-- 2018-12-16 20:40:56
A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, according to BBC. Initial reports on Japanese media suggested at least 20 people were injured, with ma...
-- 2018-12-16 20:11:32
President Donald Trump’s choice of new acting White House chief of staff once described him as “a terrible human being”, it has emerged, according to BBC. A video shows Mick Mulvane...
-- 2018-12-16 19:10:41
MALE, Dec 16 (Reuters): Police in the Maldives said they have frozen the bank accounts of former president Abdulla Yameen as they investigate allegations by state bodies that he conducted "illicit" d...
-- 2018-12-16 18:08:36
A medical helicopter crashed in a mountainous area near Porto, Portugal’s second biggest city, killing two pilots, a doctor and a nurse on board, the country’s INEM emergency service sai...
-- 2018-12-16 15:45:02
KATHMANDU (Xinhua): Nepal started on Saturday the implementation of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, also known as the Montreal Convention 1999....
-- 2018-12-16 13:16:05
Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan and China met in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday to discuss trade, development and solutions to end the region's relentless conflicts, reports Al Jazeera. Th...
-- 2018-12-16 13:08:15
BEIJING: A coal mine accident in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing killed seven workers and injured three, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The workers at the Fengc...
-- 2018-12-16 12:50:31
Mr Wickremesinghe was sworn in by President Maithripala Sirisena, who sacked him on October 26, report agencies. United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister o...
-- 2018-12-15 16:58:01
Heavy fighting between ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia has killed at least 21 people and wounded 61, its state news agency said on Saturday, amid escalating violence that has sent hundreds fleeing...
-- 2018-12-15 16:50:04
A federal judge in the US state of Texas has ruled that a key part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional. Twenty states argued the whole law was invalidated...
-- 2018-12-15 16:02:08
At least seven civilians were killed and nearly two dozens injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in disputed Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier...
-- 2018-12-15 15:50:40
Turkey will keep striking Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, a day after Baghdad formally complained that repeated Turkish air strikes violated its sovereign...
-- 2018-12-15 14:53:11
Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned as Sri Lanka's prime minister, seven weeks after he was appointed in a surprise move that sparked a political crisis. Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former president, signed hi...
-- 2018-12-15 12:49:20
Nigeria's military has revoked its earlier decision to suspend activities of the UN children's agency UNICEF in the northeast of the country. The military said this came after "extensive deliberation...
Reuters 2018-12-15 11:42:39
India’s top court rejected petitions on Friday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal worth about $8.7 billion with France’s Dassault Aviation, handing a political victory to the rul...
-- 2018-12-15 11:25:58
Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say. About 70 people have been admitted to hospital after eating the food following a ceremony i...
-- 2018-12-15 10:54:31
US President Donald Trump moved to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis. Mulvaney, a...
-- 2018-12-15 10:27:00
Australia formally recognises West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on...
-- 2018-12-14 19:11:19
Spanish law will be toughened to define any non-consensual sexual act as "assault" or "rape" instead of "sexual abuse", experts have decided. A panel of legal experts was set up by the government aft...
-- 2018-12-14 18:59:29
US President Donald Trump's former lawyer insists he was directed by his boss to make hush money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign, as per a BBC report. Speaking after he was sentenced t...
-- 2018-12-14 18:29:43
The suspected gunman who killed three people at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg was shot dead on Thursday in a brief gun battle with police after being on the run for 48 hours, pol...
-- 2018-12-14 18:19:24
Australian authorities have issued a warning about a powerful cyclone that is tracking towards the coast of Queensland. Cyclone Owen is moving slowly over waters off the Northern Territory with winds...
-- 2018-12-14 14:07:59
Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for at least 219 soldiers over their alleged links to a network blamed for a coup attempt in 2016. The suspects, all on active service, include four...
-- 2018-12-14 13:53:51
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South African, vowed on Thursday night to root out widespread corruption that has left several state-owned enterprises in need of government bailouts. Amid criticisms...
Reuters 2018-12-14 12:47:30
The US Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, voting to end US military support for the war in Yemen and blame the Saudi crown prince for the murd...
-- 2018-12-14 12:41:24
At least seven people were killed and three others injured after a vehicle carrying them fell into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Friday. The accident took place in mountainous Rea...
-- 2018-12-14 11:15:28
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs has declared it genocide in Myanmar as its military and security forces unleashed a targeted campaign against the Rohingya people. Mentioning killing unarmed...
Reuters 2018-12-14 11:01:55
European Union leaders gave Prime Minister Theresa May assurances on Thursday that they would seek to agree a new deal with Britain by 2021 so that the contentious Irish "backstop" is never triggered....
-- 2018-12-13 21:41:26
At least two Israelis have been killed and two injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate operations overnight on Wednesday. Israel's...
-- 2018-12-13 21:04:10
Fire has gutted an electoral commission depot in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the violent run-up to a presidential vote. More than two-thirds of the electronic voting mac...
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