-- 2018-03-10 15:08:43
Uruguay has agreed to extradite a notorious drug trader known as the ‘cocaine king of Milan’ back to Italy. Rocco Morabito was arrested last year in the Uruguayan resort town of Punta del...
-- 2018-03-10 14:52:47
Three women and their attacker have been killed during a hostage situation at a California veterans' home. The facility in Yountville was the scene of an hours-long police standoff on Friday after a...
-- 2018-03-10 13:05:30
At least fourteen militants have been killed and 12 others injured after Afghan army struck their positions in Helmand province in south of Afghanistan. Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the Afg...
-- 2018-03-10 13:00:37
Two people have been killed and two others seriously injured after a light aircraft crash-landed in Thailand's Phuket on Saturday. The Phuket News reported citing the police that the incident took pl...
-- 2018-03-10 12:33:20
Britain has resisted a call by campaigners and lawmakers to impose a so-called “latte levy” on single-use coffee cups, opting instead to reduce the use of the cups through voluntary measur...
-- 2018-03-10 12:17:04
Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, is to step down over a financial scandal. She has been accused of using a credit card issued by an international non...
-- 2018-03-10 11:26:53
The National Rifle Association has sued Florida after it passed a gun control law in the wake of a school shooting last month that left 17 people dead. Governor Rick Scott, a Republican and staunch a...
-- 2018-03-10 11:05:52
The former pharmaceutical chief executive, Martin ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli found guilty of defrauding investors, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The 34-year-old wept at a hearing...
-- 2018-03-09 20:54:08
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday hailed a proposed meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “a step in the right direction”. &ldquo...
-- 2018-03-09 20:43:01
Video games have been linked to real-world violence, US President Donald Trump told gaming industry leaders in a meeting after a school shooting last month reignited a national debate over guns. The...
-- 2018-03-09 20:29:01
More than 500 doctors in Canada’s Quebec have protested against a pay raise kick-starting a campaign demanding a decrease in their salaries, The Washington Post reported. On February 25, a group...
-- 2018-03-09 20:24:25
More than two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the risk of dying from starvation, said the United Nations on Friday. UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two million...
-- 2018-03-09 20:21:20
The US on Friday announced a USD 5.0 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the banned terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which has carried out s...
-- 2018-03-09 19:44:04
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s slurs against UN human rights activists suggest he needs to see a psychiatrist, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told a n...
-- 2018-03-09 18:20:58
India is set offer vocational training to almost half a million survivors of human trafficking. The training will be provided under a programme launched recently by the country’s President Ram...
-- 2018-03-09 18:00:33
A Pakistan court has ordered to arrest former President Pervez Musharraf in a sedition case. The court also asked Pakistan government on Thursday to take steps to extradite him from Dubai. A three-m...
-- 2018-03-09 17:14:33
Myanmar wants to see clear evidence to support accusations of ethnic cleansing or genocide perpetrated against its Muslim minority in Rakhine state. Myanmar's National Security Adviser Thaung Tun cam...
-- 2018-03-09 15:14:41
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing at least seven people in an attack apparently intended to hit crowds gathered to commemorate a political leader from t...
-- 2018-03-09 14:18:08
Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced Thursday that it would not contest the upcoming presidential elections in May, given the state of health of its leader and presidential candidate. FARC, or the Com...
-- 2018-03-09 13:57:45
Poland’s law on natural gas storage violates the European Union’s rules on security of gas supplies, the EU’s executive said on Thursday, giving Warsaw two months to address its conc...
-- 2018-03-09 13:07:15
India’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that individuals had a right to die with dignity, allowing passive euthanasia with guidelines in a landmark verdict. The top court also permitted individ...
-- 2018-03-09 12:50:16
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday his country was pursuing military cooperation with Zimbabwe and looking at opportunities in the diamond sector as well as fully implementing a...
-- 2018-03-09 09:37:14
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first US-North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions wit...
-- 2018-03-08 16:00:12
Two missiles fired from a US drone struck a militant facility in Afghanistan, leaving 21 insurgents dead including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistani intelligence officials and lo...
-- 2018-03-08 15:14:37
Many trains in Spain have been cancelled as workers prepare to strike to highlight gender inequalities on International Women's Day. Three-hundred trains will not be operating on Thursday, the countr...
-- 2018-03-08 13:37:12
South African city of Cape Town will not have to turn off water supplies if current consumption levels are maintained, the region’s governing party has said. Amid a drought, the city had set a...
-- 2018-03-08 13:34:20
Prime Minister Theresa May defended Britain’s links to security ally Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Queen Elizabeth for lunch on a high-profile visit that drew...
-- 2018-03-08 12:23:08
Florida lawmakers, spurred by last month’s deadly high school shooting, have given final passage to a bill to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun...
-- 2018-03-08 11:19:59
A curfew in the Sri Lankan town of Kandy will be temporarily lifted on Thursday, authorities said, following days of violence against members of the minority Muslim community by Buddhists. Buddhist m...
-- 2018-03-08 11:13:20
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s minority Rohingya Mus...
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