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Gaza border blast injures four Israeli troops

Gaza border blast injures four Israeli troops

-- 2018-02-18 11:56:27

Four Israeli soldiers have been wounded by an explosion that occurred near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, spurring Israeli air strikes later in the day against Palestinian militant...

Russia shrugs off US election tampering charges

Russia shrugs off US election tampering charges

-- 2018-02-18 11:25:11

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed as ‘blather’ the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election tampering. He said at a major security c...

'Shame on you': Florida students to Trump

'Shame on you': Florida students to Trump

-- 2018-02-18 11:13:56

Young survivors of Wednesday's school shooting in Florida have taken part in an emotionally charged rally demanding tighter gun controls. Protesters in Fort Lauderdale chanted "shame on you", referri...

Fire guts sacred Tibetan monastery

Fire guts sacred Tibetan monastery

-- 2018-02-18 10:34:05

A fire broke out at the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one gu...

Rare earthquake shakes UK

Rare earthquake shakes UK

-- 2018-02-18 10:32:03

A minor earthquake with a 4.4 magnitude has affected parts of Wales and England. The quake was felt over all of Wales, most of western England, as far east as London and as far north as the souther...

US-based Russia news outlet registers as foreign agent

US-based Russia news outlet registers as foreign agent

-- 2018-02-18 09:59:29

US-based Russian news outlet RIA Global LLC has registered as a foreign agent with the US Justice Department, the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure from the US...

Mexico chopper crashes in emergency killing 14

Mexico chopper crashes in emergency killing 14

-- 2018-02-18 09:57:01

A helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed while they assessed damage from Friday's earthquake in Mexico, killing at least 14 including a baby. Mexico's interior minister and the governor of...

Russian FM hits back at FBI’s meddling charges

Russian FM hits back at FBI’s meddling charges

-- 2018-02-17 21:09:06

Russia's foreign minister on Saturday has dismissed as "blather" the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election meddling. Sergei Lavrov said at a major security conf...

India, Iran to work for stability in Afghanistan

India, Iran to work for stability in Afghanistan

-- 2018-02-17 20:33:45

India and Iran said Saturday that they will work for restoring peace, stability, prosperity and a pluralistic system in war-wracked Afghanistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they would st...

Thailand honours Myanmar army chief amid Rohingya crisis

Thailand honours Myanmar army chief amid Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-02-17 20:02:31

Thailand awarded Myanmar’s army chief a royal decoration on Friday amid allegations of crimes by Myanmar security forces against Rohingya Muslims. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar&rsqu...

Rouhani decides to stick with nuclear deal commitments

Rouhani decides to stick with nuclear deal commitments

-- 2018-02-17 19:17:03

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it would adhere to commitments under its 2015 international nuclear agreement. Iran signed the deal with six world powers to limit its disputed...

Killer of six-year old Zainab gets four death sentences

Killer of six-year old Zainab gets four death sentences

-- 2018-02-17 17:36:15

A court in Pakistan has given a 24-year-old man, Imran Ali, four death sentences for raping and murdering a six-year old girl last month. Zainab Ansari's body was found in a rubbish dump in the city...

No question of a second Brexit referendum: Britain’s PM May

No question of a second Brexit referendum: Britain’s PM May

-- 2018-02-17 16:06:00

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out a second vote on the country’s membership of the European Union (EU). Reuters on Saturday quoted her as saying that there was no going b...

Nigeria suicide bombing claims 18 lives

Nigeria suicide bombing claims 18 lives

-- 2018-02-17 15:16:01

Three suicide bombers have killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said on Saturday. Damian...

India gas cylinder blast kills five

India gas cylinder blast kills five

-- 2018-02-17 12:38:05

A cooking gas cylinder blast has killed at least five persons and over injured over 20 in western Indian state of Rajasthan, local media reports said on Saturday. The incident happened in the state's...

Mild tremor shakes Myanmar's Yangon

Mild tremor shakes Myanmar's Yangon

-- 2018-02-17 11:27:18

A mild earthquake measuring 4.6 on Richter scale shook Hmawbi Township in Myanmar's Yangon region on Saturday morning. The country's Meteorology and Hydrology Department said in a press release that...

Turkey sentences journos to life in jail over coup links

Turkey sentences journos to life in jail over coup links

-- 2018-02-17 11:13:56

A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in prison for alleged links to the July 2016 coup plotters. The judgement came as another Turkish court decided to release German-Turkish journal...

US indicts Russians over election tampering

US indicts Russians over election tampering

-- 2018-02-17 10:50:35

A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 US presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released o...

Ethiopia announces state of emergency

Ethiopia announces state of emergency

-- 2018-02-17 10:39:52

Ethiopia declared a state of emergency just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his intention to step down amid a political turmoil in the Horn of Africa country. The ruling EPR...

China waste facility fire takes nine lives

China waste facility fire takes nine lives

-- 2018-02-17 10:23:03

Nine people have been killed after a fierce fire broke out at a waste processing facility in southern China’s Qingyuan city in the early hours of Saturday morning. A Xinhua news agency report s...

Strong Mexico quake causes power cuts; two dead in crash

Strong Mexico quake causes power cuts; two dead in crash

-- 2018-02-17 10:12:52

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled Mexico on Friday, left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the only reported deaths came when a military c...

Ethiopian PM resigns amid political turmoil, protests

Ethiopian PM resigns amid political turmoil, protests

-- 2018-02-16 22:28:31

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on Thursday after long-running political turmoil, an unprecedented move in the vast East African country. The decision by Hailemariam, in power...

Turkey, US agree to restore normal ties

Turkey, US agree to restore normal ties

-- 2018-02-16 22:19:34

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that Turkey and the US agreed to normalize their ties, after weeks of rising tensions due to Turkey's military operation in Syria. Speaking at a...

Tillerson terms US-Turkey relations as 'crisis point'

Tillerson terms US-Turkey relations as 'crisis point'

-- 2018-02-16 22:17:10

The US secretary of state has acknowledged that his country's relationship with Turkey is "at a bit of a crisis point". At a joint press conference in Ankara on Friday, Rex Tillerson said the US-Turk...

7 workers die of suffocation at India pit

7 workers die of suffocation at India pit

-- 2018-02-16 20:18:23

Seven workers died of suffocation Friday while cleaning an underground drainage pit at a poultry farm in southern India, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chowdesari said the deaths occurr...

ANC leader Ramaphosa becomes new South Africa president

ANC leader Ramaphosa becomes new South Africa president

-- 2018-02-16 20:07:08

Cyril Ramaphosa was confirmed Thursday as South Africa's new President, hours after scandal-plagued leader Jacob Zuma resigned. Ramaphosa, 65, the leader of the ruling African National Congress party...

Florida gunman confesses to police

Florida gunman confesses to police

-- 2018-02-16 19:00:10

The teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school on Wednesday has confessed to the shooting, police say. Nikolas Cruz, 19, said he arrived on campus and began shooting students befo...

India woman held for 'posing' as groom for dowry

India woman held for 'posing' as groom for dowry

-- 2018-02-16 18:25:36

Police in India have arrested a woman who allegedly posed as a man and duped two women into marriage for dowry. Krishna Sen was arrested on Wednesday in the northern state of Uttarakhand for demandin...

Suu Kyi could face genocide charges: UN envoy

Suu Kyi could face genocide charges: UN envoy

-- 2018-02-16 17:34:50

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi could be held accountable for crimes against humanity, said UN Special Envoy Yanghee Lee in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 News. She said that Suu Kyi cou...

Pakistan army kills five soldiers in Kashmir

Pakistan army kills five soldiers in Kashmir

-- 2018-02-16 15:26:13

Pakistan army has destroyed an Indian army post in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and killed five Indian soldiers, after Indian sniper fire struck a school van, killing the driver, officials said....