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Afghan army kills 16 militants

Afghan army kills 16 militants

-- 2018-04-24 12:52:57

At least 16 Taliban militants were killed and four others injured after Afghan army waged an operation in restive southern province of Zabul, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. “The cleanup...

UK upper house hands govt another Brexit defeat

UK upper house hands govt another Brexit defeat

-- 2018-04-24 12:51:29

Britain’s upper house of parliament handed the government its third defeat over Brexit in less than a week on Monday, voting down plans not to retain EU rights in national law before Britain lea...

Angola fires army chief, spy boss in anti-graft move

Angola fires army chief, spy boss in anti-graft move

-- 2018-04-24 11:58:29

Angolan President Joao Lourenco sacked the chief of staff of the armed forces and the head of the foreign intelligence agency on Monday, his latest moves against officials tainted by graft allegations...

Bar fire kills 18 in southern China

Bar fire kills 18 in southern China

-- 2018-04-24 11:02:58

At least 18 people were killed and five others injured at a devastating fire that allegedly caused by arson at a karaoke bar in Qingyuan City in southern China, according to Xinhua report. Preliminar...

Mexico arrests ‘murderer’ of drug war journo

Mexico arrests ‘murderer’ of drug war journo

-- 2018-04-24 11:01:47

Mexico’s interior minister said that authorities had arrested the alleged murderer of a renowned journalist in northern Mexico whose death had become emblematic of a spike in violence across the...

10 die in Toronto van attack

10 die in Toronto van attack

-- 2018-04-24 10:27:17

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured as a rented van plowed down a crowded Toronto sidewalk on Monday, Canadian authorities said. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders identified the man...

Pak police arrests man for burning alive Christian woman

Pak police arrests man for burning alive Christian woman

-- 2018-04-23 22:43:38

Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim man accused of burning a Christian woman to death for refusing his marriage offer, an official said Monday. Ijaz Shahid, a police official in the eastern Pun...

Naidu rejects motion  to impeach India’s CJ

Naidu rejects motion to impeach India’s CJ

-- 2018-04-23 22:03:28

India's Vice-President and chairman of the Upper House of parliament, Venkaiah Naidu, has rejected the opposition's notice for impeachment of Chief Justice (CJ) of India, Dipak Misra. But the Congress...

US curbs embassy services, staff in Nicaragua

US curbs embassy services, staff in Nicaragua

-- 2018-04-23 20:58:03

The United States ordered relatives of government employees out of Nicaragua on Monday and curtailed services at its embassy, citing civil unrest including violent protests, rioting and looting. The...

British royal family welcomes baby boy

British royal family welcomes baby boy

-- 2018-04-23 19:17:30

The Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Britain's Prince William, gave birth her third royal baby, a boy, on Monday at St. Mary's Hospital in London. The royal family announced made the announcement on Mon...

Armenia's PM resigns amid protests

Armenia's PM resigns amid protests

-- 2018-04-23 18:51:04

Armenia's newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned following days of protests against his government. Hundreds of soldiers joined anti-government protests in the capital, Yerevan, o...

Thousands protest against new election laws in Madagascar

Thousands protest against new election laws in Madagascar

-- 2018-04-23 16:37:35

Thousands marched in Madagascar’s capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of a person in a similar march at the weekend, said a witness. On Saturday, police fired...

Paraguayans elect Mario Abdo Benítez as new president

Paraguayans elect Mario Abdo Benítez as new president

-- 2018-04-23 16:19:33

Conservative former senator Mario Abdo Benítez has been elected president of Paraguay. He beat his closest rival, Efraín Alegre from the liberal opposition alliance, by four percentage...

Belgium sentences Paris attacks suspect to 20 years in jail

Belgium sentences Paris attacks suspect to 20 years in jail

-- 2018-04-23 15:58:46

A Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016. Abde...

Taliban attack leaves 14 Afghan troops, cops dead

Taliban attack leaves 14 Afghan troops, cops dead

-- 2018-04-23 15:05:37

Two near-simultaneous Taliban attacks in Afghanistan’s western Badghis province have left at least 14 troops and policemen dead on Monday, Afghan officials say. Ghulam Sarwar Haidari, the deput...

32 Chinese dead in North Korean bus crash

32 Chinese dead in North Korean bus crash

-- 2018-04-23 14:30:37

Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans died in a major bus accident in North Korea, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, with two Chinese nationals seriously injured and left in...

G7 members united against Russia: US official

G7 members united against Russia: US official

-- 2018-04-23 12:07:11

A meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations was united in opposing Russia’s behaviour, which they said threatened peace and security, a senior US State...

France passes new law to tighten asylum rules

France passes new law to tighten asylum rules

-- 2018-04-23 11:50:08

The French National Assembly has passed a tough new immigration law that tightens the rules around asylum. The bill shortens asylum application deadlines, doubles the time for which illegal migrants...

Two cars collide in India, killing five

Two cars collide in India, killing five

-- 2018-04-23 11:33:57

At least five people were burnt to death after two cars collided head-on and caught fire in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police said Monday. The accident occurred on national highway 146 n...

Bus carrying Chinese tourists falls off N Korea bridge

Bus carrying Chinese tourists falls off N Korea bridge

-- 2018-04-23 10:43:44

Chinese tourists have been involved in a major transportation accident in North Korea and there are a large number of casualties, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Chinese diplomats have...

Naked gunman kills three in Nashville

Naked gunman kills three in Nashville

-- 2018-04-22 18:53:47

A nude gunman has killed three people at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, police say. The man burst into the restaurant at 03:25 in the suburb of Antioch and opened fire with a rifle. Four peo...

Qatari fighter jets intercepted civilian plane: UAE

Qatari fighter jets intercepted civilian plane: UAE

-- 2018-04-22 18:43:01

The United Arab Emirates said Qatari fighter planes intercepted a civilian aircraft carrying 86 passengers to Bahrain on Sunday, UAE state news agency WAM reported. Quoting its civil aviation authori...

Uganda plans tax on social media use

Uganda plans tax on social media use

-- 2018-04-22 18:33:25

Uganda plans to slap a new tax on social media users from July this year to raise revenue. Local human rights activists denounced the move as another attempt by the country's President Yoweri Museven...

Saudi restricts drone flying after palace incident

Saudi restricts drone flying after palace incident

-- 2018-04-22 15:45:40

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday instructed drone enthusiasts to obtain permission to fly the devices until regulations were finalised, a day after security forces shot down a recreati...

Kabul election centre blast toll mounts to 31

Kabul election centre blast toll mounts to 31

-- 2018-04-22 14:49:55

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 50, most of them waiting in line to receiv...

Islamic party aims to hold the key in Malaysia's election

Islamic party aims to hold the key in Malaysia's election

-- 2018-04-22 14:18:45

The outcome of next month’s election in Malaysia may hinge on the performance of a party that has strived for decades to turn the country into an Islamic state and enforce harsher penalties on M...

Armenia anti-govt protesters to hold talks with PM

Armenia anti-govt protesters to hold talks with PM

-- 2018-04-22 11:45:41

The organiser of anti-government protests in Armenia says he will hold talks with Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan early on Sunday. Nikol Pashinyan has been leading calls for Sargsyan to resign over a c...

‘Terrorist group’ attack crude oil pipeline in Libya

‘Terrorist group’ attack crude oil pipeline in Libya

-- 2018-04-22 10:53:08

A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire on Saturday causing the loss of between 70,000 barrels per day and 100,000 bpd, state firm NOC s...

17 die after two dragon boats capsize in China

17 die after two dragon boats capsize in China

-- 2018-04-22 10:34:38

Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China have overturned and 17 people drowned, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Television pictures showed one of the long, narrow b...

Iran warns against US deals

Iran warns against US deals

-- 2018-04-22 09:50:56

A US push to change the Iran nuclear deal was sending a “very dangerous message” that countries should never negotiate with Washington, Iran’s foreign minister warned as US and North...