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-- 2018-12-26 20:39:41
The subversion trial of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer in what Amnesty International called a ‘sham’ hearing ended on Wednesday without a verdict being announced. Wang Quanzhang,...
-- 2018-12-26 17:30:12
Afghanistan's election commission says the presidential vote scheduled for April will be postponed for several months to allow time to fix technical problems that surfaced during October's parliamenta...
-- 2018-12-26 11:45:01
Indonesian rescuers have used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people. Thick ash clouds continued to s...
-- 2018-12-26 11:37:41
Japan says it is to restart commercial whaling in July in a move that is likely to draw international criticism. It said it would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the body ta...
-- 2018-12-26 11:07:51
A blast at a chemical plant in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region has killed three people and severely injured six, the official Tianshan news website reported on Wednesday. The ex...
-- 2018-12-25 19:19:45
At least two people were killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, a former Islamic State stronghold, the military said. Tal Afar, about 80 km (50 miles)...
Reuters 2018-12-25 10:21:43
Gunmen who raided a government building in the Afghan capital killed at least 28 people - mostly government employees - and wounded more than 20 others in a seven-hour standoff with police that ended...
-- 2018-12-24 20:35:53
Israel is set to hold a general election in April, the ruling coalition said on Monday. The political partners decided to call the poll after failing to resolve a dispute over a draft conscription la...
-- 2018-12-24 19:54:48
The tsunami in Indonesia killed at least 373 people and injured more than 1,400 on the islands of Java and Sumatra, an official said on Monday. “1,459 people are injured, while 128 remain...
-- 2018-12-24 17:27:41
A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on graft charges he says were politically motivated. The court found the three-time prime ministe...
-- 2018-12-24 15:05:19
Rescuers in India say they are hoping for a miracle to save 15 workers trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. The men were trapped 11 days ago when sudden floodin...
-- 2018-12-24 14:00:35
A Myanmar court is on Monday due to hear an argument in the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe...
Reuters 2018-12-24 13:09:27
A Myanmar court is on Monday due to hear an argument in the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe...
Reuters 2018-12-24 09:58:29
The death toll from a tsunami that hit the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra after the Anak Krakatau volcano erupted rose to at least 280 on Monday, officials said, as rescuers using heavy machin...
-- 2018-12-23 12:18:20
Fifteen Myanmar illegal migrant workers have been sent back home by the Thai authorities as the workers' border passes have expired with no other official documents in possession, said the Information...
-- 2018-12-23 09:57:39
More than 220 people have been killed and 843 injured after a tsunami hit coastal towns on Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials and media said on Sunday. Hundreds of homes and other buildings were &ld...
-- 2018-12-22 21:16:36
YANGON, Dec 22 (Xinhua): Myanmar's National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) has pledged to continue to strive towards the participation of eight remaining non-ceasefire signatory ethnic armed o...
-- 2018-12-22 15:21:16
Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption tha...
-- 2018-12-22 13:52:47
A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured, police said. The bus plunged d...
Reuters 2018-12-22 12:54:32
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had s...
-- 2018-12-21 16:43:59
Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya protested to South Korea after a South Korean destroyer locked its targeting radar on an Japanese surveillance plane, he said on Friday. Iwaya, speaking to rep...
-- 2018-12-21 16:13:06
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would probably have to get married again, but did not say to whom. Putin, 66, who jealously protects his privacy and that of his close family, was...
Reuters 2018-12-21 13:55:30
Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back as the Russian economy flound...
Reuters 2018-12-21 11:57:16
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 5,000 of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday, in the latest sign Trump’s patience is thinning with Americ...
-- 2018-12-20 12:48:27
Hundreds of South Koreans have sued the government for compensation over their forced labour at Japanese firms during World War Two, representatives said on Thursday, in a fresh twist to one of severa...
-- 2018-12-19 20:57:13
The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US media are quoting defence officials as saying. One official told CNN that the planning was for a "full" and "rapid" withdrawal. Presiden...
-- 2018-12-19 19:06:23
Nepal's government has stopped eight Italian contractors from leaving the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed water supply project for the capital. Nepalese officia...
-- 2018-12-19 15:07:06
A third Canadian citizen has been detained in China, Canada’s National Post newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing the Canadian foreign ministry. China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hu...
-- 2018-12-19 14:11:01
An Indian television journalist has been detained for criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on social media under laws intended to ensure national security, leading to protests in th...
-- 2018-12-19 11:47:44
Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and link...
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