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Venezuelan lawmakers seek refuge in embassies

Venezuelan lawmakers seek refuge in embassies

-- 2019-05-10 12:40:18

Two Venezuelan lawmakers sought refuge at foreign embassies in Caracas on Thursday, as the government of President Nicolas Maduro cracked down on allies of opposition leader Juan Guaido who supported...

Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises

Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises

-- 2019-05-10 11:36:49

The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5.0 percentage points to 45 per cent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump...

China has stepped up infiltration efforts: Taiwan president

China has stepped up infiltration efforts: Taiwan president

-- 2019-05-10 11:26:54

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen said on Friday that China has stepped up its efforts to infiltrate and gain influence in Taiwan and she asked national security agencies to counter Beijing’s effort...

US seizes North Korean coal ship

US seizes North Korean coal ship

-- 2019-05-10 11:14:56

The United States has seized a North Korean cargo ship, the Wise Honest, accusing it of violating international sanctions, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The justice department said the s...

Wikileaks: Chelsea Manning freed from jail despite refusing to testify

Wikileaks: Chelsea Manning freed from jail despite refusing to testify

-- 2019-05-10 11:05:04

Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison, despite refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks. Manning, 31, was held for 62 days after a Virginia ju...

Europeans reject Iran 'ultimatums' over nuclear deal

Europeans reject Iran 'ultimatums' over nuclear deal

-- 2019-05-10 10:35:46

European countries said on Thursday they wanted to preserve Iran's nuclear deal and rejected "ultimatums" from Tehran, after Iran relaxed restrictions on its nuclear programme and threatened moves tha...

Thailand’s Maya Bay to remain closed until 2021

Thailand’s Maya Bay to remain closed until 2021

-- 2019-05-10 10:32:18

A Thai bay that was made iconic by its appearance in the film The Beach is to remain closed until 2021. Maya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh, was temporarily closed last year after a sharp rise in...

BBC fires presenter over royal baby tweet

BBC fires presenter over royal baby tweet

-- 2019-05-09 19:32:24

The BBC has fired a British radio presenter who tweeted an image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes below the caption "Royal Baby leaves hospital". Meghan, wife of Prince Harry, gave birth in the ear...

North Korea fires two short-range missiles, South says

North Korea fires two short-range missiles, South says

-- 2019-05-09 17:05:30

North Korea has fired two short-range missiles in its second weapons test in less than a week, the South Korean military says. The missiles fired from the Sino-ri base in the north-west of the countr...

Five die in India clothing warehouse fire

Five die in India clothing warehouse fire

-- 2019-05-09 11:35:10

Five labourers were killed in a fierce fire that broke out at a clothing warehouse at Urali Devachi in Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on early Thursday. They were asleep inside the c...

Deputy of Venezuela's Guaido arrested

Deputy of Venezuela's Guaido arrested

Reuters 2019-05-09 10:27:58

Venezuelan intelligence agents detained opposition leader Juan Guaido’s congressional deputy on Wednesday, using a tow truck to drag his vehicle away with him inside, prompting the US government...

US House panel accuses AG Barr of contempt

US House panel accuses AG Barr of contempt

-- 2019-05-09 09:45:01

A Democratic-led House panel on Wednesday approved a measure to hold US Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to hand over an unredacted copy of the Mueller report on Russian election...

Seven Russian tourists feared dead in Siberia avalanche

Seven Russian tourists feared dead in Siberia avalanche

-- 2019-05-08 14:27:58

Seven Russian tourists on a hiking holiday in Siberia are feared dead after an avalanche on a ridge in the Altai region, the local emergencies ministry said on Wednesday, saying rescue workers were st...

Car slams into kindergarten children in Japan, killing two

Car slams into kindergarten children in Japan, killing two

-- 2019-05-08 14:03:12

A car slammed into a group of 16 mostly kindergarten children who were strolling on a sidewalk in the lakeside city of Otsu in western Japan, leaving two dead, police said Wednesday. The accident occ...

Trump tax returns show he lost over $1b in 10 years

Trump tax returns show he lost over $1b in 10 years

Reuters 2019-05-08 13:21:34

US President Donald Trump’s businesses lost a total of more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, according to the New York Times, which said it obtained printouts from Trump’s official Inter...

Asia Bibi, acquitted of blasphemy, finally leaves Pakistan

Asia Bibi, acquitted of blasphemy, finally leaves Pakistan

-- 2019-05-08 13:15:30

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has left the country, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Her conviction was overturned las...

Pompeo makes surprise Baghdad visit, warns of Iran activity

Pompeo makes surprise Baghdad visit, warns of Iran activity

-- 2019-05-08 12:00:00

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Tuesday and met with Iraq’s prime minister and other top officials to discuss the safety of Americans in Iraq and explai...

Iran pulls out of ‘parts of nuclear deal’

Iran pulls out of ‘parts of nuclear deal’

-- 2019-05-08 11:45:48

Iran has pulled out of "some commitments" under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was abandoned by the US. President Hassan Rouhani informed other major powers still committed to t...

Nine die in blast near Lahore Sufi shrine

Nine die in blast near Lahore Sufi shrine

-- 2019-05-08 11:06:30

At least nine people were killed by a blast targeting a security checkpoint outside a major Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, officials said.  The blast, one day...

One dead, seven wounded in Colorado school shooting

One dead, seven wounded in Colorado school shooting

-- 2019-05-08 10:36:31

Two male students armed with handguns burst into a Denver-area science and technology school in the US state of Colorado and opened fire on Tuesday (local time), killing one classmate and wounding sev...

Sri Lanka not ruling out more ISIS attacks

Sri Lanka not ruling out more ISIS attacks

-- 2019-05-07 21:25:07

Investigators have dismantled a major part of the network linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday, but warned the chance of further ISIS terro...

Two Israelis arrested in global 'dark' Internet probe

Two Israelis arrested in global 'dark' Internet probe

-- 2019-05-07 16:30:00

Two Israelis were arrested on suspicion of setting up a “dark” Internet site that was used to buy weapons, drugs and stolen credit cards, Israeli police said on Tuesday. The suspects, in...

Erdogan backs re-run of Istanbul vote after 'organised corruption'

Erdogan backs re-run of Istanbul vote after 'organised corruption'

-- 2019-05-07 16:27:00

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the decision to re-run Istanbul’s mayoral election was an important step toward strengthening democracy, describing the March vote as marred by &...

33 die as bush fire engulfs four villages in South Sudan

33 die as bush fire engulfs four villages in South Sudan

-- 2019-05-07 14:26:45

A bush fire fanned by gusty winds has gutted four villages in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal region, killing 33 people, the president’s spokesman said, adding the toll was likely to...

US has returned $57m in 1MDB funds, Malaysia says

US has returned $57m in 1MDB funds, Malaysia says

-- 2019-05-07 12:19:50

Malaysia on Tuesday said the US government had returned some $57 million in funds recovered from 1MDB assets in the “first installment” of funds to be repatriated under a US kleptocracy as...

Strong quake hits Papua New Guinea

Strong quake hits Papua New Guinea

-- 2019-05-07 11:09:47

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in the east of Papua New Guinea early on Tuesday local time, according to the US Geological Survey. The epicentre of the strong quake was 127 km (79 miles) below the...

No survivors after jet carrying 13 people crashes in Mexico

No survivors after jet carrying 13 people crashes in Mexico

-- 2019-05-07 11:06:59

A plane crash in a remote mountain region in northern Mexico claimed the lives of all 13 people on board, including a family of five that were flying back from watching a boxing match in Las Vegas, au...

Protester throws egg at Australia PM on election campaign trail

Protester throws egg at Australia PM on election campaign trail

-- 2019-05-07 10:39:44

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been egged by a protester while campaigning ahead of the nation's general election. The egg grazed Mr Morrison's head but did not break, local media said....

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuelan army

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuelan army

-- 2019-05-07 10:21:33

US Vice President Mike Pence is set on Tuesday to offer new incentives to Venezuela’s military to turn against President Nicolas Maduro, responding to an attempted uprising that fizzled out last...

Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar walk free

Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar walk free

-- 2019-05-07 09:48:44

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 da...