-- 2018-02-02 10:09:59
The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run media rep...
-- 2018-02-02 09:48:13
A hospital built under 20m (60 feet) of rock in a rebel-held part of central Syria has been wrecked by a powerful air strike, medical sources say. They say the hospital in Hama province - regarded as...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday that over 1,000 miners were stuck underground at its Beatrix gold mine in South Africa after a storm knocked out power, but they were not in danger. Spokesman Jame...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Myanmar told the United Nations Security Council not to visit during February this year because it was "not the right time," Kuwait's UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi said on Thursday, adding tha...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that a Brexit transition period will be agreed with the European Union in the next seven weeks as she tries to ease concerns that a deal could take lo...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Ninety migrants are feared drowned after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast, says the UN's migration agency. Three survivors said most of those who drowned were Pakistani nationals. Libya has for...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Two army helicopters have crashed in southern France, killing at least five people, French media report. The crash happened at Carcès lake, just north of St Tropez. Rescuers are at the scene,...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Mayan ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing hous...
-- 2018-02-01 17:37:01
Nearly half of US military sites are threatened by wild weather linked to climate change, according to a Pentagon study whose findings run contrary to White House views on global warming, reports Reut...
-- 2018-02-01 17:10:03
The flood of low-skilled immigrants into the US has suppressed wages, harmed American workers and strained federal resources, the White House said, a day after President Donald Trump called for a meri...
-- 2018-02-01 15:49:32
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has provided arguments on why he should not be prosecuted for corruption, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Thursday, as pressure mounts for th...
-- 2018-02-01 15:24:47
A Cambodian court on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last year on charges of seeking to overthrow the government. Kem Sokha, head of th...
-- 2018-02-01 13:45:57
The disgraced ex- Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been accused of abusing 265 girls after scores more victims came forward ahead of his final sentencing hearing. A US judge said at least 65 victim...
-- 2018-02-01 13:34:25
Thailand banned smoking and littering at 24 beachside locations that are popular with tourists over environmental concerns on Thursday, the ministry of natural resources and environment said. The Sou...
-- 2018-02-01 13:10:29
The Trump administration has extended temporary protection for nearly 7,000 Syrians in living in the US as war continues to ravage their country. They were shielded from deportation under a humanitar...
-- 2018-02-01 13:00:42
Turkey’s armed forces on Thursday said 49 Kurdish rebels were killed after Turkish warplanes struck 19 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on Monday. Two airstrikes were carr...
-- 2018-02-01 12:44:44
Polish lawmakers have approved draft legislation on Thursday penalising suggestions of any complicity by Poland in the Nazi Holocaust on its soil during World War Two, defying criticism by Israel and...
-- 2018-02-01 10:58:16
Three Kenyan TV stations will stay off the air until further notice because they had planned to broadcast the opposition leader Raila Odinga’s unofficial ‘inauguration’ in Nairobi....
-- 2018-02-01 10:19:34
Eleven people have been killed after a fierce fire gutted a low-rent residence in northern Japan that mainly housed elderly people on welfare, police said on Thursday Five people have been rescued....
-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colors of their shorts. Kadir and 14 othe...
-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00
Philippine security forces arrested the head of the communist movement’s armed wing following President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to target guerrilla leaders after peace talks collapsed. Po...
-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00
A gas poisoning killed nine people at an iron and steel plant in Liupanshui City, southwest China's Guizhou Province on Wednesday. The accident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when workers wer...
-- 2018-01-31 15:40:55
Police in the western Indian state of Goa have arrested a motorcycle taxi driver for allegedly molesting an American tourist on Saturday last. Isidore Fernandes was detained after the woman posted...
-- 2018-01-31 13:02:15
Two top civilian officials from Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency have resigned over the sending of a false incoming missile alert. The 13 January message led to widespread panic and the authoriti...
-- 2018-01-31 13:02:09
Mexico is in talks with the United States on whether to allow US federal air marshals to travel with Taser stun guns on cross-border flights with US airlines. National Security Commissioner Renato Sa...
-- 2018-01-31 12:40:01
The Taliban are openly active in 70 per cent of Afghanistan’s districts, fully controlling 4.0 per cent of the country and demonstrating an open physical presence in another 66 per cent, accordi...
-- 2018-01-31 12:19:29
Britain is seeking a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday as she flew to the country for talks with Chinese leaders. She added that more should be done immedi...
-- 2018-01-31 11:47:48
Branding North Korea’s leadership “depraved,” US President Donald Trump on Tuesday told its citizens that Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear missiles could “very soon threa...
-- 2018-01-31 11:01:55
Liberia's President George Weah has called for the removal of a "racist" clause in the constitution which restricts citizenship to black people. The clause was "unnecessary, racist and inappropriate"...
-- 2018-01-31 10:26:36
Firefighters have recovered the bodies of four people including two children who were killed in a house fire at Cleveland in the United State of Ohio. Crews needed heavy equipment to take apart and s...
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