A police curfew which had been imposed in six areas across the Gall...

Clouds over fate of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe

Clouds over fate of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe

Reuters 2017-11-17 12:53:07

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s fate hung in the balance on Friday as he apparently resisted efforts to make him step down following a seizure of power by the army, until this week a key pi...

'Mugabe shall go'

'Mugabe shall go'

Reuters 2017-11-17 12:00:00

Leaders of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit, a senior party source said on Friday....

UN meeting for escalating regional climate action

UN meeting for escalating regional climate action

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

Countries from Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Middle-East, met on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn to explore opportunities for scaling up climate action in a bid to mee...

UN prioritises children in global migration agenda

UN prioritises children in global migration agenda

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

All children caught up in the global migration crisis should be treated as children first and foremost, regardless of their nationality or migration status, or that of their parents, said the UN human...

UK plane, helicopter crash leaves several dead

UK plane, helicopter crash leaves several dead

-- 2017-11-17 12:00:00

An aircraft and a helicopter have crashed in mid-air over Buckinghamshire in the UK. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) reveal the information on Friday. The AAIB has sent a team to inves...

COP23 ends without positive outcome on climate

COP23 ends without positive outcome on climate

-- 2017-11-17 11:27:57

The 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) ended in Boon on Friday without any major positive outcome about the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate. Delegations of the pa...

Grant citizenship to Rohingyas: UN to Mynamar

Grant citizenship to Rohingyas: UN to Mynamar

Reuters 2017-11-17 09:58:44

A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday called on Myanmar to end military operations that have “led to the systematic violation and abuse of human rights” of Rohingya Musli...

Fire at Cameroon parliament building

Fire at Cameroon parliament building

-- 2017-11-17 08:59:43

Cameroon's main parliament building in its capital Yaoundé was badly damaged by fire which ripped through four floors. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze before it could reach the parli...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe appears in public

Zimbabwe's Mugabe appears in public

-- 2017-11-17 05:54:01

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has appeared in first public appearance since a military seizure of power in the country. Mugabe was present at a university graduation ceremony in Harare on Friday....

'King Salman to leave throne next week'

'King Salman to leave throne next week'

-- 2017-11-17 05:01:19

King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia plans to step down and announce his son Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as his successor next week. British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail claims about this p...

I'm not silent: Suu Kyi

I'm not silent: Suu Kyi

-- 2017-11-16 12:00:00

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has wondered why people say she has been silent over the brutal army crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State."I don’t know why people say...

US might opt individual sanctions for Myanmar

US might opt individual sanctions for Myanmar

-- 2017-11-16 12:00:00

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that his country is profoundly concerned by ‘credible reports’ of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces.  In the w...

Multiple suicide blasts kill 14 in Nigeria

Multiple suicide blasts kill 14 in Nigeria

-- 2017-11-16 11:00:20

Four suicide bombers detonated in Nigeria's Borno state capital and killed 14 people while wounding another 29, police said Wednesday, in one of the largest such attacks in the city in years. The dea...

Deadly flashfloods hit Greece, killing 15

Deadly flashfloods hit Greece, killing 15

-- 2017-11-16 10:29:48

Flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece. The industrial towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara, west of the capital Athens...

Peru's President denies bribe allegations

Peru's President denies bribe allegations

Reuters 2017-11-16 02:01:44

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Wednesday claims he had worked as a consultant for Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], which is embroiled in an international bribe...

IndiGo's Chennai-Doha flight hit by bird

IndiGo's Chennai-Doha flight hit by bird

-- 2017-11-16 01:37:03

A Doha-bound flight carrying 134 passengers and seven crew members suffered a bird hit early Thursday immediately after take-off from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said. Following th...

Modi remains overwhelmingly popular, says US poll

Modi remains overwhelmingly popular, says US poll

-- 2017-11-16 01:33:14

Nearly nine out of 10 Indians hold a favourable opinion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than two-thirds are satisfied with the direction he is taking the country, a Pew survey has found, two...

Australian diplomat dies after fall from building

Australian diplomat dies after fall from building

BBC 2017-11-16 01:07:25

An Australian diplomat has died after falling from a New York City balcony while socialising with friends. Julian Simpson, 30, accidentally slipped from a seventh-floor ledge of his Manhattan buildin...