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After turbulent year, Trump urges unity

-- 2018-01-31 09:04:10

President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged bitterly divided Republicans and Democrats to work toward compromises on immigration and infrastructure after a bruising year of partisan battles that centered...

Trump pushes hardline immigration policies

-- 2018-01-31 00:00:00

US President Donald Trump called upon lawmakers on Tuesday to work toward bipartisan compromises, but pushed a hardline on immigration, insisting on a border wall and other concessions from Democrats...

Strong quake rattles Afghanistan

-- 2018-01-31 00:00:00

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, said the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake, which was also felt in neighbouring Pakistan, struc...

Chinese airlines cancel all Taiwan flights amid routes row

-- 2018-01-30 20:17:16

China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines said on Tuesday they had cancelled 176 round-trip flights to Taiwan amid a row between Beijing and Taiwan over flight routes. The airlines said in separate...

Blast leaves three children dead in Libya

-- 2018-01-30 15:06:50

Three children were killed by unexploded ordnance when they were playing near the social security building in the city in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday. There were no reports of addit...

Yemen suicide attack claims 11 lives

-- 2018-01-30 13:36:17

A suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint in south-eastern Yemen, run by local forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, has taken the lives of at least 11 people on Tuesday. Gunmen opened fire on t...

Egypt polls: Sisi gets last-minute competitor

-- 2018-01-30 12:28:19

An Egyptian politician emerged just ahead of a deadline on Monday as the sole challenger to the incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a March election. Several leading opposition figures called...

India has 21 million 'unwanted' girls!

-- 2018-01-30 10:39:17

The desire among parents in India to have sons instead of daughters has created 21 million "unwanted" girls, a government report estimates. The finance ministry report, published on Monday, found man...

FBI deputy director McCabe steps down

-- 2018-01-30 09:27:12

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticised by President Donald Trump and other Republicans for alleged bias against him, has stepped down, US officials confirmed. McCabe, who served as acting Fede...

US lifts ban on refugees from ‘high-risk’ countries

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

A US ban on refugees from 11 "high-risk" countries has been lifted but any who seek to enter the country will face new security measures, officials say. They will undergo risk-based assessments befor...

Argentina blocks family members' entry in govt

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades. Ministers will be forbidden from employing cl...

BBC women denounce unequal pay

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

Women working for the BBC have complained they were paid less than men in equivalent jobs and have accused managers of misleading them about their pay to hide widespread gender discrimination at the p...

US issues ‘Putin list’ of Russian politicians, oligarchs

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

The Trump administration released late Monday a long-awaited list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 “oligarchs”. They have flourished during the reign of President Vladimir Putin, fulfill...

Explosion kills six of a Pak family

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

Six members of a family have been killed and another one has been injured after an explosion ripped through their car on Tuesday. Officials said that they were heading towards a Pakistan village to a...

Man rapes eight-month-old baby in Delhi

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

An eight-month-old baby girl was allegedly raped by her 28-year-old cousin in Delhi, her condition is critical but stable, hospital authorities said. The accused, who went missing soon after the inci...

Airstrikes destroy hospital in Syria, kills 11

-- 2018-01-29 19:45:13

Syria activists and rescue workers say at least 11 people have been killed and a hospital badly damaged in regime airstrikes at the opposition-held northern province of Idlib. The local White Helmets...

German carmakers under fire for testing diesel on humans, monkeys

FE Online Desk 2018-01-29 19:43:37

There has been condemnation of experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes. German media say the health impact research was done by EUGT...

S Sudan rebels release 15 prisoners

-- 2018-01-29 15:03:02

A South Sudanese rebel group released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups la...

Australia to spend $3.1b to boost arms exports

-- 2018-01-29 14:20:32

Australian government will establish a A$3.8 billion fund for the country’s arms manufacturers to become one of the world’s top 10 defence exporters. The Turnbull government will offer...

Trump tweets from bed too

-- 2018-01-29 13:05:13

US President Donald Trump, who has garnered a large following on social media with rambunctious posts, said he sometimes tweets from bed, though he occasionally allows others to post his words. Trump...

Libya tribal fighting leaves three dead

-- 2018-01-29 11:45:22

Three people have been killed during a retaliatory tribal fighting in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, said a source of the Security Directorate of Sabha. The source told Xinhua on Sunday, "Three p...

Finland's President Niinisto wins second term

-- 2018-01-29 11:08:22

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto has comfortably won a second six-year term in office. He secured 62.7% of the vote in Sunday's poll, easily beating his Green party rival (12.4%), according to offi...

Russia frees opposition leader after protests

-- 2018-01-29 10:50:14

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained by police at a Moscow rally in support of a presidential election boycott, has been released. His lawyer told the press that he had been rel...

Iran to give internet a 'halal' form

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

State-sponsored internet will filter out 'Western' content and to crackdown on what Iranians can and cannot see. In an effort to 'de-Westernise' and maintain control over internet users and the sprea...

Militants storm Kabul army base, killing 11 soldiers

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

Militants have attacked an army base near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 11 soldiers. 16 other Afghan soldiers were injured in the attack, a defence ministry spokes...

Indian teen dies in religious clashes, 112 held

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

As many as 112 people have been arrested in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP); two days after clashes between two communities took the life of a teenage boy. The incident occurred...

Ikea’s legendary founder Ingvar Kamprad dies at 91

-- 2018-01-28 22:55:15

The Swedish founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91, the company has announced. Mr Kamprad - who pioneered flat-pack furniture - died at his home in Småla...

Russian police detain opposition leader Navalny

-- 2018-01-28 18:29:54

Russian police detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott the 'rigged presidential election' in March. Social media videos show...

Russian opposition calls for election boycott

-- 2018-01-28 15:44:02

Hundreds of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny began a nationwide day of protest against the authorities on Sunday, calling on voters to boycott what they said was a rigged preside...

Clashes in Yemen’s Aden kill several

-- 2018-01-28 15:01:50

Several people have been killed and injured after clashes erupted between two armed groups in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday, medical staff at hospitals in the city said. Gunmen have been...