-- 2020-01-09 15:22:07
At least 19 people were killed and 24 others injured as a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in north of Iran on Thursday, official IRNA news agency reported. The accident happened on Firouz Kooh mo...
Reuters 2020-01-09 14:44:46
Three policemen were among at least four people killed in Vietnam on Thursday when protesters attacked soldiers building a wall near a military airport, the Ministry of Public Security said. The prot...
Reuters 2020-01-09 11:36:30
Australian authorities issued new warnings and evacuation notices across the country’s heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening severa...
Xinhua 2020-01-08 19:53:44
More than 40 million tourists from home and abroad visited southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region in 2019, up 19 per cent year on year, according to local authorities. In 2019, tourism revenue rose...
-- 2020-01-08 16:47:53
Japan has the most powerful passport in the world, according to a new index, reports The Inpedendent. The country has scored the number one position in the ranking for the third year in a row....
Reuters 2020-01-08 12:10:32
Iranian state television said on Wednesday that at least 80 “American terrorists” were killed in attacks involving 15 missiles Tehran launched on US targets in Iraq, adding that none of th...
Reuters 2020-01-08 10:35:45
Iran launched a missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday in retaliation for the US drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing has raised fears of a wider war in...
-- 2020-01-07 18:27:36
An Indian court has set an execution date for four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student in Delhi. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to de...
-- 2020-01-07 17:38:38
Almost 2,000 houses have been destroyed in Australia's months-long bushfire crisis, officials say, as crews prepare frantically for worsening conditions. After ferocious conditions last week, firefig...
Xinhua 2020-01-07 16:26:47
New Zealand firefighters have finally managed to contain a large forest fire that broke out on Monday and has burned through more than 300 hectares of the North Island forest in the north of Napier....
-- 2020-01-07 16:25:16
At least 35 people were killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for Iran's top commander Qassem Soleimani killed in a recent US air strike. Another 4...
-- 2020-01-06 21:12:35
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has unveiled multiple-entry five-year visa system for tourists for the first time. The country took the decision in the first meeting of its cabinet of the year on Mond...
AP 2020-01-06 16:51:52
Weeping amid wails from a crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a US airst...
-- 2020-01-06 14:11:53
Delhi police are investigating how masked men burst into a premier university and attacked a student protest with sticks and rods, an officer said on Monday, the latest incident to ignite criticism of...
REUTERS 2020-01-06 12:56:01
Japan on Monday said it could still press Lebanon to extradite Carlos Ghosn, after the former Nissan Motor boss skipped bail to become a fugitive in a country that normally does not extradite its nati...
-- 2020-01-06 11:37:45
As Australia’s deadly bushfires rage, many companies are reporting hits to business with resorts shutting their doors, cheesemakers struggling to secure milk supplies and insurance claims on the...
REUTERS 2020-01-06 10:29:56
Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would continue to cooperate...
-- 2020-01-05 21:41:54
Iraqi MPs have passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country after the US killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad airport last week. Parliament i...
Reuters 2020-01-05 20:17:06
Iran will finalise its next step to further roll back its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers on Sunday night, days after the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Solei...
Xinhua 2020-01-05 16:10:18
The heavy smoke from devastating Australian bushfires cloaked Auckland, turning the city's skyline into eerie orange colour on Sunday afternoon. New Zealand meteorology service MetService forecast th...
Reuters 2020-01-05 16:09:37
Iraq’s parliament is set to convene an extraordinary session on Sunday where the lawmakers would push for a vote on a resolution requiring the government to request the withdrawal of US troops f...
-- 2020-01-05 15:01:11
China is to set up a batch of demonstration zones for the protection and use of cultural heritage resources, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA). The areas should have s...
-- 2020-01-05 13:53:22
A fundraiser for fire services in New South Wales, Australia has raised more than A$20 million (£10.6m; $13m) in just 48 hours, as the state battles a bushfire crisis. Australian comedian Celes...
-- 2020-01-05 13:11:18
Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble, officials said on Sunday. Officials said rescue op...
REUTERS 2020-01-05 12:03:17
Over one hundred thousand protesters, many carrying the Indian tricolour flag, took part in a peaceful march in the southern city of Hyderabad on Saturday, chanting slogans against prime minister Nare...
Reuters 2020-01-04 17:47:20
Nearly 175,000 people remain displaced in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby towns, after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people, amid some of the heaviest rain since records...
Xinhua 2020-01-04 17:13:15
The US-led coalition, fighting the Islamic State (IS) militant group, and the Iraqi military on Saturday denied any airstrike north of Baghdad. "The coalition did not conduct airstrikes near Camp Taj...
Reuters 2020-01-04 16:43:18
Thousands of mourners gathered in Baghdad on Saturday ahead of a funeral procession for Iran’s slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others ki...
REUTERS 2020-01-04 15:07:02
US citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were leaving the country on Friday, the Oil Ministry said, after a US air strike killed a top Iranian commander in...
Reuters 2020-01-04 11:54:08
Air strikes targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi’ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded thr...
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