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Mother Teresa India charity ‘sold 14-day-old baby’

Mother Teresa India charity ‘sold 14-day-old baby’

-- 2018-07-05 19:12:15

A woman working at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby. Two other women employees from the centr...

India mass deaths: CCTV footage supports suicide theory

India mass deaths: CCTV footage supports suicide theory

-- 2018-07-05 15:57:58

India police investigating the deaths of 11 family members found dead in their home in the capital Delhi say they have recovered CCTV footage which supports a theory of mass suicide. The footage show...

More rains threaten Thai cave boys

More rains threaten Thai cave boys

-- 2018-07-05 11:34:56

Rescuers in Thailand were no closer on Thursday to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found this week, pale and weak but oth...

Malaysia suspends major Belt and Road rail project

Malaysia suspends major Belt and Road rail project

-- 2018-07-04 18:39:12

Malaysia has suspended construction of East Coast Railway Link as the country seeks to renegotiate the terms of the deal with China. The project owner of the $20 billion has told its main Chinese con...

China’s HNA Group boss dies from fall in France

China’s HNA Group boss dies from fall in France

-- 2018-07-04 18:31:26

The co-founder and chairman of the giant Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has died in a fall in southern France, his company has confirmed. Wang Jian, 57, "accidentally fell" in Provence, while on a bu...

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

Thai cave boys get dive lessons as rescuers plan for extraction

-- 2018-07-04 13:47:33

Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave and keen to end a harrowing 11...

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

Malaysia’s Najib Razak pleads not guilty to graft charges

-- 2018-07-04 11:49:00

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Wednesday related to a probe into allegations of corruption at state fund 1MDB, less than two months after...

Saudi crown prince appoints former Siemens CEO as advisor

Saudi crown prince appoints former Siemens CEO as advisor

-- 2018-07-03 16:28:55

Klaus Kleinfeld, a former chief executive of industrial conglomerate Siemens and giant aluminum producer Alcoa, has been appointed an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman....

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

Malaysia arrests ex-prime minister Najib Razak

-- 2018-07-03 15:39:57

Malaysian anti-corruption agents arrested former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday following a probe into how money went missing from a state fund he founded almost a decade ago and he was expecte...

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

Australian archbishop faces one-year detention for concealing child abuse

-- 2018-07-03 11:40:01

A Catholic archbishop in Australia has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention for concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, is the most s...

Afghan Sikhs, Hindus grieve  after suicide attack kills 20

Afghan Sikhs, Hindus grieve after suicide attack kills 20

-- 2018-07-02 21:52:00

Grief mixed with anger among Afghanistan's minority Sikh and Hindu community on Monday, reports Agencies. They prepared for funerals of loved ones, including an election candidate, killed in a suicid...

Syrian civil war leaves 270,000 homeless in south-west

Syrian civil war leaves 270,000 homeless in south-west

-- 2018-07-02 18:59:37

At least 270,000 people have fled their homes in south-western Syria since the military launched an assault on rebel-held areas two weeks ago, the UN says. Many of those displaced by the fighting in...

Malaysia freezes 408 bank accounts, summons Najib's stepson

Malaysia freezes 408 bank accounts, summons Najib's stepson

-- 2018-07-02 17:04:37

Malaysia has frozen more than 400 bank accounts as part of a probe into a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB. A task force looking into 1MDB came up with the statement on Monday, reports...

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

Philippine city mayor assassinated during flag-raising event

-- 2018-07-02 14:25:13

A Philippine provincial city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified...

India condemns deadly attack on Hindus, Sikhs in Afghanistan

India condemns deadly attack on Hindus, Sikhs in Afghanistan

-- 2018-07-02 13:50:56

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned a deadly bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed 20 people and wounded 20 others, officials said. “We strongly condemn the terror attacks in Afg...

Kim urges Xi to help end sanctions against N Korea

Kim urges Xi to help end sanctions against N Korea

-- 2018-07-01 22:25:21

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump, reports Agencies. A Japanese n...

Bus plunges into gorge in India killing 48

Bus plunges into gorge in India killing 48

-- 2018-07-01 12:22:00

At least 48 passengers were killed in Indian state Uttarakhand when their bus fell into a gorge on Sunday morning. While 45 of them died on the spot, the critically injured were rushed to the hospital...

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

Two Koreas reopen maritime communication channel

-- 2018-07-01 10:58:03

North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea’s Defence Ministry...

11 of a family found dead in Delhi home

11 of a family found dead in Delhi home

-- 2018-07-01 10:49:49

Bodies of eleven members of a family were found at a house in Delhi's Burari area early on Sunday morning. Ten bodies were found hanging and blindfolded, while a 75-year-old woman's body was found on...

Pakistan back on terror-financing watch list,  strike-off persuasion falls flat

Pakistan back on terror-financing watch list, strike-off persuasion falls flat

-- 2018-06-30 21:21:00

Placed back on a terror financing watch list this week, Pakistan to tighten regulations and follow an action plan to curb money laundering and terror financing. Pakistani officials attending a meetin...

US intelligence believes N Korea ups fuel production for nuclear bombs: NBC

US intelligence believes N Korea ups fuel production for nuclear bombs: NBC

-- 2018-06-30 17:12:30

US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nucle...

Syrian army seize seized more towns in southwest

Syrian army seize seized more towns in southwest

-- 2018-06-30 17:09:55

The Syrian army seized more towns in the southwest on Saturday, as air strikes pounded others that still held out against the rapid offensive. On the other hand, the rebels said they had begun negoti...

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

-- 2018-06-30 15:51:01

Five Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed and another six injured when huge boulders rolled down on their bus following a mudslide triggered by monsoon rains in India’s remote northeast, pol...

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

Malaysia mulls amending human trafficking laws

-- 2018-06-30 12:49:31

Malaysia’s new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the US State Department reported a lack of progress in the c...

Bali airport reopens as volcano rumbles

Bali airport reopens as volcano rumbles

-- 2018-06-30 11:43:40

The airport on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali reopened on Friday after ash from a volcano forced a brief closure and the cancellation of more than 300 flights. Mount Agung in northeastern B...

Malaysia to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia

Malaysia to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-06-29 21:32:06

Malaysia's new government has announced to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia in a bid to keep the country safe from regional conflict. Defence minister of Malaysia Mohammed Sabu made the announce...

Iraq executes 12 terrorists Thursday

Iraq executes 12 terrorists Thursday

-- 2018-06-29 19:00:18

Iraq has executed at least 12 people convicted of terrorism offences. On Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the "immediate application" of death sentences against convicted terror...

Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing five, was undergoing major repairs

Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing five, was undergoing major repairs

-- 2018-06-29 18:23:55

A small plane that crashed into a construction site in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier...

Ash from Bali volcano shuts airport

Ash from Bali volcano shuts airport

-- 2018-06-29 13:20:54

Ash from a volcanic eruption on the Indonesian resort island of Bali forced the closure of its international airport and cancellation of hundreds of flights on Friday, while villagers living beneath...

Pakistan-based armed groups recruit children for suicide attacks: UN

Pakistan-based armed groups recruit children for suicide attacks: UN

-- 2018-06-28 18:06:00

Armed groups in Pakistan continue to recruit children, including those from madrassas, and allegedly use them for suicide attacks, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The annual report of...