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Facebook limiting false stories for India election

Facebook limiting false stories for India election

-- 2019-03-26 20:56:09

  NEW DELHI: Facebook says it is preparing for Indian elections by working to limit false stories, videos and photos on its platform. It says it is tying up with fact checkers and media organiz...

US chief justice rejects bid to block 'bump stocks' gun ban

US chief justice rejects bid to block 'bump stocks' gun ban

-- 2019-03-26 20:00:32

  WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (Reuters): U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday rejected a bid by gun rights activists to put on hold President Donald Trump’s administration’s ban on &l...

Gulf states reject US recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli

Gulf states reject US recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli

-- 2019-03-26 18:42:23

  DUBAI: Four Gulf Arab states on Tuesday rejected a U.S. decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, with Riyadh warning the move would hurt the peace process and a...

$1.0b of funding shifted to border wall: Pentagon chief

$1.0b of funding shifted to border wall: Pentagon chief

-- 2019-03-26 18:32:48

The US Department of Defence shifted $1.0 billion to plan and build a 57-mile section of “pedestrian fencing”, roads and lighting along the border between the United States and Mexico, the...

UK's May to meet her lawmakers as resignation talk swirls

UK's May to meet her lawmakers as resignation talk swirls

-- 2019-03-26 18:30:09

  LONDON:- British Prime Minister Theresa May will address her Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday, possibly to announce a resignation date in a last throw of the dice to win support for her twi...

Brexit options 'narrowing', says UK health secretary

Brexit options 'narrowing', says UK health secretary

-- 2019-03-26 17:32:28

The options for Brexit "are narrowing", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, after MPs voted to seize control of the parliamentary timetable, reports BBC. The PM was dealt a fresh blow as the go...

Virus attacks Spain’s defence intranet

Virus attacks Spain’s defence intranet

-- 2019-03-26 17:07:34

A computer virus infected the Spanish Defence Ministry’s intranet this month with the aim of stealing high tech military secrets, El País newspaper said on Tuesday, citing sources leading...

US-Mexico border wall: Pentagon authorises $1bn transfer

US-Mexico border wall: Pentagon authorises $1bn transfer

-- 2019-03-26 16:56:26

  The Pentagon has authorised the transfer of $1bn (£758m) to army engineers for new wall construction along the US-Mexico border, reports BBC. The funds are the first under the national...

Pakistan's former PM Sharif gets bail

Pakistan's former PM Sharif gets bail

-- 2019-03-26 16:09:24

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to release former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on bail for six weeks to receive medical treatment but said he would not be allowed to leave t...

Thai election campaign 'heavily tilted' to benefit junta: Monitor

Thai election campaign 'heavily tilted' to benefit junta: Monitor

-- 2019-03-26 15:49:35

BANGKOK, Mar 26 (Reuters) : The run-up to Thailand’s weekend vote was “heavily tilted” to benefit a party close to the ruling military junta, an Asian election monitor said on Tuesda...

Around 1.85m people affected by cyclone in Mozambique: UN

Around 1.85m people affected by cyclone in Mozambique: UN

-- 2019-03-26 15:45:18

About 1.85 million people have now been affected by Cyclone Idai and its aftermath in Mozambique alone, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday, as aid workers raced to fathom the scale of the dis...

Myanmar's top court to hear Reuters reporters' appeal in official secrets case

Myanmar's top court to hear Reuters reporters' appeal in official secrets case

-- 2019-03-26 15:35:51

Myanmar’s Supreme Court was scheduled on Tuesday to hear the appeal of two Reuters journalists imprisoned for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, in a case that has raised questions ab...

Facebook removes more accounts citing ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’

Facebook removes more accounts citing ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’

-- 2019-03-26 14:52:51

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it has removed more accounts from Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo, citing what it described as “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” A total of 2,632 pages,...

Four dead as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey

Four dead as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey

-- 2019-03-26 14:25:09

Four people, including a baby, died early on Tuesday morning when a dinghy carrying migrants sank off the northwestern coast of Ayvacik in Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said, according Reuters. A s...

Trump formally recognises Golan Heights as Israeli land

Trump formally recognises Golan Heights as Israeli land

Reuters 2019-03-26 11:20:45

US President Donald Trump on Monday recognised Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting a sharp respon...

British lawmakers vote to seize control of Brexit for a day

British lawmakers vote to seize control of Brexit for a day

-- 2019-03-26 10:25:17

British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divor...

“Largest minimum income scheme if Congress wins election”

“Largest minimum income scheme if Congress wins election”

-- 2019-03-25 18:41:45

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to create "the world's largest minimum income scheme" if his party wins election. He said the Congress Party would guarantee an income for 50 million...

Netanyahu to cut US visit short after Tel Aviv rocket attack

Netanyahu to cut US visit short after Tel Aviv rocket attack

-- 2019-03-25 14:23:13

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he will cut short his trip to the United States after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesma...

Russian military planes land in Venezuela

Russian military planes land in Venezuela

-- 2019-03-25 12:47:15

Two Russian military planes landed in Venezuela's main airport on Saturday (local time), reportedly carrying dozens of troops and large amounts of equipment. The planes were sent to "fulfil technical...

Brexit up in the air as May pushes divorce deal for third time

Brexit up in the air as May pushes divorce deal for third time

-- 2019-03-25 11:36:02

British Prime Minister Theresa May held crisis talks with senior colleagues and hardline Brexiteers on Sunday trying to breathe life into her twice-defeated European divorce deal after reports her cab...

Mali president disbands vigilante group after Fulani massacre

Mali president disbands vigilante group after Fulani massacre

-- 2019-03-25 11:27:49

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita sacked and replaced two generals and disbanded an anti-jihadi vigilante group on Sunday, a day after gunmen massacred 134 Fulani herders in the country&rs...

Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

-- 2019-03-25 11:03:19

A caravan of some 1,200 migrants from Central America and Cuba began moving towards the US border from southern Mexico this weekend, migration authorities said on Sunday. The National Migration Insti...

New Zealand PM says will travel to China to meet Xi

New Zealand PM says will travel to China to meet Xi

-- 2019-03-25 10:51:47

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she will travel to China at the end of the week for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, amid concerns of strained relations be...

Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy

Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy

-- 2019-03-25 10:02:36

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s election team and Russia in the 2016 election but left unresolved the question of whether Trump...

NZ launches royal commission inquiry into mosque attacks

NZ launches royal commission inquiry into mosque attacks

Reuters 2019-03-25 09:51:33

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday a royal commission inquiry into the events leading up to a March 15 attack on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people, including...

May faces pressure to quit

May faces pressure to quit

-- 2019-03-24 22:07:40

Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing pressure from within her own party either to resign or to set a date for stepping down as a way to build support for her Brexit agreement with the European Uni...

Hundreds airlifted from Norway cruise ship

Hundreds airlifted from Norway cruise ship

-- 2019-03-24 17:42:37

Rescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off the west coast of Norway. The Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal after it began drifting towards...

Death toll from Mozambique cyclone reaches 446

Death toll from Mozambique cyclone reaches 446

-- 2019-03-24 16:38:27

Mozambique has recorded more deaths from a cyclone and floods around southern Africa, a government minister said on Sunday, with hundreds left in camps after homes were destroyed. Cyclone Idai lashed...

Thousands join New Zealand vigil

Thousands join New Zealand vigil

-- 2019-03-24 16:28:54

Thousands gathered in New Zealand’s cities on Sunday to protest racism and remember the 50 Muslims killed by a gunman in Christchurch and as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a national re...

Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Colombia

Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Colombia

-- 2019-03-24 14:40:37

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Colombia in the Andes on Saturday (local time) but it was deep, the US Geological Survey has said. The quake struck 32 miles (51.5 km) northwest of the city...