-- 2018-05-20 16:31:13
The Pentagon criticised what it called China's "continued militarisation" of island outposts in the disputed South China Sea, where the Chinese air force landed long-range bombers for the first time,...
-- 2018-05-20 14:03:14
The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki has been treated in hospital after being beaten up by about a dozen people, officials say. Yiannis Boutaris, 75, was kicked in the head an...
-- 2018-05-20 12:57:19
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump held discussions on Sunday to ensure that the North Korea-US summit remains on track after North Korea threatened to pull out of the hi...
-- 2018-05-20 12:42:05
Egypt’s state security prosecutor on Saturday ordered a prominent activist detained for 15 days for investigation on charges of involvement with a banned group and inciting and taking part in il...
-- 2018-05-20 12:30:29
Five people have been killed in a residential house fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Sunday, local authorities confirmed. The fire broke out in Shijiang Town, Dongkou County in the ear...
-- 2018-05-20 10:59:18
Comoros has put former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi under house arrest just days after he was questioned over his role in a scheme to sell citizenship that investigators say was riddled with...
-- 2018-05-20 10:50:07
Cuban authorities said the fiery crash of an aging Boeing passenger jet on Friday shortly after takeoff from Havana had killed 110 of the 113 on board, making it the Caribbean island’s deadlie...
-- 2018-05-20 10:34:09
Venezuela has accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government’s top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election on Sunday, which the country’s oppos...
-- 2018-05-19 21:36:53
US President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, returned to the White House on Saturday after undergoing a surgical procedure this week to treat a benign kidney condition, her office said. The...
-- 2018-05-19 20:53:50
Hundreds of people gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to mark the anniversary of a deadly army crackdown on an anti-government protest in 2010 that killed 91 people and injured hundreds, as pressure buil...
-- 2018-05-19 18:36:06
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a hydroelectric power plant in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, amid protests from Pakistan which says the project on a river flowing into Pa...
-- 2018-05-19 17:33:54
China has for the first time landed bombers on disputed territory in the South China Sea, its air force said, prompting fresh US warnings that it is destabilising the region. The long-range H-6K bomb...
-- 2018-05-19 17:23:57
Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern Holl...
-- 2018-05-19 15:55:37
The European Union's energy chief tried to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran despite US President Donald Trump's decision to exit the a...
-- 2018-05-19 11:47:09
Russian President Vladimir Putin handed ministerial jobs to a former bodyguard and the son of an ex-intelligence chief on Friday, promoting trusted lieutenants with security ties at the start of what,...
-- 2018-05-19 10:33:38
Nineteen people have been killed and seven wounded after a cement-laden truck in which they were travelling overturned on Bhavnagar-Ahmedabad highway near Bavalyali village in Gujarat’s Bhavnaga...
-- 2018-05-19 10:24:03
A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country’s parliamentary election, the...
-- 2018-05-19 10:22:42
Multiple explosions at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Jalalabad left as many as eight people dead and dozens more wounded late on Friday night, officials said. The blasts occurred at a footb...
-- 2018-05-19 09:34:53
More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media say. Three people have survived but are in a critical condition,...
-- 2018-05-18 22:04:27
Florida police have shot and injured a gunman rambling about US President Donald Trump in the lobby of his golf resort near Miami, officials say. The man, identified as 42-year-old Jonathan Oddi, was...
-- 2018-05-18 21:21:01
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A panel will decide on Friday whether to declare a &l...
-- 2018-05-18 21:00:23
At Least eight people are dead from a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas that sent students fleeing for their lives, reports ABC News citing law enforcers. The shooting has been contained and...
-- 2018-05-18 20:44:20
A number of people are injured from a shooting on Friday morning at Santa Fe High School near Galveston, Texas, according to the Santa Fe Independent School District. The incident has since been cont...
-- 2018-05-18 15:01:09
At least 15 people were killed and six were raped during a referendum campaign in Burundi that could let President Pierre Nkurunziza hold power until 2034, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Security...
-- 2018-05-18 13:09:40
Police in Malaysia say they have seized hundreds of boxes of luxury items and handbags full of foreign currency from properties linked to ex-PM Najib Razak. The raids on properties across the capital...
-- 2018-05-18 12:51:57
Kenya’s public university lecturers have ended a strike over low pay after reaching an agreement with authorities, a union official said, allowing classes to resume after being suspended since...
-- 2018-05-18 12:38:22
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday Britain would leave the EU customs union after Brexit but a source said London was considering a backstop plan that would apply the bloc’s external ta...
-- 2018-05-18 11:59:23
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has decided to keep the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip open during the holy month of Ramadan. "I have made directions to keep th...
Reuters 2018-05-18 11:09:50
When Cho Nwe Soe went to a Yangon court last month with her husband, she expected he would be fined for organising prayers in the street without a permit last year, and that they could go back home to...
-- 2018-05-18 11:01:22
The US Senate has confirmed Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency’s past use of waterboarding and other brutal inte...
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