-- 2019-01-07 11:19:48
US President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday not to bend in his demand for a wall along the southern border with Mexico but said the barrier could be made of steel instead of concrete as a potential co...
-- 2019-01-07 11:10:05
Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious chal...
Reuters 2019-01-07 10:59:38
Emmanuel Macron intended to start the new year on the offensive against the ‘yellow vest’ protesters. Instead, the French president is reeling from more violent street demonstrations. Wha...
-- 2019-01-07 10:32:21
An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 174 km (108 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ternate in Indonesia’s Molucca islands late on Sunday, followed by a series of aftershocks,...
-- 2019-01-06 21:59:49
The planned US troop withdrawal opens up a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are converging to fill it, reports AP. The sudd...
-- 2019-01-06 17:55:50
At least 30 people have been killed in the collapse of a gold mine in north-eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials say. The collapse occurred in the Kohistan district of Badakhshan province, report...
-- 2019-01-06 17:41:36
Malaysia’s King Muhammad V has resigned on Sunday, the first time a ruling monarch has stepped down from the throne before completing their five-year tenure. The king’s resignation took e...
-- 2019-01-06 17:23:04
A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a clash across Europe over the balance between animal welfare and religio...
-- 2019-01-06 14:50:40
Iran and Russia are preparing to hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea, including rescue and anti-piracy drills, the commander of the Iranian navy was quoted on Sunday as saying. “Tacti...
-- 2019-01-06 13:48:13
Six people were killed and 54 others injured when a tour bus overturned on a slippery road on Thai capital Bangkok's northern outskirts in the wee hours of Sunday, police said. The six dead included...
-- 2019-01-06 13:32:18
Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested Saturday during a yellow vest pro-Brexit march in central London. Around 100 people in yellow vests marched through Westminster towards Trafal...
Reuters 2019-01-06 13:03:45
Preliminary results from Democratic Republic of Congo’s tumultuous presidential election will be delayed past Sunday’s deadline, the head of the election commission told Reuters. The comm...
-- 2019-01-06 12:48:21
An elderly woman was found dead and two men were missing after blizzards hit parts of Greece, police officials said on Saturday. Temperatures in central and northern Greece have remained below zero f...
-- 2019-01-06 11:59:01
US National Security Advisor John Bolton has warned the Syrian government it should not see the impending US military withdrawal from the country as an invitation to use chemical weapons. US Presiden...
Reuters 2019-01-06 11:43:37
An Egyptian police officer was killed on Saturday while attempting to defuse a bomb found near a church in an eastern Cairo suburb, state television reported, less than two days before Egypt’s C...
-- 2019-01-06 11:34:04
British Prime Minister Theresa May might again push back a final vote in parliament on her Brexit deal, less than three months before the country is due to leave the European Union, a newspaper report...
-- 2019-01-06 11:27:42
A new regulation in Saudi Arabia is set to stop Saudi women from not knowing about their own divorce. Starting from Sunday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their...
-- 2019-01-06 10:52:51
US Department of Defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney has resigned, a month after the Defence Secretary James Mattis announced his departure. Rear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that "the time i...
Reuters 2019-01-06 10:12:09
Senior Trump administration officials and Democratic congressional staffers failed on Saturday to break a deadlock over a proposed border wall and end a two-week-old partial government shutdown, but w...
-- 2019-01-05 19:04:51
An Indian court on Saturday declared tycoon Vijay Mallya a ‘fugitive economic offender,’ a ruling that empowers authorities to confiscate his properties and other assets. Judge M.S. Azmi'...
-- 2019-01-05 17:53:26
A church van packed with children was headed to Walt Disney World when it got caught in a fiery pileup involving two 18-wheelers. Seven people, including five of the youngsters, died in the crash. On...
-- 2019-01-05 16:30:05
President Donald Trump said on Friday that US military personnel had deployed to Gabon in response to possible violent demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a presidential election...
-- 2019-01-05 16:28:51
US police are dealing with a suspected mass shooting at a California bowling alley on Saturday with reports of 'multiple victims'. Police and local media said the incident took place at the Gable Hou...
-- 2019-01-05 15:42:13
China’s population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of “unstoppable” decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published o...
-- 2019-01-05 15:16:09
At least six people including five school children were killed and seven others injured Saturday after a bus carrying them skidded off a mountainous road and fell into gorge in northern Indian state o...
-- 2019-01-05 14:34:10
All countries that were granted a waiver from the United States to continue buying a certain amount of Iranian oil imports are complying with US sanctions, a senior Iranian energy official said on Sat...
-- 2019-01-05 14:18:48
Five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out while they were playing an escape game in northern Poland. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured in the blaze which started at around 17:00 local...
-- 2019-01-05 13:37:59
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he owns no real estate, vehicles or personal property, echoing what experts say is a pattern among the country’s politicians of shift...
-- 2019-01-05 11:56:29
China’s armed forces must strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of top brass on Friday. China is keen to beef u...
-- 2019-01-05 10:47:04
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s co...
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