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Syria arms depot blast leaves 39 dead

Syria arms depot blast leaves 39 dead

-- 2018-08-13 11:36:45

At least 39 people, including 12 children, have been killed in a blast that brought down a building in Syria's mainly rebel-held north-western province of Idlib, reports say. The building in the Sarm...

Nine die as fire breaks out at Taiwan hospital

Nine die as fire breaks out at Taiwan hospital

-- 2018-08-13 10:20:43

At least nine people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in Taiwan, state media has reported. The fire broke out on in a ward on the seventh floor of the hospital in New Taipei City early on Mon...

12-year old only survivor in Indonesia plane crash

12-year old only survivor in Indonesia plane crash

-- 2018-08-12 18:47:37

Indonesian search and rescue teams found eight victims and one survivor, a 12-year old boy, after a small plane crashed in the eastern province of Papua, police said on Sunday. The Dimonim Air passen...

US urges UK to ditch support for Iran nuclear deal

US urges UK to ditch support for Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-08-12 15:41:59

The United States urged Britain on Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses. Despite opp...

Russia downs drone near its Syria air base

Russia downs drone near its Syria air base

Reuters 2018-08-12 13:25:26

Russia’s military said it had shot down a drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and was launched from the Idlib “de-escalation” zone controlled by what...

50 militants including Taliban commander surrender in Afghanistan

50 militants including Taliban commander surrender in Afghanistan

-- 2018-08-12 13:01:26

A total of 50 militants including Taliban key commander Mullah Toofan have surrendered to local authorities in the western Badghis province of Afghanistan on Sunday, police spokesman Naqibullah Amini...

Four suspected militants die in Jordan police raid

Four suspected militants die in Jordan police raid

-- 2018-08-12 12:32:19

Jordan says four people were killed during a police raid on a house sheltering militants suspected of being behind a bomb attack on a police van a day earlier. Security forces on Saturday stormed a b...

Israeli Arabs rally against Jewish nation-state law

Israeli Arabs rally against Jewish nation-state law

-- 2018-08-12 12:25:23

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn...

Eid-ul-Azha in Saudi Arabia Aug 21

Eid-ul-Azha in Saudi Arabia Aug 21

-- 2018-08-12 12:02:14

Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on August 21 (Tuesday) as the moon for the month of Zilhaj was sighted there on...

German far-right leader pours cold water on Bannon’s anti-EU plan

German far-right leader pours cold water on Bannon’s anti-EU plan

-- 2018-08-12 11:53:47

A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has poured cold water on plans by Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s former political strategist, to forge a wide populist al...

Nobel prize winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85

Nobel prize winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85

BBC 2018-08-12 10:05:00

Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said. Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend in...

Iran fired ballistic missile during naval exercise: US

Iran fired ballistic missile during naval exercise: US

-- 2018-08-11 21:13:58

Iran fired a short range anti-ship missile last week as part of the short notice naval exercise it held near the Strait of Hormuz, according to two US officials. Earlier this week the top US commande...

Mosque demolition: no religion above law, says Chinese media

Mosque demolition: no religion above law, says Chinese media

-- 2018-08-11 20:51:11

A newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said Saturday that no religion is above the law in China, urging officials to stay firm while dealing with a rare protest over the planned demolition of a mas...

Indonesian island lifted 10 inches by deadly earthquake

Indonesian island lifted 10 inches by deadly earthquake

-- 2018-08-11 20:33:33

Scientists say the powerful Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 300 people lifted the island it struck by as much as 25 centimeters (10 inches). Using satellite images of Lombok from the days...

India's flood-hit Kerala state on high alert

India's flood-hit Kerala state on high alert

-- 2018-08-11 19:32:31

More than half of the 14 districts in India’s Kerala state have been put on high alert as the death toll from one of the worst floods in the southern state reached 34. Torrential rains and land...

'Explosive device behind Jordan blast'

'Explosive device behind Jordan blast'

-- 2018-08-11 17:10:49

Jordanian police said on Saturday investigations showed a homemade explosive device planted near a police van was behind a blast that killed one policeman and injured six others the day before. Polic...

US court orders chemical giant to pay $289m damages

US court orders chemical giant to pay $289m damages

-- 2018-08-11 17:00:51

Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer. In a landmark case, a Californian jury found that Monsanto k...

Germany removes ban on Nazi symbols in video games

Germany removes ban on Nazi symbols in video games

-- 2018-08-11 16:38:43

Nazi symbols can now appear in video games in Germany, ending a long-running and frequently ridiculed censorship. Germany bans symbols belonging to unconstitutional groups, which has caused problems...

'Stolen' plane from Seattle airport crashes into island

'Stolen' plane from Seattle airport crashes into island

-- 2018-08-11 16:28:16

A "suicidal" airline employee stole an Alaska Airlines plane without any passengers on it, performed an upside-down aerial loop, and crashed into an island in Washington state, reports aljazeera.com....

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

Iran Revolutionary Guards kill 10 militants near Iraq border

-- 2018-08-11 15:52:38

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had killed ten militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official new...

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

North Korea detains Japanese citizen

-- 2018-08-11 15:47:45

A Japanese man has been detained in North Korea, and government officials are trying to gather information on his safety, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Saturday. The report, citing government sources...

Sudan ruling party backs Bashir as candidate for 2020 election

Sudan ruling party backs Bashir as candidate for 2020 election

-- 2018-08-11 14:23:44

Sudan’s ruling party says it will back its leader President Omar al-Bashir as a candidate in the 2020 election, state news agency SUNA reported on Friday, a move that would require a constitutio...

Romania anti-government protest turns violent

Romania anti-government protest turns violent

-- 2018-08-11 11:18:06

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government on Friday in cities across Romania and the capital Bucharest where riot police fired tear gas into the crowd...

‘Trump used racial slur during Celebrity Apprentice’

‘Trump used racial slur during Celebrity Apprentice’

-- 2018-08-10 21:17:43

US President Trump frequently used the word “nigger” while he was the host of the reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice” and there are tapes that can confirm it, accord...

Muslims respond in standoff over China mosque demolition

Muslims respond in standoff over China mosque demolition

-- 2018-08-10 20:19:02

Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished. Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia...

1,600 people leave residence in France due to flash floods

1,600 people leave residence in France due to flash floods

-- 2018-08-10 18:27:37

Heavy rains in the southeast of France caused flash flooding and led to the evacuation of 1,600 people in the Ardèche, Gard and Drôme regions for precautionary measures on Thursday. In t...

At least four dead in shooting in Canada

At least four dead in shooting in Canada

-- 2018-08-10 18:15:29

Canadian police say at least four people have been killed on Friday in a shooting in the eastern city of Fredericton, New Brunswick. They have advised residents of Brookside Drive to "stay in their h...

Indonesia dreads deadly aftershocks after powerful earthquake

Indonesia dreads deadly aftershocks after powerful earthquake

-- 2018-08-10 17:15:52

After a deadly earthquake devastated the Indonesian island of Lombok last weekend, Husni Handayani thought the worst was over. The powerful quake claimed hundreds of lives, wounded thousands more and...

14 Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

14 Afghan policemen die in Taliban attack

-- 2018-08-10 15:23:12

Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at least...

Imran Khan calls for more 'trustworthy' ties with US

Imran Khan calls for more 'trustworthy' ties with US

-- 2018-08-09 22:15:34

Pakistani prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan called for more "trustworthy" ties with the United States which have frayed amid US accusations that Pakistan is aiding Islamist insurgents waging war in...