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Trump denies campaign funds paid off porn actor

Trump denies campaign funds paid off porn actor

-- 2018-05-03 18:27:56

President Donald Trump on Thursday has denied any money from his campaign was used to buy an adult film actor's silence over an affair he says never happened. He admitted in a tweet lawyer Michael Co...

Gunmen kidnap German nurse in Somalia

Gunmen kidnap German nurse in Somalia

-- 2018-05-03 15:58:00

A German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the aid group said. She was seized by unknown armed men from inside...

German police raid migrant shelter

German police raid migrant shelter

-- 2018-05-03 15:23:24

German police launched a raid on a migrant shelter on Thursday where three days ago 150 asylum seekers clashed with police and prevented the deportation of a 23-year-old man from Togo. The confront...

Two pilots die after Russian war plane crashes in Syria

Two pilots die after Russian war plane crashes in Syria

-- 2018-05-03 15:20:14

An advanced Russian multi-role fighter plane crashed in Syria on Thursday morning shortly after take-off, killing both members of its crew, the Russian military was cited as saying by Russian news age...

Gunfights leave 18 militants dead in Afghanistan

Gunfights leave 18 militants dead in Afghanistan

-- 2018-05-03 14:07:22

At least 18 militants and three security force members were killed in separate gunfights in two northern Afghan provinces, authorities said on Thursday. In Badakhshan province, three security force...

Mahathir under probe for 'fake news'

Mahathir under probe for 'fake news'

-- 2018-05-03 14:05:03

Malaysian authorities are investigating opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad under an anti-fake news law over claims that his plane was sabotaged in the run up to a general election next week, police sa...

Dust storms kill nearly 100 in India

Dust storms kill nearly 100 in India

-- 2018-05-03 14:00:54

At least 95 people have died and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The storms on Wednesday disrupted electricity, uprooted...

Trump about to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

Trump about to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-05-03 12:25:57

US President Donald Trump has all but decided to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord by May 12 but exactly how he will do so remains unclear, two White House officials and a source familiar wit...

UN urges Trump not to walk away from Iran nuclear deal

UN urges Trump not to walk away from Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-05-03 11:35:45

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Guterres said ther...

London bonfire explosion leaves 10 injured

London bonfire explosion leaves 10 injured

-- 2018-05-03 11:27:27

Ten people have suffered minor injuries after a bonfire exploded at a Jewish festival in London, police say. Hatzola, a volunteer emergency medical service, said it provided a ‘mega response te...

IS militants storm Libya election commission, killing 12

IS militants storm Libya election commission, killing 12

-- 2018-05-03 11:23:14

Suicide bombers stormed the head offices of Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli, killing at least 12 people and setting fire to the building. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State mil...

US military plane crash claims nine lives

US military plane crash claims nine lives

-- 2018-05-03 10:45:47

Nine people are feared dead after a military cargo plane crashed in the US state of Georgia, officials say. They were aboard the C-130 plane when it came down beside a highway intersection near the l...

French president thanks Australian PM’s ‘delicious wife’

French president thanks Australian PM’s ‘delicious wife’

-- 2018-05-02 21:12:49

French President Emmanuel Macron committed a rather delicious faux pas on Wednesday that left his Australian audience scratching their heads. Mr Macron has been in the country on a diplomatic trip, d...

One dead, three missing in Brazil blaze

One dead, three missing in Brazil blaze

-- 2018-05-02 17:36:05

A 22-storey abandoned office building occupied by hundreds of squatters was engulfed in flames and collapsed in the centre of Sao Paulo early Tuesday, shooting a massive black cloud of smoke into the...

India SC voices concern over Taj Mahal colour change

India SC voices concern over Taj Mahal colour change

-- 2018-05-02 16:12:07

India’s Supreme Court has instructed the government to seek foreign help to fix what it described as a worrying change in colour at the Taj Mahal. “Even if you have the expertise, you are...

Armenian protesters block routes to capital, road to airport

Armenian protesters block routes to capital, road to airport

-- 2018-05-02 16:03:14

Armenian protesters blocked some routes into the capital, Yerevan, and a road to the airport on Wednesday after Nikol Pashinyan, blocked in parliament from becoming prime minister, announced a nationw...

Illegal campfire sparked Arizona wildfire: US officials

Illegal campfire sparked Arizona wildfire: US officials

-- 2018-05-02 13:58:08

US authorities say an illegal campfire sparked the wildfire in Arizona that has prompted evacuations while burning 30 buildings and threatening about 1,000 homes and other structures. Coconino Nation...

5.2 quake jolts Iran

5.2 quake jolts Iran

-- 2018-05-02 13:54:58

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook Sisakht city in Iran’s western Kohgiluye va Boyerahmad province at 10:38 local time (0608 GMT) on Wednesday. The epicentre, with a depth o...

Duterte’s order on ‘contractualisation’ upsets Filipino workers

Duterte’s order on ‘contractualisation’ upsets Filipino workers

-- 2018-05-02 13:04:11

Philippine labour groups expressed disappointment on Wednesday over a long-awaited executive order by President Rodrigo Duterte to crack down on short-term hiring, saying it offered nothing new and le...

Texas sues Trump administration over ‘DACA’ programme

Texas sues Trump administration over ‘DACA’ programme

-- 2018-05-02 12:10:42

Texas and six other Republican-governed states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration to try to end a programme launched by Democratic former President Barack Obama that protects immigrants brought...

Canada MPs urge Pope to apologise for school abuse

Canada MPs urge Pope to apologise for school abuse

-- 2018-05-02 11:20:56

Canadian members of Parliament have voted to ask the Catholic Church to apologise for its involvement in the abuse of indigenous students at school. The residential schools took children from their f...

Economist Ashok Mitra passes away

Economist Ashok Mitra passes away

-- 2018-05-02 10:51:20

Marxist economist Ashok Mitra, who served as finance minister of the India’s West Bengal state, has died at 90. Mitra, who took the finance portfolio after Jyoti Basu formed the first Left Fron...

Macron unsure about Trump’s decision on Iran deal

Macron unsure about Trump’s decision on Iran deal

-- 2018-05-02 10:38:07

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he did not know whether US President Trump would stick with a 2015 nuclear deal that many in the West see as the best hope of preventing Iran from ge...

C Africa church attack claims 15 lives

C Africa church attack claims 15 lives

-- 2018-05-02 10:20:44

At least 15 people, including a priest, have been killed in an attack on a church in the Central African Republic (CAR). Gunmen armed with grenades targeted the Notre-Dame de Fatima church in the cap...

Paris police arrest hundreds after May Day riots

Paris police arrest hundreds after May Day riots

-- 2018-05-02 10:09:45

Police in Paris have arrested nearly 200 masked demonstrators who smashed shop windows and torched cars during annual May Day protests. Far-left anarchist groups, known as Black Blocs, on Tuesday hij...

Blasts at Nigeria mosque kill 24

Blasts at Nigeria mosque kill 24

-- 2018-05-01 22:30:06

At least 24 people are reported to have been killed in suicide bomb blasts in the north-east Nigerian town of Mubi. The explosions happened in and around a mosque as Muslims were preparing for aftern...

Children, women among 23 die in Syria airstrikes

Children, women among 23 die in Syria airstrikes

-- 2018-05-01 20:59:13

Syrian state media and a war monitoring group say airstrikes in Islamic State-held territory in northeastern Syria have killed at least 23 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rig...

Huge blaze brings Brazil building down

Huge blaze brings Brazil building down

-- 2018-05-01 20:10:40

A 26-storey building has collapsed after being engulfed in flames in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, killing at least one person. More than 150 firefighters were battling the blaze which i...

Myanmar military assures UN of 'harsh action' on sexual assault

Myanmar military assures UN of 'harsh action' on sexual assault

-- 2018-05-01 19:11:30

Myanmar’s military has assured the United Nations of “harsh” action against perpetrators of sexual violence in Rakhine, state media reported on Tuesday, as UN envoys travelled to the...

Iran nuclear deal was built on lies, Pompeo says

Iran nuclear deal was built on lies, Pompeo says

-- 2018-05-01 17:02:32

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a landmark nuclear deal with Iran was "built on lies," after Israel claimed to have proof of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme. Mr Pompeo said document...