-- 2018-12-22 16:23:09
Colombian armed forces killed Marxist insurgent commander Walter Patricio Arizala in an operation aimed at ending his attacks on civilians after he kidnapped and shot dead three Ecuadorean media worke...
-- 2018-12-22 15:59:05
Police have arrested a man and a woman after rogue drone operators crippled London’s Gatwick Airport for three days by repeatedly flying onto the airfield, sparking a major security response. B...
-- 2018-12-22 15:21:16
Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption tha...
-- 2018-12-22 14:01:53
A car bomb exploded in the city centre of Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, causing huge clouds of smoke to rise above the city, followed by a second explosion nearby. “A suici...
-- 2018-12-22 13:52:47
A bus carrying college students and their instructors back from a botany field trip drove off a highway in a mountainous area on Friday, leaving 21 dead and 15 injured, police said. The bus plunged d...
Reuters 2018-12-22 12:54:32
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act were innocent and that Britain had s...
Reuters 2018-12-22 11:16:23
The US government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. Af...
-- 2018-12-22 10:56:22
Yellow vest protesters, who have blocked roads across France and fought running battles with police since mid-November, will march in the former royal city of Versailles on Saturday in their fight aga...
-- 2018-12-22 10:35:49
The United States joined Canada on Friday in calling on Beijing to release two Canadians detained in what are widely believed to be tit-for-tat arrests related to the high-profile detention in Canada...
-- 2018-12-21 19:22:43
Flights resumed at London’s Gatwick Airport on Friday after drones sparked about 36 hours of travel chaos including the shutdown of the airfield, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded...
-- 2018-12-21 18:19:21
The Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, US media say. Reports, citing unnamed officials, say about 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military...
-- 2018-12-21 17:09:05
The NATO has hailed the contribution of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strong and said it was ready to work closely with his successor, underlining the importance of...
-- 2018-12-21 17:01:54
Police dragged Catalan separatist protesters off highways on Friday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez began a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona in an attempt at reconciliation....
-- 2018-12-21 16:43:59
Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya protested to South Korea after a South Korean destroyer locked its targeting radar on an Japanese surveillance plane, he said on Friday. Iwaya, speaking to rep...
-- 2018-12-21 16:13:06
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would probably have to get married again, but did not say to whom. Putin, 66, who jealously protects his privacy and that of his close family, was...
-- 2018-12-21 15:38:24
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill, including money for the president's border wall, to keep US agencies open until February. The measure now heads to the Senate, where it is...
-- 2018-12-21 15:05:10
Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said on Friday it would carry out checks to determine if the BBC World News channel and BBC internet sites complied with Russian law. The regulator descr...
-- 2018-12-21 14:36:54
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the newly built Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport terminal, the largest airport in West Africa, in the capital city Abuja. The "ultra-modern" fa...
Reuters 2018-12-21 13:55:30
Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back as the Russian economy flound...
Reuters 2018-12-21 11:57:16
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more than 5,000 of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, a US official said on Thursday, in the latest sign Trump’s patience is thinning with Americ...
Reuters 2018-12-21 10:12:53
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, including surprise decisions to yank troops from Syri...
-- 2018-12-20 17:34:21
Thousands have taken to the streets in several Sudanese towns to protest economic hardship, especially higher bread prices, with a mob in the northern city of Atbara torching the ruling party's office...
-- 2018-12-20 17:09:47
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, saying “it could lead to the destruction of civilization as a whole and maybe even o...
-- 2018-12-20 15:16:02
A former defence chief in Nigeria has been killed in an ambush outside the capital, Abuja. Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh died from gunshot wounds in an attack on his vehicle by unknown gunmen. The Ex...
-- 2018-12-20 14:57:34
European Union governments have reached a preliminary deal to clamp down on money laundering by strengthening bank supervision through the European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU said on Wednesday....
-- 2018-12-20 14:32:50
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria has been met with strong criticism. Trump made the announcement on Wednesday, asserting that the Islamic State (IS) group had be...
-- 2018-12-20 12:48:27
Hundreds of South Koreans have sued the government for compensation over their forced labour at Japanese firms during World War Two, representatives said on Thursday, in a fresh twist to one of severa...
-- 2018-12-19 21:06:45
Britain’s House of Commons erupted in anger on Wednesday when Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth the words “stupid woman” after a lively exchange with Prime Min...
-- 2018-12-19 20:57:13
The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US media are quoting defence officials as saying. One official told CNN that the planning was for a "full" and "rapid" withdrawal. Presiden...
-- 2018-12-19 19:06:23
Nepal's government has stopped eight Italian contractors from leaving the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed water supply project for the capital. Nepalese officia...
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