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Cohen to plead guilty for lying about Russia inquiry

Cohen to plead guilty for lying about Russia inquiry

-- 2018-11-29 21:04:20

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to plead to lying to Congress in relation to Russia inquiry, US media report. Mr Cohen will admit misleading lawmakers about a Trum...

Russia blocks two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, minister says

Russia blocks two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, minister says

-- 2018-11-29 13:47:31

Two Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, Berdyansk and Mariupol, are effectively under blockade by Russia as vessels are being barred from leaving and entering, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Volodymyr...

Philippines jails three cops for drugs war murder

Philippines jails three cops for drugs war murder

-- 2018-11-29 11:53:10

A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced three police officers to up to 49 years in jail for the murder of a 17-year-old high school student, the first to be convicted in President Rodrigo Duterte&rsq...

Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first female president

Georgia elects Salome Zurabishvili as first female president

-- 2018-11-29 11:33:03

Salome Zurabishvili has won Georgia's presidential election, becoming the first woman to hold the office. With nearly all votes counted, the French-born ex-diplomat had 59 per cent of the vote with r...

Trump may cancel talks  with Putin at G20 summit

Trump may cancel talks with Putin at G20 summit

-- 2018-11-28 21:44:39

US President Donald Trump says he may cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine, reports agencies. Mr Trump told the Washington Post...

Sydney gets one month's  rainfall in just two hrs

Sydney gets one month's rainfall in just two hrs

-- 2018-11-28 21:43:03

More than 500 Australians have called for emergency assistance after storms lashed Sydney and nearby regions, causing floods, power cuts and flight delays, reports BBC. Sydney had its average monthly...

India not to attend upcoming SAARC summit in Pakistan

India not to attend upcoming SAARC summit in Pakistan

-- 2018-11-28 21:24:50

India will not attend the upcoming SAARC summit to be held in Pakistan, possibly early next year. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj gave the information on Wednesday, a day after Islamabad's invi...

Saudi crown prince arrives in Argentina for G20 summit

Saudi crown prince arrives in Argentina for G20 summit

-- 2018-11-28 19:08:57

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman landed in Buenos Aires of Argentina on Wednesday for the G20 summit of industrialised nations. Reuters reports, the crown prince is paying the vi...

Russia to deploy new missiles to Crimea amid rising Ukraine tensions

Russia to deploy new missiles to Crimea amid rising Ukraine tensions

-- 2018-11-28 18:03:33

Russia said on Wednesday it would send more of its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Crimea and a Reuters reporter saw a Russian warship deploying nearby as tensions with Ukraine rose o...

Afghan president forms team to negotiate peace with Taliban

Afghan president forms team to negotiate peace with Taliban

-- 2018-11-28 16:35:53

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has formed a 12-strong negotiating team to seek a peace agreement that would include the Taliban in a democratic and inclusive society that respects the rights of wo...

Tanzania 'prefers Chinese aid to West's'

Tanzania 'prefers Chinese aid to West's'

-- 2018-11-28 15:12:25

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has said he prefers Chinese to Western aid as it comes with fewer conditions. Magufuli has been under intense pressure from Western nations over his controversial p...

Georgians vote in presidential runoff

Georgians vote in presidential runoff

-- 2018-11-28 13:12:44

Georgians started to vote for president on Wednesday in an election runoff that pits a candidate backed by the ruling party who favours a policy balancing ties with Moscow and the West against a rival...

5.9 magnitude quake jolts Japan

5.9 magnitude quake jolts Japan

-- 2018-11-28 11:45:14

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck off the east coast of Japan’s northern Aomori Prefecture, the weather agency said on Wednesday. According to the Japan Meteorological Ag...

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

-- 2018-11-28 11:36:10

US President Donald Trump says he may cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine. Trump told the Washington Post he was waiting for a...

Unauthorised immigrants in US at lowest level since 2004, study shows

Unauthorised immigrants in US at lowest level since 2004, study shows

-- 2018-11-28 10:57:22

The population of unauthorised immigrants in the United States fell to 10.7 million in 2016, its lowest level since 2004, due largely to a decline in the number of people coming from Mexico, a study r...

Blast near chemical plant in China kills 22

Blast near chemical plant in China kills 22

Reuters 2018-11-28 10:17:58

A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou city in China’s northern Hebei province early on Wednesday killed 22 people and injured at least 22 others, the local government said. A video of th...

Coalition airstrike kills seven Taliban militants in Afghanistan

Coalition airstrike kills seven Taliban militants in Afghanistan

-- 2018-11-27 14:44:04

At least seven Taliban militants were killed and a Taliban bomb making factory was destroyed following a NATO-led coalition forces' airstrike in southern Afghan province of Kandahar overnight, local p...

Polish anti-corruption agency detains former regulator  head

Polish anti-corruption agency detains former regulator head

-- 2018-11-27 12:49:44

Poland’s anti-corruption agency CBA said on Tuesday it has detained the former head of the country’s financial regulator KNF Marek Chrzanowski, who will hear charges at the prosecutor&rsqu...

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 Rohingyas to Malaysia

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 Rohingyas to Malaysia

-- 2018-11-27 12:17:22

Myanmar authorities seized a boat carrying 93 Rohingyas while they were fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar's Rakhine State and hoping to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday. The bo...

Scholars condemn China for mass detention of ethnic Uighurs

Scholars condemn China for mass detention of ethnic Uighurs

-- 2018-11-27 11:30:21

Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal accept...

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

-- 2018-11-27 10:50:16

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal investigators, according to a court filing on Monday, in a potential setback to the special couns...

HRW asks Argentina to probe Saudi prince Salman over Yemen, Khashoggi

HRW asks Argentina to probe Saudi prince Salman over Yemen, Khashoggi

-- 2018-11-27 10:43:18

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Argentina to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s in possible crimes against humanit...

Maldives' top court cancels jail sentence of former president  Nasheed

Maldives' top court cancels jail sentence of former president Nasheed

-- 2018-11-26 19:55:06

The Maldives Supreme Court on Monday cancelled 13-year jail sentence awarded for former president Mohamed Nasheed after a review of the controversial terrorism conviction. The top court said the isla...

UAE pardons British academic

UAE pardons British academic

-- 2018-11-26 18:00:57

The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned and released British academic Matthew Hedges jailed for life on spying charges. The academic secured the pardon as the UAE granted a request for clemency a...

Helicopter crash leaves four soldiers dead in Turkey

Helicopter crash leaves four soldiers dead in Turkey

-- 2018-11-26 17:55:42

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in the Sancak...

EU executive urges Russia to release Ukraine ships

EU executive urges Russia to release Ukraine ships

-- 2018-11-26 17:49:46

The European Union’s executive urged Russia on Monday to release three Ukrainian ships it seized at the weekend near the Crimean peninsula that it annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The European Com...

Khashoggi murder: Turkish police inspecting villa

Khashoggi murder: Turkish police inspecting villa

-- 2018-11-26 17:32:18

Turkish police are carrying out inspections at a villa in a north-western province in relation to the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The state-run Anadolu news ag...

22 Afghan cops die in Taliban ambush, say officials

22 Afghan cops die in Taliban ambush, say officials

-- 2018-11-26 14:13:28

At least 22 police were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah late on Sunday, officials said, adding to the growing casualty toll on Afghan security forces fighti...

Children among six die in Swiss Apartment fire

Children among six die in Swiss Apartment fire

-- 2018-11-26 13:05:38

Six people were killed in an apartment fire in Switzerland early on Monday morning, police said, while an unspecified number of others caught in the blaze were taken to the hospital. Children were am...

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

-- 2018-11-26 12:28:52

Ukraine's parliament is to decide whether to bring in martial law as anger over the capture of three of its naval vessels by Russia spilled into the streets overnight. Protesters gathered outside the...