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Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi visits Rakhine state

Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi visits Rakhine state

BBC 2017-11-02 12:00:00

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Rakhine on her first visit to the violence-torn state. Government officials say she is visiting the regional capital Sittwe and other towns d...

Shooting inside US Walmart leaves two dead

Shooting inside US Walmart leaves two dead

-- 2017-11-02 12:00:00

At least two people were killed and one wounded in a shooting inside a Walmart store in suburban Denver under US state Colorado on Wednesday, police said. Police in Thornton, Colorado, did not immedi...

Suu Kyi urges 'coexistence' in Rakhine

Suu Kyi urges 'coexistence' in Rakhine

Reuters 2017-11-02 12:00:00

Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday urged people "not to quarrel" as she visited areas riven by ethnic violence for the first time since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims...

NY attack suspect ‘felt good' about rampage

NY attack suspect ‘felt good' about rampage

-- 2017-11-02 11:48:11

An Uzbek immigrant accused of plowing a truck down a New York City bike path, killing eight people, told investigators he had been inspired by watching Islamic State videos and began planning the atta...

Afghanistan tanker explosion leaves 15 dead

Afghanistan tanker explosion leaves 15 dead

Reuters 2017-11-02 10:04:29

At least 15 people were killed and 27 wounded when fuel tankers exploded in the town of Charikar, northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, destroying a nearby bus, residents and officials s...

CIA releases massive Bin Laden files

CIA releases massive Bin Laden files

-- 2017-11-02 02:59:37

The CIA has released nearly 470,000 files seized during the 2011 killing of former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The new material includes his personal diary, documents, and audio and video files...

Kenya's lecturers strike over salaries

Kenya's lecturers strike over salaries

-- 2017-11-02 02:12:09

Kenyan lecturers in public universities have launched a strike to protest against what they call the government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowa...

'IS-inspired' trucker kills eight in New York

'IS-inspired' trucker kills eight in New York

Agencies 2017-11-01 12:00:00

A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in...

Spain court summons ousted Catalan president

Spain court summons ousted Catalan president

-- 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Spain's High Court on Tuesday summoned sacked Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and 13 other members of his dismissed government to appear later this week. It also gave them three days to pay a deposi...

At least 16 dead in India power plant explosion

At least 16 dead in India power plant explosion

-- 2017-11-01 12:00:00

At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion Wednesday at a thermal power plant in northern India, officials said. Sanjay Khatri, the area's top administrative officer, said...

Yemen war: 26 killed in Saudi coalition airstrike

Yemen war: 26 killed in Saudi coalition airstrike

-- 2017-11-01 12:00:00

A suspected airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen killed at least 29 people, including children, in the country's north, a Yemeni health official said Wednesday. Abdell...

Turkey arrests activist for attempt to overthrow government

Turkey arrests activist for attempt to overthrow government

Reuters 2017-11-01 03:24:58

Prominent Turkish rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala has been jailed pending trial, charged with seeking to overthrow the government, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday. An...

Pakistani wife kills 15 in-laws bid to poison husband

Pakistani wife kills 15 in-laws bid to poison husband

BBC 2017-11-01 01:10:28

A newlywed woman in Pakistan has been arrested on suspicion of killing her husband and at least 14 of his relatives with poisoned milk. Police claim Asiya Bibi had intended the deadly substance for h...

Russia, Nigeria ink nuclear power plants deal

Russia, Nigeria ink nuclear power plants deal

BBC 2017-11-01 01:01:38

Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis. Russian state-owned company Rosatom will build one in the south, the...

Indonesia shootout leaves two militants dead

Indonesia shootout leaves two militants dead

Reuters 2017-10-31 12:49:20

Indonesian counter-terrorism police killed two militants suspected of having links with a pro-Islamic State network in a shootout on the eastern island of Sumbawa, officials said on Tuesday. Authori...

US captures Benghazi attack suspect

US captures Benghazi attack suspect

Reuters 2017-10-31 12:00:00

US forces have captured a militant who is believed to have played a role in a 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...

Suu Kyi for ‘all inclusiveness’ in reconciliation

Suu Kyi for ‘all inclusiveness’ in reconciliation

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has called for ‘all inclusiveness’ in the country's national reconciliation and peace process, the state media reported on Tuesday. Suu Kyi reiter...

Japan cops find dismembered bodies in flat

Japan cops find dismembered bodies in flat

Reuters 2017-10-31 11:40:23

A Japanese man was arrested on Tuesday after the severed parts of nine bodies, some of them stored in picnic coolers, were found in his apartment, Japanese media said. Police made the grisly find in...

Argentine airline workers’ strike disrupts grounding, take-off   

Argentine airline workers’ strike disrupts grounding, take-off  

-- 2017-10-31 10:51:32

A strike by airlines workers in Argentina caused the cancellation of dozens of flights and the grounding of tens of thousands of passengers on Tuesday. Unions representing state-run carrier Aerolinea...

Puigdemont not seeking asylum in Brussels

Puigdemont not seeking asylum in Brussels

-- 2017-10-31 06:52:30

Catalonia's sacked president says he has not travelled to Belgium to seek asylum but rather to talk freely. Carles Puigdemont has appeared in public in Brussels with several colleagues after declarin...

'Hundreds dead in DPRK nuclear base collapse'

'Hundreds dead in DPRK nuclear base collapse'

-- 2017-10-31 06:29:06

More than 200 people believed to be dead following collapse of a tunnel at North Korea’s nuclear test site after sixth atomic test in September. The Reuters has published a report over the inci...

White nationalists stage protests against refugees in Tennessee

White nationalists stage protests against refugees in Tennessee

-- 2017-10-30 12:52:36

TENNESSEE, Oct 29 (Reuters): About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis held back-to-back rallies in two small Tennessee cities on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, which sued the...

From missiles to makeup: Kim tours cosmetics factory

From missiles to makeup: Kim tours cosmetics factory

-- 2017-10-30 12:44:23

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol-ju and sister Kim Yo-jong. State media released undated photos of the visit on Sunday. Bot...

UN calls for probe into Libya killing

UN calls for probe into Libya killing

Xinhua 2017-10-30 12:26:10

UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Sunday called for an immediate investigation into the killing of 36 people near the eastern city of Benghazi. "UNSMIL calls for immediate investigation to brin...

Storm-hit Puerto Rico scraps $300m energy deal

Storm-hit Puerto Rico scraps $300m energy deal

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

Puerto Rico's governor has called for the cancellation of a contract given to a tiny Montana firm to help rebuild the island's power grid. The head of the US-controlled island's power authority on Su...

Catalan leaders flee to Brussels

Catalan leaders flee to Brussels

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

The former officials of Catalonia's government, including Carles Puigdemont, are now in Belgian capital. Puigdemont and other sacked of the Spain's regional government will make a declaration of Cata...

Saudi to let women into sports stadiums

Saudi to let women into sports stadiums

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

Officials in Saudi Arabia say the conservative Muslim country will allow women to attend sports events in stadiums for the first time from next year. Families will be able to enter the stadiums in th...

Thousands march in Barcelona opposing split

Thousands march in Barcelona opposing split

-- 2017-10-30 11:58:04

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of a unified Spain filled Barcelona’s streets on Sunday in one of the biggest shows of force yet by the so-called silent majority that has watched as regional...

Five die as storms batter central Europe

Five die as storms batter central Europe

BBC 2017-10-30 11:25:52

Powerful storms have wreaked havoc in parts of central and northern Europe, killing at least five people in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. A 63-year-old camper drowned on the German coast as...

Spain set to take control  of Catalan institutions

Spain set to take control of Catalan institutions

-- 2017-10-30 09:10:06

MADRID, Oct 30 (BBC): Spain is set to put in place measures to take direct control of Catalonia in response to the region's declaration of independence last week. On Friday, Madrid stripped Catalonia...