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Typhoon ‘Jebi’ claims 10 lives in Japan

Typhoon ‘Jebi’ claims 10 lives in Japan

-- 2018-09-05 09:55:42

A powerful typhoon killed 10 people in western Japan and an airport company started to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government said on Wednesday, as mor...

Typhoon ‘Jebi’ lashes Japan

Typhoon ‘Jebi’ lashes Japan

-- 2018-09-04 20:10:41

Japan has been hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, with officials warning more than a million people to evacuate their homes. Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western areas, bringing heavy rain an...

Arif Alvi becomes new president of Pakistan

Arif Alvi becomes new president of Pakistan

-- 2018-09-04 18:36:28

Dr Arif Alvi of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has become 13th President of Pakistan, according to unofficial and unconfirmed result. The ruling PTI with the support of its allied parties nominated t...

Flyover collapses in Kolkata, five dead and several trapped

Flyover collapses in Kolkata, five dead and several trapped

-- 2018-09-04 18:20:07

Five people died as flyover collapsed following heavy rains in Kolkata, the capital of India's West Bengal state, on Tuesday. Authorities said several people are feared trapped under the debris. The...

Iran to continue crude oil export despite US pressure: Rouhani

Iran to continue crude oil export despite US pressure: Rouhani

-- 2018-09-04 18:18:57

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country will continue exporting crude oil despite US efforts to stop it through sanctions, reports AP. Speaking to a group of oil officials on Tuesday, Rouha...

France’s Macron to reshuffle cabinet

France’s Macron to reshuffle cabinet

-- 2018-09-04 16:02:16

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes to draw a line under a raft of troubles plaguing his 16-month-old presidency and to re-energise his economic reform drive with a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. M...

Duterte withdraws amnesty for opposition senator, orders arrest

Duterte withdraws amnesty for opposition senator, orders arrest

-- 2018-09-04 13:55:02

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew amnesty for an opposition senator involved in a failed coup 15 years ago and ordered his arrest, in what would be the second detention of a law...

Blast at South African munitions depot kills eight

Blast at South African munitions depot kills eight

-- 2018-09-04 12:58:46

At least eight people were killed in an explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, but the cause of the incident was still unknown, a fire and rescue official said...

Indian Air Force jet crashes, pilot safe

Indian Air Force jet crashes, pilot safe

-- 2018-09-04 12:45:37

An Indian Air Force MiG 27 fighter jet has crashed in a field near Jodhpur city in Rajasthan state during a routine mission. The jet burst into flames and was completely destroyed in the crash, Ind...

Congo top court excludes rival leader from presidential election

Congo top court excludes rival leader from presidential election

-- 2018-09-04 11:57:43

Democratic Republic of Congo’s top court on Monday definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December’s presidential election because of a witness tampering conviction...

Founder of militant Haqqani network dies, says Taliban

Founder of militant Haqqani network dies, says Taliban

Reuters 2018-09-04 11:30:34

Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, one of the most powerful and feared groups in the Afghan insurgency, has died after a long illness, the Taliban announced on Tuesday. H...

Japan braces for typhoon Jebi, issues evacuation advisories

Japan braces for typhoon Jebi, issues evacuation advisories

-- 2018-09-04 11:06:43

Japan issued evacuation advisories for almost 300,000 people and cancelled hundreds of flights in the face of strong winds and heavy rain as typhoon Jebi roared north and was set to make landfall late...

Rohingya issue not there in Bimstec Summit agenda

Rohingya issue not there in Bimstec Summit agenda

-- 2018-09-03 17:19:45

Bimstec Secretary General Shahidul Islam on Monday said there was no scope to formally discuss the Rohingya issue in the 4th Bimstec Summit held in Kathmandu on August 30-31 as no Member State of the...

Myanmar verdict a 'major step backward': Reuters

Myanmar verdict a 'major step backward': Reuters

-- 2018-09-03 11:26:49

Myanmar’s verdict on Monday jailing two Reuters reporters for seven years on charges of breaching an official secrets act is a major step backward in the southeast Asian nation’s transitio...

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator ‘strongly’ opposes May’s plan

EU’s chief Brexit negotiator ‘strongly’ opposes May’s plan

-- 2018-09-03 11:15:17

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is "strongly" opposed to key parts of Theresa May's proposals for a future trade deal. This morning the prime minister said she would not c...

Some 400 prisoners escape jail amid chaos in Libya’s Tripoli

Some 400 prisoners escape jail amid chaos in Libya’s Tripoli

-- 2018-09-03 11:06:31

Some 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in Libya's capital on Sunday while fighting between rival armed groups raged nearby, a judiciary official said as the United Nations called for the warring parti...

Myanmar jails two Reuters  journos for seven years in state secrets case

Myanmar jails two Reuters journos for seven years in state secrets case

-- 2018-09-03 10:33:22

A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced them to seven years in prison, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress towards de...

Deadly fire hits Rio's 200-year old National Museum

Deadly fire hits Rio's 200-year old National Museum

Agencies 2018-09-03 10:07:47

A huge fire has broken out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Firefighters are tackling the blaze at the building, which contains...

Khamenei says war unlikely but calls for boosting Iran’s defences

Khamenei says war unlikely but calls for boosting Iran’s defences

-- 2018-09-02 21:49:22

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday war was unlikely but called on Iran's armed forces to boost their defence capacities, according to his official website, as the country fac...

Suicide bomber attacks govt office in Somalia, school collapses

Suicide bomber attacks govt office in Somalia, school collapses

-- 2018-09-02 18:36:50

A suicide bomber on Sunday attacked a government office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, causing a nearby school to collapse, said police. The car bomb in Howlwadag district killed three soldiers an...

Myanmar now seeking donation to resolve Rohingya crisis

Myanmar now seeking donation to resolve Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-09-02 17:48:02

Though Myanmar apparently delaying Rohingya repatriation process, it is now seeking donation through its missions abroad to give what it says a helping hand in resolving the Rakhine State issue. "To...

Five hurt as plane skids off runway at Kathmandu Airport

Five hurt as plane skids off runway at Kathmandu Airport

-- 2018-09-02 17:15:37

A domestic aircraft of a private air service provider skidded off the runway of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, injuring five passengers on board, reports NDTV. "The Aircraft bear...

Three die in Afghanistan chopper crash

Three die in Afghanistan chopper crash

-- 2018-09-02 15:10:38

An Afghan official says a foreign pilot and two Afghan soldiers were killed when a helicopter contracted by NATO crashed inside an army base. Major Hanif Rezaie, an army spokesman, says three others,...

Mexican judge drops graft case against ex-ruling party official

Mexican judge drops graft case against ex-ruling party official

-- 2018-09-02 13:58:49

A judge has dismissed a high-profile corruption case against a former official in Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) centring on alleged misuse of public funds, authorities said on...

Chinese cops detain 46 after education protests

Chinese cops detain 46 after education protests

-- 2018-09-02 13:28:43

Chinese police on Sunday said it has detained 46 people in Leiyang city after bottles, bricks and firecrackers were thrown at officers and government officials during a 600-strong protest against prob...

Blasts hit Syrian air base

Blasts hit Syrian air base

-- 2018-09-02 10:52:54

Syrian state media said loud blasts coming from an airbase early on Sunday were from an explosion at an ammunitions dump caused by an electrical problem, but an official in the regional alliance backi...

Islamist militants kill up to 30 Nigerian soldiers

Islamist militants kill up to 30 Nigerian soldiers

-- 2018-09-02 10:49:10

Islamist militants have killed up to 30 soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday, in one of the biggest attacks of its kind this year. Thursday...

UK will not compromise with EU on Brexit plan, May says

UK will not compromise with EU on Brexit plan, May says

-- 2018-09-02 10:23:29

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would not compromise with Brussels over her plans for Brexit as a media report said rivals in her party were set to publish their own proposal calling for a...

US scraps $300m aid to Pakistan

US scraps $300m aid to Pakistan

-- 2018-09-02 09:53:48

The US military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that had been suspended over Islamabad's perceived failure to take decisive action against militants, in a n...

Obama, Bush to lead tributes to John McCain at Washington

Obama, Bush to lead tributes to John McCain at Washington

-- 2018-09-01 20:40:49

Former US presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush are to lead mourners at Washington's National Cathedral to honour the late John McCain, the long-time senator from Arizona. McCain’s body arr...