-- 2019-01-15 11:23:41
Nearly 80 per cent of junior doctors across New Zealand walked off the job at public hospitals on Tuesday after a breakdown in union talks with the government over working conditions and wages. The s...
-- 2019-01-15 10:31:06
Ivanka Trump will help manage the Trump administration’s selection of a US candidate for the position of World Bank Group president, a White House official said on Monday. The official, who spo...
-- 2019-01-14 21:28:57
Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand's hazy capital Bangkok opting to hand out face masks and step up enforcement of p...
-- 2019-01-14 20:32:01
The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk has died in hospital on Monday, a day after being stabbed at a charity event. Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was attacked on stage in front of hundreds of people on Sunda...
-- 2019-01-14 17:33:12
The United Nations urged the Myanmar government on Monday to allow 'rapid and unimpeded' humanitarian access to Rakhine State, where fighting between government troops and autonomy-seeking rebels has...
-- 2019-01-14 17:20:09
Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in a suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Monday, two days after country's President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a massive fuel price hike in an e...
-- 2019-01-14 17:14:43
France is hoping that members of Britain’s parliament will approve Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, an official at French President Macron’s Elysee department said on Monday...
-- 2019-01-14 17:04:40
German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday accused environmental organisations of mounting “crusades” against diesel vehicles and said that driving bans threaten hundr...
-- 2019-01-14 17:00:25
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday threatened to retaliate against the opposition if the European Union withdraws duty-free trading access over human rights concerns. The EU in November began...
-- 2019-01-14 16:52:39
Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s new government wants to save 1 trillion reais ($269.48 billion) over 10 years via pension reforms. Economists say these reforms are vital to undo...
-- 2019-01-14 16:48:02
The Greek parliament will open a confidence debate in the government on Tuesday, a parliamentary official said. The vote is expected to be held on Wednesday night, reports Reuters. Greek Prime Minis...
-- 2019-01-14 14:30:43
An influential African bloc has urged Democratic Republic of Congo to recount votes cast in its disorganised presidential election, raising pressure on Kinshasa to ensure the legitimacy of the next go...
Reuters 2019-01-14 13:47:32
A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the Iranian army said. A flight engineer survived and was tak...
-- 2019-01-14 12:15:20
US President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria following a planned pullout of US troops. In two tweets on Sunday, Trump...
-- 2019-01-14 11:31:45
A Republican senator close to President Donald Trump on Sunday backed a temporary re-opening of the federal government, in the 23rd day of the longest shutdown ever, to allow for talks on a spending a...
-- 2019-01-14 11:27:19
Indonesia has found the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air plane more than two months after the Boeing Co 737 MAX jet crashed into the sea near Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board, search off...
-- 2019-01-14 11:14:43
The driver of a minibus died and 16 passengers were injured after the vehicle they were traveling in flipped and crashed onto a boundary wall in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Mond...
-- 2019-01-14 10:17:05
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that lawmakers blocking Brexit is now a more likely outcome than Britain leaving the European Union without a deal. Parliament is deadlocked over how to proc...
-- 2019-01-13 20:54:32
A partial US government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the US-Mexico border entered its 22nd day on Saturday, making it the longest shutteri...
-- 2019-01-13 20:12:28
The death toll from a suspected gas explosion in central Paris has risen to four after rescue workers found the body of a woman in the rubble. Two firefighters and a Spanish tourist were also killed...
-- 2019-01-13 20:10:36
Former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yo...
-- 2019-01-13 18:09:48
Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti, convicted of murder in his home country, has been arrested in Bolivia and will be extradited to Italy, a Brazilian official said. “He will soon...
-- 2019-01-13 16:52:12
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned a senior Polish diplomat on Sunday to protest Poland’s jointly hosting a global summit with the United States focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran...
-- 2019-01-13 16:29:43
Greece’s right-wing Defence Minister Panos Kammenos resigned on Sunday in protest at a deal ending a long running dispute with Macedonia over its name, clouding the future of the coalition gover...
-- 2019-01-13 12:30:38
A former commander of Colombia's FARC rebel group, Iván Márquez, has released a video six months after going into hiding. In the film, he accuses the government of betraying the terms o...
-- 2019-01-13 11:16:09
A failure to deliver Brexit would be "a catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust in our democracy", Prime Minister Theresa May has warned. Writing in the Sunday Express, Mrs May pleaded with MPs...
-- 2019-01-13 10:22:02
A coal mine roof collapse in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has killed 21 miners, according to a People’s Daily report run by the Reuters on Sunday. Saturday's accident is the deadlie...
-- 2019-01-12 21:47:37
A Saudi teenager who fled her family and got stranded at a Bangkok airport has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum there. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had been trying to reach Australia via...
-- 2019-01-12 21:12:25
NEW DELHI, Jan 12 (BBC): An Indian guru who is already in jail for rape has been convicted for the 2002 murder of a journalist.Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, was given a...
-- 2019-01-12 21:03:30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday described Venezuela’s government under President Nicolas Maduro as illegitimate. Mike Pompeo also said the United States would work with like-minde...
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