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Icebergs can help solve SA water crisis, say Marine experts

Icebergs can help solve SA water crisis, say Marine experts

-- 2018-05-01 14:59:50

Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region’s worst water shortage in a century. Salvage ma...

Koreas start fulfilling summit pledge

Koreas start fulfilling summit pledge

Reuters 2018-05-01 14:44:40

North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across their heavily fortified border on Tuesday, South Korea’s defence ministry said, fulfilling a promise made at la...

Brazil’s Lula, Workers Party leader face new graft charges

Brazil’s Lula, Workers Party leader face new graft charges

-- 2018-05-01 14:01:57

Imprisoned former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, along with the current leader of the Workers Party he founded, were hit on Monday with fresh corruption charges by federal prosecutors....

Jeddah suicide bomber was Indian, confirms S Arabia after DNA

Jeddah suicide bomber was Indian, confirms S Arabia after DNA

-- 2018-05-01 12:39:44

  New Delhi: The suicide bomber who attacked the US Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah two years ago was an Indian national, confirmed Saudi Arabia on the basis of DNA tests. A senior securi...

Filipino workers slam contractualisation in May Day protests

Filipino workers slam contractualisation in May Day protests

-- 2018-05-01 12:33:58

Thousands of workers and activists in the Philippines marched on Tuesday in a May Day rally to demonstrate against what they said was President Rodrigo Duterte’s failure to keep a campaign promi...

Pakistan set to launch 'ambitious' space programme to keep an eye on India

Pakistan set to launch 'ambitious' space programme to keep an eye on India

-- 2018-05-01 11:08:17

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to launch an ambitious space programme during the next fiscal year with an aim to keep an eye on the Indian side and reduce its dependence on foreign satellites for civil an...

10 S Sudan aid workers released a week after abduction

10 S Sudan aid workers released a week after abduction

-- 2018-05-01 11:06:14

Ten aid workers who went missing in South Sudan last week have been freed from an armed group that detained them in the Yei region southwest of the capital, the International Committee of the Red Cros...

UNSC delegation meets top politicians, civil society leaders in Myanmar

UNSC delegation meets top politicians, civil society leaders in Myanmar

-- 2018-05-01 11:03:30

The United Nations Security Council(UNSC) is continuing its mission to Bangladesh and Myanmar, taking a first-hand look at the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled acro...

UK voices support for Iran nuke deal

UK voices support for Iran nuke deal

-- 2018-05-01 10:11:12

Britain has backed a ‘vitally important’ nuclear deal with Iran, after Israel and the US accused the Iranians of pursuing atomic weapons. Israel claimed it had evidence showing Iran cover...

Stormy Daniels files defamation lawsuit against Trump

Stormy Daniels files defamation lawsuit against Trump

-- 2018-05-01 09:33:35

Adult film star Stormy Daniels is suing US President Donald Trump over a ‘defamatory’ tweet about alleged threats against her, her lawyer says. Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says...

Macron, Rouhani agree to work on saving nuke deal

Macron, Rouhani agree to work on saving nuke deal

-- 2018-05-01 00:36:41

In a phone call Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani agreed to work together in the coming weeks to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, according t...

Migrants waiting on Mexican side following US entry refusal

Migrants waiting on Mexican side following US entry refusal

-- 2018-04-30 22:49:49

Upward of 100 people from Central America who travelled north in a so-called "migrant caravan" to seek asylum in the United States are waking up on the Mexican side of the border Monday morning. Orga...

Missile strikes kill ‘pro-Assad fighters'

Missile strikes kill ‘pro-Assad fighters'

-- 2018-04-30 21:33:00

Missile strikes on military sites in northern Syria overnight reportedly killed a number of pro-government fighters, including Iranians. The Syrian military said facilities in Hama and Aleppo provinc...

Sajid Javid becomes new British interior minister

Sajid Javid becomes new British interior minister

-- 2018-04-30 18:28:03

Sajid Javid has become new Home Secretary of the United Kingdom after previous interior minister Amber Rudd's exit. British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Sajid as the new home boss on Monday,...

US-Saudi alliance will destabilise Mideast, says Iran

US-Saudi alliance will destabilise Mideast, says Iran

-- 2018-04-30 14:48:48

Iran said on Monday cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States will further destabilise the Middle East, a senior official said. The official added that Tehran will continue its presence...

Landslide claims nine lives in China

Landslide claims nine lives in China

-- 2018-04-30 12:50:23

A landslide in northern China trapped and killed nine people Monday morning beneath the falling earth. More than a hundred firefighters, rescue workers and medical staff were sent to the scene in Sha...

US stops migrants from entering border, says capacity full

US stops migrants from entering border, says capacity full

-- 2018-04-30 11:59:49

About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek US asylum on Sunday but were not allowed to cross the Mexico border because...

AFP photographer among 21 dies in Kabul suicide blasts

AFP photographer among 21 dies in Kabul suicide blasts

-- 2018-04-30 10:45:06

At least 21 people including a photographer of French news agency AFP have been killed when two blasts rocked the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said. But there was no immediate claim of r...

UK home secretary quits over immigration scandal

UK home secretary quits over immigration scandal

-- 2018-04-30 10:28:21

Britain's home secretary Amber Rudd has resigned, saying she ‘inadvertently misled’ MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants. Rudd, who was due to make a Commons statement on...

Plane crashes near oil field in Libya, killing three

Plane crashes near oil field in Libya, killing three

-- 2018-04-30 10:12:16

Three crew members of a transport plane have lost their lives after the aircraft crashed near one of the largest Libyan oil fields, says Libya’s oil agency. A statement by the National Oil Corp...

Trump-Kim meeting in Mongolia or Singapore

Trump-Kim meeting in Mongolia or Singapore

-- 2018-04-29 22:35:42

Mongolia and Singapore are the final two sites under consideration for the upcoming summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, reports CBS News citing administration sources....

Pompeo stresses need for Gulf unity

Pompeo stresses need for Gulf unity

-- 2018-04-29 21:29:01

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored the need for unity in the Gulf on Sunday during a brief visit to the Saudi capital, reports Reuters.  "Gulf unity is necessary and we need to achiev...

Philippines bans manpower export to Kuwait permanently

Philippines bans manpower export to Kuwait permanently

-- 2018-04-29 20:25:29

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked by compl...

Britain, France, Germany agree to support Iran nuclear deal

Britain, France, Germany agree to support Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-04-29 19:35:27

Britain, France and Germany have agreed to support the Iran nuclear deal as it is the best way to prevent Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said i...

Trump threatens government shutdown if no funding for wall

Trump threatens government shutdown if no funding for wall

-- 2018-04-29 19:32:17

US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall...

Gang-rape verdict in Spain spills on to third day

Gang-rape verdict in Spain spills on to third day

-- 2018-04-29 18:35:02

Thousands of people have marched in northern Spain for a third consecutive day to protest the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges. Local police in Pamplona estimated the size of the crowd at S...

Archaeologists find massive child sacrifice in Peru

Archaeologists find massive child sacrifice in Peru

-- 2018-04-29 18:20:34

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest single mass child sacrifice event in human history. More than 140 children were sacrificed around the same time in Peru's northern coastal region...

Australia pledges $379m to protect Great Barrier Reef

Australia pledges $379m to protect Great Barrier Reef

-- 2018-04-29 16:13:40

Australia has pledged A$500 million ($379m) to protect the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. In recent years, the reef has lost 30 per cent of its coral due to bleaching linked to rising sea...

Militants kill nine police in Afghanistan

Militants kill nine police in Afghanistan

-- 2018-04-29 15:20:07

At least nine Afghan police personnel were killed and ten others injured in a gunfight after the Taliban attacked a remote district in Northern Afghanistan on Saturday night. "Militants stormed secur...

Truck crashes into bus, killing seven in India

Truck crashes into bus, killing seven in India

-- 2018-04-29 14:24:03

A collision between a truck and a bus in India’s Madhya Pradesh state has left at least seven people dead and 25 others injured on Sunday, said police. The accident occurred in the morning in M...