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Indonesia hunts for plane crash victims, black box recorders

Indonesia hunts for plane crash victims, black box recorders

Reuters 2018-10-30 11:47:39

Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to trace its black box recorders and uncover why an alm...

US sends 5200 troops to Mexico border as migrant caravan advances

US sends 5200 troops to Mexico border as migrant caravan advances

-- 2018-10-30 10:18:44

The United States said it will send over 5,200 troops to help secure the border with Mexico, a far larger-than-expected deployment as President Donald Trump hardens his stance on immigration ahead of...

Strong quake rattles New Zealand

Strong quake rattles New Zealand

Reuters 2018-10-30 09:52:01

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck New Zealand’s north island on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, a tremor felt by thousands of people although there were no immediate repor...

Merkel to step down in 2021

Merkel to step down in 2021

-- 2018-10-29 18:58:11

Germany's Angela Merkel says she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks, reports BBC. "I will not be seeking any political after my term ends," she told a news confe...

First Nairobi-New York direct flight lands

First Nairobi-New York direct flight lands

-- 2018-10-29 18:01:09

Kenyans have celebrated on Twitter after Kenya Airways inaugural direct flight from Nairobi to New York landed. People were tracking its progress across the Atlantic Ocean through the night, says BBC...

Sri Lanka police arrest sacked minister over shooting

Sri Lanka police arrest sacked minister over shooting

-- 2018-10-29 17:50:20

Sri Lankan police arrested deposed oil minister Arjuna Ranatunga on Monday over a shooting that killed one person a day earlier. “Colombo Crime division arrested Ranatunga over the shooting inc...

Former conservative joins race to replace Merkel as CDU chair

Former conservative joins race to replace Merkel as CDU chair

-- 2018-10-29 17:45:52

A former parliamentary group leader of Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance wants to join the race to replace the German chancellor as chairwoman of her Christian Democrats (CDU). Conservative...

Protest against education reform turns violent in Greece

Protest against education reform turns violent in Greece

-- 2018-10-29 17:41:59

A protest against education reform turned violent in Greece as youths clashed with police on Monday parliament’s Syntagma square in central Athens. Protesters threw stones, flares and petrol bo...

Brazil elects firebrand Bolsonaro in major swing to the right

Brazil elects firebrand Bolsonaro in major swing to the right

-- 2018-10-29 17:35:55

Far-right firebrand former army captain Jair Bolsonaro has won Brazil’s presidential election in convincing fashion. Bolsonaro vowed after his Sunday night win to adhere to democratic principle...

Shallow quake jolts south of Argentina’s Ushuaia

Shallow quake jolts south of Argentina’s Ushuaia

-- 2018-10-29 15:24:23

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck on Monday south of the resort town of Ushuaia in Argentina, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualt...

5.4 magnitude quake shakes Japan’s Torishima Island

5.4 magnitude quake shakes Japan’s Torishima Island

-- 2018-10-29 13:32:51

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck the Torishima Island region in southern Japan, the weather agency said on Monday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) the offsh...

Saudi prosecutor heading Khashoggi case arrives in Turkey

Saudi prosecutor heading Khashoggi case arrives in Turkey

-- 2018-10-29 12:54:31

The Saudi public prosecutor heading the investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi arrived in Istanbul overnight, the state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Monday, ahead of expected talks wit...

Blast near Afghanistan election commission HQ injures six

Blast near Afghanistan election commission HQ injures six

-- 2018-10-29 11:30:18

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near Afghanistan’s election commission headquarters in Kabul on Monday, injuring at least six people, officials said. At least four officials of the Indepe...

Indonesia plane crashes with 188 passengers on board

Indonesia plane crashes with 188 passengers on board

-- 2018-10-29 10:19:56

A Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after take off from the capital on its...

Istanbul’s new airport, launching Monday, seeks to be world’s biggest

Istanbul’s new airport, launching Monday, seeks to be world’s biggest

-- 2018-10-28 20:53:42

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held plenty of grand opening ceremonies in his 15 years at Turkey’s helm. On Monday he will unveil one of his prized jewels — Istanbul New Airport — a megapr...

Brazil's Bolsonaro poised to win presidency

Brazil's Bolsonaro poised to win presidency

-- 2018-10-28 19:13:49

Brazilians fed up with corruption and rising crime are expected to elect former army captain turned politician Jair Bolsonaro as their president as voting begins on Sunday in a turbulent swing to the...

Guard of Sri Lankan 'sacked' minister opens fire

Guard of Sri Lankan 'sacked' minister opens fire

-- 2018-10-28 19:06:52

Three people were injured in Sri Lanka on Sunday when a security guard of parliamentarian Arjuna Ranatunga, former petroleum minister under ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s sacked ca...

5.8 magnitude quake jolts Romania

5.8 magnitude quake jolts Romania

-- 2018-10-28 15:25:15

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Romania’s eastern county of Buzau on Sunday morning, the National Institute for Earth Physics announced. It was the strongest earthquake not only in this y...

Brazil's Bolsonaro poised to win presidency in dramatic swing right

Brazil's Bolsonaro poised to win presidency in dramatic swing right

-- 2018-10-28 15:12:11

Brazilians fed up with political corruption and rising crime are expected to vote in former army captain turned politician Jair Bolsonaro as their president on Sunday in a turbulent swing to the right...

Higgins wins second term as Irish president

Higgins wins second term as Irish president

-- 2018-10-28 14:52:12

Michael D Higgins has been re-elected as Irish president after receiving 56 per cent of the country's election vote. Businessman Peter Casey came second with 23.1 per cent, while none of the other fo...

Pakistan restores ban on Indian TV channels

Pakistan restores ban on Indian TV channels

-- 2018-10-28 11:57:41

Pakistan's Supreme Court has reinstated a ban on the transmission of Indian content on local television channels, setting aside an earlier ruling by the Lahore High Court (LHC), reports the Khaleej Ti...

Armed men kill two UN peacekeepers in Mali, 12 wounded

Armed men kill two UN peacekeepers in Mali, 12 wounded

-- 2018-10-28 11:54:00

The United Nations mission in Mali says armed men attacked a UN camp outside of Timbuktu killing at least two peacekeepers and wounding at least a dozen others. UN Mali mission spokeswoman Myriam Des...

Gunman targeting Jews shoots dead 11 at US synagogue

Gunman targeting Jews shoots dead 11 at US synagogue

-- 2018-10-28 11:45:10

A gunman yelling, “All Jews must die,” stormed a synagogue at Pittsburgh in the US during Saturday services, killing 11 worshippers and wounding six other people including four police offi...

S Korea begins airlift of tourists trapped by Super Typhoon Yutu

S Korea begins airlift of tourists trapped by Super Typhoon Yutu

-- 2018-10-27 18:25:08

South Korea's government has started military flights to rescue nationals stranded on typhoon-hit Saipan, the main island of the Northern Marianas. The US commonwealth was devastated by Super Typhoon...

Khashoggi murder: Saudi FM describes global outcry as 'hysterical'

Khashoggi murder: Saudi FM describes global outcry as 'hysterical'

-- 2018-10-27 17:58:35

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir has said the global outcry and media focus on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi earlier this month has become “hysterical”. He...

Sri Lanka President suspends parliament amid political turmoil

Sri Lanka President suspends parliament amid political turmoil

-- 2018-10-27 16:43:34

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has suspended the country's parliament until November 16. Sirisena took the decision on Saturday hours after he sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and...

SA gets $20 billion of investment pledges at confce: Ramaphosa

SA gets $20 billion of investment pledges at confce: Ramaphosa

-- 2018-10-27 14:21:03

Investment commitments of almost 290 billion rand ($20 billion) into the South African economy were made at an investment conference on Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “This is going to...

Suicide bombing claims five lives in central Afghanistan

Suicide bombing claims five lives in central Afghanistan

-- 2018-10-27 13:52:17

At least five people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside a police compound in central Afghan province of Wardak on Saturday, a police s...

Afghans vote in delayed Kandahar elections

Afghans vote in delayed Kandahar elections

-- 2018-10-27 12:49:01

Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar votes in parliamentary elections on Saturday, a week after 32 of the country’s 34 provinces went to the polls, a delay caused by the assassinati...

Khashoggi’s fiancee declines Trump invitation to White House

Khashoggi’s fiancee declines Trump invitation to White House

-- 2018-10-27 12:04:32

The fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says she has declined an invitation to the White House from US President Donald Trump, accusing him of not being sincere about investigating th...