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US slaps visa sanctions on Myanmar nationals

US slaps visa sanctions on Myanmar nationals

-- 2018-07-11 13:11:50

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced, in coordination with the State Department, the implementation of visa sanctions on Myanmar and Laos due to “lack of cooperation”...

Sri Lanka approves capital punishment for drug crimes

Sri Lanka approves capital punishment for drug crimes

-- 2018-07-11 12:15:12

The Sri Lankan cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, the Times of India reports citing a senior minister. Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, minis...

US, Mexico vow to reunite migrant families ‘as quickly as possible’

US, Mexico vow to reunite migrant families ‘as quickly as possible’

-- 2018-07-11 11:39:56

The United States and Mexico have vowed to work with Central American nations to reunite migrant families separated at the US border “as quickly as possible” as the Trump administration fa...

Saudi Arabia arrests defence ministry official on bribery charges

Saudi Arabia arrests defence ministry official on bribery charges

-- 2018-07-11 11:12:31

Authorities in Saudi Arabia say a Defence Ministry official has been arrested on suspicion of accepting over $260,000 in a bribe. A report Tuesday night by the state-run Saudi Press Agency says the o...

Divers rescue all from cave

Divers rescue all from cave

-- 2018-07-10 18:25:18

The Thai Navy SEAL divers have rescued all 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for more than two weeks deep inside a flooded Thai cave. A Thai navy SEAL unit made the announcement on Tuesday, maki...

Divers rescue 11th boy from Thai cave

Divers rescue 11th boy from Thai cave

-- 2018-07-10 16:22:08

An eleventh person was rescued on Tuesday from a flooded Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks. Rescuers hopes all 13 would be out by the end of...

Afghan suicide bomber kills 10

Afghan suicide bomber kills 10

-- 2018-07-10 15:10:13

At least ten people, including two intelligence service agents and eight civilians, were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan, official says. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the pro...

Divers start final mission to bring out last five from Thai cave

Divers start final mission to bring out last five from Thai cave

-- 2018-07-10 13:35:33

The first eight boys rescued from a Thai cave complex are in good health overall and some asked for chocolate bread for breakfast, officials said on Tuesday as rescuers began a third and more challeng...

Taiwan braces for super typhoon Maria

Taiwan braces for super typhoon Maria

-- 2018-07-10 13:07:53

Taiwan is bracing for super typhoon Maria on Tuesday, with some transport services suspended and the weather bureau warning of landslides and flash floods on the heavily industrialised island. As of...

Erdogan takes oath, names son-in-law finance minister

Erdogan takes oath, names son-in-law finance minister

-- 2018-07-10 12:12:04

President Tayyip Erdogan appointed his son-in-law as Turkey’s finance minister on Monday hours after he was sworn in with sweeping new executive powers, promising a “strong government and...

Thai boat capsize: Rescuers recover three more bodies

Thai boat capsize: Rescuers recover three more bodies

-- 2018-07-10 11:42:35

Thai rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the Andaman Sea, officials said on Tuesday, as the grim task of identifying more than 40 dead gets underway following a boat accident off the coast of...

Judge rejects Trump request for long detentions of immigrant children

Judge rejects Trump request for long detentions of immigrant children

-- 2018-07-10 10:57:34

A US federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow long-term detention of illegal immigrant children, a legal setback for President Donald Trump’s push to detain immig...

South Korea scraps war drill as talks with North go on

South Korea scraps war drill as talks with North go on

-- 2018-07-10 10:33:05

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018. Reut...

Trump picks Kavanaugh for Supreme Court

Trump picks Kavanaugh for Supreme Court

BBC 2018-07-10 10:16:34

US President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a bruising confirmation battle. In a primetime announcement at the White House, Mr Trump praised h...

Boris Johnson resigns amid Brexit row

Boris Johnson resigns amid Brexit row

-- 2018-07-09 20:36:50

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has resigned from his post, a Downing Street spokesman said on Monday. Boris is the third minister in 24 hours to walk out of the government rather than back T...

Thai cave rescuers free four boys, suspend operations

Thai cave rescuers free four boys, suspend operations

-- 2018-07-09 18:08:27

Rescuers suspended operations for the day after bringing four more boys out the flooded cave system in northern Thailand on Monday. According to a witness working with the rescue team confirmed the s...

Elon Musk builds mini sub to help in Thai cave rescue

Elon Musk builds mini sub to help in Thai cave rescue

-- 2018-07-09 17:36:54

Elon Musk’s Space X rocket company is testing a ‘kid-sized submarine’ that could be sent to help boys trapped in a flooded Thailand cave. Musk posted videos on Twitter of the alumin...

Nirbhaya gang rape case: Indian SC upholds death sentence

Nirbhaya gang rape case: Indian SC upholds death sentence

-- 2018-07-09 16:32:45

The Indian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for four men who had fatally gang raped a female student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012. Three of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangr...

May appoints Dominic Raab as new Brexit minister

May appoints Dominic Raab as new Brexit minister

-- 2018-07-09 16:04:23

British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Dominic Raab as the new Brexit Secretary on Monday after his predecessor quit in protest at the government’s plans for a close trading relationship w...

Search for survivors after Japan floods kill 110

Search for survivors after Japan floods kill 110

-- 2018-07-09 14:53:08

Rescuers in western Japan dug through mud and rubble on Monday, racing to find survivors after torrential rains unleashed floods and landslides that killed more than 100 people, with dozens missing....

SA releases ex-president Zuma’s son on bail

SA releases ex-president Zuma’s son on bail

-- 2018-07-09 14:27:31

Duduzane Zuma, the son of former South African president Jacob Zuma, was released on bail after appearing in court in leg-irons on Monday on charges of corruption, the biggest scalp so far in an attem...

Thai cave rescue operation resumes

Thai cave rescue operation resumes

-- 2018-07-09 14:23:02

An operation to rescue a group of Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave resumed on Monday, said several officials with knowledge of the operation at the Tham Luang cave in the nor...

SA charges Zuma’s son with corruption

SA charges Zuma’s son with corruption

-- 2018-07-09 13:10:49

Duduzane Zuma, the son of scandal-plagued former South African president Jacob Zuma, has been charged with corruption, his lawyer said on Monday. Duduzane Zuma, who returned to South Africa last week...

Separate shootings in Mexico claim lives of 15

Separate shootings in Mexico claim lives of 15

-- 2018-07-09 12:32:54

An unusually violent night around the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has left at least 15 dead and nine wounded, authorities said late Sunday. The Nuevo Leon state prosecutor's office said in a s...

Turkey train derailment kills 24

Turkey train derailment kills 24

-- 2018-07-09 11:08:15

Twenty-four people have been killed after a train derailed in north-western Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag says. The train was en route to Istanbul from the town of Kapikule on the Bulgari...

Myanmar court charges Reuters reporters

Myanmar court charges Reuters reporters

-- 2018-07-09 10:46:16

A court in Myanmar has charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into its trial stage after six months of preliminary hearing...

Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns

Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns

BBC 2018-07-09 09:52:29

Brexit Secretary David Davis has resigned from the UK government. His resignation comes days after Theresa May secured the cabinet's backing for her Brexit plan despite claims from critics that it wa...

Death of rape victim's father: Indian police charge lawmaker’s brother

Death of rape victim's father: Indian police charge lawmaker’s brother

-- 2018-07-08 19:42:44

Indian police on Saturday charged five people, including the brother of a lawmaker from the ruling party, in relation to the death of the father of a teenage girl raped last year. Atul Singh Sengar,...

Divers rescue four boys trapped inside cave in Thailand

Divers rescue four boys trapped inside cave in Thailand

-- 2018-07-08 19:09:37

Rescuers in Thailand have retrieved the first of the 12 boys, trapped with their football coach in a cave for two weeks. Four of the boys were extracted from the cave a couple of minutes apart, immed...

Trump halts Obamacare insurance payments

Trump halts Obamacare insurance payments

-- 2018-07-08 17:46:54

US President Donald Trump’s administration has halted billions of dollars in payments to health insurers under the Obamacare healthcare law. The decision was taken referring to a recent federal...