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Turkey arrests scores over social media ‘terror propaganda’

Turkey arrests scores over social media ‘terror propaganda’

-- 2018-01-24 03:26:48

Turkey has detained a total 150 people for “spreading terrorist propaganda” on social media about its military campaign against a Kurdish militia in Syria since the operation began at the...

Russia proposes new probe into Syria chemical attacks

Russia proposes new probe into Syria chemical attacks

-- 2018-01-24 03:02:51

Russia has proposed a new investigative body under the auspices of the Security Council to determine the perpetrators of chemical weapons use in Syria. But the United States remained wary of the Russ...

‘US drone’ attack in Pakistan kills two militants

‘US drone’ attack in Pakistan kills two militants

-- 2018-01-24 01:29:38

Two militants from the Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network have been killed in a suspected US drone attack on a house in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, said two Pakistani security officials. T...

Myanmar agrees ceasefire deal with two rebel groups

Myanmar agrees ceasefire deal with two rebel groups

-- 2018-01-24 01:07:23

Two armed ethnic groups in Myanmar have agreed to sign a ceasefire with the government, state media reported on Wednesday, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi seeks to revive a stuttering peace process to end...

US shutdown ends as Congress passes bill

US shutdown ends as Congress passes bill

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

The US government partial shutdown is ending after Republicans and Democrats voted for a temporary funding bill. The Democratic leadership agreed to back the bill after accepting promises from Republ...

Haitians condemn  Trump's 'shithole' remark

Haitians condemn Trump's 'shithole' remark

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

About two thousand people took to the streets of Haiti’s capital on Monday to protest comments attributed to US President Donald Trump about the nation being a “shithole” country, wh...

Strong quake jolts Indonesia

Strong quake jolts Indonesia

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Tuesday, said Dedi Sugianto, an official of meteorology and geophysics agency. Previously the quake was measured at 6.4 o...

Zimbabwe family ends three-month stay at Bangkok airport

Zimbabwe family ends three-month stay at Bangkok airport

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

Retrospectively one might complain about being forced to sleep in an airport after a delay.   But consolation would ensue when he or she spares a thought for one Zimbabwean family who have...

China building fire claims four lives

China building fire claims four lives

-- 2018-01-23 11:37:21

Four people have been killed and 13 others injured after a fierce fire broke out at a rural apartment building in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on early Tuesday. Firefighters said the fire broke...

Liberia swears in ex-footballer Weah as president

Liberia swears in ex-footballer Weah as president

-- 2018-01-23 11:25:51

Former international footballer George Weah has been sworn in as president of Liberia. "I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other," President Weah told crow...

Volcano erupts in Japan, several wounded

Volcano erupts in Japan, several wounded

-- 2018-01-23 10:54:12

Rocks spat out by an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan on Tuesday. One skier was missing following an avalanche that occurred shortly after the volcano expl...

Earthquake prompts tsunami alert in US

Earthquake prompts tsunami alert in US

-- 2018-01-23 06:50:36

A tsunami alert has been issued after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Alaska in the US. It hit 280km (173 miles) south-east of Kodiak, at a depth of 25km, at 00:31 (09:31 GMT...

Philippine volcano forces 56,000 people to flee

Philippine volcano forces 56,000 people to flee

FE Online Desk 2018-01-23 06:22:46

A huge column of ash shoots up to the sky during the eruption of Mayon volcano has seen around 340 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano erupte...

Gas leak at London hotel prompts mass evacuation

Gas leak at London hotel prompts mass evacuation

-- 2018-01-23 01:03:51

More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from a nightclub and a hotel in London's West End after a gas leak was discovered on Craven Street, just off Strand. Approximately 1,450 people were moved a...

German SPD votes in favour of coalition talks

German SPD votes in favour of coalition talks

-- 2018-01-22 12:51:23

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives start preparing for formal coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday, wasting no time after the centre-left party narrowly voted t...

Police shoot dead seven festival goers in Ethiopia

Police shoot dead seven festival goers in Ethiopia

-- 2018-01-22 12:26:12

Clashes during a religious festival in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state have taken the lives of seven people, a regional official said Sunday. Amare Goshu, Head of North Wollo Zone Police De...

Forces retake control of Kabul  hotel after Taliban siege

Forces retake control of Kabul hotel after Taliban siege

-- 2018-01-22 12:10:03

Afghan officials declared that a 12-hour gun battle at Kabul's largest hotel had ended on Sunday after security forces killed four assailants, a siege that left six civilians, including a foreigner, d...

Sydney train hits buffer leaving 16 wounded

Sydney train hits buffer leaving 16 wounded

-- 2018-01-22 12:00:00

Sixteen people have been injured after a train hit a railway buffer on the outskirts of Australia’s Sydney, said police.   The accident happened at the end of a railway line in Richmond, i...

Five die in Congo anti-Kabila protests

Five die in Congo anti-Kabila protests

-- 2018-01-22 11:54:54

At least five people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo during demonstrations on Sunday across the country against delayed elections and the continuation of Joseph Kabila’s pre...

Landslide pushes Colombian bus into ravine, killing 13

Landslide pushes Colombian bus into ravine, killing 13

-- 2018-01-22 10:39:35

At least 13 people, including a newborn, were killed on Sunday when a landslide pushed a bus into a ravine in southwest Colombia, the disaster relief agency said. The mountainous highway where the ac...

Thai market bomb blast takes three lives

Thai market bomb blast takes three lives

-- 2018-01-22 10:37:19

Three people have been killed and 18 others wounded after a motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, said a spokesman for the Internal Security Operat...

US govt shutdown enters Day 3

US govt shutdown enters Day 3

-- 2018-01-22 10:23:16

A US government shutdown will enter its third day on Monday as Senate negotiators failed to reach a deal late on Sunday on Democrats’ demand for legislation protecting “Dreamers,” yo...

US to open its embassy in Jerusalem next year

US to open its embassy in Jerusalem next year

-- 2018-01-22 08:18:34

The United States will open its embassy in Jerusalem before the end of 2019, announced US Vice President Mike Pence on Monday at the Israeli parliament. The US vice president also reiterated that the...

Vietnam jails ex-politburo official in graft case

Vietnam jails ex-politburo official in graft case

-- 2018-01-22 02:39:26

A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced a former politburo official to 13 years in prison and another high-profile energy official to life imprisonment for embezzlement and violating state rules, in a...

Kabul hotel siege: Overnight battle kills over 30

Kabul hotel siege: Overnight battle kills over 30

-- 2018-01-22 01:31:05

Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although...

India, Japan to introduce robotics in defence

India, Japan to introduce robotics in defence

-- 2018-01-22 01:22:20

India and Japan will work together to introduce artificial intelligence and robotics in the defence sector, the next level of strategic cooperation between the two Asian partners. Kentaro Sonoura, Ja...

Govt troops clash with rebels in Philippines, five dead

Govt troops clash with rebels in Philippines, five dead

-- 2018-01-22 01:09:39

Five people have been killed after violent clashes erupted between the government troops and leftist rebels in the southern Philippines on early Monday, a military official said. The dead included fo...

Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader

Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader

-- 2018-01-21 12:55:26

Tunisian security forces have killed a top aide of Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an official source told Reuters. Tunisia has been on high alert si...

US govt shutdown continues

US govt shutdown continues

Reuters 2018-01-21 12:49:57

President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers were locked in a standoff with Democrats on Saturday over the US government shutdown, with Republicans saying they would not negotiate on immigration un...

Nigerian police confirm release of abducted expatriates

Nigerian police confirm release of abducted expatriates

-- 2018-01-21 12:19:49

Two Americans and two Canadians have been freed after being kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a police spokesman said on Saturday, as it emerged that five oil workers had been abduct...