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Russia, India set to sign $5.0b missile deal

Russia, India set to sign $5.0b missile deal

-- 2018-10-03 18:17:29

Russia and India are set to sign a deal worth more than five billion dollars on the delivery of Russian S-400 missile systems to New Delhi, according to the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Three scientists win Nobel prize in chemistry

Three scientists win Nobel prize in chemistry

-- 2018-10-03 16:29:38

American scientists Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and British scientist Gregory P. Winter won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research using directed evolution to produce enzymes for new c...

34 migrants die in Mediterranean shipwreck, UN says

34 migrants die in Mediterranean shipwreck, UN says

-- 2018-10-03 16:04:15

At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency. Moroc...

US to use cyber capabilities on behalf of NATO

US to use cyber capabilities on behalf of NATO

-- 2018-10-03 14:30:57

The United States is expected to announce in the coming days that it will use offensive and defensive cyber capabilities on behalf of NATO if asked, a senior Pentagon official said, amid concerns abou...

Saudi King wouldn't last for two weeks without US support, Trump says

Saudi King wouldn't last for two weeks without US support, Trump says

-- 2018-10-03 13:10:51

President Donald Trump made an undiplomatic remark about close ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, saying he warned Saudi Arabia’s King Salman he would not last in power “for two weeks” wi...

Australia ends controversial 'tampon tax'

Australia ends controversial 'tampon tax'

-- 2018-10-03 12:40:31

Australia will remove a controversial tax on female sanitary products following years of campaigning by women's groups. Currently, tampons and sanitary pads are sold with a 10 per cent goods and serv...

French cops recapture gangster three months after prison escape

French cops recapture gangster three months after prison escape

-- 2018-10-03 12:24:10

Redoine Faid, a French gangster who broke out of jail using a hijacked helicopter in July, has been recaptured, police sources say. The country's most wanted fugitive, he was detained north of Paris,...

Fire breaks out at Kolkata medical college

Fire breaks out at Kolkata medical college

-- 2018-10-03 10:13:34

Hundreds of patients were evacuated safely on Wednesday after a fire broke out in the pharmacy building of the Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, officials said. At least ten fire engines were p...

Three scientists win Nobel in physics for laser breakthroughs

Three scientists win Nobel in physics for laser breakthroughs

-- 2018-10-02 16:41:31

Three scientists have won the 2018 Nobel prize in physics for breakthroughs on high intensity lasers. Arthur Ashkin from the United States, Gérard Mourou from France, and Donna Strickland from...

US airstrike kills nine militants in Somalia

US airstrike kills nine militants in Somalia

-- 2018-10-02 16:00:24

The US military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle between US and Somali government troops and al Shabaab Islamist fighters. R...

‘Italy won’t change budget deficit goal despite EU pressure’

‘Italy won’t change budget deficit goal despite EU pressure’

-- 2018-10-02 14:00:03

Italy will not change its budget deficit targets despite pressure from Brussels and its European Union partners, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday. Italy last week targeted the defi...

ASEAN expresses concern over Rakhine violence

ASEAN expresses concern over Rakhine violence

-- 2018-10-02 13:36:14

Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged Myanmar to give a commission of inquiry into the violence in Rakhine state full mandate to hold those who are responsible accountable, Singapore said on Tuesday...

Death toll from Indonesia's quake, tsunami hits 1,234

Death toll from Indonesia's quake, tsunami hits 1,234

Reuters 2018-10-02 13:28:46

The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday. A 7.5 magnitude ear...

Turkey orders arrest of 417 suspects in money laundering probe

Turkey orders arrest of 417 suspects in money laundering probe

-- 2018-10-02 13:06:46

Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 417 suspects in a money laundering investigation over the transfer of some 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) to bank accounts abroad, broadcaster CNN Turk sa...

13 die in Sierra Leone military truck crash

13 die in Sierra Leone military truck crash

-- 2018-10-02 12:24:25

Thirteen people were killed and at least 30 more injured when a military transport truck flipped over on a major road in the Sierra Leone capital on Monday, a military spokesman said.  The open-...

War's end can't be bargaining chip for denuclearisation: N Korea

War's end can't be bargaining chip for denuclearisation: N Korea

-- 2018-10-02 11:40:05

North Korea said on Tuesday that declaring the end of the 1950-53 Korean War “can never be a bargaining chip” for getting North Korea denuclearised, and said the country “will not pa...

Indonesia hopes for survivors even as scale of disaster emerges

Indonesia hopes for survivors even as scale of disaster emerges

-- 2018-10-02 11:25:25

The extent of the devastation caused by an earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi should become clearer on Tuesday as rescuers push into remote areas that have been out of contact...

Bootleg alcohol kills 42, poisons hundreds in Iran

Bootleg alcohol kills 42, poisons hundreds in Iran

-- 2018-10-02 11:15:56

At least 42 people have died after drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol in Iran, a government spokesman said. Health ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi said 16 people had gone blind and 170 had underg...

US urges Myanmar to hold security forces accountable

US urges Myanmar to hold security forces accountable

-- 2018-10-01 21:17:06

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Myanmar's government to take concrete steps to investigate human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims, reports Reuters. The US Secretary of State also asked...

Central figure in Nobel scandal gets prison sentence for rape   

Central figure in Nobel scandal gets prison sentence for rape  

-- 2018-10-01 18:01:22

A Swedish court found Jean-Claude Arnault, at the centre of a scandal that has rocked the body that awards the Nobel literature prize, guilty of rape and sentenced him to two years' jail on Monday. T...

Australia terms Rakhine situation ‘deeply disturbing’

Australia terms Rakhine situation ‘deeply disturbing’

-- 2018-10-01 17:25:10

Australia has described the situations in Myanmar's Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states 'deeply disturbing' and condemned the atrocities committed. During the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rig...

Nuke plant unit in China with Russian assistance awaits operation

Nuke plant unit in China with Russian assistance awaits operation

-- 2018-10-01 16:56:40

The unit 4 of China's Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant being constructed with technical assistance from Atomstroyexpor (ASE), Engineering Division of Rosatom, Russia, is going into operation soon. The fir...

UK can cope with no-deal Brexit, Hammond says

UK can cope with no-deal Brexit, Hammond says

-- 2018-10-01 15:15:23

British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday the United Kingdom had the fiscal capacity to cope with leaving the European Union without any agreement but believed the mood in Brussels was to...

Desperate search for Indonesia tsunami survivors

Desperate search for Indonesia tsunami survivors

-- 2018-10-01 11:41:58

A picture of large scale destruction is emerging in the Indonesian city of Palu, after a quake and tsunami struck on Friday. At least 832 people are confirmed to have died but the figure is expected...

Seven die in Guatemala prison riot

Seven die in Guatemala prison riot

-- 2018-10-01 11:34:28

At least seven people were shot dead and four were wounded in a prison riot in Guatemala, according to local authorities, who said they had wrested back control. The riot spun out of a brawl among pr...

Powerful typhoon batters Japan, two dead

Powerful typhoon batters Japan, two dead

-- 2018-10-01 11:01:45

A powerful typhoon brought down trees onto railroad tracks and kicked up debris across Tokyo as it brushed past the Japanese capital early on Monday, killing two people and stranding thousands as trai...

Death sentence for three in Iran for committing financial crimes

Death sentence for three in Iran for committing financial crimes

-- 2018-09-30 20:57:37

Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death, state television reported Sunday, as the country faces renewed US sanctions and a public outcry against p...

'Malaysia will not support Suu Kyi anymore'

'Malaysia will not support Suu Kyi anymore'

-- 2018-09-30 16:48:20

Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia will no longer support the leadership of Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her role over the Rohingya crisis in her country. Mahathi...

Nigeria's Buhari gets party nod to run for second term

Nigeria's Buhari gets party nod to run for second term

-- 2018-09-30 15:07:47

Nigeria’s ruling party has nominated President Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate to stand for re-election in February 2019, a spokesman for Buhari said late on Saturday. Buhari had run unoppose...

Thousands protest against Brazil far-right presidential candidate

Thousands protest against Brazil far-right presidential candidate

-- 2018-09-30 14:04:03

Tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets of Brazil to protest against the far-right presidential election front-runner Jair Bolsonaro. The words Ele Nao (not him) were seen on stickers an...