-- 2018-06-01 16:33:02
At least 21 people were killed and around a dozen others injured due to thunderstorms that hit twin Indian states of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, officials said Friday. According to officials the thunde...
-- 2018-06-01 15:05:53
Malaysia has detained 15 suspected Islamist militants including a teenager and a housewife accused of plotting separate “lone wolf” attacks on places of worship around the capital, Kuala L...
-- 2018-06-01 11:49:38
A senior North Korean official will hand over a letter from the country’s leader Kim Jong Un to US President Donald Trump in a rare visit to the White House on Friday as the two sides try to put...
-- 2018-05-31 19:38:16
Saudi Arabia's crown prince wants to build a mega-city with the latest robotics under his grand plan to reform the kingdom. Civil servant Amer al-Ghamdi has a simpler dream: to buy an affordabl...
-- 2018-05-31 14:32:42
Two new cases of the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus have been confirmed in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where another two people were killed by the virus, a health official said on Thursday...
-- 2018-05-31 11:25:38
The right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss a historic summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol dined with Mr Pompeo after flying in from C...
-- 2018-05-30 18:42:09
An Indian police officer hailed as a hero for protecting a Muslim man from being lynched by a mob has begun receiving death threats, police say. Gagandeep Singh, an officer in the northern state of U...
-- 2018-05-30 18:37:03
More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a US military spokesman said on Wednesday, as fighting continued across t...
-- 2018-05-30 18:29:16
Saudi Arabia has passed a new law to criminalise sexual harassment, state media said Wednesday, less than a month before the conservative kingdom lifts its decades-long ban on women driving. The king...
-- 2018-05-30 17:57:37
A leading fashion designer, who made history at New York Fashion Week by having all her models wear headscarves, has been jailed for 18 years for fraud. Indonesian designer Anniesa Hasibuan and her h...
-- 2018-05-30 14:14:24
The Philippines is prepared to go to war if military personnel are harmed in disputed waters, a top security official said on Wednesday, firing back at criticism the government was going soft on China...
-- 2018-05-30 11:32:16
At least 50 people are reported to have died amid heavy thunder and lightning that battered parts of northern India on Tuesday, officials said. High-speed winds and lighting strikes devastated many v...
-- 2018-05-29 21:34:59
Libya's rival leaders are meeting in Paris to agree on a political roadmap including elections, in an effort to bring order to Libya's chaos, which is feeding Islamic militants, traffics of all kind a...
-- 2018-05-29 14:18:35
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile shield shot down a barrage of mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after sirens sounded in southern Israel, warning residents to find shelter. &nbs...
-- 2018-05-29 14:00:49
At least nine civilians were killed in a night operation by Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar late on Monday, officials said, as fighting continued across Afghanistan. The i...
-- 2018-05-29 13:22:10
One of Kim Jong-un's most senior officials is thought to be travelling to the US, as preparations for a possible historic summit gather pace. South Korean news agency Yonhap said Gen Kim Yong-chol wa...
-- 2018-05-29 12:40:55
A privately funded search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has drawn to a close. US-based company Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to conduct a 90-day survey of a vast area o...
-- 2018-05-29 11:04:18
India said on Monday it abided by sanctions imposed by the United Nations but not those imposed by any other country, such as those announced by the United States against Iran. US President Donald Tr...
-- 2018-05-28 18:03:40
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was discharged from a West Bank hospital on Monday, ending a weeklong stay that drew new attention to the 83-year-old's long history of health problems and his refu...
-- 2018-05-28 15:48:17
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expects a new coalition government to be formed within a month because nobody has an interest in a delay, the newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Monday. Saad a...
-- 2018-05-28 14:27:56
Pakistan has appointed former chief justice Nasir Ul Mulk as interim prime minister until general elections are held on July 25, premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday. “No Pakistani can l...
-- 2018-05-28 13:53:17
Malaysia has made its largest-ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said on Monday, finding nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Myanmar, and arrested six sus...
-- 2018-05-28 11:50:09
Two US Navy warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by China on Sunday, two US officials told Reuters, in a move that drew condemnation from Beijing as President Donald Trump seeks its co...
-- 2018-05-27 20:50:23
A SriLankan Airlines plane with 227 people on board hit a runway light during take-off on Sunday at Cochin Airport in Kerala of India. All passengers on board the Sri Lankan Airlines flight UL-168 ar...
-- 2018-05-27 17:24:36
The India-Bangladesh border in Assam will be sealed by December, state chief minister Sonowal told reporters in Guwahati on Friday. The state will employ technical solutions on the river part of the...
-- 2018-05-27 15:38:04
Israeli tank shelling killed two members of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad and wounded a third in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medical officials said, after weeks of border protests that...
-- 2018-05-27 15:13:45
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck the Fiji region on Sunday, said the US Geological Survey (USGS). The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 15.7...
-- 2018-05-27 11:22:34
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to “complete” denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and to a planned meeting with US President Donald Trump, South Korean Presi...
-- 2018-05-26 19:37:22
Nipah virus claimed one more life in north Kerala on Saturday, taking the death toll to 13 even as state health authorities intensified efforts to detect the primary source of the outbreak. The lates...
-- 2018-05-26 18:02:23
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise meeting on the inter-Korean border on Saturday. The Blue House, the executive office and official residence of t...
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