-- 2018-09-17 11:31:30
A Japanese submarine joined a naval drill in the South China Sea for the first time, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday, in an escalation of Japanese activity in the disputed waterway claimed by C...
-- 2018-09-17 10:36:31
Deadly storm Florence drenched North Carolina with more downpours on Sunday, cutting off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fi...
-- 2018-09-16 22:15:02
At least 100 Myanmar youth activists and journalists called for the release of two jailed Reuters journalists on Sunday, warning that the seven-year prison terms handed to the pair this month threaten...
-- 2018-09-16 19:16:18
French police closed off part of the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris on Sunday as bomb disposal officers used a sniffer dog and robot to investigate a suspect vehicle, before determining there was n...
-- 2018-09-16 17:10:53
Typhoon Mangkhut is lashing China's most populous province, bringing winds of up to 100 mph (162 kph). Guangdong is on its highest alert for the storm, which swept in from Hong Kong where it swayed s...
-- 2018-09-16 16:00:51
London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for another referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, saying the prime minister’s handling of Brexit negotiations had become “mired in con...
-- 2018-09-16 14:45:28
A US Border Patrol agent has been arrested in the state of Texas on suspicion of killing four women. Officers began looking for Juan David Ortiz in the city of Laredo after a fifth woman allegedly es...
-- 2018-09-16 13:58:15
China on Sunday accused Taiwan’s spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of “infiltration” and “sabotage”, and warned the island against fu...
FE Online Desk 2018-09-16 13:57:20
A three-day long knowledge-sharing event on 'Engaging CSOs in Advancing the SDGs' begins in Tokyo on September 26, according to ADBI. The main objective of the forum is to discuss the contr...
-- 2018-09-16 12:09:36
Nigeria's finance minister has resigned over allegations she used a forged certificate to avoid the country's mandatory one-year youth service scheme. Kemi Adeosun, who lived in the UK until she was...
-- 2018-09-16 12:01:25
Pope Francis expelled a Chilean priest under investigation in a case involving the sexual abuse of children, according to a report by local media on Saturday, amid a growing global abuse scandal that...
-- 2018-09-16 11:44:02
Tropical Storm Florence dumped “epic” amounts of rain on North and South Carolina as it trudged inland on Saturday, knocking out power and causing at least eight deaths as flood waters tha...
-- 2018-09-16 10:38:37
At least 25 people have been killed in the Philippines in a trail of devastation left by Typhoon Mangkhut, mostly in landslides in mountainous areas, a presidential adviser said on Sunday. Twenty dea...
-- 2018-09-15 14:54:14
The Russian Orthodox Church has effectively cut diplomatic relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which has authority over the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians. It follows signs th...
-- 2018-09-15 14:21:52
Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant mercy, the justice minister said on Saturda...
-- 2018-09-15 12:26:24
A helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, officials said on Saturday, but ruled out a militant attack. A wave of ass...
-- 2018-09-15 10:53:14
Gunmen with rifles and pistols killed three people on Friday and injured at least seven in a tourist plaza in downtown Mexico City, police said, adding that they were chasing three men dressed as mari...
-- 2018-09-15 10:43:38
A strong typhoon packing winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) tore across the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and causing widespread power and communications outages....
-- 2018-09-15 10:41:04
Hurricane Florence ploughed into the Carolinas and lumbered slowly inland on Friday, knocking down trees, gorging rivers, dumping sheets of rain and leaving five people dead before it was downgraded t...
-- 2018-09-14 21:37:49
Some 8,000 people were prevented from returning home in Boston suburbs on Friday as investigators scrambled to find out the cause of dozens of gas explosions that killed at least one person and injure...
-- 2018-09-14 18:54:12
Hurricane Florence has made landfall on the US East Coast, bringing with it winds, heavy rains and warnings of "catastrophic" floods. The centre of the storm struck Wrightsville Beach in North Caroli...
-- 2018-09-14 17:32:49
A dangerous storm is expected to land shortly in the US East Coast, where it has already brought flooding and destructive gales. Hurricane Florence, packing winds of up to 90mph (150 km/h), is first...
-- 2018-09-14 15:35:35
At least 13 people died and 13 others were injured, seven of them seriously after a minibus plunged 300 feet into a deep gorge near the Chenab river in the mountainous Kishtwar district of Jammu and K...
-- 2018-09-14 15:01:05
Hungary’s government will decide on Monday on legal steps to challenge a European parliament ruling against the country for flouting democratic standards, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Fri...
-- 2018-09-14 13:43:53
Sudan’s ruling party named new ministers to the key posts of finance, interior and water resources on Thursday, days after President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the government amid a deepening econ...
-- 2018-09-14 12:28:38
The Indian government has banned 328 combination drugs in a blow to both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms, but the ban has been cheered by health activists worried about growing antibiotic re...
-- 2018-09-14 11:59:45
Thousands of people have begun evacuating from coastal areas of the Philippines as a super typhoon heads towards the country. Typhoon Mangkhut, which is currently a Category 4 hurricane, is due to ma...
-- 2018-09-14 11:20:52
Dozens of explosions, apparently triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture, rocked three communities near Boston on Thursday, killing at least one person, injuring 12, officials said. The blasts le...
-- 2018-09-14 11:18:30
Heavy rain, gusting winds and rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence deluged the Carolinas on Thursday as the massive, slow-moving storm crept toward the coastline, threatening millions of people...
-- 2018-09-14 10:22:31
The United Nations listed 38 "shameful" countries, including China and Russia, which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against people cooperating with it on human rights through killin...
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