Agencies 2018-10-10 14:05:38
At least five people have died and several are missing in flash flooding on the Spanish island of Mallorca. A huge wave of muddy water engulfed the town of Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, in the east of...
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At least 50 people have been killed after a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road on Wednesday morning, police say. Many reportedly died when the...
-- 2018-10-10 13:18:10
An apartment building collapsed in Bahrain’s capital late on Tuesday leaving at least four people dead and 20 injured, the interior ministry said. Three bodies were found at the site in Manama&...
-- 2018-10-10 11:57:28
A court in Guatemala has sentenced the former vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, to 15 years and six months in jail for her role in what became known as the ‘Magic Water’ scandal. Prosecuto...
-- 2018-10-10 11:25:23
The capital of China’s Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and fuelling “extre...
-- 2018-10-10 11:23:23
At least seven people were killed and about 25 others injured after five coaches of a Delhi-bound train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, officials said. The a...
-- 2018-10-09 20:32:55
The Australian government has unveiled a proposal to force new migrants to live outside Sydney and Melbourne. The policy would aim to ease congestion in Australia's two biggest cities while boosting...
-- 2018-10-09 20:30:28
US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has resigned from her role, the latest departure from US President Donald Trump's national security circle, According to multiple reports, US President...
-- 2018-10-09 20:01:35
A man has been detained over the killing of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova, police say. Viktoria Marinova's body was found in a park in the northern city of Ruse, near the River Danube, on Sa...
-- 2018-10-09 19:57:56
Turkey's foreign ministry has said authorities will search Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in connection with the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Foreign Ministry spokesman of...
-- 2018-10-09 19:22:20
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his Cabinet that medical tests show he doesn't have cancer, though he won't release a detailed public report on his health, officials said Tuesday. Interior...
-- 2018-10-09 19:04:52
Health workers in Indonesia are struggling to care for tens of thousands of people displaced by an earthquake and tsunami, with a lack of shelter and clean water among major problems as the focus turn...
-- 2018-10-09 18:25:22
A rare white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death in its enclosure at a zoo in Japan, officials say. Akira Furusho, 40, was found bleeding from the neck in the tiger's cage at the zoo in the souther...
-- 2018-10-09 13:38:25
Around 10,000 people were evacuated after a fire and explosions hit a defence ministry ammunition depot 176 kms (109 miles) east of the Ukrainian capital Kiev early on Tuesday morning, officials said....
-- 2018-10-09 12:55:36
Turkish authorities detained 90 people on Tuesday over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, the Interior Ministry said. The operation across eight provinces w...
-- 2018-10-09 11:16:23
Protesters in Venezuela have accused the government of murdering a jailed opposition lawmaker, who the authorities say killed himself. Crowds were calling for justice at a rally outside the Sebin int...
-- 2018-10-09 10:08:06
An earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday killed 15 people, injured another 300 and destroyed 40 houses, Jerry Chandler, head of the Caribbean country’s civil protection agency, said on Monday...
-- 2018-10-08 18:13:48
A United Nations (UN) expert said states must accelerate action to address climate change - from solar electricity to climate-friendly agriculture practices - or risk locking in decades of grave human...
-- 2018-10-08 16:01:38
At least four people were killed and over 10,000 affected as strong winds and heavy rains lashed out across Sri Lanka over the weekend, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said in its latest update o...
-- 2018-10-08 14:07:46
The Taliban on Monday directed Afghans to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections and demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as the only solution to end the 17-year-old war as they ramped u...
-- 2018-10-08 13:29:33
South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack him after he admitted to visiting the home of the Gupta brothers, friends of scandal-plagued former lead...
-- 2018-10-08 12:11:20
Torrential rain in Central America that caused floods and landslides have killed 12 people in just a few days, rescue and emergency authorities across the region said on Sunday. Heavy rains that bega...
BBC 2018-10-08 11:55:30
It's the final call, say scientists, the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures. Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C states that the world is...
-- 2018-10-08 10:49:07
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North’s nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main s...
-- 2018-10-08 10:26:59
China’s antigraft watchdog said late on Sunday that the Chinese authorities were investigating Meng Hongwei, the head of the global law enforcement organisation Interpol who had been reported mi...
Reuters 2018-10-08 10:01:03
At least twenty people were killed when a stretch limousine crashed into another vehicle and pedestrians in the parking lot of a store in rural upstate New York, in what federal authorities on Sunday...
-- 2018-10-07 18:00:56
Fears are growing over missing Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi after Turkish officials said they believe he has been murdered. Khashoggi, a Saudi national, went missing after visiting the Saud...
-- 2018-10-07 14:52:14
A Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israelis and wounded a third on Sunday in an industrial park next to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said. The assailant, the mi...
-- 2018-10-07 13:13:17
At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said on Sunday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after T...
-- 2018-10-07 12:55:08
Cameroonians head to the polls on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend the 36-year rule of President Paul Biya and confirm his place as one of Africa’s last multi-decade leaders. A v...
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