-- 2018-09-30 13:50:47
The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soared on Sunday to 832 confirmed dead, with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from...
-- 2018-09-30 13:25:37
FBI agents investigating US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have contacted the second woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct, her attorney said on Saturday. The announcement by Deborah Ramire...
-- 2018-09-30 13:14:07
Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, a year after a failed bid for independence. With opposition parties weak, the Kurdistan Demo...
-- 2018-09-30 10:32:44
More than 400 people were confirmed killed, many swept away as tsunami waves triggered by a massive earthquake crashed into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and authorities expected the toll to rise...
-- 2018-09-29 18:27:59
Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half...
-- 2018-09-29 17:54:24
The Elections Commission of Maldives has officially declared opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih winner of the country’s national election. Solih defeated incumbent president Abdulla Yameen...
-- 2018-09-29 15:31:39
Taunts being made against Theresa May and "routine attacks" on her leadership by some Tory MPs are "completely unacceptable", Sir John Major has said. The former British PM called those challenging M...
-- 2018-09-29 14:44:53
Burundi has suspended some local and international non-governmental organisations for three months for violating a new law, a senior government official said. The move could deepen opposition concern...
-- 2018-09-29 11:57:08
Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half...
-- 2018-09-29 11:04:26
President Donald Trump, under intense pressure from moderates in his own party over his Supreme Court nominee, on Friday ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett K...
-- 2018-09-29 10:38:07
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to 384 on Saturday, authorities said, with many of those killed swept away by giant waves as they played on t...
-- 2018-09-28 18:43:56
A major 7.7 magnitude earth quake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert hours after a milder quake brought down houses in the same area, and officials expec...
-- 2018-09-28 16:43:26
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time that extrajudicial killings had happened under his government’s brutal war on drugs. Duterte came up with the statement in a...
-- 2018-09-28 16:02:51
Tanzania has opened its first ever flyover in the business capital, Dar es Salaam. It has been named after Roads Agency CEO Patrick Mfugale, who is widely credited for improving Tanzania's roads. Th...
-- 2018-09-28 15:57:46
Fighting to salvage his US Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily denied on Thursday a university professor’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago in a day of dramat...
-- 2018-09-28 15:23:03
Separatist militants raided a prison in northwestern Cameroon and freed about 100 inmates, the government and separatists said on Thursday, as the rebels vowed to block next month’s presidenti...
-- 2018-09-28 14:20:47
The Rohingya issue should not be complicated, expanded or "internationalised", China's top diplomat said, as the United Nations prepares to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights abuses in...
-- 2018-09-28 14:16:06
Mukesh Ambani, managing director of Reliance Industries, earned Rs 3.0 billion per day over the past one year, according to a report by Barclays Hurun India Rich List 2018. With a wealth of Rs...
-- 2018-09-28 13:04:01
Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingy...
-- 2018-09-27 21:23:08
China has accused US President Donald Trump of "slander" after he accused Beijing of trying to meddle in upcoming US congressional elections, reports Al Jazeera. Trump told a UN Security Council (UNS...
-- 2018-09-27 21:22:00
The United States (US) was not able to register any achievements at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting which took place this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, re...
-- 2018-09-27 21:20:38
The eighth-grade girls already know what to expect from France's new smartphone ban in all primary and middle schools because their school voluntarily instituted one last year, reports The New York Ti...
-- 2018-09-27 18:51:30
India's top court has ruled adultery is no longer a crime, striking down a 158-year-old colonial-era law which it said treated women as male property, reports BBC. Previously any man who had sex with...
-- 2018-09-27 15:30:53
A Russian man accused of the Salisbury poisoning is a military officer who received an honour from Vladimir Putin, an investigative website says. Following the attempted poisoning in March, UK invest...
-- 2018-09-27 13:20:10
Police in Oman say 10 members of a single family have died after suffocating in a fire at their home in the sultanate. The Royal Oman Police said on Twitter on Thursday that the fire happened at a ho...
-- 2018-09-27 11:53:38
A disgraced former state governor from Mexico’s ruling party was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday for money laundering and links to organised crime in a case that public auditors s...
-- 2018-09-27 10:48:33
China has executed a man on Thursday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China’s Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a...
BBC 2018-09-27 10:30:51
The chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has resigned following allegations of political interference. Justin Milne resigned from the national broadcaster amid reports he had ask...
-- 2018-09-26 19:20:45
South Sudan's civil war has caused nearly 400,000 "excess deaths" since fighting erupted in late 2013, a new report funded by the US State Department said Wednesday after years of uncertainty. The re...
Reuters 2018-09-26 14:29:51
Turkish authorities detained 33 soldiers and six others for suspected links to the network of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen — whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating the 2016 attempted coup,...
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