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Ghana bids farewell to former  UN chief Kofi Annan

Ghana bids farewell to former UN chief Kofi Annan

-- 2018-09-13 20:15:54

Ghana bid farewell to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday in a state funeral attended by African leaders and international statesmen who hailed his record as an advocate for humanity an...

ICC decision on crimes against Rohingyas offers real hope: UN  

ICC decision on crimes against Rohingyas offers real hope: UN  

-- 2018-09-13 17:55:31

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) offers real hope for accountability for the crimes committe...

Six die in California linked shootings

Six die in California linked shootings

-- 2018-09-13 17:24:34

Six people have been killed in linked shootings in the city of Bakersfield in California on Wednesday, said police. A man and his wife drove to a trucking business in the city, where the man shot dea...

Suu Kyi defends jailing of Reuters journalists

Suu Kyi defends jailing of Reuters journalists

-- 2018-09-13 16:26:33

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists, despite international condemnation, reports BBC. She said Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had broken the law and their convict...

Truck falls into river in Mali, killing 20

Truck falls into river in Mali, killing 20

-- 2018-09-13 15:16:27

At least 20 people were killed in central Mali when a truck fell into a river after a suspected brake failure, the Malian government said on Wednesday. The incident in the West African country’...

Sri Lanka to ban animal sacrifice at Hindu temples

Sri Lanka to ban animal sacrifice at Hindu temples

-- 2018-09-13 13:19:59

Sri Lanka's government has agreed to ban the ritual sacrifice of animals and birds at Hindu temples after growing protests from the country’s Buddhist majority and moderate Hindus. The cabinet...

Poland pledges to block EU sanctions against Hungary

Poland pledges to block EU sanctions against Hungary

-- 2018-09-13 12:59:28

Poland, the biggest former communist country in the European Union, said it will oppose any sanctions imposed by the bloc on fellow member Hungary, accused of floating EU rules on democracy. &ldquo...

Russia ready to take steps for improving ties with US: Lavrov

Russia ready to take steps for improving ties with US: Lavrov

-- 2018-09-13 12:30:13

Moscow is ready to do what it can to break the impasse in relations between Russia and the United States, and is taking seriously President Donald Trump’s willingness to forge a normal dialogue,...

US invites China to trade talks as tariffs loom

US invites China to trade talks as tariffs loom

-- 2018-09-13 10:59:07

The Trump administration has invited Chinese officials to restart trade talks, the White House’s top economic adviser said on Wednesday, as Washington prepares to further escalate the US-China t...

Maduro heads to key financier China, eyes fresh loans

Maduro heads to key financier China, eyes fresh loans

-- 2018-09-13 10:45:24

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is travelling to China to discuss economic agreements, as the crisis-struck OPEC nation seeks to convince its key Asian financier to disburse fresh loans. “I...

Rakhine issue could have been handled better: Suu Kyi

Rakhine issue could have been handled better: Suu Kyi

-- 2018-09-13 10:31:03

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said in hindsight her government could have handled the situation in Rakhine state better. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Rakhine after government troo...

11 die as car deliberately ploughs into China crowd

11 die as car deliberately ploughs into China crowd

-- 2018-09-13 10:19:31

At least 11 people were killed and 44 others injured after a car plowed into a crowded square in southern China and the driver attacked people with a knife and spade seeking “revenge” on...

'Florence' weakens, but remains life-threatening

'Florence' weakens, but remains life-threatening

Reuters 2018-09-13 09:56:47

Hurricane Florence weakened into a Category 2 hurricane as it moved towards east coast of the United States, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday, but a life-threatening storm su...

European Parliament votes to punish Hungary

European Parliament votes to punish Hungary

-- 2018-09-12 20:03:37

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to punish Hungary over alleged breaches of the European Union's core values. More than two-third members of the parliament backed the censure motion - the f...

Philippines braces for most powerful typhoon  this year

Philippines braces for most powerful typhoon this year

-- 2018-09-12 19:08:31

Philippine officials say they plan to evacuate thousands of villagers, shut down schools and offices and scramble to harvest rice and corn as the most powerful typhoon so far this year menacingly roar...

Suicide attack kills six, wounds 42 in Iraq

Suicide attack kills six, wounds 42 in Iraq

-- 2018-09-12 18:43:45

At least six people were killed and 42 wounded in a suicide bombing near the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday. A suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives at a restaurant on a highway, polic...

2017 was rough for humanity: Study

2017 was rough for humanity: Study

-- 2018-09-12 18:07:53

In fact, humanity just had its gloomiest year in more than a decade, according to a new survey of the emotional lives of more than 154,000 people around the world. More people reported negative exper...

Erdogan becomes chairman of Turkey wealth fund

Erdogan becomes chairman of Turkey wealth fund

-- 2018-09-12 16:21:49

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has become chairman of the country’s sovereign wealth fund company and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has become deputy chairman, decisions published in the Off...

India nabs man suspected of killing 33 truck drivers, helpers

India nabs man suspected of killing 33 truck drivers, helpers

-- 2018-09-12 15:53:04

Indian police have arrested a 48-year-old man who they say has confessed to killing 33 truck drivers and their helpers over the past decade, then selling the vehicles and the goods they were carryin...

Japan peace treaty proposal is no joke, says Putin

Japan peace treaty proposal is no joke, says Putin

-- 2018-09-12 14:42:27

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he was not joking when he proposed that he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sign a peace treaty by the end of the year.   Russia and...

Nine miners die in coalmine blast in Pakistan

Nine miners die in coalmine blast in Pakistan

-- 2018-09-12 14:21:24

At least nine miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine near the northwestern town of Kohat in Pakistan on Wednesday, a government official said. Senior government official Khalid Ilyas sai...

US voices concern over China’s crackdown on Muslims

US voices concern over China’s crackdown on Muslims

-- 2018-09-12 14:15:37

The US State Department expressed deep concern over China’s “worsening crackdown” on minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region, as the Trump administration considered sanctions against...

Pakistan releases ex-PM Sharif, daughter for wife's funeral

Pakistan releases ex-PM Sharif, daughter for wife's funeral

-- 2018-09-12 13:47:01

Pakistani authorities on Wednesday temporarily released former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter from prison to attend funeral services for his wife, Kulsoom, who died of cancer the day bef...

Conservative MPs discuss ousting UK PM May

Conservative MPs discuss ousting UK PM May

-- 2018-09-12 13:18:05

A group of about 50 lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government who oppose her proposals for a post-Brexit deal with the European Union have met to discuss how and when they cou...

Pro-whaling nations block South Atlantic sanctuary proposal

Pro-whaling nations block South Atlantic sanctuary proposal

-- 2018-09-12 12:03:29

A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil. Japan and several other pro-whaling countries vote...

UN accuses Myanmar of silencing journalism

UN accuses Myanmar of silencing journalism

Reuters 2018-09-12 11:50:12

Military and government officials in Myanmar have waged a “political campaign” to quash independent journalism, arresting and prosecuting many through the use of vague and overly broad law...

Putin to plan meeting with Mexico’s president-elect

Putin to plan meeting with Mexico’s president-elect

-- 2018-09-12 11:19:18

Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking into a possible meeting with Mexican President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador late this year in Mexico or Argentina, Russian news agency Tass reported on...

Jailed Lula pulls out of Brazil presidential race

Jailed Lula pulls out of Brazil presidential race

-- 2018-09-12 10:49:03

Jailed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pulled out of next month's presidential election, allowing his running mate Fernando Haddad to stand in his place. Workers Party presid...

California to stop using fossil fuel for producing electricity

California to stop using fossil fuel for producing electricity

-- 2018-09-11 21:26:02

California has set a goal of phasing out electricity produced by fossil fuels by 2045 under legislation signed Monday by Governor Jerry Brown, who said the policy should serve as a model for other sta...

Kim wants another meeting with Trump

Kim wants another meeting with Trump

-- 2018-09-11 20:40:57

US President Donald Trump received a “very warm, very positive” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asking for a second meeting and the White House is looking at scheduling one, Wh...