-- 2018-08-09 21:09:43
A resurgent southwest monsoon, sweeping large parts of the northern and central districts of Kerala, left an extensive trail of destruction and loss of life in its wake in the last 24 hours. As of Th...
-- 2018-08-09 18:59:24
Dozens of people, many of them children, have been killed or wounded in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in rebel-held northern Yemen on Thursday. The bus was travelling through Dahyan market in Saad...
-- 2018-08-09 18:48:00
The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300. The strong aftersh...
-- 2018-08-09 18:11:45
Russia condemned a new round of US sanctions as illegal on Thursday after news of the measures sent the rouble tumbling to two-year lows and sparked a wider asset sell-off over fears that Moscow was l...
-- 2018-08-09 15:47:20
Argentine senators rejected a bill to legalise abortion after an impassioned debate ran into the early hours of Thursday, pushing back against a groundswell of support from a surging abortion rights m...
-- 2018-08-09 15:26:14
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told North Korea’s foreign minister that the United States cannot be trusted, Tehran’s state media said, as the United States seeks a deal to rein in the N...
-- 2018-08-09 15:11:55
Turkey's state-run news agency says a boat carrying migrants has capsized off the Turkish coast in the Aegean sea, killing seven children and two women. Anadolu Agency says four other migrants were r...
-- 2018-08-09 13:09:33
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be the world body’s new human rights chief, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The 193-member U...
-- 2018-08-09 12:09:46
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit Indonesia’s Lombok island on Thursday, causing some buildings to collapse, according to witnesses and the Southeast Asian nation’s meteorolo...
-- 2018-08-09 11:36:39
Congo’s President Joseph Kabila will not stand in the election scheduled for December, a spokesman said, finally agreeing to obey a two-term limit but picking a hard-core loyalist under European...
-- 2018-08-09 11:15:40
Japan’s military plans to raise the maximum age for new recruits in a bid to cope with a shrinking pool of potential soldiers due to the country’s low birth rate and fast-ageing population...
-- 2018-08-09 10:59:02
Ecuador on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three provinces due to an unusually high volume of Venezuelan migrants crossing over the northern border with Colombia after fleeing the OPEC nati...
-- 2018-08-09 10:51:17
Washington says it would impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain. A sen...
-- 2018-08-08 19:21:03
One of Japan's most prestigious medical universities has apologised for tampering with entrance exam scores to limit its intake of female students. An internal investigation found that Tokyo Medical...
-- 2018-08-08 18:06:06
A major fire has been reported after loud explosions at Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd’s (BPCL) refinery in Mumbai of India. Sources said that the fire broke out at 2:55 pm on Wednesday and is confi...
-- 2018-08-08 17:43:41
Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 131 people, while rescuers doubled down on efforts to find the dead. Volunteers...
-- 2018-08-08 17:31:23
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is now entirely in drought, officials have confirmed. A dry winter has intensified what has been called the worst drought in living memory in p...
-- 2018-08-08 16:52:52
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the plan made by the United States to reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero will not succeed. “If the Americans want to keep this simpli...
-- 2018-08-08 16:43:55
Migrant labourers staged a strike on Wednesday to protest at the deaths of 16 colleagues killed this week in two separate traffic accidents in southern Italy. Thousands of migrants work in the southe...
-- 2018-08-08 15:44:07
Authorities have cut off Internet access in eastern Ethiopia amid an outbreak of violence in the region, two local residents said on Wednesday. The residents, one speaking from Oromia region and the...
FE Report 2018-08-08 13:33:20
Colombia's newly-elected President Iván Duque took office on Tuesday, pledging to unite the country and improve economic growth. The conservative political newcomer was elected in June after...
-- 2018-08-08 11:43:33
Japan is bracing for heavy rains and high winds on Wednesday as a strong typhoon is forecast to make landfall near the capital of Tokyo, the latest storm to hit Japan in recent months. Typhoon &ldquo...
-- 2018-08-07 21:34:17
US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country. "Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business...
-- 2018-08-07 20:54:57
Veteran Indian politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi has died at the age of 94. He was being treated for age-related illnesses in Chennai (formerly Madras) in southern India's Tamil Nadu state. Mr Karunan...
-- 2018-08-07 19:58:31
Australia's population reaches 25 million for the first time on Tuesday, according to official estimates. The milestone, driven significantly by migration, has magnified debate about the merits of a...
-- 2018-08-07 19:25:30
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok topped 100 on Tuesday. Rescuers found victims under wrecked buildings, while thousands left homeless in t...
-- 2018-08-07 15:57:32
Security forces temporarily blocked the entrance to Nigeria’s parliament on Tuesday, preventing lawmakers and others from entering for up to an hour, witnesses said. Witnesses said armed men we...
-- 2018-08-07 13:30:45
North Korea released a South Korean citizen detained in July after crossing the border into the North, the South’s Unification Ministry said on Tuesday. The prisoner was a 34-year-old man surna...
-- 2018-08-07 13:05:00
A delegation of Turkish officials will head to Washington in two days to discuss an ongoing row between the two NATO allies, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, citing diplomatic sources. Relat...
-- 2018-08-07 12:39:04
President Donald Trump’s top security adviser on Monday urged Iran to take up an offer of talks with the United States or suffer more pain from economic sanctions, but Iran’s president sai...
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