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Eight die in Cameroon independence protests

Eight die in Cameroon independence protests

Reuters 2017-10-02 12:00:00

Soldiers shot dead at least eight people and wounded others in Cameroon’s restless English-speaking regions on Sunday during protests by activists calling for its independence from the majority...

Two plead not guilty in Kim Jong Nam murder

Two plead not guilty in Kim Jong Nam murder

AP 2017-10-02 12:00:00

Two women accused of fatally poisoning the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler pleaded not guilty as their trial began Monday in Malaysia's High Court, nearly eight months after the brazen a...

Many casualties in Las Vegas shooting

Many casualties in Las Vegas shooting

BBC 2017-10-02 12:00:00

More than twenty people have been killed and at least 100 injured in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert. A gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel toward an open-air musi...

Catalonia votes for secession from Spain

Catalonia votes for secession from Spain

BBC 2017-10-02 10:57:32

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says the Spanish region has won the right to statehood following a contentious referendum that was marred by violence. He said the door had been opened to a unilatera...

WFP seeks $75m for Rohingya food aid

WFP seeks $75m for Rohingya food aid

Reuters 2017-10-02 10:21:56

The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar. Since...

Las Vegas shooting: IS claims responsibility

Las Vegas shooting: IS claims responsibility

-- 2017-10-02 09:11:26

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in American history. A statement published by the group's Amaq propaganda agency claimed th...

90pc Catalans voted in favour of independence

90pc Catalans voted in favour of independence

-- 2017-10-02 06:09:33

Spain is facing a political and constitutional crisis after Catalans voted in favour of independence in a contested referendum that descended into chaos when police launched a widespread and violent c...

'Biological clock' scientists win Nobel Medicine Prize

'Biological clock' scientists win Nobel Medicine Prize

-- 2017-10-02 05:16:09

US-born scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks....

US directly communicating with DPRK

US directly communicating with DPRK

-- 2017-10-01 12:00:00

The United States has said it is directly communicating with Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on its nuclear and missile programmes. But Washington also said on Saturday that Pyongy...

Trump blames Puerto Ricans for slow hurricane response

Trump blames Puerto Ricans for slow hurricane response

-- 2017-10-01 12:00:00

US President Donald Trump on Saturday placed blame squarely on Puerto Ricans for the slow recovery from Hurricane Maria after critics and the mayor of San Juan complained his administration’s re...

Two women dead in France knife attack

Two women dead in France knife attack

-- 2017-10-01 12:00:00

French soldiers shot and a killed a man on Sunday after he stabbed to death two women at Marseille's main train station, the French interior ministry said, in what police sources called a "likely terr...

Israel pushing region to war: Hezbollah

Israel pushing region to war: Hezbollah

-- 2017-10-01 10:19:41

Lebanon's Hezbollah accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Sunday of pushing the region to war in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and said nowhere in Israel would be safe...

Condé Nast chairman Newhouse passes away

Condé Nast chairman Newhouse passes away

-- 2017-10-01 10:10:47

S.I. Newhouse, the Condé Nast chairman who presided over the magazine world’s glossiest publications and most talked-about editors for more than 40 years, died Sunday. He was 89. Newhous...

Egypt's Hasm militants claim Myanmar embassy attack

Egypt's Hasm militants claim Myanmar embassy attack

-- 2017-10-01 09:24:45

Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for an explosion at Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country’s military crackdown on Rohingya...

Rahul may take over as Congress chief: Sachin Pilot

Rahul may take over as Congress chief: Sachin Pilot

-- 2017-10-01 09:04:28

Rahul Gandhi may take over as the Congress president shortly after Diwali, Rajasthan leader Sachin Pilot said on Sunday, stressing that the time had come for the party vice president to lead from the...

Ant-Brexit activists protest Tory austerity policies

Ant-Brexit activists protest Tory austerity policies

-- 2017-10-01 06:10:14

Anti-Brexit campaigners and activists protesting the government’s austerity policies are holding rallies in Manchester city centre to coincide with the start of the Conservative Party conference...

Catalan independence referendum in chaos

Catalan independence referendum in chaos

-- 2017-10-01 05:51:33

Catalonia's disputed independence referendum rapidly descended into chaos on Sunday as Spanish national police raided polling stations and clashed with voters. Barcelona's deputy mayor said police fi...

Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown

Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown

-- 2017-10-01 03:58:56

Catalonia’s independence referendum has begun in chaotic fashion, with clashes taking place as police attempt to prevent the vote from taking place, according to BBC. The Spanish government has...

Trump to visit Asia in November

Trump to visit Asia in November

-- 2017-09-30 12:00:00

US president Donald Trump will travel to Asia in November for the first time since becoming president, stopping in Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines on a trip expected to be domin...

IS posts 'Baghdadi audio' issuing resistance call

IS posts 'Baghdadi audio' issuing resistance call

-- 2017-09-30 12:00:00

ISIL has released an unverified audio recording that it said was by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who called on the armed group's followers to "resist the infidels". The date of the 46-minute reco...

Oxford college removes Suu Kyi's portrait

Oxford college removes Suu Kyi's portrait

BBC 2017-09-30 12:00:00

A portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi has been removed by Oxford University, where she was previously awarded an honorary degree, amid criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis. Violence in Myanmar h...

US health secretary resigns after private plane scandal

US health secretary resigns after private plane scandal

Reuters 2017-09-30 09:54:47

US Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump on Friday in an uproar over Price's use of costly private charter planes for government business....

Congo military cargo plane crashes

Congo military cargo plane crashes

-- 2017-09-30 07:41:01

A military cargo plane crashed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing the crew, the director of the city’s main airport said. It was unclear how many crew...

Egypt's population stands at nearly 95 million

Egypt's population stands at nearly 95 million

-- 2017-09-30 07:00:21

Egypt said Saturday its population stands at nearly 95 million, in addition to an estimated 9.4 million who live abroad, according to the latest census figures, reports AP. The figures were announced...

UN failures on Rohingyas revealed

UN failures on Rohingyas revealed

-- 2017-09-29 12:00:00

The UN leadership in Myanmar tried to stop the Rohingya rights issue being raised with the government, sources in the UN and aid community told the BBC. One former UN official said the head of the UN...

UN chief warns of 'humanitarian nightmare'

UN chief warns of 'humanitarian nightmare'

BBC 2017-09-29 12:00:00

Violence in Myanmar has spiralled into the "the world's fastest-developing refugee emergency" and a "humanitarian nightmare", the UN chief has warned. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Mya...

Punish Myanmar, US tells UN

Punish Myanmar, US tells UN

-- 2017-09-29 12:00:00

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accoun...

Mumbai stampede kills 22

Mumbai stampede kills 22

BBC 2017-09-29 12:00:00

A stampede at a Mumbai railway station has left 22 people dead and injured about 30, Indian officials say. The incident at Elphinstone station, which connects two of the city's major local lines, was...

Melania fires back at librarian who rejected gift of ‘racist’ Dr. Seuss books

Melania fires back at librarian who rejected gift of ‘racist’ Dr. Seuss books

-- 2017-09-29 09:03:38

First lady Melania Trump fired back Friday at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian who rejected her donation of Dr. Seuss books, claiming their illustrations are examples of “racist propa...

Rohingya crisis: Myanmar govt to take over burned land

Rohingya crisis: Myanmar govt to take over burned land

Reuters 2017-09-28 12:00:00

Myanmar's government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, a minister was repor...