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North Korea, US spar over nuclear deal

North Korea, US spar over nuclear deal

-- 2018-08-05 10:08:22

North Korea and the United States on Saturday sparred over an agreement reached at a landmark summit in June for the Asian country to end its nuclear program, as Washington called for maintaining sanc...

N Korea finds US nuclear actions 'alarming'

N Korea finds US nuclear actions 'alarming'

-- 2018-08-04 19:32:09

North Korea's foreign minister on Saturday has called US actions "alarming" as tensions over the North's nuclear programme again flared. Ri Yong-ho was responding to comments by the US Secretary of S...

Extremists dread ‘girl with a book’: Malala

Extremists dread ‘girl with a book’: Malala

-- 2018-08-04 17:28:40

Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai on Friday condemned the attack on 12 schools in Gilgit-Baltistan which took place late on Thursday night, reports ANI. She tweeted, "The extremists have shown what...

India granite quarry blast leaves 12 dead

India granite quarry blast leaves 12 dead

AP 2018-08-04 12:28:22

A powerful explosion at a granite quarry in southern India has killed at least 12 workers and injured another four, a government official said. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the top elected official of Andhr...

N Korea has not stopped nuclear programmes: UN report

N Korea has not stopped nuclear programmes: UN report

-- 2018-08-04 10:43:31

North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters. The six-month report by independent exp...

Militants torch 12 schools in Pakistan

Militants torch 12 schools in Pakistan

-- 2018-08-03 22:52:05

Twelve schools - eight girls and four boys schools - were attacked by bombs and set on fire overnight in a northern Pakistani district where Taliban-linked militants opposed to girls’ education...

Assam registration not targeting Muslims: Indian officials

Assam registration not targeting Muslims: Indian officials

-- 2018-08-03 19:47:39

Indian officials leading a charge to identify illegal migrants in the north-eastern state of Assam have said that the process "is not targeting Muslims". Opposition parties have accused the ruling Hi...

Suicide bomb blast kills 25 in Afghan Shia mosque

Suicide bomb blast kills 25 in Afghan Shia mosque

-- 2018-08-03 18:24:07

A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing 25 people and wounding 40, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, bu...

Woman guilty of attempted murder in Sydney axe attack

Woman guilty of attempted murder in Sydney axe attack

-- 2018-08-03 17:06:32

A woman who attacked two people with an axe in an Australian convenience store has been convicted of attempted murder. Evie Amati, 26, carried out the unprovoked attack in Sydney last year. After en...

Assailants burn down 11 schools in Pakistan

Assailants burn down 11 schools in Pakistan

-- 2018-08-03 14:32:02

Assailants in apparently coordinated attacks burnt down 11 schools for boys and girls in Pakistan's north before fleeing, a local police officer and residents say. Police officer Mohammad Bashir says...

India sends extradition request to UK for fugitive billionaire

India sends extradition request to UK for fugitive billionaire

-- 2018-08-03 13:12:43

India has asked Britain to extradite billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, one of the main accused in the $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB). Modi’s whereabouts have been u...

Power outage hits New Zealand parliament, courts

Power outage hits New Zealand parliament, courts

-- 2018-08-03 11:53:05

Parts of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, ground to a halt on Friday after a substation fault cut off power to the nation’s parliament, shut down traffic signals and plunged busines...

Imran Khan invites former Indian cricketers to oath-taking ceremony

Imran Khan invites former Indian cricketers to oath-taking ceremony

-- 2018-08-02 21:44:16

Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former Indian cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11, report...

Imran Khan invites former cricketers to oath ceremony

Imran Khan invites former cricketers to oath ceremony

-- 2018-08-02 17:23:10

Imran Khan, Pakistan's prime minister-to-be, has invited former cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor Aamir Khan to his oath-taking ceremony on August 11. Pakistan Teh...

Militants kill three foreigners in Afghan capital: Police

Militants kill three foreigners in Afghan capital: Police

-- 2018-08-02 14:34:55

Militants killed three foreign nationals working for an international company in the Afghan capital, Kabul, two security officials said on Thursday. “An Indian, a Malaysian and a Macedonian cit...

‘Shoot’ Bangladeshi immigrants: BJP leader

‘Shoot’ Bangladeshi immigrants: BJP leader

-- 2018-08-01 14:28:24

Bangladeshi and other illegal Rohingyas settlers should be shot if they did not return to their countries, an Indian political party leader has said. Telangana Legislative Assembly representing the G...

North Korea working on new missiles, claims US officials

North Korea working on new missiles, claims US officials

-- 2018-07-31 19:05:11

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration and pledges to denuclearise, BBC says citing reports. Unnamed US officials on Tuesd...

North Korea 'working on new missiles'

North Korea 'working on new missiles'

-- 2018-07-31 12:15:12

North Korea appears to be building new ballistic missiles despite recent warming ties with the Trump administration, media reports say. Unnamed US officials told the Washington Post that spy satellit...

10 die as van explodes at Philippine military checkpoint

10 die as van explodes at Philippine military checkpoint

-- 2018-07-31 12:06:43

An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, in what officials said may have been a bombing by militants with ties to th...

Indonesia invites North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Asian Games

Indonesia invites North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Asian Games

-- 2018-07-31 11:41:40

Indonesia has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Jakarta in August following a similar invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, offic...

Tamil Nadu ex-CM Karunanidhi  in hospital

Tamil Nadu ex-CM Karunanidhi in hospital

-- 2018-07-30 21:09:12

Massive crowds have gathered outside a hospital in southern India's Tamil Nadu state where a politician who has served as chief minister (CM) five times was admitted on Saturday, reports Reuters. M...

IS holds women, children as captives in Suweida attack

IS holds women, children as captives in Suweida attack

-- 2018-07-30 20:54:09

Islamic State (IS) militants are holding more than 30 women and children hostage in south-western Syria, a monitor and local media said. They are believed to have been seized in last week's IS attack...

India strips nationality for 4.0m people in Assam

India strips nationality for 4.0m people in Assam

-- 2018-07-30 18:45:15

India has published a list which effectively strips about four million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who...

Sharif's party calls for investigation of election 'rigging'

Sharif's party calls for investigation of election 'rigging'

-- 2018-07-30 11:09:44

Pakistan’s main opposition party has called for a judicial investigation into what it said was rigging at an election this week that it lost. Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or Pak...

Vietnam bus crash kills groom, 12 wedding guests

Vietnam bus crash kills groom, 12 wedding guests

Reuters 2018-07-30 10:38:51

Thirteen people were killed and four injured when a minibus carrying guests on the way to a wedding in central Vietnam collided head-on with a large container truck on Monday, the government said in...

Nawaz Sharif’s health deteriorates, doctors recommend hospitalisation

Nawaz Sharif’s health deteriorates, doctors recommend hospitalisation

-- 2018-07-29 19:31:05

Doctors are concerned about the health of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and have requested prison authorities in Rawalpindi to transfer him to a hospital, a government official s...

Polling concludes in Cambodia in with no main opposition

Polling concludes in Cambodia in with no main opposition

-- 2018-07-29 18:33:36

Polling has now ended in Cambodia in a general election that lacked any serious challengers to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985. Critics had called the vote a sham as the Camb...

Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM before Pakistan's independence day: Party

Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM before Pakistan's independence day: Party

-- 2018-07-29 17:11:37

Imran Khan will be sworn in as Pakistan's new Prime Minister before the country's independence day on August 14, his party has announced as it is trying to reach out to smaller parties and independent...

Israeli Arab MP quits over ‘nation state’ law

Israeli Arab MP quits over ‘nation state’ law

-- 2018-07-29 11:12:43

An Israeli Arab politician has resigned in opposition to a controversial new law which declares Israel to be the nation state of the Jewish people. Zouheir Bahloul, 67, branded parliament "racist" an...

Strong quake strikes Indonesia, killing 12

Strong quake strikes Indonesia, killing 12

-- 2018-07-29 10:09:18

A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 12 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid colla...