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Process underway to hand over Indian pilot

Process underway to hand over Indian pilot

-- 2019-03-01 21:08:43

Captured pilot of Indian Air Force Abhinandan Varthaman is will be handed over to Indian High Commission officials at Pakistan's Wagah border on Friday night two days after he was taken into custody b...

China cancels all flights to and from Pakistan

China cancels all flights to and from Pakistan

-- 2019-03-01 20:29:30

China has cancelled all flights to and from Pakistan and rerouted its international aircraft flying over the Pakistani airspace due to the regional tensions, official media in China reported on Friday...

Pakistan to fully re-open commercial airspace on Monday

Pakistan to fully re-open commercial airspace on Monday

-- 2019-03-01 20:10:39

Pakistan will re-open its airspace for all commercial flights, which were suspended after military tensions with India erupted earlier this week, on Monday. The decision to re-open Pakistani airspac...

Thailand defends cyber security law amid concerns over rights, abuse

Thailand defends cyber security law amid concerns over rights, abuse

-- 2019-03-01 19:42:00

Thailand on Friday defended a controversial cyber security law approved this week, following an outcry from rights groups and internet users over privacy and surveillance concerns. 'Rubber-stamp' par...

Mogadishu hotel attack: battle rages, death toll nears 30

Mogadishu hotel attack: battle rages, death toll nears 30

-- 2019-03-01 17:45:04

Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali special forces battled to dislodge insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemm...

Turkish criticism about Uighur Muslims could hit economic ties: China

Turkish criticism about Uighur Muslims could hit economic ties: China

-- 2019-03-01 17:42:03

A Chinese diplomat to Ankara has warned that Turkey's criticism about Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims would affect mutual trust and understanding negatively and will be reflected in commer...

Australia experiences hottest summer on record

Australia experiences hottest summer on record

-- 2019-03-01 15:23:22

Australia has experienced its hottest summer on record, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. Hundreds of individual heat records were shattered across the country over the past three mont...

Gunfight rages among militants, Somali troops after hotel attack

Gunfight rages among militants, Somali troops after hotel attack

-- 2019-03-01 14:09:07

A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening. Heavy gunf...

India bans Kashmir-based Islamist party amid conflict

India bans Kashmir-based Islamist party amid conflict

-- 2019-03-01 13:09:32

India banned a Kashmir-based Islamist political party called Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) for five years on Thursday, accusing it of supporting militancy in the disputed region that is at the heart of an esc...

Israel PM faces corruption charges

Israel PM faces corruption charges

-- 2019-03-01 10:20:47

Israel’s attorney-general announced on Thursday he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a decision coming just six weeks before a closely contested national...

After attacks, MSF suspends treatment at Congo Ebola centre

After attacks, MSF suspends treatment at Congo Ebola centre

-- 2019-03-01 10:15:56

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended medical activities at the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo after two of its facilities were torched by unidentified assailant...

US offers $1m in hunt for Bin Laden’s son

US offers $1m in hunt for Bin Laden’s son

-- 2019-03-01 09:58:19

The United States is offering a reward of up to $1m (£750,000) for information about the son of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Hamza. Hamza Bin Laden is emerging as a key leader of t...

Pakistan to release Indian pilot Friday as peace gesture

Pakistan to release Indian pilot Friday as peace gesture

-- 2019-02-28 17:34:42

The Indian pilot shot down and captured by Pakistani forces this week will be released on Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said as efforts to cool a crisis between the two nuclear-armed nei...

China says hopes US, North Korea dialogue can continue

China says hopes US, North Korea dialogue can continue

-- 2019-02-28 14:55:18

China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it hopes dialogue and communication between the United States and North Korea can continue. Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular news briefin...

Hopefully India, Pakistan conflict coming to an end: Trump

Hopefully India, Pakistan conflict coming to an end: Trump

-- 2019-02-28 14:14:24

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped the conflict between India and Pakistan will be coming to an end, after the two nuclear powers clashed across a contested border in the disputed Kas...

Canada opposition leader demands Trudeau quit

Canada opposition leader demands Trudeau quit

-- 2019-02-28 13:57:52

The leader of Canada’s main opposition party demanded on Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quit after a former justice minister said government officials inappropriately pressured her...

Vietnam summit ends with no agreement

Vietnam summit ends with no agreement

-- 2019-02-28 13:45:41

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to reach an agreement on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula at their summit in Vietnam on Thursday, the White House said. Ea...

Cross-border firing between India, Pakistan continues

Cross-border firing between India, Pakistan continues

-- 2019-02-28 12:56:18

Pakistani police say troops deployed in the disputed region of Kashmir continued trading fire with India overnight, forcing villagers living near the contested frontier to move to safer places even as...

Thai Airways cancels flights over Pakistan

Thai Airways cancels flights over Pakistan

-- 2019-02-28 12:31:38

Thousands of travellers were left scrambling on Thursday when Thai Airways International cancelled more than a dozen flights to and from Europe after Pakistan closed its airspace amid rising tensions...

UK's Corbyn says Labour will back new Brexit referendum

UK's Corbyn says Labour will back new Brexit referendum

-- 2019-02-28 12:08:53

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will back another EU referendum after his alternative Brexit plan was again defeated in the Commons. But the Labour leader said he will also continue to push for "other avai...

Trump, Kim predict success in high-stakes nuclear summit

Trump, Kim predict success in high-stakes nuclear summit

-- 2019-02-27 22:06:34

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump met in Vietnam on Wednesday for a second summit that the United States hopes will persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons in e...

Pakistan offers dialogue; India expects safe return of its pilot

Pakistan offers dialogue; India expects safe return of its pilot

-- 2019-02-27 21:31:07

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country will be compelled to respond if India violates sovereignty of Pakistan. In his address to nation on Wednesday, Imran Khan also invited India'...

Trump, Kim kick off their second summit

Trump, Kim kick off their second summit

-- 2019-02-27 19:16:14

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi on Wednesday for their second summit, with the US president rejecting any suggestion he was walking back on US demands for No...

Train crash in Egypt leaves 25 dead

Train crash in Egypt leaves 25 dead

-- 2019-02-27 18:21:57

At least 25 people were killed when a speedy train smashed into a barrier at a train station in Egypt's capital on Wednesday, triggering an explosion and a fire. Railway officials said the train was...

Nepal's tourism minister, six others die in helicopter crash

Nepal's tourism minister, six others die in helicopter crash

-- 2019-02-27 17:11:39

Nepal's tourism minister Rabindra Adhikari and six others have died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday. Pratap Babu Tiwari, the spokesperson for Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, confirmed that all...

Wildfires sweep across Britain

Wildfires sweep across Britain

-- 2019-02-27 15:12:03

Firefighters battled a series of wildfires in Britain on Wednesday, including a large moorland blaze outside the northern English city of Manchester, as the country experienced its warmest winter weat...

Pakistan says it shoots down two Indian jets, captures pilot

Pakistan says it shoots down two Indian jets, captures pilot

-- 2019-02-27 13:58:17

Pakistan shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting l...

India says doesn’t want ‘further escalation’

India says doesn’t want ‘further escalation’

-- 2019-02-27 12:47:31

India says it does not wish to see a further escalation of the situation with Pakistan and will continue to act with responsibility and restraint. The statement came shortly after Pakistani police sa...

India, Pakistan trade fire along Kashmir border

India, Pakistan trade fire along Kashmir border

Reuters 2019-02-27 12:38:44

India and Pakistan exchanged fire along their contested border in Kashmir on Wednesday, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, while leading powers...

Nigeria's Buhari wins second term as president

Nigeria's Buhari wins second term as president

-- 2019-02-27 11:59:49

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday won a second term at the helm of Africa’s largest economy and top oil producer, a tally by Reuters based on electoral commission results showed. B...