-- 2018-05-25 18:43:21
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to New York police, where he is expected to face sexual misconduct charges. The charges have not been announced but US media say some may relate...
-- 2018-05-25 18:38:29
Iraq's prime minister has ordered the creation of a high-powered commission to look into alleged irregularities in the parliamentary elections held May 12. An official statement said an emergency Cab...
-- 2018-05-25 17:58:06
The US House of Representatives has passed the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defence Authorisation Act that includes sanctions on Myanmar officials responsible for ethnic cleansing, reports UNB. "T...
-- 2018-05-25 16:36:46
Indonesia's parliament unanimously approved a tougher anti-terrorism law on Friday, lengthening detention periods and involving the military in counter-terrorism operations, spurred into action by rec...
-- 2018-05-25 14:28:42
The United Kingdom would develop its own separate satellite navigation system if it lost access to the Galileo project, the European Union’s version of GPS, Britain’s finance minister sa...
-- 2018-05-25 13:53:31
At least fifteen people were injured as two unidentified men bombed an Indian restaurant in the Canadian city of Mississauga on Thursday, authorities said. The injured were taken to hospital from t...
-- 2018-05-25 13:25:37
A boat tipped over in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning 49 people on board while about the same number survived the accident, a local official told a Congolese radio station....
-- 2018-05-25 12:56:02
At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the centre of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a hospital medic said. The bomb expl...
-- 2018-05-25 12:34:04
A mob led by right-wing Muslim clerics tore down the dome and minarets of a 100-year old Pakistani mosque belonging to the marginalised Ahmadi community, officials and the community said on Thursday....
-- 2018-05-25 11:44:35
Malaysian police said on Friday that cash worth 114 million ringgit ($28.6 million) and over 400 luxury handbags were seized from several apartments as part of an anti-graft probe into a state fund...
Reuters 2018-05-25 10:03:07
North Korea responded on Friday with measured tones to US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a historic summit with leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, saying Pyongyang hoped...
-- 2018-05-24 22:22:02
Pakistan's lower house of Parliament has passed a landmark constitutional amendment extending widespread political, administrative and human rights reforms to the country's northwestern tribal areas,...
-- 2018-05-24 21:57:28
Mobs in southern India have killed at least five people and injured 20 on Thursday others amid social media rumours about "child kidnapping gangs". Police say the messages, which were being spread wi...
-- 2018-05-24 21:28:51
At least three people were killed on Thursday when an old cinema collapsed in the city of Tucumán in northern Argentina. The building was being refurbished when it crumbled in a cloud of dust,...
-- 2018-05-24 20:54:03
US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying the world had "lost a great opportunity for lasting peace". He said his decision was because of "tremendo...
-- 2018-05-24 17:25:56
North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site, in a move to reduce regional tensions. Foreign journalists at the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site said they witnessed a hug...
-- 2018-05-24 17:24:44
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled his country’s strategy to step up its response and meet the need of most vulnerable and displaced Rohingyas. Canada will dedicate significant...
-- 2018-05-24 17:06:06
The missile that downed a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 belonged to a Russian brigade, international investigators say. For the first time, the Dutch-led team said the missile...
-- 2018-05-24 16:43:29
Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them,...
-- 2018-05-24 14:36:09
The Pentagon on Wednesday uninvited China from a major US-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing’s militarisation of islands in the South China Sea, a decision China called un...
-- 2018-05-24 14:21:27
Two people have died and 18 others suffered injured when a regional train crashed into a truck in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, emergency services said on Thursday. The five-carriage train...
-- 2018-05-24 13:57:08
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has set out a series of conditions for European powers if they want Tehran to stay in a nuclear deal after the US exit, including steps by European banks...
Reuters 2018-05-24 13:09:28
At first glance from above it looks like any clean and neatly planned small town, complete with sports grounds, neat roads and large civic buildings. But the town is on Subi reef in the Spratlys arc...
-- 2018-05-24 11:42:59
Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, whose near 10-year rule ended two weeks ago, returned to an anti-graft agency on Thursday to resume his explanation for the suspicious transfers of $10.6 million...
-- 2018-05-24 11:06:12
The US State Department has said it has ordered two Venezuelan diplomats to leave the United States within 48 hours, a move that follows Venezuela’s decision to expel two American diplomats. Th...
-- 2018-05-24 10:53:52
A senior North Korean official has accused US Vice-President Mike Pence of being ‘stupid’ and warned of possible ‘nuclear showdown’ if diplomacy fails. Choe Son-hui said Pyong...
-- 2018-05-23 22:59:39
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced to reduce salaries of cabinet ministers by 10 per cent. The ninety-two-year-old Mahathir made the announcement after his first cabinet meeting...
-- 2018-05-23 20:20:19
The Saudi Royal family has released a photograph of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman amid speculation he has been assassinated. Salman had not been seen since April 21 when Iranian media report...
-- 2018-05-23 17:36:14
Malaysia will review and possibly end its agreement with a private US firm searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday. Flight MH370,...
-- 2018-05-23 15:05:30
US President Donald Trump said there was a ‘substantial chance’ his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not take place as planned on June 12 amid concerns that Kim is resistan...
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