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Storm leaves four dead in Italy

Storm leaves four dead in Italy

-- 2018-11-02 14:45:20

Four people died Thursday in the second of two storm fronts that battered Italy with torrential rains and gale-force winds beginning at the weekend, local media reported. An elderly couple was crus...

Amnesty urges Sudan to stop crackdown on journalists

Amnesty urges Sudan to stop crackdown on journalists

-- 2018-11-02 14:31:58

Amnesty International is urging the Sudanese government to halt what it describes as "relentless harassment, intimidation and censorship of journalists." The rights group released a report early on F...

Continental AG to build new plant in Mexico

Continental AG to build new plant in Mexico

-- 2018-11-02 14:07:33

German auto supplier Continental AG said on Thursday it would invest more than 52 million euros ($59 million) in a new plant in Mexico, reports Reuters. The company will start to build the plant, w...

Suspected ULFA terrorists kill five in Assam

Suspected ULFA terrorists kill five in Assam

-- 2018-11-02 13:44:34

At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists at Kherbari near the Dhola-Sadiya bridge in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district of India on Thursday evenin...

Jordan ministers quit over Dead Sea flood deaths

Jordan ministers quit over Dead Sea flood deaths

-- 2018-11-02 10:30:07

Jordan’s education and tourism ministers have resigned after an investigation into the deaths of 21 people, mainly school children who were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the D...

Sri Lankan president to lift parliament suspension

Sri Lankan president to lift parliament suspension

-- 2018-11-01 21:46:51

Sri Lanka's president has lifted the suspension of parliament and scheduled a meeting of the legislature on November 5, according to his newly-appointed prime minister, in a highly anticipated move ob...

Ousted Sri Lanka PM refuses to leave post

Ousted Sri Lanka PM refuses to leave post

-- 2018-11-01 18:07:54

The man at the centre of Sri Lanka's political crisis said that he has the support of parliament and will not leave the grand mansion reserved for the island nation's prime minister. Last week the pr...

Shenzhen opens direct flight to London

Shenzhen opens direct flight to London

-- 2018-11-01 15:05:48

Shenzhen Airlines on Wednesday celebrated a new direct flight from Shenzhen city, known as the Silicon Valley of China, to London. It was the first direct flight between Shenzhen and London. The inte...

Kazakh president invites Saudi king, crown prince to visit

Kazakh president invites Saudi king, crown prince to visit

-- 2018-11-01 14:54:47

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has close ties to Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, has invited Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to visit Kazakhstan at a meeting with another Saudi r...

Malawi court halts work on Gandhi statue

Malawi court halts work on Gandhi statue

-- 2018-11-01 13:03:18

A court in Malawi has halted work on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi after critics accused him of using racial slurs. "Being black people ourselves, such remarks have invited a sense of loathing and detes...

Myanmar officials try to convince Rohingyas to return, accept ID cards

Myanmar officials try to convince Rohingyas to return, accept ID cards

-- 2018-11-01 13:00:26

Myanmar officials visited camps for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh on Wednesday in an effort to kick-start a process to repatriate hundreds of thousands who fled an army crackdown last year....

Trump hardens stance on Mexico border

Trump hardens stance on Mexico border

-- 2018-11-01 12:37:27

US President Donald Trump said the United States could send as many as 15,000 troops to the border with Mexico, as he hardens his stance against a caravan of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in C...

Indonesian divers retrieve black box from crashed Lion Air jet

Indonesian divers retrieve black box from crashed Lion Air jet

-- 2018-11-01 11:31:11

Indonesian divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea this week with 189 aboard and brought it back to a ship on the surface, one of the divers told media on Thurs...

Khashoggi murder outcry threatens US-Saudi ties: Saudi prince

Khashoggi murder outcry threatens US-Saudi ties: Saudi prince

-- 2018-11-01 10:00:47

The outcry in the United States demonising Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul threatens US-Saudi strategic ties, the former Saudi i...

Archaeologists recover 8,000-yr-old village sites

Archaeologists recover 8,000-yr-old village sites

-- 2018-11-01 00:36:21

A total of 16 village house sites dating back to 8,400-7,800 years ago have been found in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local archaeologists announced on Wednesday, reports Xinhua....

Iran summons Danish envoy over ‘deadly Tehran plot’

Iran summons Danish envoy over ‘deadly Tehran plot’

-- 2018-10-31 21:35:22

Iran on Wednesday summoned the Danish ambassador to Tehran over Copenhagen's allegations about an Iranian plot to kill an opposition activist in Denmark, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran...

Russia starts probing into terrorism after suicide bomber kills himself

Russia starts probing into terrorism after suicide bomber kills himself

-- 2018-10-31 18:15:13

Russia opened an investigation into suspected terrorism after a 17-year-old youth blew himself up on Wednesday in the lobby of an office belonging to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in t...

Saudi prosecutor discusses Khashoggi case with Turkish intelligence

Saudi prosecutor discusses Khashoggi case with Turkish intelligence

-- 2018-10-31 16:21:36

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor held talks overnight with Turkish intelligence officials over the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul...

WB approves $1.2b in grants, loans to Ethiopia

WB approves $1.2b in grants, loans to Ethiopia

-- 2018-10-31 16:03:25

The World Bank (WB) has approved $1.2 billion in grants and loans, a $600 million grant and a $600 million loan, to Ethiopia, according to a WB website statement. The statement posted on its websit...

Mexican town welcomes migrants

Mexican town welcomes migrants

-- 2018-10-31 15:36:23

An impoverished Mexican town nearly flattened by a 2017 earthquake welcomed thousands of tired and hungry Central Americans in a US-bound caravan this week in quiet defiance of US President Donald T...

Pakistan Islamists protest after Christian woman freed in blasphemy case

Pakistan Islamists protest after Christian woman freed in blasphemy case

-- 2018-10-31 15:28:40

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday freed a Christian woman from a death sentence for blasphemy against Islam and overturned her conviction, sparking angry protests and death threats from an u...

France not ruling out sanctions against Saudi Arabia

France not ruling out sanctions against Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-10-31 14:41:04

France doesn’t rule out any sanction against Saudi Arabia if its authorities are found to have been involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Dr...

Afghan army helicopter crash kills all 25 on board

Afghan army helicopter crash kills all 25 on board

-- 2018-10-31 12:57:45

An Afghan official says an army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehdi, a spokesman for the provincial go...

Rescuers begin mission to free 30 trapped in Philippines landslide

Rescuers begin mission to free 30 trapped in Philippines landslide

-- 2018-10-31 12:46:16

Philippine rescue teams worked to free at least 30 people trapped under earth and rubble on Wednesday after a typhoon dumped heavy rainfall on a mountainous region, triggering floods and deadly landsl...

Suicide blast kills six near Kabul prison

Suicide blast kills six near Kabul prison

Reuters 2018-10-31 11:27:32

A suicide bomber blew himself up near the gate of Afghanistan’s largest prison on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding three, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of r...

Saudi prosecutor visits Istanbul consulate again

Saudi prosecutor visits Istanbul consulate again

-- 2018-10-30 21:40:21

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor held a second round of talks with Turkish officials on Tuesday and visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed four weeks ago,...

Dogs can detect malaria by sniffing patient’s socks

Dogs can detect malaria by sniffing patient’s socks

-- 2018-10-30 21:39:32

Sniff dogs could be trained to detect malaria in people infected with the disease even if they are not showing symptoms, according to a new study by Durham University, reports Xinhua. "While our find...

German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

-- 2018-10-30 19:38:41

A former nurse has admitted murdering 100 patients during the first day of his trial, making him one of Germany's worst post-war serial killers. Detectives say Niels Högel, 41, administered fata...

Russia’s lone aircraft carrier damaged in accident

Russia’s lone aircraft carrier damaged in accident

-- 2018-10-30 16:34:35

An accident in the docks in Russia's north on Tuesday damaged the country's only aircraft carrier and left one person missing and four injured, officials said. A floating dock sank early morning in M...

Ecuador court rejects Assange’s lawsuit over embassy rules

Ecuador court rejects Assange’s lawsuit over embassy rules

-- 2018-10-30 13:49:28

A judge in Ecuador has ruled against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who had contested new rules imposed on him in the country's embassy in London. The judge said a requirement to pay for intern...