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EU leaders plan closed migrant centres amid crisis

EU leaders plan closed migrant centres amid crisis

-- 2018-06-29 16:33:22

Closed migrant centres are to be set up in EU states to process asylum claims under a deal reached after marathon talks at a leaders summit in Brussels. The centres, hosted on a voluntary basis, woul...

Newspaper staff publish edition in defiance after shooting attack

Newspaper staff publish edition in defiance after shooting attack

-- 2018-06-29 15:36:33

Staff at the Capital Gazette have published a Friday edition, after a gunman killed five people and injured more at the local paper's office. Chase Cook, a reporter at the Annapolis publication, had...

Nine die in Nigeria oil tanker fire

Nine die in Nigeria oil tanker fire

-- 2018-06-29 13:57:38

At least nine people were killed and four others injured when an oil tanker collided with a car and exploded on a busy bridge in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Thursday. The accident h...

Ash from Bali volcano shuts airport

Ash from Bali volcano shuts airport

-- 2018-06-29 13:20:54

Ash from a volcanic eruption on the Indonesian resort island of Bali forced the closure of its international airport and cancellation of hundreds of flights on Friday, while villagers living beneath...

Gunman attacks US newspaper, killing five

Gunman attacks US newspaper, killing five

-- 2018-06-29 11:49:31

A gunman has opened fire at a local newspaper office in US state Maryland, killing five people and injuring others in what police said was a "targeted attack". Staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapol...

EU agrees migration deal after marathon talks

EU agrees migration deal after marathon talks

-- 2018-06-29 11:35:01

European Union leaders have reached an agreement on migration after nearly 10 hours of talks at a summit in Brussels. Italy - the entry point of thousands of migrants, mainly from Africa - had threat...

12 year-old French boy crosses English Channel

12 year-old French boy crosses English Channel

-- 2018-06-28 19:32:23

A 12-year-old French boy has broken the record for crossing the English Channel in a small children's sailing dinghy. Tom Goron set sail from the Isle of Wight at 05:00 local time on Wednesday and ar...

Trump, Putin meeting in Finland on July 16

Trump, Putin meeting in Finland on July 16

-- 2018-06-28 18:24:09

US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. The White House revealed the details of the high-stakes meeting in a statement on Thursda...

Pakistan-based armed groups recruit children for suicide attacks: UN

Pakistan-based armed groups recruit children for suicide attacks: UN

-- 2018-06-28 18:06:00

Armed groups in Pakistan continue to recruit children, including those from madrassas, and allegedly use them for suicide attacks, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The annual report of...

UNICEF spends US$ 550m to tackle humanitarian crises in 2017

UNICEF spends US$ 550m to tackle humanitarian crises in 2017

-- 2018-06-28 17:52:57

UNICEF spent over US$ 550 million to deliver emergency and life-saving supplies to children in urgent need of assistance last year since famine, droughts, conflict and malnutrition threatened the surv...

Top US, Russian diplomats to meet before Trump-Putin summit

Top US, Russian diplomats to meet before Trump-Putin summit

-- 2018-06-28 17:51:34

Moscow says the top Russian and US diplomats are likely to meet to set the stage for a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, reports AP. Russia’s Deputy Foreig...

China won’t give up ‘one inch’: Xi to Pentagon chief

China won’t give up ‘one inch’: Xi to Pentagon chief

-- 2018-06-28 17:29:14

China is committed to peace but will not give up "even one inch" of territory, President Xi Jinping has said, after talks with visiting US Defence Secretary James Mattis. Tensions between both countr...

SAARC meeting on immigration, visa begins in Kathmandu

SAARC meeting on immigration, visa begins in Kathmandu

-- 2018-06-28 17:14:12

A meeting of the Core Group of SAARC Immigration Authorities and Visa Experts began on Thursday at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal. Comprising representatives from the Immigration Authoriti...

Five die as chartered plane crashes in Mumbai

Five die as chartered plane crashes in Mumbai

-- 2018-06-28 16:19:46

Five people were killed in a small airplane crashed in a suburb of India’s financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, police and aviation officials said. The King Air C-90 aircraft was on a test f...

15 die in Nairobi market fire

15 die in Nairobi market fire

-- 2018-06-28 14:41:34

Fifteen people died and dozens were injured when fire swept through a market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday, an official said. Emergency service St John Ambulance said t...

Iran reopens nuclear plant after nine years

Iran reopens nuclear plant after nine years

-- 2018-06-28 11:35:09

Iran has reopened a nuclear plant idle for nine years, its atomic energy agency (AEOI) said on Wednesday, as Tehran prepares to increase uranium enrichment capacity if a nuclear deal with world powers...

US court bars separation of immigrants from children

US court bars separation of immigrants from children

-- 2018-06-27 19:29:25

A district court of the United States has imposed a bar on separation of immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally. As per the decision, immigration agents of th...

Police seize valuables worth $273m from ex-PM of Malaysia

Police seize valuables worth $273m from ex-PM of Malaysia

-- 2018-06-27 17:52:18

Malaysian police have seized a trove of jewellery, handbags and cash worth up to $273m (£206m) from properties linked to former prime minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor. A $1.6m go...

Mnangagwa suspects political faction behind rally blast

Mnangagwa suspects political faction behind rally blast

-- 2018-06-27 16:07:38

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he suspected dissidents from his own party linked to Robert Mugabe’s wife were behind an explosion at a rally he attended last week. Two people died...

Bolton due in Russia to talk Trump-Putin meeting

Bolton due in Russia to talk Trump-Putin meeting

-- 2018-06-27 15:06:40

The national security adviser of US President Donald Trump is due in Moscow to lay the groundwork for a possible US-Russia summit. John Bolton, the national security adviser, will meet Russian Foreig...

Two die in migrant smuggling car crash

Two die in migrant smuggling car crash

-- 2018-06-27 14:54:43

At least two migrants were killed and eight others injured as a vehicle carrying them has crashed in rainfall on a highway in northern Greece, authorities said. Police said the ten, including two c...

19 die, 11 missing in flood-hit northern Vietnam

19 die, 11 missing in flood-hit northern Vietnam

-- 2018-06-27 12:54:30

Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain over the weekend in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces have claimed 19 human lives, left 11 local people missing, and injured 12 others, the country's...

Rouhani promises to handle fresh US sanctions

Rouhani promises to handle fresh US sanctions

-- 2018-06-26 21:28:27

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has promised his countrymen to handle the economic pressure of new US sanctions. The president came up the statement on Tuesday amid reports of a second day of demonst...

Britain gives nod to Brexit law, ends EU membership

Britain gives nod to Brexit law, ends EU membership

-- 2018-06-26 21:09:35

Britain's Queen Elizabeth granted royal assent to Prime Minister Theresa May's flagship Brexit legislation on Tuesday, ending months of debate over the legislation that will formally end the country's...

US top court upholds Trump's travel ban

US top court upholds Trump's travel ban

-- 2018-06-26 21:05:21

The US supreme court has upheld the travel ban imposed by the country's president Donald Trump targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The court handed down a 5-4 ruling on Tuesday, in a signifi...

Myanmar fires two general after EU sanction

Myanmar fires two general after EU sanction

-- 2018-06-26 20:35:20

Within hours of the EU’s sanction announcement, the Myanmar military announced that one of the generals had been fired on Monday and another had left the army last month after being removed from...

Polio outbreak grips Papua New Guinea

Polio outbreak grips Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-06-26 19:05:36

An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in Papua New Guinea, 18 years after the country was declared free of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus was detected in a six-year...

Wealthy Venezuelans beat water crisis drilling private wells

Wealthy Venezuelans beat water crisis drilling private wells

-- 2018-06-26 17:04:05

Reaching for the faucet felt like a frustrating game of chance for Elizabeth Robles. At first, water flowed only one or two days a week, so Robles, president of her homeowners’ association, hir...

Four found dead at Germany apartment, one seriously injured

Four found dead at Germany apartment, one seriously injured

-- 2018-06-26 14:32:50

Police say a woman and three children have been found dead at an apartment in southern Germany, as well as a man lying outside the building with life-threatening injuries from a fall. In a statement,...

Prince William starts Israel visit paying homage to Holocaust victims

Prince William starts Israel visit paying homage to Holocaust victims

-- 2018-06-26 13:44:14

Britain’s Prince William will pay homage on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, in a solemn start to the first official visit by a British royal to Israel and the Pales...