-- 2018-01-19 12:00:00
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday she was pregnant with her first child, prompting an outpouring of support from women’s rights groups and labor activists as she declared...
Reuters 2018-01-19 12:00:00
More than 100 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Wednesday, with the latest refugees saying army operations are continuing in troubled Rakhine State, raising doubts about...
Reuters 2018-01-19 11:56:46
Sudanese authorities have detained a Reuters stringer and an AFP reporter who were covering protests in the capital Khartoum, the external information council, which deals with foreign media organisat...
-- 2018-01-19 09:44:53
Nusrat Ghani has become the first female Muslim minister to speak at the House of Commons dispatch box. The Conservative transport minister was cheered as she rose during transport questions to give...
-- 2018-01-19 08:43:42
A baby was killed and 15 people were injured -- including more children -- after a car crashed into pedestrians along a beach walk in Brazil, according to media reports and local authorities. An 8-mo...
-- 2018-01-19 08:37:06
At least six cargo ships linked to China furtively violated UN sanctions by taking on North Korean coal late last year, potentially providing a significant boost to the rogue regime's coffers, the US...
-- 2018-01-19 03:50:15
Ahead of Republic Day, many alerts have been sent to Indian state police chiefs across the country about possible threats. But the Home Ministry has singled out Rohingya Muslims for special attention...
Reuters 2018-01-19 02:58:07
Indonesian authorities are investigating the use of bitcoin in the holiday island of Bali, amid warnings by the central bank in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy over the risks posed by virtual c...
-- 2018-01-19 02:55:34
Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday accused US officials of leaking to the media confidential financial details of Russian diplomats working in the United States The ministry also demanded punishme...
-- 2018-01-18 12:57:47
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Thursday he welcomed the recent dialogue between North and South Korea but marching together at the Winter Olympics won't denuclearize the Korean Penins...
-- 2018-01-18 12:54:08
The European Union is suspending funding for a water conservation project in Kenya after a tribesman was shot and killed by government forest service guards and another seriously wounded, the EU annou...
-- 2018-01-18 12:45:54
Zimbabwe will hold elections in four to five months, a newspaper on Thursday quoted President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying, the first time since independence the southern African state will conduct a...
-- 2018-01-18 12:13:03
A Turkish military CASA-type cargo plane crashed in the southern Anatolian province of Isparta during training exercises, killing three Turkish crew members. Turkish Armed Forces confirmed in a state...
Reuters 2018-01-18 12:00:00
President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected...
-- 2018-01-18 12:00:00
Fifty-two people have been killed after a bus in which they were travelling caught fire in Kazakhstan’s north-western Aktau region. The country’s interior ministry said on Thursday that o...
-- 2018-01-18 12:00:00
At least eight Taliban insurgents including senior commander Mullah Jalal have been killed in Dand-e-Shahabudin district of Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province over the last three days. Ikramudin...
-- 2018-01-18 11:55:19
European lawmaker Viorica Dancila has been named as Romania's first female PM following the sudden resignation of Mihai Tudose. Dancila, a member of the European Parliament, is regarded as an ally of...
Reuters 2018-01-18 11:48:13
Republican US Senator Jeff Flake castigated President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his attacks on the media, saying Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and...
-- 2018-01-18 11:26:13
Two American and two Canadian citizens have been kidnapped near the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria, police say. Two police escorts were also killed in a shootout with the kidnappers, who emerged fr...
BBC 2018-01-18 11:23:34
Parents in India's capital will soon be able to watch their children in the classroom in real time, using a mobile phone app. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said CCTV will be installed in all g...
BBC 2018-01-18 10:50:29
South Korea says it will continue high-level talks with North Korea with "clear eyes" amid global warnings that Pyongyang might be playing for time to continue its nuclear-arms programme. "We have to...
-- 2018-01-18 09:55:51
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured 48 others in an attack on Wednesday on the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials from the State Emergency Management Agen...
-- 2018-01-18 06:58:05
India has successfully tested a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), said the country's Defence Ministry on Thursday. The nuclear-capable Agni-V is believed to be India's most advanc...
-- 2018-01-18 05:05:13
A Canadian woman has been convicted of killing her friend after police discovered the murder weapon used in a picture of the pair on social media. Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday...
-- 2018-01-18 02:47:22
A Palestinian man has been killed in a clash that broke out between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Palestine’s’ north West Bank city Jenin, sources said Thursday. The operation, inclu...
-- 2018-01-17 12:59:44
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte denied influencing a regulator’s decision to revoke the license of a news website known for challenging his government, but lashed out strongly at what he ca...
-- 2018-01-17 12:22:24
Three people have been killed and more than 50 injured Wednesday morning when a coach bus hit a freight truck on Guangzhou-Kunming Highway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, authoritie...
-- 2018-01-17 12:00:00
At least seven Rakhine protestors were killed and 12 others injured as Myanmar police opened fire on them in Rakhine State on late Tuesday. The violence occurred at a time when Myanmar has agreed to...
-- 2018-01-17 11:43:56
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, 21, was sentenced to a second jail term of three months on Wednesday for what a judge described as his “leading” role during some of the 2014 pro-...
-- 2018-01-17 11:39:41
Ten people were killed when a Colombian army helicopter crashed near the town of Segovia, in northern Antioquia province, on Tuesday, the army said. The Russian-made MI-17 helicopter, carrying eight...
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