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Israeli forces kill 52 Palestinians at Gaza border

Israeli forces kill 52 Palestinians at Gaza border

-- 2018-05-14 18:30:26

At least 52 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during clashes at the Gaza border on Monday. The demonstrations were taking place hours before the new US embassy was due to officially open in...

UK spy chief accuses Russia of spreading lies

UK spy chief accuses Russia of spreading lies

-- 2018-05-14 15:58:28

Britain’s MI5 spy chief has accused Russia on attempting to subvert Western democracies by sowing disinformation and spreading lies. In the first public speech outside Britain by a serving head...

Russia's Novak to discuss Iran issue with Saudi counterpart

Russia's Novak to discuss Iran issue with Saudi counterpart

-- 2018-05-14 12:49:30

Russia’s Acting Energy Minister Alexander Novak has planned to discuss the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih when they will meet at an economic...

Libya to return bodies of 20 beheaded Egyptians

Libya to return bodies of 20 beheaded Egyptians

-- 2018-05-14 12:43:43

Libya will return to Egypt on Monday the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan security official said. The bodies were re...

Pakistani Taliban attack on army vehicle kills seven

Pakistani Taliban attack on army vehicle kills seven

-- 2018-05-14 11:34:51

Militants have carried out an attack on an army vehicle on patrol in the Pakistani north-western tribal region North Waziristan, killing seven soldiers before fleeing back to neighbouring Afghanistan,...

Dust storms claim 41 lives in India

Dust storms claim 41 lives in India

-- 2018-05-14 11:00:29

Dust storms, thunderstorms and rain accompanied by gusty winds hit many states including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and the national capital New Delhi, leaving at least 41 people dead...

Rhetoric over US exit from Iran deal rises

Rhetoric over US exit from Iran deal rises

-- 2018-05-14 10:41:11

The United States threatened on Sunday to impose sanctions on European companies that do business with Iran, as the remaining participants in the Iran nuclear accord stiffened their resolve to keep th...

Suicide bomber hits Indonesia police station

Suicide bomber hits Indonesia police station

-- 2018-05-14 10:26:39

A suicide bomber on a motorbike wounded several Indonesian police outside a police building in Surabaya on Monday, a day after Islamist militants launched suicide attacks on churches in the country&...

Unmarried mother works 17 hours daily for 12 children

Unmarried mother works 17 hours daily for 12 children

-- 2018-05-13 22:26:14

Deng Qiong has no time for marriage or romance, because she's busy being a "mother" of 12 orphans, reports Xinhua. Deng, 45, is the mother of No. 9 family in the SOS Children's Village in Urumqi, nor...

Ivanka, Kushner arrive in Israel for Jerusalem embassy opening

Ivanka, Kushner arrive in Israel for Jerusalem embassy opening

-- 2018-05-13 20:51:37

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have arrived in Israel on Sunday ahead of the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday. The couple - both senio...

One family behind bombings on three churches in Indonesia   

One family behind bombings on three churches in Indonesia  

-- 2018-05-13 19:17:17

Six members of one family were behind a wave of blasts targeting three churches in Indonesia's second city of Surabaya, police say. At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in the attacks, r...

Paris knife attack suspect born in Chechnya

Paris knife attack suspect born in Chechnya

-- 2018-05-13 18:51:17

The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening is a French citizen born in 1997 in Russia's republic of Chechnya, sources say. Named by media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a...

Multiple blasts hit Afghan city, gun battle underway

Multiple blasts hit Afghan city, gun battle underway

-- 2018-05-13 15:37:54

A gun battle raged between Afghan security forces and a handful of militants following a series of explosions in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday that killed at least four people and wounded at...

Eight men get death penalty over IS attacks in Iran

Eight men get death penalty over IS attacks in Iran

-- 2018-05-13 14:06:36

An Iranian court on Sunday sentenced eight men to death over attacks that killed 18 people at the parliament and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum last year, in the first deadly operation...

Attackers kill 26 in Burundi ahead of referendum

Attackers kill 26 in Burundi ahead of referendum

-- 2018-05-13 12:38:02

At least 26 people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack in Burundi’s northwestern province of Cibitoke, less than a week before a constitutional referendum, a local administrator an...

Heavy rainstorms claim 15 lives in Pakistan

Heavy rainstorms claim 15 lives in Pakistan

-- 2018-05-13 12:26:28

Violent rainstorms in the northwest Pakistan have left at least 15 people dead and dozens others injured, officials in Pakistan say. Latif Khan, a senior disaster management official, says Sunday tha...

North Korea to dismantle nuclear bomb test site

North Korea to dismantle nuclear bomb test site

Reuters 2018-05-13 12:09:10

North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for sometime between May 23 and 25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country’s state media...

Malaysian cops raid Najib relatives’ luxury apartment

Malaysian cops raid Najib relatives’ luxury apartment

-- 2018-05-13 10:53:26

Police raided a deluxe Kuala Lumpur apartment block at which relatives of ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak had been staying as they searched for sensitive documents the new government fears may be ta...

Mahathir picks one-time foe as finance minister

Mahathir picks one-time foe as finance minister

-- 2018-05-13 10:47:47

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s finance minister, relatively unknown in international financial circles, is a man he threw into prison twice. Mahathir announced three top cabinet po...

Paris knife attack leaves one dead, four injured

Paris knife attack leaves one dead, four injured

-- 2018-05-13 10:34:46

An assailant shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ killed a passer-by in a knife attack that also wounded four others in the heart of Paris late on Saturday before he was shot dead by police, French aut...

Suicide bomb attacks kill nine in Indonesia

Suicide bomb attacks kill nine in Indonesia

Reuters 2018-05-13 10:01:52

Suspected IS-inspired suicide bombers attack Indonesian churches, at least 9 dead Suicide bombers suspected to be from an Islamic State-inspired group killed at least nine people and wounded 40 in at...

Myanmar ethnic insurgent attack leaves 19 dead

Myanmar ethnic insurgent attack leaves 19 dead

-- 2018-05-12 15:00:47

Ethnic insurgents in Myanmar carried out a major attack near the main border gate with China early on Saturday, leaving 19 people, including four members of the security forces dead, a government spok...

Mexico bars trans imposters from running in elections

Mexico bars trans imposters from running in elections

-- 2018-05-12 13:19:28

A Mexican state electoral body rejected the applications of 17 aspiring male candidates from various parties who tried to register as transgender female contenders for the July 1 elections. The elect...

How Harry, Meghan make it

How Harry, Meghan make it

Reuters 2018-05-12 12:58:23

Britain’s Prince Harry weds American actress Meghan Markle next Saturday in a union of youthful royalty and Hollywood glamour expected to reinvigorate the venerable House of Windsor. Harry, gra...

Malaysia bars ex-PM Najib from travelling abroad

Malaysia bars ex-PM Najib from travelling abroad

-- 2018-05-12 11:59:23

Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been banned from leaving the country, immigration officials say. This comes after Mr Najib said that he and his wife were planning to go on an overseas hol...

Congo sentences ex-army boss to 20 years in prison

Congo sentences ex-army boss to 20 years in prison

-- 2018-05-12 10:57:39

A court in Congo Republic sentenced ex-army chief and opposition presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko to 20 years in prison on Friday on charges of violating state security and illegal poss...

5.1 quake rattles Japan’s Nagano prefecture

5.1 quake rattles Japan’s Nagano prefecture

-- 2018-05-12 10:35:19

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck Japan’s Nagano prefecture on Saturday morning, said Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake that hit the region at 10:29am local time (012...

Macau tycoon gets four years in jail for bribing UN officials

Macau tycoon gets four years in jail for bribing UN officials

-- 2018-05-12 10:25:40

Billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after being found guilty last July of bribing two United Nations ambassadors to help him build a mul...

Europe strives to keep Iran deal alive

Europe strives to keep Iran deal alive

-- 2018-05-12 10:14:49

Europe’s largest economies lobbied to protect their companies’ investments in Iran on Friday, seeking to keep the nuclear deal with Tehran alive after Washington pulled out and threatened...

Kenyan dam built illegally, says water authority

Kenyan dam built illegally, says water authority

-- 2018-05-11 20:44:15

The Kenyan dam which burst, killing more than 40 people, was illegal, the country's water authority said on Friday. The dam is one of a number on a sprawling farm near Solai, 190km (120 miles) from t...