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Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qatari nationals

Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qatari nationals

-- 2018-08-21 20:22:13

Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Tuesday that it would stop issuing new visas to Qatari nationals, escalating measures against Qatar more than a year into a diplomatic row, according to Reute...

Suu Kyi says timing of Rohingya return depends on Bangladesh

Suu Kyi says timing of Rohingya return depends on Bangladesh

-- 2018-08-21 20:19:00

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says it is difficult to put a time frame on the return to Rakhine state of ethnic Muslim Rohingya because her nation needs the cooperation of the country to where they...

Malaysia’s national day parade to affect nearly 500 flights

Malaysia’s national day parade to affect nearly 500 flights

-- 2018-08-21 18:37:25

Nearly 500 flights will be affected when Malaysia closes the airspace near its major international airport every morning for five days next week to prepare for independence day celebrations, the trans...

Muslims celebrate Eidul Azha as over 2.0m pilgrims conduct Hajj rites

Muslims celebrate Eidul Azha as over 2.0m pilgrims conduct Hajj rites

-- 2018-08-21 17:39:21

Muslims are celebrating Eidul Azha as over two million pilgrims carry out the final rites of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, reports Dawn. Haj pilgrims proceeded to Mina on Tuesday to cast pebbles at the t...

Massive cleanup begins as flood waters recede in Kerala

Massive cleanup begins as flood waters recede in Kerala

-- 2018-08-21 17:30:57

  Thousands of people in flood-ravaged south India waded Monday through muck and mud to begin the immense task of cleaning their homes and businesses, according to a report by Time.com. Rains h...

UK prosecutors drop charges against ex-police chief over Hillsborough crush

UK prosecutors drop charges against ex-police chief over Hillsborough crush

-- 2018-08-21 16:53:08

A former British police chief constable accused of lying over his role in the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium crush in which 96 fans died will no longer face any charges, prosecutors said on Tuesday,...

China’s Changchun mayor resigns after vaccine scandal

China’s Changchun mayor resigns after vaccine scandal

-- 2018-08-21 15:38:58

The mayor of the Chinese city of Changchun resigned on Tuesday, state media reported, after a safety scandal at Changchun-based vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology sparked widespread consumer anger...

Shootouts in Rio leave 13 dead

Shootouts in Rio leave 13 dead

-- 2018-08-21 14:58:27

At least 11 suspects and two soldiers died during shootouts with military personnel and police in greater Rio de Janeiro on Monday as violence erupted in several areas of the city that hosted the Summ...

El Salvador, Taiwan break ties as China isolates island foe

El Salvador, Taiwan break ties as China isolates island foe

-- 2018-08-21 13:01:14

Taiwan broke off diplomatic ties with El Salvador on Tuesday as the Central American country defected to rival Beijing in the latest blow to the self-ruled island China has been trying to isolate on t...

India to print quit-smoking helpline on cigarette packs

India to print quit-smoking helpline on cigarette packs

-- 2018-08-21 12:30:06

India’s tobacco firms must print a helpline number to combat smoking on all cigarette packs from 1 September, says a ministry release. The health ministry has also released new pictorial warnin...

Trump accuses China of 'manipulating' its currency

Trump accuses China of 'manipulating' its currency

-- 2018-08-21 12:19:35

US President Donald Trump has again accused China of manipulating its currency to combat US tariffs. The accusation, made in an interview with Reuters, resembles claims Mr Trump made during his 2016...

Swelling white-water creek kills at least 10 in Italy

Swelling white-water creek kills at least 10 in Italy

-- 2018-08-21 11:26:45

At least 10 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were hurled over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rainfall upstream,...

Australian PM survives leadership challenge by narrow margin

Australian PM survives leadership challenge by narrow margin

-- 2018-08-21 11:02:12

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday has appealed for unity after surviving a challenge to his leadership from a senior government colleague. Mr Turnbull had called the surprise vote...

Muslims atone for sins at Mt Arafat in Hajj climax

Muslims atone for sins at Mt Arafat in Hajj climax

-- 2018-08-21 10:41:06

More than two million Muslims gathered at Mount Arafat on Monday for a vigil to atone for their sins and ask God's forgiveness as the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia reached its climax. Pilgri...

Thailand's Queen Mother admitted to hospital

Thailand's Queen Mother admitted to hospital

-- 2018-08-20 22:12:42

Thailand's 86-year-old Queen Mother Sirikit is being treated for influenza at a Bangkok hospital, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement on Monday in a rare statement on her health. Sirikit, w...

Taliban insurgents kidnap dozens of bus passengers in Afghanistan

Taliban insurgents kidnap dozens of bus passengers in Afghanistan

-- 2018-08-20 16:34:41

Taliban insurgents kidnapped dozens of passengers after stopping three buses in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province. Esmatullah Muradi, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor, said that the kid...

Shots fired at US embassy in Turkey, no casualties

Shots fired at US embassy in Turkey, no casualties

-- 2018-08-20 14:55:55

Several gunshots were fired early Monday morning from a vehicle at the US Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, causing no casualties, police and the embassy spokesperson said. The attack coincided...

Islamist militant attack kills 19 in Nigeria

Islamist militant attack kills 19 in Nigeria

-- 2018-08-20 13:05:12

At least 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack on a village in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday, a survivor of the attack said. The strike is the latest blow to Nigeria&r...

Tough talks, no agreements at Merkel-Putin meeting

Tough talks, no agreements at Merkel-Putin meeting

-- 2018-08-19 23:32:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn US ire during tough talks o...

Earthquake hits Indonesia causing landslides

Earthquake hits Indonesia causing landslides

-- 2018-08-19 19:41:38

A strong earthquake jolted the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, causing landslides and damaging buildings, as the island tries to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hu...

Minister cycles to hospital to give birth

Minister cycles to hospital to give birth

-- 2018-08-19 19:08:26

New Zealand's minister for women has cycled to hospital to give birth to her first child at 42 weeks. The Green Party's Julie Genter said she went by bicycle to be induced because "there wasn't enoug...

China arrests 26 ‘tomb robbers’, stolen relics recovered

China arrests 26 ‘tomb robbers’, stolen relics recovered

-- 2018-08-19 15:21:58

China has arrested 26 suspects and retrieved almost 650 cultural relics stolen from an ancient burial site in northwestern Qinghai province, the Ministry of Public Security said on Sunday. China&rsqu...

Kerala floods: Death toll reaches 357

Kerala floods: Death toll reaches 357

-- 2018-08-19 14:30:00

The death toll of floods in the Kerala has jumped to 357, even as rescue and relief work is being carried out on a war footing. According to an unofficial estimates, banana and paddy crops spread o...

Egypt’s sisi approves law tightening control over internet

Egypt’s sisi approves law tightening control over internet

-- 2018-08-19 14:16:55

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed a new law that tightens controls over the internet. The legislation on "cybercrime" means websites can be blocked in Egypt if deemed to constitute a...

Iran to unveil new fighter jet, develop missiles: Minister

Iran to unveil new fighter jet, develop missiles: Minister

-- 2018-08-19 12:58:40

Iran will unveil a new fighter jet next week and continue developing missile capabilities as a top priority, the defence minister said on Saturday, defying new US sanctions aimed at curbing Tehran&rsq...

Obituary: Kofi Annan struggled to escape the curse of history

Obituary: Kofi Annan struggled to escape the curse of history

-- 2018-08-19 12:10:40

Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died on Saturday, will be remembered as a dedicated humanitarian whose career was tarnished by ugly conflicts...

Fresh tremor strikes Indonesia’s Lombok

Fresh tremor strikes Indonesia’s Lombok

-- 2018-08-19 12:02:11

A fresh tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, the US Geological Survey said on Sunday, after an earthquake killed more than 430 people there earlier this month. USGS...

Angry Brazilians drive out Venezuelan immigrants

Angry Brazilians drive out Venezuelan immigrants

-- 2018-08-19 11:36:02

Angry residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima ran riot and drove out Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local restaurant owner was stabbed and beaten, residents and government offic...

Massive 8.2 quake hits Pacific Ocean, no damage expected

Massive 8.2 quake hits Pacific Ocean, no damage expected

-- 2018-08-19 10:37:58

A massive quake of magnitude 8.2 struck in the Pacific Ocean close to Fiji and Tonga on Sunday but it was so deep that it was not expected to cause any damage, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. T...

Rooftop cattle get a crane lift to the ground

Rooftop cattle get a crane lift to the ground

-- 2018-08-18 19:35:58

Residents of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, watched as cattle were lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey home ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-ul-Azha. Unlike other Muslims who buy animal...