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Floods hit part of Australia’s Queensland; more rain expected

Floods hit part of Australia’s Queensland; more rain expected

-- 2019-02-02 10:28:44

Once-in-a-century flooding in part of the eastern Australian state of Queensland looks set to worsen as the nation’s weather bureau on Saturday warned of more heavy rain in the area. Some resid...

N Korea pledges to destroy all its nuclear facilities

N Korea pledges to destroy all its nuclear facilities

-- 2019-02-01 21:59:38

North Korea has pledged to destroy all its nuclear material enrichment facilities, according to the US special envoy for the country, Stephen Biegun, reports BBC. He said the promise had been made to...

Ayatollah Khomeini’s family members mostly absent from Iran politics

Ayatollah Khomeini’s family members mostly absent from Iran politics

-- 2019-02-01 20:57:59

His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever changed the natio...

Jailed Reuters journalists appeal to Myanmar's top court

Jailed Reuters journalists appeal to Myanmar's top court

-- 2019-02-01 17:23:44

Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday against their conviction, as a rights group said the govern...

Two pilots die as fighter jet crashes in Bengaluru

Two pilots die as fighter jet crashes in Bengaluru

-- 2019-02-01 16:46:13

Two Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots were killed on Friday after a Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft on a test sortie crashed at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru. An enquiry in...

China punishes 3,000 in organised crime crackdown

China punishes 3,000 in organised crime crackdown

Reuters 2019-02-01 14:21:38

China has punished 3,021 people in a crackdown on organised crime and the local “protective umbrellas” that allow it to operate, Xinhua reported on Friday, citing a government anti-crime t...

Mongolian parliament elects new speaker

Mongolian parliament elects new speaker

-- 2019-02-01 14:13:42

The Mongolian parliament on Friday elected Gombojav Zandanshatar as its new speaker through a vote of 95.2 per cent in the country's 76-seat parliament. The former head of the cabinet secretariat rep...

Reuters journalists in Myanmar appeal to  top court against conviction

Reuters journalists in Myanmar appeal to top court against conviction

-- 2019-02-01 13:54:47

Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal on Friday at the Supreme Court against their conviction on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. The appea...

Saudi Arabia ends major anti-corruption campaign

Saudi Arabia ends major anti-corruption campaign

-- 2019-01-31 13:13:52

Saudi Arabia has ended a sweeping crackdown on corruption ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that it said had recovered more than $106 billion through settlements with scores of senior prince...

'Pakistan a safe haven for cross-border militant activities'

'Pakistan a safe haven for cross-border militant activities'

-- 2019-01-30 21:02:49

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday the 'keys to war are in Islamabad, Quetta, Rawalpindi', accusing Pakistan of being a safe haven for cross-border militant activities. He was speaking a...

Top Pakistan court upholds blasphemy acquittal Asia Bibi

Top Pakistan court upholds blasphemy acquittal Asia Bibi

-- 2019-01-30 19:46:51

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, dismissing a petition filed by Islamists...

Mongolia ousts parliamentary speaker amid graft scandal

Mongolia ousts parliamentary speaker amid graft scandal

-- 2019-01-30 13:50:27

Mongolia’s parliamentary speaker, Enkhbold Myegombo, has been ousted following weeks of public protests against him over accusations he was involved in the corrupt sale of government positions....

Grenade attack on Philippines mosque kills two

Grenade attack on Philippines mosque kills two

-- 2019-01-30 10:29:29

A grenade thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines killed two people and wounded four, security officials said on Wednesday, three days after twin bombings at a church on a nearby island kille...

Duterte says church bombing was 'suicide' attack

Duterte says church bombing was 'suicide' attack

-- 2019-01-29 18:29:52

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday twin explosions that killed 20 people in a church on a southern island at the weekend may have been a suicide attack, citing a briefing given to hi...

Palestinian PM, government resign

Palestinian PM, government resign

-- 2019-01-29 17:23:42

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah has tendered his resignation and that of his unity government to President Mahmoud Abbas. The announcement would be a blow to faltering reconciliation eff...

Mahathir seeks China's understanding on scrapped rail project

Mahathir seeks China's understanding on scrapped rail project

-- 2019-01-29 16:35:24

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday asked for China’s understanding over Malaysia’s plan to cancel a $20-billion rail project that spearheads China’s infrastructure push in th...

12 die in India road crash

12 die in India road crash

-- 2019-01-29 15:17:26

Twelve people including an entire family of five were killed and three others were injured in a horrific road accident near Ujjain when an overloaded van collided with a car on Monday midnight. The de...

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

-- 2019-01-29 11:24:01

Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The pla...

US, Taliban agree peace deal draft

US, Taliban agree peace deal draft

-- 2019-01-28 21:17:03

US and Taliban negotiators have agreed on a draft framework for a peace deal seeking to put an end to the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan, Washington's top negotiator has said. US negotiators held si...

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

-- 2019-01-28 12:21:09

A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power. Human Rights Watch said the sentencing made a “mockery” of the Chines...

Indonesia death toll from floods, landslides climbs to 68

Indonesia death toll from floods, landslides climbs to 68

-- 2019-01-27 19:25:25

At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado battered the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in the past week, aut...

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

-- 2019-01-27 15:24:19

At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. Two died an...

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

-- 2019-01-27 13:08:43

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which re...

21 die as twin blasts hit Philippines church

21 die as twin blasts hit Philippines church

-- 2019-01-27 10:55:01

Two bombs tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim extremists are active, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 70 during a Sunday Mass, officia...

US sends warships to Taiwan Strait

US sends warships to Taiwan Strait

-- 2019-01-26 16:14:07

For the first time this year, the United States has sent two warships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, according to the Taiwanese government. The move risks further heightening tensions with Chin...

Thousands take part in Australia Day protests

Thousands take part in Australia Day protests

-- 2019-01-26 14:15:47

Tens of thousands of people rallied across Australia on Saturday calling for the abolition of the Jan 26 national holiday in protests showing a deep division over a festivity intended to celebrate the...

China detains Australian on national security grounds

China detains Australian on national security grounds

-- 2019-01-25 12:23:06

Chinese authorities are holding an Australian writer, who used to be a Chinese citizen, on suspicion of endangering state security, China said on Thursday, and his lawyer said he was suspected of espi...

India navy opens third air base in strategic islands to counter China

India navy opens third air base in strategic islands to counter China

-- 2019-01-24 21:27:25

India's navy opened a third air base in the far-off Andaman and Nicobar islands on Thursday to beef up surveillance of Chinese ships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the nearby Malacca...

Kim appreciates Trump for second summit plans

Kim appreciates Trump for second summit plans

-- 2019-01-24 21:26:23

North Korea's leader has expressed "great satisfaction" after receiving a letter from US President Donald Trump, the North's state media said, reports BBC. The letter was passed to Kim Jong-un by one...

Sultan Abdullah takes throne as king of Malaysia

Sultan Abdullah takes throne as king of Malaysia

-- 2019-01-24 17:11:28

Members of Malaysia's royal families on Thursday elected Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah as the new king, following the unexpected abdication of the previous monarch. Sultan Abdullah, 59, ruler of...