BBC 2017-12-03 12:00:00
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has welcomed an offer of talks by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh whose forces have been fighting against it. A coalition statement said the decision to "take the...
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A South Korean fishing boat capsized off the country’s western coast on Sunday after it collided with a refueling vessel, killing eight people. The boat was carrying two sailors and 20 passenge...
Reuters 2017-12-03 12:00:00
Pope Francis on Saturday held his traditional in-flight press conference en route to Rome saying he had wanted to visit Rohingya camps in Bangladesh. "I would have liked to go. I would have liked to...
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Husbands who attempt "instant divorce" could be sentenced to three years in prison under draft legislation being considered in India. The traditional practice involves a Muslim man saying "talaq" (di...
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About 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is under criminal investigation over allegations of abuse o...
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Cyclone Ockhi barrelled into the Lakshwadeep islands killed around 14 people with many fishermen still feared trapped at sea in southwestern India on Saturday. Authorities including the National Disa...
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The UAE has now become the first Arab nation to win Category B membership of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council, according to Gulf News. The win was the triumphant result of an ele...
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Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. ”The Israeli enemy l...
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United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec 15 to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abu...
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Airlines cancelled more flights departing the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Saturday, citing forecasts of deteriorating flying conditions due to a risk of volcanic ash from the erupting Mount A...
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At least eight people were killed in coastal Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern Indian, following cyclonic storm. Officials said on Friday. Over 100 fishermen are report...
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A skyscraper fire in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin killed 10 and injured five early on Friday, state media reported. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. on the 38th floor of a serviced apart...
BBC 2017-12-01 12:00:00
The half-brother of North Korea's leader was carrying bottles of the antidote to the toxin used when he was killed earlier this year, reports say. Kim Jong-nam died in February at Kuala Lumpur airpor...
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Emperor Akihito will step down on April 30, 2019 - the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in about two centuries. He has spent much of his nearly three decades on Japan’s throne seeking to...
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A strong quake of magnitude 6.0 struck southeastern Iran near the city of Kerman on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.3, was centred 36 miles (58 k...
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Taliban gunmen killing at least nine people and wounding 35, local media reported. The gunmen disguised in burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday. Police and ar...
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Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burquas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said. Police and army troops...
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Israeli security forces demolished Wednesday an illegally-built carpentry workshop in a Jewish outpost in the West Bank, as dozens of settlers were rallying the site to protest the demolition. Army s...
Reuters 2017-11-30 12:00:00
Airlines laid on extra flights to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Thursday to allow thousands of passengers stranded for days by an erupting volcano to fly home as a switch in wind direction...
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At least three people have been killed after a US drone fired missiles along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, local Urdu media reported on Thursday. The attack happened in Pakistani territory of Kurr...
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Storms with heavy rain and winds across the country have left at least four people dead and several fishermen are among 23 people missing, Sri Lanka's government said. The Disaster Management Center...
-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00
Pope Francis called on the people of Myanmar on Wednesday to embrace peace and reconciliation as their country emerges from nearly five decades of military rule. The pope made his appeal at an open-a...
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North Korea has fired its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile and poses a worldwide threat, US Secretary of Defence James Mattis has said. The missile, launched early on Wednesday, landed...
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Fifteen suspected communist rebels were killed and two others wounded in a clash with Philippine army in central Philippines. The military and news reports said on Wednesday. The military said five...
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Victoria on Wednesday became the first state in Australia to allow terminally ill patients to end their life as its legislature passed a euthanasia law. The other states are expected to use as a temp...
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Bali airport will reopen on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said, two days after a volcanic eruption spread ash across the island and forced the airport to close. The airport will reopen at 3:00pm (...
-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00
A tropical cyclone hit Indonesia's main island of Java has triggered severe flooding and landslides that left 19 dead an official said on Wednesday. Landslides claimed 15 lives in east and central Ja...
-- 2017-11-29 03:51:51
Six men died while sleeping apparently due to suffocation inside a huge container in city of New Delhi on Wednesday. "The men working with a caterer slept in a huge container, which also had a coal o...
-- 2017-11-29 02:29:12
Eight Afghan civilians were killed and two others wounded when a militants' landmine struck a vehicle in Kandahar province. A local official said on Wednesday. "The incident occurred along a dusty r...
-- 2017-11-29 01:11:21
Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released more than three weeks after he was detained on allegations of corruption, officials say. Prince Miteb, once seen as a contender to the throne, was fr...
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