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Japan firm launches suits for blue collar workers

Japan firm launches suits for blue collar workers

-- 2018-06-19 18:34:30

A Japanese company has launched a line of business suits specifically for blue-collar workers, it's reported. According to the Japan Times, the Oasys Style Wear company in Tokyo is launching a line o...

Cafe shooting in Sweden kills three

Cafe shooting in Sweden kills three

-- 2018-06-19 18:20:48

A shooting at an internet cafe in the southern Swedish city of Malmo has claimed the lives of three men. Several others were wounded in the centre of the city late on Monday, when at least one attack...

Italian populist for deporting migrants from Roma

Italian populist for deporting migrants from Roma

-- 2018-06-19 18:13:09

Italy's right-wing populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, on Tuesday, has prompted a new outcry by saying he wants a census of the Roma community that would lead to non-Italians being deported. A...

BJP pulls out of Kashmir alliance

BJP pulls out of Kashmir alliance

-- 2018-06-19 18:04:07

The chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, has resigned on Tuesday after the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) quit a coalition with her party. T...

128 missing after ferry sinks in Indonesia

128 missing after ferry sinks in Indonesia

-- 2018-06-19 16:42:42

At least 128 passengers were missing after a ferry sank in Indonesia’s Lake Toba on Monday evening, a search and rescue official said on Tuesday. “Many people have reported their relative...

Kenya orders release on bail of 43 suspects in $100m graft case

Kenya orders release on bail of 43 suspects in $100m graft case

-- 2018-06-19 15:44:14

A Kenyan high court judge ordered on Tuesday the release on bail of 43 suspects in a $100 million graft case related to money lost at the government-run National Youth Service training scheme. The su...

Plane crashes in Madagascar, killing all five on board

Plane crashes in Madagascar, killing all five on board

-- 2018-06-19 15:38:00

An airplane belonging to a private company crashed in Antananarivo on Monday killing all five people on board, the Civil Aviation of Madagascar said in a statement, without disclosing the cause of the...

Six children die in India road crash

Six children die in India road crash

-- 2018-06-19 15:19:23

At least six children were killed and one was rescued Tuesday after a car carrying them plunged into a roadside pond in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said. The accident took place at Tara...

Saudi Arabia's women drivers get ready to steer their lives

Saudi Arabia's women drivers get ready to steer their lives

-- 2018-06-19 13:08:08

On June 24, when Saudi women are allowed to drive for the first time, Amira Abdulgader wants to be sitting at the wheel, the one in control, giving a ride to her mother beside her. “Sitting beh...

China grants over $100m in military aid to Cambodia

China grants over $100m in military aid to Cambodia

-- 2018-06-19 12:59:19

China has granted over $100 million in military aid to Cambodia, Cambodia’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, highlighting the strong ties between Beijing and a government that critics accuse of...

Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants

Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants

-- 2018-06-19 12:20:18

Turkish air strikes killed 26 militants and destroyed their gun positions, shelters and ammunition stores in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq this week, Turkey’s armed forces said on Tuesday....

Kim Jong-un visits China after Trump summit

Kim Jong-un visits China after Trump summit

-- 2018-06-19 11:59:53

North Korea's Kim Jong-un is making a two-day visit to China, a week after meeting US President Donald Trump. It is expected he will discuss sanctions and the commitment he made at the summit, in gen...

Python kills, swallows Indonesian woman

Python kills, swallows Indonesian woman

-- 2018-06-18 21:41:07

An Indonesian woman has been killed and swallowed whole by a 7m (23ft) long python, say local authorities, reports BBC on Monday. Though such incidents are incredibly rare, this was the second python...

UN expresses 'grave worry'  over Saudi-UAE operation

UN expresses 'grave worry' over Saudi-UAE operation

-- 2018-06-18 21:32:14

HODEIDAH, June 18 (Agencies): UN human rights chief has voiced concern that the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates-led military operation in Yemen.UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said t...

Strong quake in Japan kills three, knocks over walls

Strong quake in Japan kills three, knocks over walls

-- 2018-06-18 19:18:46

Three people were killed and hundreds injured on Monday after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country’s second-largest city of commerce. The earthquake also knocked over wa...

Melania expresses concerns over child migrant action

Melania expresses concerns over child migrant action

-- 2018-06-18 17:55:01

First lady Melania Trump “hates” to see families separated at the border and hopes “both sides of the aisle” can reform the nation’s immigration laws, according to a stat...

Three die after being hit by train in south London

Three die after being hit by train in south London

-- 2018-06-18 16:13:38

Three people have died after they were hit by a train in south London on Monday, with police treating the deaths as unexplained. British Transport Police said they were called to Loughborough Junctio...

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

-- 2018-06-18 13:33:09

Thomas Markle, the father of Britain’s newest royal Meghan, has spoken of his regret that he wasn’t well enough to walk his daughter down the aisle as she married Prince Harry, but said he...

Filipino troops clash with remnants of Islamist group

Filipino troops clash with remnants of Islamist group

-- 2018-06-18 13:03:19

Philippine troops have clashed with remnants of a pro-Islamic State militant group that held a southern city for five months last year, the army said on Monday. Colonel Romeo Brawner, the deputy comm...

Taliban ends Eid festival ceasefire despite pleas

Taliban ends Eid festival ceasefire despite pleas

-- 2018-06-18 12:00:02

A widely welcomed three-day ceasefire between security forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan appears to be over. The Taliban said its militants had been ordered to take up arms again on Sunday night...

US-led coalition hits Syrian army post, causing casualties

US-led coalition hits Syrian army post, causing casualties

-- 2018-06-18 11:56:40

Syrian state TV is reporting that the US-led coalition has struck a military position in the country’s east, leaving several troops dead and wounded. The report early Monday says the airstrike...

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

-- 2018-06-18 11:38:14

A bus struck four people at a Dutch concert in the early hours of Monday morning, killing one and wounding three, said police. A police statement said the bus drove away from the scene and is being s...

6.1 quake hits Japan’s Osaka; three dead

6.1 quake hits Japan’s Osaka; three dead

-- 2018-06-18 11:21:02

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka, Japan’s second-biggest metropolis, early on Monday morning, killing three people, halting factory lines in a key industrial area and bursting water mains,...

Explosive device attack kills eight Kenyan police officials

Explosive device attack kills eight Kenyan police officials

-- 2018-06-18 11:13:00

Eight Kenyan police officials were killed in the eastern part of the country on Sunday after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted by Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group, poli...

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

-- 2018-06-18 11:05:38

Conservative political newcomer Ivan Duque has been elected president of Colombia. At a victory rally in the capital Bogota, he pledged to unite the country following a divisive campaign. But he sai...

US-China trade spat weighs on Asian stocks

US-China trade spat weighs on Asian stocks

Reuters 2018-06-18 09:51:00

Asian shares fell to a 2-1/2 week low on Monday after US President Donald Trump cranked up trade tensions by going ahead with tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to immediately respond in ki...

'Historic' deal :Macedonia gets new name

'Historic' deal :Macedonia gets new name

-- 2018-06-17 20:18:10

Greece and Macedonia have signed a deal that aims to settle a decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name. Under the agreement, Greece's neighbour will be known as North Macedonia, reports BBC. Greek...

Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain

Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain

-- 2018-06-17 19:33:55

VALENCIA, Spain : A migrant rescue boat turned away by Italy and Malta arrived at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending a grueling voyage which has made it a symbol of Europe’s failure...

Latest suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 14

Latest suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 14

-- 2018-06-17 19:10:15

A suicide bombing near the governor's office in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar has killed at least 14 people, officials say -- the second such bombing in the province in as many days, report...

Myanmar now erasing Rohingya’s very name

Myanmar now erasing Rohingya’s very name

-- 2018-06-17 18:42:39

The tragedy of the Rohingya Muslims of Burma began with the forced expulsion of more than a half-million Rohingya people from northern Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh, a brutal army operation...