-- 2018-02-22 19:30:07
London police say they are investigating a suspicious package that was sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle. The Metropolitan Police force says "a package containing a substance" was de...
-- 2018-02-22 19:23:24
An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death and seven others to up to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. Thursday's verdict, reported by the state-run MENA news agency, can be appeal...
-- 2018-02-22 19:22:08
Russia has said it will consider supporting the UN-proposed ceasefire in Syria as long as it does not cover Isis and al Qaeda-linked groups. The UN security council is due to meet later on Thursday t...
-- 2018-02-22 19:06:49
US President Donald Trump promised strong background checks and mental health screenings for gun buyers after hearing pleas from survivors of the recent Florida school shooting and affected families o...
-- 2018-02-22 18:29:05
Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr Navalny, who is Vladimir Putin's mo...
-- 2018-02-22 13:26:04
A bomb blast killed two bank employees and injured 22 other people in Myanmar’s northeastern city of Lashio on Wednesday, the government and the military said. Police said an investigation was...
-- 2018-02-22 13:02:06
An unknown person threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the United States embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, before blowing himself up, the government said on T...
-- 2018-02-22 12:51:37
At least 44 lives have been claimed in Peru on Wednesday after a bus hurtled some 100 meters into a ravine in the mountains south of the country. An official added that the incident is the second majo...
-- 2018-02-22 11:43:13
Catalonia's jailed former vice-president has called for an end to the deadlock in parliament over the region's next president. Oriol Junqueras said there is life in the pro-independence movement beyo...
-- 2018-02-22 11:03:10
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has proposed holding a "mega-election" after the opposition coalition said it would boycott a planned presidential poll in April. Maduro said he wanted to a...
-- 2018-02-22 10:51:32
US President Donald Trump has said arming teachers could prevent school shootings like that which left 17 people dead last week in Florida. A staff member with a gun could end an attack "very quickly...
-- 2018-02-22 10:27:59
The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and...
-- 2018-02-22 00:14:59
More than 100 British parliamentarians have said it is time for the UK to state that Myanmar's military should be referred to ICC for their appalling 'security operations' against the Rohingya, descri...
-- 2018-02-21 21:36:17
The US has urged the Maldives to end a state of emergency that has been in place in the country since the beginning of February. "The US is disappointed with President Yameen Abdul Gayoom's decision...
-- 2018-02-21 21:26:00
More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern state of Yobe, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Their disap...
-- 2018-02-21 21:03:25
Pakistan's apex court has disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as head of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. "An individual disqualified under Articles 62 and 63 cannot serve as part...
-- 2018-02-21 20:41:07
Donald Trump Jr. has said his father pledged to conduct no new foreign business during the tenure of presidency. He said the US president's family is actually missing out on business opportunities fo...
-- 2018-02-21 19:13:43
Japan plans to buy at least 20 additional F-35A stealth fighters over the next six years, some or all of which it may purchase directly from Lockheed Martin Corp in the United States rather than assem...
-- 2018-02-21 17:21:55
Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa's Eastern Cape province Umtata. The South African Government News Agency, in a statement said thr...
-- 2018-02-21 14:50:23
There were no survivors among the 65 passengers and crew on an Iranian plane that ploughed into a mountain top, where most of the bodies lie buried under snow, the first rescue team to reach the wreck...
-- 2018-02-21 13:00:07
The united State has recently signed an agreement granting Jordan $1.275 billion a year through 2022, an additional financial support for the kingdom. The chairman of a US Senate panel dealing with f...
-- 2018-02-21 11:08:42
A better deal for South Korea’s cryptocurrency industry is likely to be in the offing as the market regulator changes tack from its tough stance on the virtual coin trade, promising instead to h...
-- 2018-02-21 11:08:23
More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he...
-- 2018-02-21 10:38:52
As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in last year's La...
-- 2018-02-20 21:56:36
Japan has picked the western city of Osaka to host next year’s G20 summit, the first such gathering to be held in Japan, reports Reuters citing a government source. The choice of Osaka, Japan&r...
-- 2018-02-20 21:42:09
A number of districts in New Zealand’s South Island have declared a state of emergency as the remains of Cyclone Gita pummel the country. Heavy rains ahead of the storm's arrival brought floods...
-- 2018-02-20 19:37:22
Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000...
-- 2018-02-20 16:48:15
A Bangkok court has awarded paternity rights to a Japanese man over 13 babies he fathered through Thai surrogate mothers. The ruling allows Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, to pursue custody of the children....
-- 2018-02-20 15:21:31
Indonesia suspended the construction of elevated infrastructure projects, including rail and roads, after a series of accidents raised questions about the safety of a government drive to upgrade trans...
-- 2018-02-20 14:44:55
A bomb blast has rocked Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday killing at least one civilian, a local official said. The explosion has left three people in...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express