-- 2018-04-16 15:23:10
Eight men accused of involvement in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state appeared in court on Monday for the first hearing in a case that spa...
-- 2018-04-16 14:44:47
An American pastor is going on trial in Turkey accused of ties to terror groups and spying, in a case that has strained ties between Turkey and the United States. Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old...
-- 2018-04-16 13:16:42
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, plagued by suspected cronyism scandals and cover-ups and with his ratings sliding, will likely step down in June, former leader Junichiro Koizumi was quoted on Mond...
-- 2018-04-16 13:07:51
Pakistan has failed to improve its human rights record over the past year, says an independent Pakistani watchdog. The damning report card was issued by the Human Rights Commission on Monday. It sa...
-- 2018-04-16 11:38:51
A court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced a young poet to three years in jail. Nacima Qorane was found guilty of bringing the state into contempt by advocating for Somaliland...
-- 2018-04-16 11:36:35
An Arab League summit called on Sunday for an international probe into the “criminal” use of chemical weapons in Syria and condemned what it saw as Iran’s interference in the affairs...
-- 2018-04-16 11:18:55
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that further Western attacks on Syria would bring chaos to world affairs, as Washington prepared to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanc...
BBC 2018-04-16 10:26:15
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he convinced US President Donald Trump not to withdraw troops from Syria and instead commit "for the long term". Earlier this month, Mr Trump declared that t...
-- 2018-04-16 10:21:38
Former FBI director James Comey has said Donald Trump is a man "morally unfit to be president", who treats women like "pieces of meat". Mr Comey was giving his first major television interview since...
-- 2018-04-15 20:24:50
A prominent US lawyer has died after setting himself on fire in a New York park in a protest against climate change. The remains of David Buckel, 60, were found in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. In a su...
-- 2018-04-15 20:23:16
Starbucks Chief Executive Kevin Johnson apologised late on Saturday for the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia coffee shop last week, which sparked accusations of racial profiling. Promising...
-- 2018-04-15 20:21:01
Partner Communications, Israel’s second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Sunday it signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Prime Video for its TV service. Partner TV customers now ha...
-- 2018-04-15 19:58:00
A surprise handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga has stirred up Kenyan politics as the long-time rivals set their sights on the 2022 elections. Less than a yea...
-- 2018-04-15 13:59:55
An Air China flight bound for Beijing made an unscheduled landing in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou on Sunday after a passenger threatened a flight attendant with a fountain pen. The country&r...
-- 2018-04-15 12:24:23
With the latest US missile strikes, President Donald Trump appears to have reset America’s red line for military intervention in Syria over the use of chemical weapons. What’s unclear is...
-- 2018-04-15 11:50:46
A fierce fire broke out at an apartment building fire in east China’s Jiangsu Province early Sunday, killing five people and wounding four others, local authorities said. The building in Huhe v...
-- 2018-04-15 11:27:54
Militants disguised as UN peacekeepers exploded two suicide car bombs and fired dozens of rockets at the French and United Nations bases in Mali’s northern city of Timbuktu on Saturday, killing...
-- 2018-04-15 11:04:30
A mild earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale has shaken Myanmar’s Yangon region early Sunday morning, according to the Meteorology and Hydrology Department. With an epicentre of 30.6 km...
-- 2018-04-15 10:47:35
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said four of its members were killed in an apparent accidental blast in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The group said in a statement that it was “mourn...
-- 2018-04-15 10:01:39
The United States urged regional leaders on Saturday to take stronger steps to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as it joined a declaration condemning the worsening humanitarian crisis an...
-- 2018-04-15 09:55:07
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Syria by phone. They agreed on the need to boost bilateral efforts for political settlement of...
-- 2018-04-14 22:50:12
US President Donald Trump has hailed an overnight military strike on Syria as "perfectly executed", adding: "Mission Accomplished". The US, UK and France attacked three government sites, targeting wh...
-- 2018-04-14 20:52:46
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Western airstrikes would only make him more determined to crush his enemies. “This aggression will only make Syria and its people more determined...
-- 2018-04-14 20:25:48
Eight Egyptian soldiers and 14 militants were killed in fighting when gunmen carrying explosive belts and grenades targeted a military checkpoint in central Sinai on Saturday. The attack was the larg...
-- 2018-04-14 18:27:58
Russia may consider supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria and other countries, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi said on Saturday after US, French and British air strikes on Syria. Rudskoi said the U...
-- 2018-04-14 17:14:11
A lawmaker from India’s ruling party was arrested on Friday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing to investi...
-- 2018-04-14 16:42:15
SOWETO, South Africa: Thousands of mourners gathered in South Africa’s Soweto township on Saturday to bid farewell to anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a funeral ceremony that...
-- 2018-04-14 16:41:07
Slovenia will hold an early general election on June 3, President Borut Pahor announced on Saturday, a month after centre-left Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned over a legal obstacle to a government...
-- 2018-04-14 16:13:15
Moscow has described the overnight coalition operation in Syria as “a flagrant violation of international law” and has promised “consequences.” But while the official reactio...
-- 2018-04-14 16:10:20
Israel has issued a statement on Saturday in support of the air strikes on Syria by US and its allies. "Last year, President Trump made clear that the use of chemical weapons crosses a red line. Toni...
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