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Saudi Arabia outlaws sexual harassment

Saudi Arabia outlaws sexual harassment

-- 2018-05-30 18:29:16

Saudi Arabia has passed a new law to criminalise sexual harassment, state media said Wednesday, less than a month before the conservative kingdom lifts its decades-long ban on women driving. The king...

Hijab fashion designer jailed for fraud

Hijab fashion designer jailed for fraud

-- 2018-05-30 17:57:37

A leading fashion designer, who made history at New York Fashion Week by having all her models wear headscarves, has been jailed for 18 years for fraud. Indonesian designer Anniesa Hasibuan and her h...

Belgian gunman also killed the night before attacks

Belgian gunman also killed the night before attacks

-- 2018-05-30 17:46:37

The man who shot dead two police officers and a civilian in the Belgian city of Liège had killed someone the night before the attacks, the country's interior minister says. Jan Jambon said the...

Zimbabwe set to hold polls on July 30

Zimbabwe set to hold polls on July 30

-- 2018-05-30 15:05:30

Zimbabwe will hold its general elections on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday, the first since the army forced 94-year-old former president Robert Mugabe to resign last November....

Philippines threatens war with Beijing over S China sea disputes

Philippines threatens war with Beijing over S China sea disputes

-- 2018-05-30 14:14:24

The Philippines is prepared to go to war if military personnel are harmed in disputed waters, a top security official said on Wednesday, firing back at criticism the government was going soft on China...

Ethiopia releases Briton held on death row

Ethiopia releases Briton held on death row

-- 2018-05-30 13:06:52

British citizen Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, who was being held on death row in Ethiopia, has been freed. He has been greeted by jubilant relatives and supporters at his family home in the c...

India thunderstorms claim lives of 50

India thunderstorms claim lives of 50

-- 2018-05-30 11:32:16

At least 50 people are reported to have died amid heavy thunder and lightning that battered parts of northern India on Tuesday, officials said. High-speed winds and lighting strikes devastated many v...

Mexico won’t pay for border wall, Nieto tells Trump again

Mexico won’t pay for border wall, Nieto tells Trump again

-- 2018-05-30 11:18:35

US President Donald Trump accused Mexico of doing ‘nothing’ to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and repeated his election campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for...

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

-- 2018-05-30 10:57:28

A prominent Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police said on Tuesday. Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of hi...

Paris confce seeks political roadmap for lawless Libya

Paris confce seeks political roadmap for lawless Libya

-- 2018-05-29 21:34:59

Libya's rival leaders are meeting in Paris to agree on a political roadmap including elections, in an effort to bring order to Libya's chaos, which is feeding Islamic militants, traffics of all kind a...

Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico: Study

Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico: Study

-- 2018-05-29 21:30:29

Last year’s Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times the official toll, according to estimates in a Harvard University study. A third of deaths after September's h...

Portugal considers allowing euthanasia, assisted suicide

Portugal considers allowing euthanasia, assisted suicide

-- 2018-05-29 20:04:12

After legalising abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide on Tuesday on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics in this predom...

Senior North Korean leader heads to US for talks

Senior North Korean leader heads to US for talks

-- 2018-05-29 18:46:42

One of North Korea's most senior officials is travelling to New York, as preparations for a planned summit gather pace. Former intelligence chief Gen Kim Yong-chol is the most senior North Korean off...

Gunman kills three in Belgium

Gunman kills three in Belgium

-- 2018-05-29 18:33:28

Two police officers among three were killed in a shooting in the eastern Belgian city of Liège on Tuesday. The gunman took a female cleaner as hostage at a school before being killed by police...

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

-- 2018-05-29 16:02:38

A gunman has killed two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being himself shot dead in the centre of the eastern Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster RTBF said on its website. Belg...

Israeli defense system shoots down Gaza mortar fire

Israeli defense system shoots down Gaza mortar fire

-- 2018-05-29 14:18:35

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile shield shot down a barrage of mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after sirens sounded in southern Israel, warning residents to find shelter. &nbs...

Afghan forces kill nine civilians in house raid

Afghan forces kill nine civilians in house raid

-- 2018-05-29 14:00:49

At least nine civilians were killed in a night operation by Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar late on Monday, officials said, as fighting continued across Afghanistan. The i...

N Korea official Kim Yong-chol 'heads to US for talks'

N Korea official Kim Yong-chol 'heads to US for talks'

-- 2018-05-29 13:22:10

One of Kim Jong-un's most senior officials is thought to be travelling to the US, as preparations for a possible historic summit gather pace. South Korean news agency Yonhap said Gen Kim Yong-chol wa...

Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

Mali’s president Keita confirms re-election bid

-- 2018-05-29 13:15:02

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on state TV that he would run for re-election in a poll scheduled for the end of July. Keita, 73, had been widely expected to run for a second...

Search for missing Malaysian plane formally ends

Search for missing Malaysian plane formally ends

-- 2018-05-29 12:40:55

A privately funded search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has drawn to a close. US-based company Ocean Infinity had been using a deep-sea vessel to conduct a 90-day survey of a vast area o...

Will not follow US sanctions on Iran: India

Will not follow US sanctions on Iran: India

-- 2018-05-29 11:04:18

India said on Monday it abided by sanctions imposed by the United Nations but not those imposed by any other country, such as those announced by the United States against Iran. US President Donald Tr...

Latin America must think about drug legalisation: UN agency

Latin America must think about drug legalisation: UN agency

-- 2018-05-29 11:03:35

Latin America must give serious thought to legalising drugs in order to reduce the human cost of prohibition, the head of a United Nations agency for the region said on Monday. Tens of thousands of p...

Austria plans benefit cuts for immigrants

Austria plans benefit cuts for immigrants

-- 2018-05-29 10:43:36

Austria's coalition government has unveiled plans to cut benefit payments for immigrants, including refugees, in a move aimed at deterring new arrivals. The main benefit payment will be capped at &eu...

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

-- 2018-05-29 10:25:24

France offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron...

Mahmoud Abbas leaves hospital

Mahmoud Abbas leaves hospital

-- 2018-05-28 18:03:40

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was discharged from a West Bank hospital on Monday, ending a weeklong stay that drew new attention to the 83-year-old's long history of health problems and his refu...

Lebanon parliament speaker expects cabinet within a month

Lebanon parliament speaker expects cabinet within a month

-- 2018-05-28 15:48:17

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expects a new coalition government to be formed within a month because nobody has an interest in a delay, the newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Monday. Saad a...

China to host Iran amid nuclear deal doubt

China to host Iran amid nuclear deal doubt

-- 2018-05-28 15:05:57

China will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month at a regional summit aimed at avoiding disruption of joint projects, its foreign ministry said on Monday, as major powers scramble to save I...

US braces for subtropical storm Alberto

US braces for subtropical storm Alberto

-- 2018-05-28 14:49:39

Thousands have been evacuated from the coast of Florida in the US as the region braces for subtropical storm Alberto. Anticipated to make landfall on Monday, Alberto is the first storm ahead of this...

Pakistan names former chief justice as interim PM

Pakistan names former chief justice as interim PM

-- 2018-05-28 14:27:56

Pakistan has appointed former chief justice Nasir Ul Mulk as interim prime minister until general elections are held on July 25, premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday. “No Pakistani can l...

Malian 'spiderman' wows France with Paris child rescue

Malian 'spiderman' wows France with Paris child rescue

-- 2018-05-28 14:17:55

A Malian migrant has been hailed a hero after he scaled the front of a building in Paris to save a small boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony. Video of Mamoudou Gassama's spectacular rescue went v...