-- 2019-01-01 10:32:28
French President Emmanuel Macron used his traditional New Year's Eve speech to sound a warning to extreme elements among anti-government protesters. He promised to keep order "without complacency" an...
-- 2019-01-01 10:07:19
A minivan slammed into pedestrians in the early hours of Tuesday on a street where people had gathered for New Year’s festivities in Japan’s downtown Tokyo, injuring eight people, police s...
-- 2018-12-31 21:21:17
Some called it the Outback Uber - ten cane toads have been caught riding a python, reports BBC. Paul Mock of Kununurra in the far north of Western Australia filmed the bizarre sight after a heavy thu...
-- 2018-12-31 19:51:59
Russia’s domestic security service (FSB) said on Monday it had detained an American citizen suspected of spying in Moscow. The FSB, which said the American had been detained on December 28, sai...
-- 2018-12-31 17:11:02
Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Philippines in a weekend storm that set off landslides and flash floods as the country prepared for the New Year, officials said Monday. The national disas...
Reuters 2018-12-31 14:32:05
Taliban representatives from Afghanistan arrived in Tehran on Sunday and started peace negotiations with Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has said. The talks are designed to set parameters fo...
-- 2018-12-31 14:09:16
US Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall funding and...
-- 2018-12-31 14:03:26
Iraq’s prime minister said on Sunday that top security officials from Baghdad had met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and hinted at a bigger Iraqi role fighting Islamic State milit...
-- 2018-12-31 13:59:14
The main opposition camps in Congo’s presidential election on Sunday complained of widespread irregularities after a chaotic vote disrupted by long queues, broken voting machines and torrential...
-- 2018-12-31 13:49:47
The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rose by 22 per cent in 2018, Ireland’s foreign office said on Monday, more than doubling the total of annual applications since Britai...
-- 2018-12-31 11:55:38
At least two people were killed Monday in a suspected gas blast which hit an apartment building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains, reports Xinhua citing a local media report....
-- 2018-12-30 19:54:44
A top official at a state-run Indian university urged his students to “murder” fellow students if confronted instead of complaining to him, amid a wave of violence being reported from acro...
-- 2018-12-30 19:49:33
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Donald Trump in a New Year letter on Sunday that Moscow was ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said followi...
-- 2018-12-30 15:40:56
The British government will spend more than 100 million pounds chartering extra sea ferries to ease cross-Channel congestion if the United Kingdom fails to secure a trade deal before leaving the Europ...
-- 2018-12-30 15:32:02
People in the Democratic Republic of Congo are voting for a new president in an election delayed for more than two years. Close to 40 million people are eligible to vote for a replacement for Preside...
-- 2018-12-30 15:00:50
Brazil's incoming far-right president has said he will seek to issue a decree loosening the country's gun laws. Jair Bolsonaro, who takes over on 1 January, had made the pledge a key part of his pres...
-- 2018-12-30 14:40:21
At least eleven people have been killed in clashes in Bangladesh as the country votes in a general election. The build-up to the poll has already been marred by violence and accusations of a crackdow...
-- 2018-12-29 19:41:41
Russia expanded a ban on imported goods from Ukraine on Saturday, saying it would halt some $500 million worth of annual imports of mainly industrial products in retaliation for economic sanctions by...
-- 2018-12-29 17:39:59
Police in Egypt have killed dozens of militants on Saturday during security raids on their hideouts, the interior ministry has said. The raids killed "40 terrorists" in Giza and North Sinai on Saturd...
-- 2018-12-29 17:03:29
Demands voiced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to release Ukrainian sailors held by Russia are unacceptable, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement...
-- 2018-12-29 16:56:23
The British government will spend more than $130 million chartering extra sea ferries to ease cross-Channel congestion if the United Kingdom fails to secure a trade deal before leaving the European Un...
-- 2018-12-29 13:56:05
German authorities have given their approval to an $8 billion (6.30 billion pounds) rail and road tunnel linking Denmark and Germany, despite environmental objections. The 19 km (11.8 mile) Fehmarnbe...
-- 2018-12-29 13:50:20
Argentina’s energy secretary resigned on Friday, the government said in a statement, after news leaked that the government plans to increase electricity prices by an average 35 per cent in 2019....
-- 2018-12-29 13:03:39
A strong earthquake of 6.9 magnitude struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, raising fears of dangerous tsunami waves across the region but after about two hours, the tsunam...
-- 2018-12-29 12:42:52
Three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide were killed and at least 10 others injured when a roadside bomb blast hit their tour bus on Friday less than 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from Egypt’s...
-- 2018-12-28 21:34:29
Syria's military says it has taken control the flash-point Kurdish-held town of Manbij, where Turkey has threatened offensive, reports AP. The announcement Friday came shortly after the main Syrian K...
-- 2018-12-28 17:52:29
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked on Friday after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal computer...
-- 2018-12-28 17:42:59
Pakistan's Supreme Court has summoned former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister and several other suspects in connection with a money laundering case. Friday's development was the latest blow to...
-- 2018-12-28 17:42:17
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said his government is going to take a formal position on the halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Giuseppe Conte gave the information while addressing his tr...
-- 2018-12-28 17:33:48
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as 3 trillion rupees ($42.82 bill...
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