-- 2018-07-08 13:32:26
A dangerous mission to rescue 12 Thai schoolboys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave for more than two weeks began on Sunday and authorities said the first survivor may emerge around...
-- 2018-07-08 12:19:36
Turkey issued a decree on Sunday dismissing more than 18,000 civil servants, half of which were from the police force, ahead of this month’s expected lifting of a two-year-old state of emergency...
-- 2018-07-08 11:59:43
The death toll from unprecedented rains in Japan rose to at least 64 on Sunday after rivers burst their banks and forced several million people from their homes, media reports said, with more rain set...
-- 2018-07-08 10:14:12
Two US warships passed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday on a voyage that will likely be viewed in the self-ruled island as a sign of support by President Donald Trump amid heightened tension with...
-- 2018-07-07 20:02:04
The timing of the accountability court’s verdict against former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield Reference case, just 20 days before the general elections, has come as a sho...
-- 2018-07-07 19:22:02
North Korea says high-level talks with a US delegation led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were “regrettable” and has accused Washington of trying to unilaterally pressure the country in...
-- 2018-07-07 18:34:27
Militants of al Shabaab group stormed police headquarters of Somalia on Saturday after twin bombings wounded at least 17 people nearby in central Mogadishu. Witnesses saw a heavy exchange of gunfire...
-- 2018-07-07 18:21:56
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he had made progress on almost all of the central issues in talks with North Korea. Pompeo said they also made a progress on setting a timeline for its denu...
-- 2018-07-07 18:20:50
At least 50 people were missing as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday. On top of that, more than 1.6 million were evac...
-- 2018-07-07 18:05:18
A person was gored and four others hurt, the Red Cross said, as Pamplona's bull running festival got underway. One person was caught on a bull's horns during Saturday's run in the northern Spanish ci...
-- 2018-07-07 16:33:12
The Thai boys trapped in a cave have exchanged emotional letters with their parents, for the first time since their ordeal began two weeks ago. "Don't worry, we are all strong," one child said in a n...
-- 2018-07-07 15:53:59
Two explosions occurred near Somalia’s interior ministry and security forces were battling gunmen inside, police said Saturday, as the al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the on...
-- 2018-07-07 15:23:50
British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for “a business-friendly&r...
-- 2018-07-07 12:57:54
Despite fading hopes, rescuers in Thailand resumed a search on Saturday for 23 survivors after a boat carrying Chinese tourists sank off the island of Phuket in rough weather, while authorities began...
-- 2018-07-07 11:47:22
South Sudan’s government and rebels have reached a deal on security arrangements during talks in Khartoum, Sudanese state news agency SUNA reported, as part of efforts to end nearly five years o...
-- 2018-07-07 11:21:18
Mexico’s next government will press ahead with president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to cut the value added tax (VAT) rate in a strip along the US border, probably to 8 per ce...
-- 2018-07-07 10:50:23
World powers and Iran appeared to make no concrete breakthrough on Friday in talks to provide Tehran with an economic package to compensate for US sanctions that begin taking effect in August. Minist...
-- 2018-07-07 10:38:21
At least 45 people are missing as torrential rains that have killed 11 people pounded western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million people evacuated fr...
-- 2018-07-06 21:17:07
Former Fox News executive Bill Shine is officially joining the White House, says a report on ABC News. Shine, the former co-president of President Donald Trump's preferred television channel, will be...
-- 2018-07-06 18:43:17
Germany's ruling coalition has agreed on a faster procedure for screening migrants at the border, dropping the idea of creating new holding centres. The deal concerns irregular migrants already regis...
-- 2018-07-06 18:03:38
A court in Islamabad sentenced Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in a corruption case on Friday. Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz was sentenced to seven years in jail...
-- 2018-07-06 17:17:22
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Friday for a more detailed commitment to denuclearisation. Pompeo met Kim Yong Chol, who played a key role with Pompeo in...
-- 2018-07-06 16:42:43
Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara and six of his followers were executed Friday for their roles in a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subways and other crimes, closing a chapter on one of Japan&rs...
-- 2018-07-06 16:28:10
A former Thai navy diver has died while taking part in efforts to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. Petty Officer Saman Gunan lost consciousness on his wa...
-- 2018-07-06 16:16:24
A Russian court fined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a US government-funded news outlet, on Thursday for violating a “foreign agent” law. The court reached the guilty verdict before a s...
-- 2018-07-06 14:50:46
Former vice president of Sierra Leone Victor Foh and Mansaray Minkailu, ex- mines minister, were arrested on Thursday as part of a crackdown on graft by new President Julius Maada Bio’s governme...
-- 2018-07-06 14:22:17
At least ten tourists were killed and 45 others are missing as a boat with Chinese tourists sank in a storm off the resort island of Phuket on Friday, officials said. Nine bodies of the Chinese touri...
Reuters 2018-07-06 11:55:02
Two explosions at fireworks workshops outside Mexico City have killed at least 24 people, including rescue workers, and injured dozens more, officials said, in the latest deadly blast to hit a town kn...
-- 2018-07-05 21:56:35
Iran could reduce its co-operation with the UN nuclear watchdog, President Hassan Rouhani told the body's head on Wednesday, reports Reuters. He warned US President Donald Trump of "consequences" of...
-- 2018-07-05 20:57:50
Residents of the World Cup host city of Samara are being urged to take showers in pairs because the influx of fans is putting strain on water supplies. The Samara Communal Systems utility company say...
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