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Police grills Netanyahu over telecom corruption case

Police grills Netanyahu over telecom corruption case

-- 2018-06-12 18:07:05

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday over his alleged dealings with the country's largest telecommunication company, Israel Radio said, one of three corruption cases...

Boats collide in Russia World Cup host city, killing 10

Boats collide in Russia World Cup host city, killing 10

-- 2018-06-12 14:02:07

Ten people on a river cruise were killed when their boat collided with a tugboat late on Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is hosting matches in the soccer World Cup, rescue services said...

Trump, Kim sign agreement on denuclearisation, security of N Korea

Trump, Kim sign agreement on denuclearisation, security of N Korea

-- 2018-06-12 12:08:52

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on Tuesday to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarant...

Vietnam goes tough on Google, Facebook

Vietnam goes tough on Google, Facebook

Reuters 2018-06-12 11:58:27

Vietnamese lawmakers approved a controversial cybersecurity law on Tuesday, voting amid tight security following weekend protests over other legislation that turned violent in some parts of the commun...

Nigerian authority foils world cup child trafficking attempt

Nigerian authority foils world cup child trafficking attempt

-- 2018-06-12 11:32:25

Nigerian authorities say they have rescued nine young girls and one boy who were being trafficked to Russia. Five suspects, including a policeman and a quarantine officer, were arrested for allegedly...

Russia, Ukraine fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission

Russia, Ukraine fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission

-- 2018-06-12 11:07:21

The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Berlin on Monday to discuss the implementation of a fragile ceasefire for Ukraine and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in...

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

-- 2018-06-12 10:45:32

The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, a de facto embassy that underscores Washington’s strategic ties with the democratic, sel...

Trump and Kim begin historic summit

Trump and Kim begin historic summit

-- 2018-06-12 09:25:55

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shook hands and smiled cautiously as they met at their historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, in which the two men will look for ways to...

Kim enjoys Singapore sites

Kim enjoys Singapore sites

-- 2018-06-11 21:19:40

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited tourist sites on Singapore’s waterfront on Monday. Kim and US President Donald Trump now in the city-state for a historic summit to end a nuclear stand-o...

Spain to take stranded rescue ship

Spain to take stranded rescue ship

-- 2018-06-11 19:27:08

Spain's prime minister on Monday has said the country will take in a rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean, to help avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. Pedro Sánchez said he would give "safe...

Suicide bomber kills 13 outside Afghan ministry

Suicide bomber kills 13 outside Afghan ministry

-- 2018-06-11 18:45:10

A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded more 25 during rush hour on Monday at the entrance to Afghanistan’s rural rehabilitation and development ministry in Kabul as workers were leaving f...

Trump, Pompeo positive ahead Singapore summit

Trump, Pompeo positive ahead Singapore summit

-- 2018-06-11 17:40:38

US President Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could “work out very nicely”. According to Reuters, Trump mentioned that off...

US small plane crash kills four

US small plane crash kills four

-- 2018-06-11 14:56:21

Four people were killed when a small plane lost altitude, slammed into trees and caught fire in a field just north of an airport in southern Wisconsin in the United States on Sunday, authorities said....

French minister calls farmers’ move to block oil refineries ‘illegal’

French minister calls farmers’ move to block oil refineries ‘illegal’

-- 2018-06-11 14:10:11

France’s farm minister said on Monday that a decision by farmers to launch a blockade of oil refineries and fuel depots to protest a government decision to allow Total to use imported palm oil a...

Afghan roadside bomb kills six civilians

Afghan roadside bomb kills six civilians

-- 2018-06-11 14:01:56

An Afghan official says a roadside bomb struck a microbus in the eastern Ghazni province, killing six people. Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says women and children were among t...

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

Hong Kong jails pro-democracy activist for assaulting cops

-- 2018-06-11 11:34:12

A former rising star in Hong Kong’s radical youth opposition was sentenced to 6 years in jail on Monday for rioting and assaulting police, one of the city’s harshest sentences against a de...

Italy shuts ports to migrant rescue ship

Italy shuts ports to migrant rescue ship

-- 2018-06-11 11:30:02

A rescue vessel carrying 629 migrants is stranded in the Mediterranean after Italy's new interior minister refused permission for it to dock. Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League, said Mal...

North Korea eyes 'new relationship' with US

North Korea eyes 'new relationship' with US

-- 2018-06-11 11:27:58

North Korean state media has raised the possibility that the isolated country could "establish a new relationship" with the United States. It comes a day before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets...

Trump reaches Singapore

Trump reaches Singapore

-- 2018-06-10 19:54:29

US President Donald Trump reached Singapore on Sunday ahead of a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump flew into Singapore’s Paya Lebar Air Base aboard Air Force One direc...

France condemns Trump’s ‘anger' after G7

France condemns Trump’s ‘anger' after G7

-- 2018-06-10 19:53:49

Diplomacy cannot be dictated by "fits of anger", French President Emmanuel Macron warned after a G7 summit in Canada ended in acrimony. In tweets, US President Donald Trump described host Justin Trud...

Trump throws G-7 into disarray with tweets after he leaves

Trump throws G-7 into disarray with tweets after he leaves

-- 2018-06-10 19:24:49

Lashing out at the longtime US ally and northern neighbor, President Donald Trump tweeted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “dishonest & weak” and that the U.S. was pullin...

Singapore PM meets DPRK leader

Singapore PM meets DPRK leader

-- 2018-06-10 18:42:29

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met with Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (...

$3.0b pledged for girls education at G7 summit

$3.0b pledged for girls education at G7 summit

-- 2018-06-10 18:22:29

Pledges worth nearly $3.0 billion dollars to help vulnerable women and girls, including refugees, get an education were announced at a G7 summit on Saturday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, w...

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

Iran president criticises US ‘unilateralism’ over nuclear deal

-- 2018-06-10 16:08:41

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday criticised US ‘unliteralism’ in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said he appreciated efforts by China and Russia to maintain the agreem...

Kim arrives in Singapore before historic Trump summit

Kim arrives in Singapore before historic Trump summit

-- 2018-06-10 15:30:07

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Singapore for his scheduled summit meeting with US President Donald Trump. The historic meeting between the two leaders will take place at the island re...

Vietnam new economic zones spark protest; over a dozen detained

Vietnam new economic zones spark protest; over a dozen detained

-- 2018-06-10 13:22:44

Protests have broken out in Vietnam against plans for new economic zones, amid fears that Chinese investors will dominate the areas. Police reportedly detained more than a dozen people in the capital...

G7 leaders urge Russia to stop undermining democracies

G7 leaders urge Russia to stop undermining democracies

-- 2018-06-10 12:48:21

Leaders of the Group of Seven countries urged Russia on Saturday to stop undermining democracies and said they were ready to step up sanctions against Moscow if necessary. The leaders of the United S...

Trudeau dismisses Trump critique

Trudeau dismisses Trump critique

-- 2018-06-10 12:28:50

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said nothing in his G7 news conference that he has not said before to US President Donald Trump, his office said after Trump criticised Trudeau on Twitter as &ld...

Somalia suicide blast injures seven soldiers

Somalia suicide blast injures seven soldiers

-- 2018-06-10 12:10:29

A suicide car bomb explosion at a military base in Somalia has left seven soldiers injured, a military official said, and Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. Al Shabaab f...

Japan bullet train attack leaves one dead

Japan bullet train attack leaves one dead

-- 2018-06-10 11:13:20

One man was killed and two others injured by an assailant with a bladed weapon on Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train on Saturday night, police said. Police arrested the suspect as the train stoppe...