-- 2018-02-20 12:43:04
Mexican authorities are investigating the disappearance of three Italian men in the western state of Jalisco. The Naples natives reportedly went missing on Jan 31 after being detained by police at a...
-- 2018-02-20 11:54:53
Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island has declared a state of emergency as former cyclone Gita approaches the country. Dozens of schools have been shut and roads closed as the South Island brace...
-- 2018-02-20 11:35:32
A Russian Member of Parliament, Vladislav Reznik, and 17 other suspects have gone on trial in Madrid accused of massive money-laundering for a Russian mafia gang. The alleged gang bosses Gennady Petr...
-- 2018-02-20 11:04:45
Clashes erupted between Iranian police and members of a Sufi Muslim religious community in Tehran, leaving three officers dead, said the law enforcers. A protest by dervishes at a police station in n...
-- 2018-02-20 10:42:20
Nigerian local police have arrested three people suspected to have masterminded an attack which led to the killing of at least 36 villagers in the north-western state of Zamfara last week. Kenneth Em...
Agencies 2018-02-20 10:34:33
Bombardments by Syrian government forces have killed dozens of civilians in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, activists say. At least 77 civilians, including 20 children, were kill...
-- 2018-02-19 21:36:28
Myanmar government is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, according to a rights monitoring group, acco...
-- 2018-02-19 21:18:25
US President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve the federal background check system for gun purchases, the White House has said. Mr Trump spoke to Republican Senator John Cornyn about gun legis...
-- 2018-02-19 20:52:05
The Gambia's President has announced suspension of the death penalty as the West African country seeks to rebuild its international standing following the removal of its authoritarian ruler last year....
-- 2018-02-19 20:40:25
At least 17 people have been killed on Monday after heavy rains caused the partial collapse of a rubbish dump in Mozambique. A 15-metre high pile of rubbish collapsed, destroying seven houses, and re...
-- 2018-02-19 18:07:49
Israel has successfully tested the country's advanced missile defence system capable of defending against ballistic missile threats outside the atmosphere. According to Israel Defence Ministry, The M...
FE Online Desk 2018-02-19 17:54:38
Three members of the controversial Oxfam Haiti team that was under investigation for sexual exploitation and other breaches physically threatened a colleague to ensure that person’s silence The...
-- 2018-02-19 15:30:31
Mount Sinabung volcano in Sumatra Island of Indonesia spewed columns of volcanic ash as high as about five kilometres into the air, as it erupted on Monday. Head of National Volcanology Agency Kasban...
-- 2018-02-19 15:06:07
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has sought parliamentary approval to extend a state of emergency for 15 days. Parliament’s Deputy Secretary General, Fathmath Niusha has told the legislature o...
-- 2018-02-19 14:41:17
US President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes programme and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in t...
-- 2018-02-19 14:32:23
An avalanche in the French Alps has taken the lives of a father and his daughter while they were skiing, say rescue officials. The man, 43, and his 11-year-old daughter were from the Paris region and...
-- 2018-02-19 14:00:55
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has shaken the southern parts of Mexico, the country's National Seismological Service reported on early Monday. The strong quake struck 43 km east of...
-- 2018-02-19 13:40:21
Brazilian police have freed 18 hostages, who were held by armed inmates at a Rio de Janeiro jail, say officials. Officials at Brazil’s Milton Dias Moreira prison said eight prison wardens and 1...
-- 2018-02-19 13:03:30
An election candidate has been killed along with three other people after a landmine explosion occurred in India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya, police said on Monday. The attack happened o...
-- 2018-02-19 11:37:26
Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official said. Badran Jia...
-- 2018-02-19 11:06:45
Oxfam's country director in Haiti admitted to using prostitutes at his residence during a relief mission before resigning in 2011, according to an internal investigation into allegations of sexual mis...
-- 2018-02-19 10:55:16
A court in Egypt has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to prison over inciting anti-state riots, protests and violence. Prosecutors say the group was caught with inflammator...
-- 2018-02-19 10:38:59
Swastika, a German Nazi symbol and profanities were found drawn on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles...
BBC 2018-02-19 09:47:33
Five women have been killed in a shooting at a Christian church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a national guardsman, were injured, Russian offi...
-- 2018-02-19 00:00:00
The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran nuclear deal over time in return for US President Donald Trump keeping th...
-- 2018-02-18 18:03:43
A team of Pakistani transgenders, for the first time in the country’s history, will serve as volunteers during 2018 hajj pilgrimage, a media report has said. According to the report, the transg...
-- 2018-02-18 14:05:29
All 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane have died as the plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday. The plane operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines crashed in a mountainous area near the town o...
-- 2018-02-18 13:39:00
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticised his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying the Jews were among the perpetrators in World War Two. Poland passed a law this month impos...
-- 2018-02-18 13:03:53
The Ethiopian defence minister has said the newly imposed state of emergency will last for six months as authorities seek to tamp down unrest in the Horn of Africa country. The country’s Counci...
-- 2018-02-18 12:30:28
Australian authorities have issued a red alert warning as the tropical cyclone Kelvin has hammered the Western coast with deadly winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour on Sunday morning. In a warning...
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