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Spain PM announces plans to suspend Catalan government

-- 2017-10-21 06:58:28

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday announced plans to fire Catalonia’s president and his entire government under special powers available to the government under Spain’s cons...

Munich underground knife attack injures several

-- 2017-10-21 06:23:26

Several people are injured following a knife attack at an underground station in Munich, says a report on Metro UK. The attacker is on the run after stabbing multiple people at the Rosenheimer stati...

Cairo shootout: 55 police dead

-- 2017-10-21 05:58:45

At least 55 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed in a shootout during a raid on a militant hideout near in Cairo of Egypt. The officials said Saturday that the exchange of...

Rohingya children in dire straits: UNICEF

Reuters 2017-10-20 12:00:00

Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF said on Fri...

Obama, Bush both blast Trump

-- 2017-10-20 12:00:00

Former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush expressed concern about the current political climate in the country, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership. Obama urged...

Incoming New Zealand govt to cut migration

-- 2017-10-20 12:00:00

Temporary workers and foreign students previously drawn to New Zealand on the promise of gaining residency will start leaving en masse, migration agents say, as the incoming coalition government promi...

Kobe Steel losing clients as it slips deeper into crisis

-- 2017-10-20 09:38:23

TOKYO, Oct 20 (Reuters): Kobe Steel Ltd sank deeper into crisis on Friday as the embattled company said it had lost some customers to competitors because of widespread data falsification that had exte...

Explosion inside Shi’ite mosque leaves 30 dead in Kabul

-- 2017-10-20 09:03:04

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a Shi‘ite mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday night, a security official said. A senior security official said security forces at the s...

Trump signals tax cuts 

-- 2017-10-20 06:26:03

US President Donald Trump on Friday signalled optimism for the passage of Republicans’ sweeping tax cut plan, saying a key senator who rejected the party’s budget blueprint a day earlier w...

Festive glitter brightens India gold demand

Reuters 2017-10-20 02:26:15

Demand for gold jumped in India this week on account of Dhanteras and Diwali, but high prices took some sheen off the yellow metal’s lure during the key festival period this year. Demand in the...

Spain moves to suspend Catalonia autonomy

-- 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Spain is to start suspending Catalonia's autonomy from Saturday, as the region's leader threatens to declare independence. The government said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the cons...

One dies as fire guts Myanmar luxury hotel

AP 2017-10-19 12:00:00

A fire has nearly destroyed a luxury hotel popular with foreigners in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon. A body bag was carried out of the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel on Thursday morning and firefigh...

UN undecided whether to call Myanmar crisis genocide

Reuters 2017-10-19 12:00:00

The United Nations has yet to determine whether violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar meets the legal definition of genocide, Jyoti Sanghera, Asia Pacific chief at the Office of the High Commis...

Labour newcomer to head NZ government

BBC 2017-10-19 12:00:00

New Zealand is set for a centre-left coalition government led by Labour head Jacinda Ardern. Ms Ardern has been opposition leader for the last three months. At 37, she is set to be the country's youn...

Pranab says BD birth ‘most significant event’ in his public life

-- 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, in an interview, highlighted the birth of Bangladesh to the "most significant" event in his public life. "To my mind it is Bangladesh, the birth of a nation...

Catalonia threatens formal independence declaration

-- 2017-10-19 11:24:00

Catalonia’s regional president told a meeting of his party he would formally declare independence if Spain starts the process of suspending the region’s autonomy on Thursday, a Catalan gov...

Mandela's autobiography sequel launched in SA

BBC 2017-10-19 11:08:44

The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg. Dare Not Linger tackles his five years as South Africa's president after the collapse of...

California hepatitis death toll hits 19

BBC 2017-10-19 10:52:29

The death toll from California's hepatitis A outbreak has reached 19, one week after the state's governor issued a health state of emergency. More than 500 people in California have contracted the vi...

Trump’s Path to IP Wars                                                

Dan Steinbock    2017-10-19 08:31:28

In mid-August, President Trump asked US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a veteran Reagan administration trade hawk, to open an investigation into China's intellectual property (IP) practice...

Sharif indicted on corruption charges

-- 2017-10-19 05:58:25

A Pakistani court on Thursday indicted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as well as his daughter and son-in-law on corruption charges stemming from documents leaked from a Panama law firm, reports...

Six cops die as suicide blast hits SW Pakistan

Xinhua 2017-10-18 12:00:00

At least six policemen were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide blast hit a security forces truck in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, local Urdu TV channel AJJ repo...

Two injured in Cape Town airport shooting

Reuters 2017-10-18 12:00:00

Two men were injured in a drive-by shooting at South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport, police said on Wednesday. Operations at the airport, which is the second busiest in the country an...

Myanmar uses terror campaign against Rohingyas: Amnesty

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

Amnesty International says Myanmar security forces are using crimes against humanity in a targeted, systematic and widespread campaign of violence to drive Rohingyas out of Rakhine state. In their la...

Trump denies making 'insensitive’ remarks to soldier's widow

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

US President Donald Trump has said a lawmaker's claim he made a soldier's widow cry is "totally fabricated". Congresswoman Frederica Wilson said she was shocked by the president's comments to the ber...

US remains concerned over Rohingya crisis: US

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

The United States remains “extraordinarily concerned” by what was happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the remarks on Wednesday. He als...

China's Xi pledges to build 'modern socialist country'

Reuters 2017-10-18 11:29:40

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened a critical Communist Party Congress on Wednesday with a pledge to build a “modern socialist country” that will never copy the political systems of other...

Saudi-led airstrike kills six in Yemen

Xinhua 2017-10-18 11:06:58

Six members from a family, mostly children, were killed Tuesday night in an airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s northeastern province of Jawf, a local security official told...

Kenya election official resigning before new vote

AP 2017-10-18 10:22:25

A Kenyan electoral commissioner has announced her resignation and says the presidential vote just eight days away cannot credibly proceed as planned. Roselyne Akombe spoke Wednesday from New York but...

Hillary Clinton slams Trump's fight with Kim

-- 2017-10-18 09:40:34

Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington have benefited North Korea, but not the United States. “There is no need for...

Iran to 'shred' nuclear deal if US quits: Khamenei

-- 2017-10-18 07:00:10

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran would stick to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers as long as the other signatories respected it, but would “shred” the deal...