-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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,...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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