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Vietnam sentences blogger to 14 years in prison

Vietnam sentences blogger to 14 years in prison

-- 2018-02-06 16:06:37

A court in central Vietnam jailed a prominent environmental blogger on Tuesday for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials on duty, his lawyer said. Vietnamese activist Hoa...

Four die in Indonesia tourist resort landslide

Four die in Indonesia tourist resort landslide

-- 2018-02-06 13:39:46

Four people have been killed and two others gone missing after landslides hit a tourist resort in Indonesia's West Java province, national disaster management agency said on Tuesday. Heavy downpours...

Taiwanese military chopper falls into sea, six missing

Taiwanese military chopper falls into sea, six missing

-- 2018-02-06 13:26:59

A military helicopter from Taiwan fell into the sea on Monday night and six people on board are still missing. The rescue operation continued till Tuesday morning, Xinhua news agency reports citing T...

Poland bars Israeli minister's visit to Warsaw

Poland bars Israeli minister's visit to Warsaw

-- 2018-02-06 12:53:25

Poland cancelled Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett’s visit to its capital, Warsaw this week as he refused to back off of condemnation of a bill that would outlaw suggesting Polan...

Kenya govt allows two channels to resume broadcasting

Kenya govt allows two channels to resume broadcasting

-- 2018-02-06 12:11:54

Two private Kenyan TV stations are now back on air after being shut down for seven days. “Government switches NTV and KTN News back on after seven days,” privately-owned NTV said on its l...

German cops hunt witches after teen thrown into cauldron

German cops hunt witches after teen thrown into cauldron

-- 2018-02-06 11:20:48

Police in south-west Germany are investigating after an 18-year-old spectator suffered second-degree burns at an annual "witches' parade". Some witnesses said that the woman was carried to a cauldron...

Russia shielding Syria chemical attacks, US accuses

Russia shielding Syria chemical attacks, US accuses

-- 2018-02-06 10:29:07

US Ambassador Nikki Haley accused Russia of protecting Syrian President Bashar Assad from responsibility for what she said were multiple chlorine gas attacks on civilians in recent weeks. Haley told...

Maldives police arrest former president Gayoom

Maldives police arrest former president Gayoom

-- 2018-02-06 00:00:00

Former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Monday was arrested by Maldives police , hours after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency for 15 days, in an escalation of a legal battle wit...

Indian quack infects 21 with HIV using common syringes

Indian quack infects 21 with HIV using common syringes

-- 2018-02-06 00:00:00

A fake doctor who has been treating poor villagers for colds, coughs and diarrhoea, infected at least 21 of them with HIV by using contaminated syringes and needles, says an Indian health official. T...

Maldives president declares emergency for 15 days

Maldives president declares emergency for 15 days

-- 2018-02-05 21:56:37

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency in the country on Monday amid a deepening political crisis in the island nation. The president's close aide Azima Shukooron made...

Army chopper crashes into house in Japan

Army chopper crashes into house in Japan

-- 2018-02-05 15:52:28

A Japanese military helicopter has crashed in south-western Japan, ripping the top floor off a house and setting it afire. The combat helicopter belonging to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Metabaru...

Paris attack: Suspect continues silence as trial begins

Paris attack: Suspect continues silence as trial begins

-- 2018-02-05 15:13:36

The prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris went on trial in Brussels on Monday, accused of the attempted murder of police shortly before his arrest in Belgium two years ago...

Cyprus president Anastasiades wins second term

Cyprus president Anastasiades wins second term

-- 2018-02-05 12:47:33

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades vowed to push on with attempts to reunify the ethnically divided island nation and to improve the economic fortunes of its people after he was re-elected by a wide...

Deadly US train crash kills two, injures over 100

Deadly US train crash kills two, injures over 100

-- 2018-02-05 11:47:02

At least two people were killed and more than 100 others wounded when an Amtrak train, travelling from New York to Miami, was diverted onto a side track and slammed into a parked, unmanned freight tra...

Mexico cockfight club shootout claims six lives

Mexico cockfight club shootout claims six lives

-- 2018-02-05 11:01:10

Six people have been killed and 14 others wounded when gunmen opened fire at a clandestine cockfight arena in the Chihuahua state capital in northern Mexico, authorities say. The state prosecutor's o...

S Korea bans 36,000 foreigners from entering Olympics

S Korea bans 36,000 foreigners from entering Olympics

-- 2018-02-05 10:39:12

South Korea has banned 36,000 foreigners from entering the country ahead of the Winter Olympics, citing security concerns, Reuters news agency reported on Monday citing Yonhap News Agency. Yonhap cit...

Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew goes missing

Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew goes missing

-- 2018-02-05 10:34:58

A ship carrying 22 Indian crew and 13,500 tons of gasoline is missing in the Gulf of Guinea after contact was lost in Benin on Friday, the company and India’s minister of external affairs said o...

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state to visit South

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state to visit South

-- 2018-02-05 09:45:30

North Korea is to send its highest ranking official for years to the South amid an easing of tensions during the Winter Olympics. Kim Yong-nam, the ceremonial head of state, will lead a 22-member del...

Four Indian soldiers die in 'Pakistani firing'

Four Indian soldiers die in 'Pakistani firing'

-- 2018-02-05 00:00:00

Four Indian soldiers, including an officer, have been killed in the latest cross-border clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, deputy commissioner of Rajouri sector, sai...

Coast guards recover 16 bodies off Moroccan shore

Coast guards recover 16 bodies off Moroccan shore

-- 2018-02-05 00:00:00

The bodies of 16 migrants have been recovered by Moroccan coast guards from the country’s northern coast near the Spanish enclave of Melilla, local media reported. News agency Xinhua reported c...

Man held for trying break into Iranian presidential office

Man held for trying break into Iranian presidential office

-- 2018-02-05 00:00:00

A man was shot and arrested in Iran after trying to break into the presidential office building, the deputy governor of Tehran was quoted as saying by Fars news agency on Monday. “We are trying...

Rohingya crisis may spark regional conflict: UN

Rohingya crisis may spark regional conflict: UN

FE Online Desk 2018-02-05 00:00:00

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has warned that Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya people could spark regional conflict. “It is sometimes said t...

Maldives AG terms move to oust president ‘unconstitutional’

Maldives AG terms move to oust president ‘unconstitutional’

-- 2018-02-04 21:49:17

The Maldives’ Attorney General (AG) on Sunday warned the country’s Supreme Court against its ‘unconstitutional’ move to unseat the president. Attorney General Mohamed Anil sai...

China accuses US of 'Cold War’

China accuses US of 'Cold War’

-- 2018-02-04 20:53:11

China on Sunday has urged the US to drop its "Cold War mentality" after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. "The country that owns the world's largest nucl...

Maldives army surrounds parliament amidst political turmoil

Maldives army surrounds parliament amidst political turmoil

-- 2018-02-04 17:41:13

The Maldives have sealed off the country's parliament and arrested two opposition lawmakers amid a deepening crisis over President Abdulla Yameen's refusal to release jailed politicians. Top court of...

Singapore worries, gears up for ‘tardy’ terror attack

Singapore worries, gears up for ‘tardy’ terror attack

-- 2018-02-04 17:34:48

Singapore, the wealthy island-state, has a near-perfect record of keeping its shores free from terror. But it prepares to host defence ministers from around Southeast Asia this week, it appears to ha...

Tanker with 22 Indian sailors aboard goes missing

Tanker with 22 Indian sailors aboard goes missing

-- 2018-02-04 15:13:44

An oil tanker with 22 Indian sailors on board is reported missing off the coast of Benin, a West African country for last three days. It is suspected that the MT Marine Express carrying 13,500 tonne...

Kenya detains lawmaker over Odinga’s 'swearing in'

Kenya detains lawmaker over Odinga’s 'swearing in'

-- 2018-02-04 14:57:56

Kenyan police detained a third opposition legislator who attended a symbolic ‘swearing-in’ of opposition leader Raila Odinga that was a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta, who wo...

Joint Korean hockey team set to play first match

Joint Korean hockey team set to play first match

-- 2018-02-04 14:17:18

The joint North and South Korean ice hockey team is set to play its first match on Sunday, ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea. The match is an international friendly against Sweden, who...

Venezuelan exodus: Colombia opens border shelter for refugees

Venezuelan exodus: Colombia opens border shelter for refugees

-- 2018-02-04 13:34:05

Colombia's government has opened its first shelter for Venezuelans who are pouring across the border in ever-larger numbers to escape their nation's economic crisis. The bare-bones shelter opened Sat...