-- 2018-02-26 23:25:38
Russia's President Vladimir Putin Monday has ordered a daily pause in the assault by its ally, the Syrian government, on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area. It will start on Tuesday, and include the...
-- 2018-02-26 20:59:27
European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council on Monday sought steps against senior military officials of the Myanmar armed forces responsible for serious and systematic human rights violations. The...
-- 2018-02-26 18:19:58
A former regional newspaper editor, Michael McCormack, has been chosen as Australia's new deputy prime minister. He replaces Barnaby Joyce as leader of the Nationals, the governing coalition's junior...
-- 2018-02-26 17:10:27
The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central US, spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upp...
-- 2018-02-26 15:21:47
Turkey has officially requested the extradition of former Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Saleh Muslim from the Czech Republic, Ankara’s government spokesman said on Monday....
-- 2018-02-26 14:10:07
Michelle Obama's forthcoming memoir, ‘Becoming,’ is set for worldwide release on November 13, at which time the former first lady will embark on a global tour to promote the book. Publish...
-- 2018-02-26 13:34:29
A blast destroyed a convenience store and a home in the central English city of Leicester on Sunday, killing at least four people and leaving four more wounded, British police said. “There are...
-- 2018-02-26 12:38:09
Britain's main opposition Labour party is poised for a significant policy change that could increase pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver a ‘soft’ Brexit that maintains some f...
-- 2018-02-26 12:17:20
South Korea said on Monday it hopes for “constructive” talks between North Korea and the United States, a day after a delegation from the North told South Korean President Moon Jae-in that...
-- 2018-02-26 11:21:59
Nigeria has deployed extra troops and planes to search for 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants last week. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their schoo...
-- 2018-02-26 10:51:00
An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have...
-- 2018-02-26 10:08:23
A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale shook Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands province early on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The powerful quake prompted oi...
-- 2018-02-25 19:38:03
They reside in houses often made of plastic sheets. Much of their food comes from aid agencies. Jobs are few and there is painfully little to do. The nightmares are relentless. But six months after t...
FE Online Desk 2018-02-25 19:25:38
North Korea (DPRK) is willing to hold talks with the United States at their earliest convenience, said South Korean (ROK) President Moon Jae-In in a statement on Sunday. The South Korean leader said...
-- 2018-02-25 16:44:20
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations. However, some of the biggest jihadist rebel groups...
Reuters 2018-02-25 15:32:11
North Korea has strongly denounced the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States, saying a blockade would be considered as an act of war. State media on Sunday said in a statement that t...
-- 2018-02-25 15:04:31
China’s Central Committee proposed on Sunday to remove a limit of two consecutive terms for the president and vice president, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The committee proposed re...
-- 2018-02-25 14:27:18
Turkey welcomed on Sunday a UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria to allow aid access and medical evacuation, the foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement. The UN Security Council...
-- 2018-02-25 14:22:34
US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto postponed plans for the Mexican leader’s first visit to the White House, after a testy phone call involving Trump’s push...
-- 2018-02-25 13:43:15
The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has recalled a Ghanaian police unit working at one of its protection camps while it investigates allegations that some of them were involved in sexual abuse,...
-- 2018-02-25 13:34:25
Voting got under way in Cambodia on Sunday in a Senate election that the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen was expected to sweep following a crackdown on opposition. The vote, to elect 58 member...
-- 2018-02-25 13:14:51
India and Pakistan have exchanged artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region forcing hundreds of people to flee, police in Indian Kashmir said, raising fresh doubts about a 15-year-old ceasefire be...
-- 2018-02-25 12:14:29
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will promote one of the most prominent critics from within her conservative party, Jens Spahn, to the cabinet, handing him the post of health minister, Bild am Sonntag...
-- 2018-02-25 12:14:27
Rival demonstrations by far-right and anti-fascist groups a week before Italy's general election have led to scuffles with police. Police in Milan used batons as left-wing demonstrators tried to brea...
-- 2018-02-25 11:42:47
Mexican authorities have arrested four police officers on suspicion of abducting three missing Italian men for a local criminal gang. State prosecutors confirmed the news on Saturday. A Reuters repo...
-- 2018-02-25 11:23:00
A man accused of smuggling more than 250 tonnes of cocaine over the past decade has been extradited to the US from Colombia. Prosecutors say Washington Prado Álava, an Ecuadorean national, was...
-- 2018-02-25 10:38:09
At least 14 people were killed and 40 others injured as Islamist car suicide bombers and gunmen tried to storm the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in the southern port city of Aden on Saturda...
-- 2018-02-25 09:56:49
The UN Security Council on Saturday demanded a 30-day truce across Syria as rescuers in the country’s eastern Ghouta region said bombing had not let up long enough for them to count bodies durin...
-- 2018-02-24 20:57:52
Syrian government forces have killed more than 500 civilians during a week of intense bombardment of a rebel enclave near Damascus, activists say. The victims in the Eastern Ghouta include 121 childr...
-- 2018-02-24 20:37:20
Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state is threatening parents who do not make sure their children go to school with jail terms. The state signed the new law into the books amid concerns children were...
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