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Indonesia quake death toll mounts to 832

Indonesia quake death toll mounts to 832

-- 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...

FBI contact second accuser of court nominee Kavanaugh

FBI contact second accuser of court nominee Kavanaugh

-- 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...

Iraq’s Kurds start voting in parliamentary election

Iraq’s Kurds start voting in parliamentary election

-- 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...

Indonesia death toll climbs to 420

Indonesia death toll climbs to 420

-- 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...

Israeli troops kill seven Palestinians in Gaza border clash

Israeli troops kill seven Palestinians in Gaza border clash

-- 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...

Maldives election body endorses opposition leader Solih's victory

Maldives election body endorses opposition leader Solih's victory

-- 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...

Leadership threats against May ‘unacceptable’: Major

Leadership threats against May ‘unacceptable’: Major

-- 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...

Burundi suspends local, int’l NGO’s for violating new law

Burundi suspends local, int’l NGO’s for violating new law

-- 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...

Israeli troops kill seven Palestinians at Gaza border

Israeli troops kill seven Palestinians at Gaza border

-- 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...

Trump orders FBI Kavanaugh probe

Trump orders FBI Kavanaugh probe

-- 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...

Death toll reaches 384 after tsunami, quake in Indonesia

Death toll reaches 384 after tsunami, quake in Indonesia

-- 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...

Tsunami warning lifted after 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

Tsunami warning lifted after 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

-- 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...

My only sin is extrajudicial killings: Duterte

My only sin is extrajudicial killings: Duterte

-- 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...

Tanzania gets first ever flyover

Tanzania gets first ever flyover

-- 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...

Trump court pick denies sex assault allegation

Trump court pick denies sex assault allegation

-- 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...

Cameroon separatists raid prison, free dozens before election

Cameroon separatists raid prison, free dozens before election

-- 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...

Rohingya issue should not be ‘internationalised’: China

Rohingya issue should not be ‘internationalised’: China

-- 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...

Mukesh Ambani earns Rs 3.0b per day

Mukesh Ambani earns Rs 3.0b per day

-- 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...

Canada MPs vote to strip Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship

Canada MPs vote to strip Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship

-- 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...

China urges US to stop ‘slander’ after Trump’s election claims

China urges US to stop ‘slander’ after Trump’s election claims

-- 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...

US had no achievements at UNGA: Iran

US had no achievements at UNGA: Iran

-- 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...

France bans smartphones in schools

France bans smartphones in schools

-- 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...

India court approves adultery

India court approves adultery

-- 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...

Russian spy poisoning suspect was ‘honoured by Putin’

Russian spy poisoning suspect was ‘honoured by Putin’

-- 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...

10 members of a family die in Oman house fire

10 members of a family die in Oman house fire

-- 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...

Mexico sentences ex-ruling party governor to nine years in jail

Mexico sentences ex-ruling party governor to nine years in jail

-- 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...

China executes man who killed nine in school stabbing

China executes man who killed nine in school stabbing

-- 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...

Australia’s ABC chair resigns amid row

Australia’s ABC chair resigns amid row

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...

Civil war in South Sudan caused 400,000 ‘excess deaths’: US report

Civil war in South Sudan caused 400,000 ‘excess deaths’: US report

-- 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...

Turkey detains 39 on suspected Gulen links

Turkey detains 39 on suspected Gulen links

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,...