-- 2018-11-05 14:44:33
Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have rejected a bid for independence. Final results showed that 56.4 per cent chose to remain part of France while 43.6 per cent voted to leave...
Reuters 2018-11-05 12:49:22
Iran will sell its oil and break sanctions reimposed by the United States on its vital energy and banking sectors, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told economists at a meeting broadcast live on state...
-- 2018-11-05 12:15:10
The first migrants from a large convoy of people travelling through Mexico towards the United States have arrived in the capital, Mexico City. About 450 people, mostly men and boys, have been given t...
Reuters 2018-11-05 10:52:50
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) expects to have won only seven of 13 seats up for grabs in by-elections, a spokesman said on Sunday, conceding that Myanmar’s ruling...
-- 2018-11-05 10:36:53
Oil prices fell on Monday as the start to US sanctions against Iran’s fuel exports was softened by waivers that will allow major buyers to still import Iranian crude, at least temporarily. Fron...
-- 2018-11-05 10:18:08
The sons of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Sunday issued an appeal for the return of their father’s body and said they wanted to return to Saudi Arabia to bury him. In an interview w...
-- 2018-11-04 22:24:21
Thousands of Iranians held rallies in Tehran on Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the seizure of the former US embassy in the capital city, reports Xinhua. The demonstrators took to the streets...
-- 2018-11-04 20:22:16
More than 70 British business leaders have signed a letter urging a new referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The executives say the British government's plan for a divorce de...
-- 2018-11-04 17:50:48
Bahrain's opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, has been handed a life sentence after the Court of Appeal found him guilty of spying for Qatar. The ruling comes just months after the Bahraini High Co...
-- 2018-11-04 16:23:49
The French Pacific islands of New Caledonia began voting on Sunday whether to become the world’s newest state. Queues formed at polling stations across the French archipelago in the South Pacif...
-- 2018-11-04 14:03:13
A pickup truck lurched off a road in western Wisconsin, located in the north-central United States and hit a group of girl scouts picking up trash in a ditch, leaving three girls and one adult dead an...
-- 2018-11-04 13:04:31
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 jolted the city of Artux in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 5:36 am Sunday (Beijing Time), according...
-- 2018-11-04 11:15:33
Heavy rain and gales devastating parts of Italy have claimed two more lives, taking the overall death toll o at least 17. A German tourist died on Friday when hit by lightning on the island of Sardin...
-- 2018-11-04 11:08:31
Asked what Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has changed since becoming Myanmar’s leader two years ago, most residents of Kachin state in the far north say the roads: new tarmac smoothes the path...
-- 2018-11-04 10:30:08
The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after eight years on death row has pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada. Asia Bibi's husband, Ashiq Masih, said they were in...
-- 2018-11-03 19:27:30
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the world opposes every decision made by US President Donald Trump. “The world opposes every decision made by Trump,” Khamenei said d...
-- 2018-11-03 16:56:30
An Australian nun who angered the Philippine president by joining anti-government protests used her final hours in the country Saturday to call on Filipinos to unite and fight human rights abuses. Si...
-- 2018-11-03 16:43:23
Russia said on Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a group of senior politicians to peace talks in Moscow, at which a delegation representing the Taliban would be present....
-- 2018-11-03 15:08:20
Iran has started production of the locally-designed Kowsar fighter plane for use in its air force, state television reported, as tensions mount with the United States after the reimposition of US sanc...
-- 2018-11-03 14:30:07
Two people were killed and about 300 others were forced to take shelter at higher grounds as floods and landslides struck West Sumatra province of western Indonesia, a disaster agency official said on...
-- 2018-11-03 14:26:37
The European Union plans to have a 29-strong team of diplomats in London to represent it after Brexit. It will be called a "delegation" - not an embassy - and will be part of the EU's foreign policy...
-- 2018-11-03 13:57:14
At least seven people were killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on Coptic Christians near a monastery in the southern province of Minya in Egypt on Friday, an archbishop said. The injured have b...
-- 2018-11-03 12:49:09
A tigress in India who is said to have killed 13 people has been shot dead after a major hunt, officials say. The six-year-old tigress had evaded capture in the jungles of the western state of Mahara...
-- 2018-11-03 11:11:21
The Trump administration is to reinstate all US sanctions on Iran removed under the 2015 nuclear deal. The White House said it was "the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on Iran" and targeted Ir...
-- 2018-11-02 22:16:33
The Trump administration is reinstating all US sanctions on Iran that were removed under the 2015 nuclear deal. The White House said it was "the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on Iran" and ta...
-- 2018-11-02 21:28:58
Editor-turned-politician MJ Akbar, who had to resign as union minister over sex harassment allegations against him, has now been accused of rape by a US-based journalist who worked with him over two d...
-- 2018-11-02 19:36:07
The Asia-Pacific region, with the world's highest rate of urbanisation, is also the home to more than half the world's 821 million undernourished people, said United Nations officials on Friday. Hund...
-- 2018-11-02 17:43:15
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed's reported phone call to the White...
-- 2018-11-02 17:25:39
Security footage from a bus which crashed into a river in China has revealed that the driver was fighting with a passenger moments earlier. The bus plunged 50m (164ft) off a bridge into the Yangtze R...
-- 2018-11-02 17:18:06
An Australian man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for encouraging his wife's suicide, in a case believed to have set a global precedent. Graham Morant, 68, was convicted last month of co...
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