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Police reunite Australian man with his lost pet rat

Police reunite Australian man with his lost pet rat

-- 2019-04-21 20:52:08

A homeless man in Sydney, Australia, has been reunited with his pet rat which disappeared earlier this month. Chris, 59, is a well-known figure in downtown Sydney where the rat, called Lucy, is usual...

S Arabia, UAE grant $3b of support to Sudan

S Arabia, UAE grant $3b of support to Sudan

-- 2019-04-21 19:54:30

DUBAI (Reuters): Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have granted Sudan $3 billion in support, Saudi state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The grant includes a $500 million deposit into Sudan...

Indian Lok Sabha phase 3 polls on Apr 23

Indian Lok Sabha phase 3 polls on Apr 23

-- 2019-04-21 19:13:32

New Delhi: Sunday was the last day of election campaigning for Phase 3 of the 2019 Indian Lok Sabha elections and respective Assembly polls, report agencies. The campaigning for the April 23 polls...

Death toll from Sri Lanka explosions crosses 200

Death toll from Sri Lanka explosions crosses 200

-- 2019-04-21 18:31:41

At least 207 people, including 35 foreigners, have been killed and 400 hurt in a series of explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negom...

More than 190 dead in series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

More than 190 dead in series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

-- 2019-04-21 18:13:12

At least 190 people, including 27 foreigners, were killed and hundreds more injured in eight explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Authorities in Sri Lanka have launched a...

Four die in 'foiled' attack on Saudi police station

Four die in 'foiled' attack on Saudi police station

-- 2019-04-21 17:31:20

Four people died as an attack on a police station in Saudi Arabia’s central Riyadh province was foiled, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, citing its own sources. The four casual...

India’s Chief Justice accused of aexual harassment

India’s Chief Justice accused of aexual harassment

-- 2019-04-21 16:04:09

NEW DELHI, Apr 21: The chief justice of India’s Supreme Court has been accused of sexually harassing a female assistant, and a special panel of judges called an emergency meeting on Saturday to...

Another explosion near Sri Lanka national zoo

Another explosion near Sri Lanka national zoo

-- 2019-04-21 15:20:05

Sri Lankan police on Sunday reported there had been a seventh explosion, the fourth at a hotel, following six reported at hotels and churches earlier in the day that killed nearly 140 people. The lat...

138 dead as serial blasts hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

138 dead as serial blasts hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

-- 2019-04-21 10:56:29

Easter Day bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed 138 people and wounded more than 400, hospital and police officials said, following a lull in major attacks since the...

Seven killed at Afghan ministry of information

Seven killed at Afghan ministry of information

-- 2019-04-20 21:32:36

Seven people were killed in an attack on the Afghan ministry of information in Kabul, officials said. An explosion was heard at 11:40 local time (07:10 GMT) and sporadic gunfire continued for over si...

Blast, gunfire rock Afghan capital: Police

Blast, gunfire rock Afghan capital: Police

-- 2019-04-20 14:38:50

An explosion followed by gunfire hit the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, close to the communications ministry and one of the city’s main hotels, officials said. The blast follow...

Belt and Road project not geopolitical tool: China

Belt and Road project not geopolitical tool: China

-- 2019-04-19 22:14:34

China’s Belt and Road project is not a “geopolitical tool” or a debt crisis for participating nations, but Beijing welcomes constructive suggestions on how to address concerns over t...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan reshuffles cabinet

Pakistan PM Imran Khan reshuffles cabinet

-- 2019-04-19 14:40:07

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan made a sweeping cabinet reshuffle on Thursday after only seven months in power and appointed Abdul Hafeez Shaikh as de facto finance minister to steer the country...

Widodo declares victory in Indonesian presidential race

Widodo declares victory in Indonesian presidential race

-- 2019-04-18 22:14:44

Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared victory on Thursday in the race to lead the world's third-largest democracy, saying unofficial results showed his ticket had got 54 per cent of the popular vo...

India's major parties field few women in race to parliament

India's major parties field few women in race to parliament

-- 2019-04-18 20:16:20

Women running for India’s parliament are barely a blip in the world’s biggest democratic exercise, which began last week and will play out in seven rounds, with results expected on May 23....

Magnitude 6.1 quake rocks Taiwan

Magnitude 6.1 quake rocks Taiwan

-- 2019-04-18 15:13:09

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s coastal city of Hualien on Thursday, shaking buildings and temporarily halting subway services in the capital Taipei, but there were no immediate repor...

Gunmen kill 14 passengers after hijacking bus in Pakistan

Gunmen kill 14 passengers after hijacking bus in Pakistan

-- 2019-04-18 12:42:23

Gunmen killed 14 people after hijacking a passenger bus in southwestern Pakistan, local media said on Thursday. Local TV channels said the passenger bus from Karachi to Gawadar had been missing since...

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern on Time's list of 100 most influential people

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern on Time's list of 100 most influential people

FE Online Desk 2019-04-18 12:31:01

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was acclaimed for her compassionate handling of the aftermath of a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, has been named among the '100 Most In...

Voting begins in India's second phase of general election

Voting begins in India's second phase of general election

-- 2019-04-18 11:02:56

Voters across swathes of southern India began queuing up early on Thursday in the second phase of a mammoth, staggered general election in which opposition parties are trying to stop Prime Minister Na...

N Korea test-fires new weapon with 'powerful warhead'

N Korea test-fires new weapon with 'powerful warhead'

-- 2019-04-18 10:25:11

North Korea says it has test-fired a new "tactical guided weapon" with a "powerful warhead", the first such test since talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un ended without agreement. State medi...

Thunderstorm across Indian states kills 60: State radio

Thunderstorm across Indian states kills 60: State radio

-- 2019-04-18 10:15:57

At least 60 people were killed in lightning strikes and by collapsing houses during a thunderstorm across northern and western India, state radio reported on Thursday quoting provincial officials. In...

Myanmar releases 9,000 prisoners under New Year amnesty

Myanmar releases 9,000 prisoners under New Year amnesty

-- 2019-04-17 18:45:32

Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners from jails on Wednesday, after the president announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year. President Win Myint said 9,353 prison...

Indonesia President Widodo leads presidential race

Indonesia President Widodo leads presidential race

-- 2019-04-17 18:25:30

Indonesia's president looks to be on course for re-election, according to unofficial results released within hours of polls closing. Joko Widodo is about 10 percentage points ahead of his rival, ex-g...

South Korean man sets flat afire, kills five fleeing blaze: Police

South Korean man sets flat afire, kills five fleeing blaze: Police

-- 2019-04-17 12:17:57

South Korean police arrested a 42-year-old man on Wednesday after he set his apartment on fire then stabbed to death five people who tried to flee from the blaze, police said. The man set fire to his...

Fire broke out in Al-Aqsa mosque

Fire broke out in Al-Aqsa mosque

-- 2019-04-16 22:50:17

A small fire broke out at a guard's booth in the courtyard at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem but was extinguished and the site remains open, authorities said Tuesday. The blaze b...

Bahrain jails 139 on terrorism charges

Bahrain jails 139 on terrorism charges

-- 2019-04-16 18:20:31

A court in Western-allied Bahrain sentenced 139 people to jail on terrorism charges on Tuesday and revoked the citizenship of all but one of them, the public prosecutor said, in the latest mass trial...

India EC bans BJP leader from election campaign

India EC bans BJP leader from election campaign

-- 2019-04-16 16:28:49

India’s election commission on Monday banned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning for three days after anti-Muslim comments in an election that will end next month. The...

Taiwan hasn’t been intimidated by China drills: President Tsai

Taiwan hasn’t been intimidated by China drills: President Tsai

-- 2019-04-16 14:31:40

Taiwan has not been intimidated by China’s military drills this week, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, after the latest Chinese maneuvers were denounced by a senior US official as “...

Ardern's rating  rises to highest

Ardern's rating rises to highest

-- 2019-04-15 22:36:17

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised at home and abroad for her handling of the Christchurch mosques shooting last month, received her highest approval rating since taking offi...

South Korean president calls for 4th summit with Kim Jong Un

South Korean president calls for 4th summit with Kim Jong Un

-- 2019-04-15 19:56:49

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday he’s ready for a fourth summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to help salvage faltering nuclear negotiations between the North and the United...