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At least 25 people were killed and 63 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi health ministry said on its Facebook page. The attack targeted Aviation Square, a comme...
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The Philippines’ chief volcanologist warned on Monday of a possible hazardous eruption at Mount Mayon “within weeks or even within days”, as magma continued to pile up at the summit...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 11:02:37
Sri Lanka has legally barred women from buying alcohol, a right preserved only to men. A move to grant women to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday. He...
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Eight people were killed and another six wounded in a highway collision in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Monday. The accident happened on Sunday when a coach rear-ended a tru...
BBC 2018-01-15 10:30:15
North and South Korea have begun talks on Pyongyang's plan to send an art troupe to the Winter Olympics taking place next month in the South. North Korea agreed last week to send a delegation to the...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 07:05:29
Myanmar is building a camp to temporarily house 30,000 Rohingya Muslims targeted for repatriation after fleeing violence in Rakhine State. State media of Myanmar reported on Monday as part of Myanmar...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:50:21
India and Israel have hailed the "dawn of a new era" in their relations after signing key deals in defence, agriculture and aviation sectors. The deals were announced after Israeli Prime Minister Ben...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:40:53
Tripura police arrested six Rohingya refugees, all of them minors, , suspecting that they had crossed the border with Bangladesh to enter India. North Tripura district police held them from Dharmana...
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At least five suspected militants have been killed in a gunfight with government troops Monday after they crossed into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed ter...
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Saudi Arabia began screening feature-length animated children’s films this weekend in a makeshift theatre, after a 35-year-old ban on cinemas was lifted in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The...
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A mezzanine ceiling collapsed at the Jakarta stock exchange building (IDX), with reports that at least a dozen people have been injured. Images on social media show pieces of ceiling and broken furni...
Reuters 2018-01-14 11:45:54
Iran said on Saturday it would retaliate against new sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump set an ultimatum to fix “disastrous flaws” in a deal curbing Tehran...
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The Philippines raised the alert at its restive Mayon volcano by one notch early on Sunday, citing signs of rising magma that could lead to hazardous eruptions. Residents were evacuated from two vill...
Reuters 2018-01-14 11:23:35
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Sunday his candidacy for the May 12 parliamentary elections to choose a prime minister. Abadi, a Shi‘ite Muslim who led the country in the four...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 07:00:56
India is planning to raise 15 new battalions to strengthen its defence along its borders, said a senior Union home ministry official. The battalion will be placed along its frontier with Bangladesh,...
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Four Taliban insurgents were killed and one other arrested in an operation in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand overnight, said the command of Special Forces on Sunday. "The operation began...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed on Saturday night for a six-day visit to India to boost trade and solve out differences over a New Delhi decision to cancel a defence deal. A statem...
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About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday. A volcano on the island of K...
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North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level talks at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom on Jan 15. South Korea’s unification minist...
-- 2018-01-14 01:08:24
Famous cricketer turned politician Imran Khan said Saturday that meeting US President Donald Trump would be a “bitter pill” to swallow should he become Pakistan’s prime minister in e...
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At least eight people, including two women have been killed and more than 10 others wounded after a passenger bus fell off a bridge into a pond in the southern Indian state of Karnataka Saturday, poli...
-- 2018-01-13 12:30:41
At least five members of a family have been killed on Saturday after a devastating fire broke out at a house in India's western state of Rajasthan, police said. A police official said, "A massive fir...
-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00
Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi said army admission on Rohingya kiilings was a “positive” step . Suu Kyi also said the country’s military was taking responsibility...
-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00
A boat with 40 school children on board capsized near Dahanu in Maharashtra on Saturday morning. Local media reports say, 32 children have been rescued, while operations are underway to locate the mi...
-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00
China will build an earth system simulating device to strengthen fundamental research. The project, to be built in Beijing's northern suburbs of Huairou and Miyun, is a major national scientific infr...
-- 2018-01-13 11:19:08
Chinese state media say rescuers have recovered the bodies of two crew members of an Iranian oil tanker that's been burning after it collided with a freighter last week in the East China Sea. State b...
-- 2018-01-13 08:47:59
Iran slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to target the head of its judiciary with sanctions, saying the move warrants a "severe" response. The country said the US has "crossed a red line" by...
-- 2018-01-13 07:05:43
North Korea and South Korea have agreed to have working-level talks on January 15 at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom. South Korea's Yonhap news agency c...
-- 2018-01-13 06:12:05
Qatar said on Saturday a second United Arab Emirates military jet had violated its airspace, prompting a new complaint to the United Nations. The plane was travelling from the UAE to Bahrain on Janua...
-- 2018-01-13 04:19:26
At least four people were killed as Indian helicopter, with five employees of a state-owned oil company and two pilots on board, crashed off the coast of Dahanu near Mumbai on Saturday. The helicopte...
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