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Turkey offers troops station with US in Syria

Turkey offers troops station with US in Syria

-- 2018-02-16 14:55:50

Turkey has proposed to the United States that Kurdish YPG fighters withdraw to east of the Euphrates river in Syria and that Turkish and US troops be stationed together in the country’s Manbij a...

FBI knew about Florida gunman

FBI knew about Florida gunman

-- 2018-02-16 11:59:45

The 19-year-old man accused of shooting 17 people to death at a Florida high school legally purchased the assault rifle used in the killings and may have foreshadowed the attack in a social media comm...

Suu Kyi-led Myanmar government cracks down on journos

Suu Kyi-led Myanmar government cracks down on journos

-- 2018-02-15 21:55:46

As five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decade-long prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical weapons factory in Myanmar a few years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi &ndas...

Israel turns to world for help as Gaza deteriorates

Israel turns to world for help as Gaza deteriorates

-- 2018-02-15 20:15:55

Israel inflicted heavy damage on Gaza's infrastructure four years ago during a bruising 50-day war with Hamas militants. Now, fearing a humanitarian disaster on its doorstep, it's appealing to the wo...

Teachers 'were warned' about Florida shooting

Teachers 'were warned' about Florida shooting

-- 2018-02-15 19:43:12

Teachers were warned in advance about the teenager who allegedly carried out a mass shooting at his former school in Florida, US media are reporting. Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of p...

UK accuses Russia of ‘NotPetya’ cyber attack

UK accuses Russia of ‘NotPetya’ cyber attack

-- 2018-02-15 14:30:39

Britain blamed Russia for ‘NotPetya’ cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt...

Nepalese PM Deuba steps down

Nepalese PM Deuba steps down

-- 2018-02-15 13:53:48

Nepal's prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba  has resigned Thursday after his party lost parliamentary elections, paving the way for a new government. He made the announcement a day after the resul...

Afghan Taliban offer peace talks

Afghan Taliban offer peace talks

-- 2018-02-15 12:10:59

The Taliban said, in a rare statement to the American people that they want to end Afghanistan’s 17-year war through talks, while warning the message should not be seen as a sign of weakness and...

Zimbabwe rival leader Tsvangirai dies at 65

Zimbabwe rival leader Tsvangirai dies at 65

-- 2018-02-15 11:18:10

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died at the age of 65 in South Africa, a senior official in his MDC party has said. A former prime minister, Tsvangirai had reportedly been suf...

Abe, Trump agree to keep up pressure on N Korea

Abe, Trump agree to keep up pressure on N Korea

-- 2018-02-15 11:03:48

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump agreed to keep up pressure on North Korea until Pyongyang abandons its nuclear and missile programs, Japan’s foreign ministry sai...

Mexico road crash wounds presidential candidate Patricio

Mexico road crash wounds presidential candidate Patricio

-- 2018-02-15 10:27:16

The first Mexican indigenous presidential candidate Maria de Jesus Patricio has been injured and one person killed in a road crash. The accident occurred when a van in which Patricio was travelling w...

Expelled student kills 17 at Florida high school

Expelled student kills 17 at Florida high school

-- 2018-02-15 09:54:17

A 19-year-old gunman returned to the Florida high school where he had once been expelled for disciplinary problems and opened fire with an assault-style rifle on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injur...

Zuma quits as president of South Africa

Zuma quits as president of South Africa

-- 2018-02-15 09:49:53

Jacob Zuma resigned as President of South Africa on Wednesday, heeding orders by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to bring an end to his nine scandal-plagued years in power. In a 30-minute...

Macron's office closes press room, moves reporters off-site

Macron's office closes press room, moves reporters off-site

-- 2018-02-14 22:32:22

French President Emmanuel Macron's office is closing the press room inside the presidential palace amid broader efforts by the French leader to control his public image. Advisers for Macron announced...

Zuma breaks silence following ANC’s ultimatum

Zuma breaks silence following ANC’s ultimatum

-- 2018-02-14 22:28:01

South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma said he has done nothing wrong and sees no reason to stand down. Mr Zuma spoke after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) gave him an ultimatum to...

US police commander shot in head

US police commander shot in head

-- 2018-02-14 22:01:51

One police official in Chicago said the suspect in the fatal shooting of a police commander was carrying a semi-automatic handgun with an extended clip of ammunition when he fatally shot the officer i...

Sri Lankan building collapse claims 7 lives

Sri Lankan building collapse claims 7 lives

-- 2018-02-14 21:21:59

A building collapsed in a busy part of Sri Lanka's capital on Wednesday, killing at least seven people, police said. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said fire-fighters and police were searching for...

Denmark's prince, who wanted to be king, dies

Denmark's prince, who wanted to be king, dies

-- 2018-02-14 18:28:58

Prince Henrik of Denmark, the husband of Queen Margrethe who was famous for his public unhappiness at never being named king, has died at the age of 83. The controversial French-born prince had retur...

SA cops raid properties of Zuma allies, three arrested

SA cops raid properties of Zuma allies, three arrested

-- 2018-02-14 15:26:09

South African elite police unit Hawks has raided properties including the family compound of the Gupta brothers, businessmen friends of President Jacob Zuma. News agency Reuters reports quoting spoke...

Slovenia shuts schools amid teachers’ strike

Slovenia shuts schools amid teachers’ strike

-- 2018-02-14 14:43:43

Most of the schools in Slovenia have been closed on Wednesday as some 38,000 teachers held a one-day strike for higher wages in the largest labour protest so far this year. Later on Wednesday some 15...

Macron warns Syria of attack over chemical weapon use

Macron warns Syria of attack over chemical weapon use

-- 2018-02-14 13:11:41

French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to attack Syria if proof emerges that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against civilians. "We will strike the place where these launches...

SA declares Cape Town drought a ‘national disaster’

SA declares Cape Town drought a ‘national disaster’

-- 2018-02-14 12:42:40

South African government has declared a national disaster over the drought that has been hitting the southern and western regions including Cape Town for months. The government made the announcement...

Russia targeting US 2018 polls, says intel chief

Russia targeting US 2018 polls, says intel chief

-- 2018-02-14 11:51:26

Leaders of US intelligence agencies warned that Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 US midterm elections by using social media to spread propaganda and misleading reports, much as it did in the 2...

Judge bars Trump’s move to scrap DACA program

Judge bars Trump’s move to scrap DACA program

-- 2018-02-14 11:28:02

A second US judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation. US District Judge...

Netanyahu likely to be charged with corruption

Netanyahu likely to be charged with corruption

-- 2018-02-14 10:51:42

Israeli police have recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, opening the way for what could be the biggest challenge yet to the right-wing leader’s political survival...

Danish Prince Henrik passes away

Danish Prince Henrik passes away

-- 2018-02-14 10:43:24

The husband of the Danish Queen Margrethe, Prince Henrik, breathed his last on Tuesday night at the age of 83 at Fredensborg Castle. “His Royal Highness Prince Henrik died peacefully in his sle...

Myanmar sees stability, peace in Rakhine ‘absolutely critical’

Myanmar sees stability, peace in Rakhine ‘absolutely critical’

-- 2018-02-13 21:42:23

A Myanmar government report has observed that stability, peace and development of Rakhine State are absolutely critical for entire Myanmar to become stable, peaceful and developed. It said, "The curr...

India shipyard blast claims five lives

India shipyard blast claims five lives

-- 2018-02-13 15:05:17

Five people have been killed and around 11 others wounded after a blast occurred, caused by a fire on a ship undergoing maintenance at India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited, a company spokeswoman said...

Australia deputy PM denies breaking code of conduct

Australia deputy PM denies breaking code of conduct

-- 2018-02-13 13:54:04

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said on Tuesday that he did not break any parliamentary rules while having an extramarital affair with a former staffer as he faced down calls for...

UK, Irish PMs hopeful to break N Ireland stalemate

UK, Irish PMs hopeful to break N Ireland stalemate

-- 2018-02-13 13:14:22

The British and Irish prime ministers held talks with Northern Ireland’s feuding political parties on Monday and said later they were hopeful the province’s year-old political stalemate wo...