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SA kidnappers demand bitcoin ransom for abducted teen

SA kidnappers demand bitcoin ransom for abducted teen

-- 2018-05-23 14:41:56

A criminal gang in South Africa who kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday are demanding a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly $120,000, police said. Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car whil...

Ghana president calls for criminal probe into head of soccer body

Ghana president calls for criminal probe into head of soccer body

-- 2018-05-23 14:18:52

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for a criminal investigation into the head of the country’s football association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, for fraudulently using the President’s name....

Rohingya militants massacred Hindus in Rakhine: AI

Rohingya militants massacred Hindus in Rakhine: AI

-- 2018-05-23 14:10:08

Rohingya Muslim militants in Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians during attacks last August, according to an investigation by Amnesty International. The group called Arsa killed up to 99 Hindu c...

N Korea permits S Korean reporters to visit nuke site

N Korea permits S Korean reporters to visit nuke site

-- 2018-05-23 11:51:59

North Korea has accepted a list of South Korean reporters to visit their nuclear testing site after a days-long tug of war with Seoul, South Korea’s unification ministry said on Wednesday. Nort...

Maduro expels US diplomats in response to latest sanctions

Maduro expels US diplomats in response to latest sanctions

-- 2018-05-23 11:19:39

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered the expulsion of two top US diplomats in Caracas in retaliation for a new round of sanctions over the county’s widely-condemned election, accus...

Trump, South Korea's president to hold talks on Kim summit

Trump, South Korea's president to hold talks on Kim summit

-- 2018-05-22 20:57:04

US President Donald Trump and South Korea's Moon Jae-in are due to hold talks in Washington, amid uncertainty over a planned US-North Korea summit. Last week the North said it may cancel the summit i...

F-35, most advanced fighter jet, embarks on first action

F-35, most advanced fighter jet, embarks on first action

-- 2018-05-22 19:16:27

The US-made F-35 stealth fighter has seen its first ever combat action, flying in an operation for the Israeli air force. The air force chief showed an image of jets over Beirut, Lebanon, and said th...

White marble Taj Mahal turning yellow, green

White marble Taj Mahal turning yellow, green

-- 2018-05-22 17:12:03

India’s white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world’s eighth-most polluted city. One of the seven Wonders of the Worl...

Erdogan hints at banning Israeli goods over Gaza violence

Erdogan hints at banning Israeli goods over Gaza violence

-- 2018-05-22 16:06:33

President Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey might consider imposing a ban on imports of some Israeli goods over the killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, media re...

Pakistan heatwave kills 65 in three days

Pakistan heatwave kills 65 in three days

-- 2018-05-22 15:22:14

65 people have been killed as a heatwave swooped on in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, according to a social welfare organisation Tuesday statement. Fear looms as d...

Foreign media arrive in N Korea to cover nuke site shutdown

Foreign media arrive in N Korea to cover nuke site shutdown

Reuters 2018-05-22 15:06:07

About two dozen journalists from Western and Chinese news organisations arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to witness the closure of its nuclear test site, an indication that the shutdown will go ahead...

Burundi’s Nkurunziza to stay in power till 2034

Burundi’s Nkurunziza to stay in power till 2034

-- 2018-05-22 14:39:14

Voters in Burundi have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, the electoral commission said on Monday, ushering in changes that could let the president stay in power to 2034. An opposition coali...

Trump 'willing' to walk away from N Korea summit

Trump 'willing' to walk away from N Korea summit

Reuters 2018-05-22 12:42:38

US President Donald Trump is willing to walk away from an unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday, after North K...

6.0 quake strikes near Guam

6.0 quake strikes near Guam

-- 2018-05-22 11:40:40

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.0 hit 122 km ESE of Guam at 00:26:04 GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at...

104 ex-Turkish military get life in jail over coup attempt

104 ex-Turkish military get life in jail over coup attempt

-- 2018-05-22 11:12:58

A Turkish court has sentenced 104 former military officers to life in prison for their involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, state media report. They were given ‘aggravated life sentences’,...

11 dead, hundreds fall sick in Iran after mushroom poisoning

11 dead, hundreds fall sick in Iran after mushroom poisoning

-- 2018-05-22 10:58:41

More than 800 people have been poisoned after eating toxic wild mushrooms in around 10 provinces in the west of Iran. At least 11 people have died from the effects of the fungi and hundreds more have...

Houthi missile attack kills five in Yemen

Houthi missile attack kills five in Yemen

-- 2018-05-22 10:43:40

Five people have been killed and 22 wounded by a Houthi missile fired at the Yemeni city of Marib, which falls under control of the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour...

US vows 'strongest sanctions in history' on Iran

US vows 'strongest sanctions in history' on Iran

-- 2018-05-21 21:35:08

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday has said his country is imposing the "strongest sanctions in history" on Iran. In a speech in Washington, America's top diplomat said Iran would be "battli...

US sees strong shared interests with EU on Iran concerns

US sees strong shared interests with EU on Iran concerns

-- 2018-05-21 15:50:09

The United States on Sunday said it hopes to use strong shared interests that have emerged with its European Union partners in recent months to move forward on addressing Iran’s nuclear programm...

Malaysia sets up new 1MDB criminal taskforce

Malaysia sets up new 1MDB criminal taskforce

-- 2018-05-21 14:08:54

Malaysia has set up a special taskforce that will look into possible criminal conduct of individuals involved in the management of state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the prime minister&rs...

‘Romantic rejection’ led to Texas school shooting!

‘Romantic rejection’ led to Texas school shooting!

-- 2018-05-21 14:06:01

A teenage boy charged with fatally shooting eight students and two teachers during a gun rampage at a Houston-area high school had been spurned by one of his victims after making aggressive advances,...

Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

-- 2018-05-21 13:19:49

A Russian marketing agency has offered to help restaurants in cities hosting the soccer World Cup use fake reviews to bump up ratings on review site TripAdvisor, the agency’s owner has confirmed...

Palestinian President in hospital for third time in a week

Palestinian President in hospital for third time in a week

-- 2018-05-21 12:49:09

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was hospitalised in the West Bank on Sunday, doctors and Palestinian officials said, giving conflicting accounts of the leader’s condition. It is the third t...

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

Brazil’s coast guard rescues two dozen African migrants

-- 2018-05-21 11:31:18

A boat with two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of Maranhão said on Sunday. A fishing boat came upon the drifting vessel...

Philippines voices concern over bombers’ presence in S China Sea

Philippines voices concern over bombers’ presence in S China Sea

-- 2018-05-21 11:15:04

The Philippines expressed ‘serious concerns’ over the presence of China’s strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its foreign ministry has taken ‘appropriate dipl...

Maduro claims victory in controversial Venezuela polls

Maduro claims victory in controversial Venezuela polls

-- 2018-05-21 10:52:59

Venezuela’s leftist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce pr...

S Lanka marks end to civil war as a divided nation

S Lanka marks end to civil war as a divided nation

-- 2018-05-20 22:47:28

COLOMBO, May 20 (AP): Sri Lanka commemorated the ninth anniversary of the end of its civil war as a divided nation, with minority Tamils calling for an international investigation into alleged wartime...

Malaysia’s former PM seeks police protection amid graft probe

Malaysia’s former PM seeks police protection amid graft probe

-- 2018-05-20 20:29:52

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is under investigation for a massive corruption scandal, has sought police protection over concern about his family's safety, Malaysia's national news...

Spain plans to maintain control of Catalonia

Spain plans to maintain control of Catalonia

-- 2018-05-20 18:39:55

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy plans to maintain central government control over Catalonia after the regional leader nominated imprisoned and exiled politicians to join his cabinet, El Pais news...

Mob beats Muslim man to death for slaughtering cattle

Mob beats Muslim man to death for slaughtering cattle

-- 2018-05-20 17:29:26

A Muslim man was beaten to death by a mob in India's Madhya Pradesh on the suspicion of slaughtering cattle, according to an Indian newspaper report on Saturday. Police identified the deceased as Ria...