-- 2018-09-08 15:35:17
Egypt has sentenced 75 people to death, including prominent Islamist leaders, over a 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters, judicial sources said on...
-- 2018-09-08 14:58:35
The UK and France have failed to agree a deal to end a dispute over scallop fishing in the English Channel. Crews clashed in the waters last month over laws that allow British boats to gather scallop...
-- 2018-09-08 14:34:43
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage from the quake...
-- 2018-09-08 13:54:29
The United States constantly sends messages to Iran to begin negotiations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday in a speech broadcast on state television. Tensions ramped up between Iran...
-- 2018-09-08 12:24:39
Former US President Barack Obama assailed President Donald Trump and Republicans on Friday, urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore...
-- 2018-09-08 11:23:56
The former Trump adviser whose remarks in a London pub sparked the US inquiry into possible collusion with Russia has been sentenced to 14 days in jail. George Papadopoulos, 31, told the court in Was...
-- 2018-09-07 21:08:29
Myanmar has claimed that two journalists of Reuters got punishment from an independent court that followed due process. Myanmar’s government spokesman Zaw Htay came up with the statement at a n...
-- 2018-09-07 19:36:48
Amnesty International has welcomed a ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishing its jurisdiction over alleged crimes against Rohingya people by Myanmar military. On Thursday, the I...
-- 2018-09-07 19:21:53
A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed at his head as his family lay dead all ar...
-- 2018-09-07 16:27:40
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Asian giants. The summit will take place during Xi’s worki...
-- 2018-09-07 14:44:41
The bodies of at least 166 people have been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, prosecutors said on Thursday, the latest in a string of grim discoveries made in the eastern region in recent years....
-- 2018-09-07 11:47:46
US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stressed on Thursday that he believes the judiciary has broad authority to check the power of the White House, but refused to criticise the man who selected hi...
-- 2018-09-07 11:28:23
A front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has been stabbed during a campaign rally. The far-right politician was attacked in the midst of a crowd in the south-eastern state of...
-- 2018-09-07 10:24:24
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido doubled to at least 16, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, with more than half the island’s...
-- 2018-09-06 21:35:10
North Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line to achieve denuclearization, aiming for the end of US President Donald Trump's first term, and has agreed to a third summit with his South Korea...
-- 2018-09-06 21:18:24
Russia's military chief of staff says that the military exercises that begin next week, expected to be the biggest in three decades, will involve nearly 300,000 troops. The Vostok 2018 exercises in c...
-- 2018-09-06 18:16:01
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday rejected the latest appeal by jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he be allowed to run in next month’s election, reports Reuters....
-- 2018-09-06 16:43:59
A military court in South Sudan has sentenced 10 soldiers to jail terms ranging from seven years to life for raping foreign aid workers and murdering a local journalist. The court also ordered South...
-- 2018-09-06 15:58:22
Beijing expressed anger on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation...
-- 2018-09-06 13:36:12
Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders reopened Ethiopia’s embassy in the Eritrean capital Asmara on Thursday, state affiliated Ethiopian Fana Broadcasting said. Reuters reported citing Fana Broadcasti...
-- 2018-09-06 12:56:05
A suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shi’ite neighbourhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists at the site killed at l...
-- 2018-09-06 12:55:26
The Supreme Court of India lifted a colonial-era ban on gay sex on Thursday, in a landmark judgement activists hope will improve rights for the LGBT community in the country. A five-judge panel in th...
-- 2018-09-06 11:53:01
Many senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump offic...
-- 2018-09-06 11:14:39
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during US President Donald Trump’s first term, as he agreed to hold a third summit with his South Korean counte...
-- 2018-09-06 10:28:51
At least two people were killed and 38 went missing after a powerful earthquake paralysed Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday, media reported, but the death toll was likely to rise a...
-- 2018-09-05 17:20:49
Two Russian nationals have been named as suspects in the attempted murder of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. There is ‘sufficient evidence’ to charge Alexander P...
-- 2018-09-05 14:32:13
Iran's official IRNA news agency reports that an elevator at a construction site plummeted multiple floors, killing six construction workers in the capital Tehran. Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Teh...
-- 2018-09-05 11:07:04
Turkey cannot fulfil unlawful requests” regarding US Pastor Andrew Brunson’s ongoing case, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Hurriyet newspaper early on Wednesda...
Reuters 2018-09-05 10:42:22
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on Myanmar’s government to reverse a court ruling that imprisoned two Reuters journalists for seven years and to release them immediately. The journali...
-- 2018-09-05 10:39:06
A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana and Mississippi as Tropical Storm Gordon batters the US Gulf Coast. Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border, the National...
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