-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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