-- 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...
-- 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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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’,...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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,...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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