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Firefighter dies as flooding hits southern Spain

Firefighter dies as flooding hits southern Spain

-- 2018-10-21 17:55:32

Spanish authorities say a firefighter has died while emergency services are responding to flooding caused by heavy rain in southern Spain. Emergency services for the southern region of Andalusia say...

Angry mob pelts stones at police at site of Indian rail accident

Angry mob pelts stones at police at site of Indian rail accident

-- 2018-10-21 17:40:13

An angry mob threw stones at police on Sunday near the site of a deadly railway accident in north India, demanding immediate financial compensation for the families of the victims and government jobs...

Australia stares at hung parliament

Australia stares at hung parliament

-- 2018-10-21 15:35:28

As the count from a crucial Australian by-election dragged into Sunday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced the possibility that his Liberal party may have been too quick to concede a contest that wou...

'US exit from nuclear treaty would be a dangerous step'

'US exit from nuclear treaty would be a dangerous step'

-- 2018-10-21 15:32:11

Washington’s planned withdrawal from the international Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty would be a very dangerous step, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as sayin...

Iran's Rouhani appoints new economy minister

Iran's Rouhani appoints new economy minister

Reuters 2018-10-21 13:48:04

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appointed Farhad Dejpasand as the new economy and finance minister in a cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, state television reported. Rouhani also appointed a new urban dev...

Woman dies in suspected gas explosion in London

Woman dies in suspected gas explosion in London

-- 2018-10-21 13:45:54

A woman has died in a suspected gas explosion in north-west London. A first-floor flat was destroyed in the blast in Fulbeck Way, Harrow, just before 01:00 BST. Another woman, a man and a baby were...

Israel delays eviction of West Bank Bedouin village

Israel delays eviction of West Bank Bedouin village

-- 2018-10-21 11:32:48

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday postponed the forced eviction of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, a government official said. The fate of Khan al-Ahmar has drawn int...

US will pull out of nuclear treaty with Russia: Trump

US will pull out of nuclear treaty with Russia: Trump

-- 2018-10-21 11:31:11

President Donald Trump has said the United States will exit the Cold-War era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons, in a move that is likely to upset Russ...

New Zealand condemns Khashoggi killing, quits Saudi summit

New Zealand condemns Khashoggi killing, quits Saudi summit

Reuters 2018-10-21 11:30:51

New Zealand condemns the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives and will not be attending an investment summit in Saudi Arabia, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Khasho...

Nigeria market violence leaves 55 dead

Nigeria market violence leaves 55 dead

-- 2018-10-21 11:14:07

Sectarian violence sparked by a spat at a market has left 55 people dead in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Muslim and Christian youths reportedly clashed after...

Trump, Europeans call Saudi account incomplete

Trump, Europeans call Saudi account incomplete

-- 2018-10-21 11:04:14

US President Donald Trump joined European leaders on Saturday in pushing Saudi Arabia for more answers about Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh changed its story and acknowledged that the journalist died ov...

Amnesty slams Saudi explanation over Khashoggi’s death

Amnesty slams Saudi explanation over Khashoggi’s death

-- 2018-10-20 20:46:41

Amnesty International has described Saudi Arabia’s explanation over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul as a whitewash of an appalling assassination. Sam...

Turkey vows to reveal 'truth' on Khashoggi

Turkey vows to reveal 'truth' on Khashoggi

-- 2018-10-20 17:47:28

Turkey has vowed to reveal all details about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time he had been killed in its consulate in Istanbul. "Turkey will ne...

Macedonia votes to change country’s name

Macedonia votes to change country’s name

-- 2018-10-20 15:16:04

Macedonia's parliament has voted to start the constitutional procedure formally changing the country's name to the Republic of North Macedonia. Two-thirds of the chamber - 80 of 120 deputies - backed...

Hundreds of migrants stuck at Mexico-Guatemala border

Hundreds of migrants stuck at Mexico-Guatemala border

-- 2018-10-20 14:54:15

Hundreds of Central American migrants bedded down overnight on a bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico, many squeezed against a metal border gate, as efforts to halt a trek north by a caravan of thou...

Abducted Tanzanian biollionaire returns home safely

Abducted Tanzanian biollionaire returns home safely

-- 2018-10-20 12:47:36

Africa’s youngest billionaire, snatched a week ago off the street outside a luxury hotel in Tanzania, has returned back home safely, the family company that he runs said on Saturday. Mohammed D...

Voting begins in Afghanistan amid chaos, Taliban threats

Voting begins in Afghanistan amid chaos, Taliban threats

-- 2018-10-20 11:25:03

Afghans began voting on Saturday in parliamentary elections overshadowed by chaotic organisation, allegations of corruption and violence that has forced a postponement of the vote in the strategic sou...

Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi’s death in consulate

Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi’s death in consulate

-- 2018-10-20 09:45:02

Saudi Arabia said on Friday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight inside its Istanbul consulate and said it had fired two senior officials over the incident, giving an account that US Presid...

At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India

At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India

Reuters 2018-10-19 21:49:02

A commuter train travelling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on the rail tracks in northern India killing at least 59 people on Friday, state officials said, making it India's worst rail di...

Turkish newspaper names 15 Saudis in Khashoggi case

Turkish newspaper names 15 Saudis in Khashoggi case

-- 2018-10-19 21:14:38

Turkish media have named 15 Saudi nationals who were reportedly involved in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist critical of the government who was last seen entering the...

S Asian countries hail world’s first multilateral air encounter code

S Asian countries hail world’s first multilateral air encounter code

-- 2018-10-19 21:10:36

Southeast Asian countries agreed on Friday to guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft, with host Singapore calling the pact a world first and saying they would encou...

Saudi king checks son's power as Khashoggi crisis deepens

Saudi king checks son's power as Khashoggi crisis deepens

-- 2018-10-19 20:25:28

So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said. Last Thurs...

Venezuelan kid portrays country’s decadence through sketches

Venezuelan kid portrays country’s decadence through sketches

-- 2018-10-19 18:34:40

In one drawing, Lady Justice is seen fleeing Venezuela, a sword in her right hand and a suitcase in the left. In another, a crying boy tells his father he does not want school to start again. His ang...

'Turkey not shared audio recordings of Khashoggi murder with anyone'

'Turkey not shared audio recordings of Khashoggi murder with anyone'

-- 2018-10-19 18:12:24

Turkey has not shared any audio recordings with anyone, dismissing reports that Ankara had passed on audio evidence of the killing of a dissident Saudi journalist to the United States. Foreign Minist...

Election in Afghanisthan gets delayed after police chief gets shot

Election in Afghanisthan gets delayed after police chief gets shot

-- 2018-10-19 17:26:23

Parliamentary elections in the Afghan province of Kandahar have been delayed by a week after the assassination of a powerful local police chief. Gen Abdul Raziq was shot dead by a rogue bodyguard on...

Southeast Asian navies hold drills with China next week

Southeast Asian navies hold drills with China next week

-- 2018-10-19 16:17:34

Southeast Asian navies are heading to their first joint exercises with China in its southern waters next week, and defence officials agreed Friday to conduct a similar drill with the US next year. Si...

Saudi journalist likely dead: Trump

Saudi journalist likely dead: Trump

-- 2018-10-19 15:23:38

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he presumes missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the US response to Saudi Arabia will likely be "very severe" but that he still wanted to g...

Tunisia floods claim five lives

Tunisia floods claim five lives

-- 2018-10-19 13:19:55

Floods following heavy rains from Wednesday evening to Thursday in several provinces of Tunisia caused five dead and two missing, Tunisia's interior ministry said. The heavy rains caused significant...

Top Afghan official killed, Taliban claims responsibility

Top Afghan official killed, Taliban claims responsibility

-- 2018-10-18 21:05:17

Gen Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan's most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor's compound in the southern province of K...

London’s black cabs soon to ply Paris roads

London’s black cabs soon to ply Paris roads

-- 2018-10-18 17:05:05

London's black cabs will be seen on the streets of Paris next year as the company that makes them begins selling its wares in the City of Light. London Electric Vehicle Co., which makes plug-in elect...