-- 2018-09-01 18:26:16
A passenger jet skidded off the runway and caught fire while landing in the Russian city of Sochi, injuring 18 people, officials have said. Flight UT579, a Boeing 737-800 operated by the Utair airlin...
-- 2018-09-01 17:06:09
The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company...
-- 2018-09-01 16:45:32
Myanmar officials investigating a ‘ghost ship’ found mysteriously drifting near the Yangon region this week have found the answer to its fate. The large, empty and rusty container vessel,...
-- 2018-09-01 16:08:58
British Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt held talks with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on Saturday, Iran’s television reported. This was the first visit...
-- 2018-09-01 15:14:18
Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it w...
-- 2018-09-01 13:47:17
Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said. People demonstra...
-- 2018-09-01 12:49:45
Brazil’s top electoral court has barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year’s presidential because of his corruption conviction. The widely expecte...
-- 2018-09-01 00:00:21
The German government has pledged to significantly increase its funding for the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees after the United States cut its aid, reports Reuters. German Foreign Minis...
-- 2018-08-31 23:59:17
Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi'ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit reg...
-- 2018-08-31 21:24:32
The Rohingya crisis, which has received massive international attention, was not discussed in the just concluded fourth BIMSTEC summit in Nepal. The summit of BIMSTEC member-states, which ended on Fr...
-- 2018-08-31 18:40:33
Japan's Defence Ministry is seeking to more than double spending on missile defence, including purchases of costly American arsenals, to defend against North Korean threats. The record-high 5.3 trill...
-- 2018-08-31 18:15:44
The 4th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit successfully concluded in Kathmandu on Friday. Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli handed over...
-- 2018-08-31 13:06:09
President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming the body treats America unfairly. "If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," M...
-- 2018-08-31 12:45:04
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since...
Reuters 2018-08-31 10:06:47
The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics...
-- 2018-08-30 22:31:17
The United States (US) cannot guarantee India will be exempt from sanctions if it purchases weapons and defence systems from Russia, a top Pentagon official said, reports Al Jazeera. Randall Schriver...
-- 2018-08-30 22:29:50
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan attended a performance of the hit musical Hamilton on Wednesday to raise money for a charity which works with children affected by HIV in southern Africa, reports Reut...
-- 2018-08-30 20:58:55
US President Donald Trump is waging a war of words with legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein over a story about his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. On Wednesday, the president called Mr Bernstein a "...
-- 2018-08-30 16:16:48
The European Union needs a strategic relationship with Turkey, including in defence matters, and should modernize its post-Cold War relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thur...
-- 2018-08-30 15:24:54
At least ten people died after a bus travelling from South Africa’s Cape Town to the Eastern Cape overturned in the early hours of Thursday morning, traffic officials said. The accident occurre...
-- 2018-08-30 13:49:48
Egypt has killed 20 suspected militants in an air strike in its western desert and shootouts in the Sinai peninsula, the military said on Wednesday, part of ongoing operations. The government launche...
-- 2018-08-30 12:13:01
Former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond has resigned from the party amid allegations of sexual misconduct. In a statement he said he wanted to avoid internal division within the SNP,...
-- 2018-08-30 11:11:00
As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thu...
BBC 2018-08-30 10:24:01
The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military's violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra'ad...
-- 2018-08-29 17:45:05
Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years, reports...
-- 2018-08-29 17:30:29
The United States, Australia, France and Britain will open new embassies in the Pacific, boost staffing levels, and engage with leaders of island nations more often in a bid to counter China’s r...
-- 2018-08-29 17:14:12
Texas authorities were searching on Tuesday for a partially dressed woman who briefly appeared in security camera footage with broken restraints dangling from her wrists before she vanished in a subur...
-- 2018-08-29 16:42:06
US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be ‘violently’ overturned if the Democrats win November's mid-term elections, reports BBC. He told Evangelical leaders that the...
-- 2018-08-29 16:27:37
Police in eastern India say supporters of rival political parties have exchanged gunfire and hurled crude bombs at each other, killing at least two people and injuring 13. Police officer Abhitjit Ban...
Reuters 2018-08-29 13:57:23
At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the Qaim district of Iraq’s Anbar province, a local official told Reuters on Wednesday....
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