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BBC 2017-10-15 01:27:19
The first scheduled commercial airline service to the remote British island of St Helena in the south Atlantic has touched down safely. The virgin flight, an SA Airlink service from South Africa, end...
-- 2017-10-14 12:00:00
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Myanmar on Friday to make sure the half-million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled in the last two months can go home, and not go to camps. Myanmar's...
Reuters 2017-10-14 12:00:00
The United Nations’ cultural agency selected former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay as its new chief on Friday, handing her the keys to revive UNESCO’s fortunes after the United Sta...
-- 2017-10-14 12:00:00
At least four people were killed on Saturday when a propeller-engine cargo plane crashed into the sea near the international airport in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, a Reuters witness said....
Reuters 2017-10-14 11:38:11
India's second-biggest cotton producing state has stepped up seizures of "unauthorised pesticides" after chemical poisoning killed at least 30 farmers in three months, a government minister told Reute...
Reuters 2017-10-14 10:24:18
President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Friday, defying both US allies and adversaries by refusing to formally certify that Tehran is complying with the accord even...
-- 2017-10-14 07:12:55
At least five students and a security guard have been shot and killed in an attack at a secondary school in northern Kenya. The attack was allegedly led by a former student who had been suspended, th...
-- 2017-10-14 06:19:16
Thousands of Italian school students are protesting nationwide over work placements which they say contribute little to their future job prospects. The students are calling it a "strike" in 70 cities...
-- 2017-10-14 06:07:42
Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Saturday for 100 former police officers and have so far detained 63 of them, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, as part of a widening crackdown si...
-- 2017-10-14 04:38:23
Global powers, including key US allies, have said they will stand by the Iran nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear apart, reports BBC. Trump said on Friday that he woul...
-- 2017-10-14 03:33:49
Police in Kenya shot and killed two opposition protesters, who allegedly threw rocks at a police station, while police used tear gas on rallies in the capital ahead of the new presidential election th...
Reuters 2017-10-14 03:21:48
Around 100 Islamic State fighters have surrendered in Syria’s Raqqa in the last 24 hours and were “removed from the city”, a spokesman for the US-led coalition against Islamic State...
-- 2017-10-14 03:12:40
The death toll of California wildfires, the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history, rose to 35, fire officials in Northern California said on Friday. The wind-driven blazes wh...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
White House chief of staff John Kelly slapped down rumours that he was about to resign or be fired and said on Thursday. “Unless things change, I‘m not quitting, I‘m not getting fir...
BBC 2017-10-13 12:00:00
The EU is to begin preparing for its post-Brexit trade negotiations with the UK, while refusing to discuss the matter with the British government. An internal draft document seen by the BBC suggests...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
Partial results from Liberia's presidential election show former football star George Weah has taken an early lead. Figures from the National Elections Commission (NEC) put Weah ahead in 11 out of 15...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
President Donald Trump will outline a tougher US strategy for countering Iran on Friday that will seek to strengthen the enforcement of what he considers a flawed nuclear deal and deny funding for Ira...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday said no Rohingya refugee should be deported till the next hearing in the case on November 21. The top court of the country posted the matter for further hearing on...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
Floods and landslides killed at least 54 people in Vietnam and left another 39 missing since a tropical depression hit the country earlier this week. The heavy rain in the central and northern region...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
Turkish armored vehicles rolled into northwestern Syria to impose a “de-escalation zone” in a province dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants, an incursion that the Turkish leader said was...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he does not back Catalan independence, fearing others may follow the same path. Juncker, speaking at a students’ forum in Luxembourg,...
-- 2017-10-13 05:30:06
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “appalled” at the Rohingya refugee crisis in her country and is determined to solve it. An adviser to Suu Kyi also said quoting her on Friday, r...
Reuters 2017-10-13 01:33:07
US President Donald Trump moved to undermine Obamacare dramatically late on Thursday by cutting off subsidies to health insurance companies for low-income patients, sparking threats of legal action an...
Reuters 2017-10-13 01:27:57
Islamic State suicide attackers killed at least 50 people in a triple car bomb attack on Thursday among a group of refugees in northeast Syria, a medical source in the Kurdish Red Crescent said. A la...
Reuters 2017-10-12 12:44:54
Floods in Vietnam killed 37 people and another 40 were missing as a tropical depression caused heavy rain in northern and central provinces, the Southeast Asian nation's disaster prevention agency sai...
BBC 2017-10-12 12:00:00
Moored ships were blown away as a "supercell thunderstorm" swept through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least 11 people. The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and two...
BBC 2017-10-12 12:00:00
The United Nations has announced that its top official in Myanmar is being recalled to headquarters in New York. Renata Lok-Dessallien was the focus of a BBC investigation last month in which she was...
-- 2017-10-12 12:00:00
The US is pulling out of the UN's cultural organisation Unesco, accusing it of "anti-Israel" bias, reports BBC. The agency is known for designating world heritage sites such as Syria's Palmyra and th...
-- 2017-10-12 12:00:00
An Indian couple accused of murdering their daughter Aarushi Talwar and their Nepalese servant, Hemraj Banjade, have been acquitted on appeal, reports BBC. Dentists Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were convi...
-- 2017-10-12 12:00:00
Pakistani soldiers have freed a North American family of five who were being held hostage by the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan's military says, reports BBC. They were rescued after a US tip-off during an...
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