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Mexico cops find nine dismembered bodies

Mexico cops find nine dismembered bodies

-- 2018-01-15 10:58:42

Nine dismembered bodies were found piled in a truck on Saturday night in the violent Mexican state of Veracruz, the governor said on Sunday, describing the crime as a clash of rival gangs. Most of th...

South Africa will formally protest Trump's racist remarks

South Africa will formally protest Trump's racist remarks

-- 2018-01-15 10:44:31

South Africa is set to issue a diplomatic protest to the United States on Monday over US President Donald Trump's racist comments. The country’s foreign ministry informed it to CNN news network...

Koreas begin talks on Olympic art troupe

Koreas begin talks on Olympic art troupe

BBC 2018-01-15 10:30:15

North and South Korea have begun talks on Pyongyang's plan to send an art troupe to the Winter Olympics taking place next month in the South. North Korea agreed last week to send a delegation to the...

Myanmar sets up make-shift camps for 30,000 Rohingyas

Myanmar sets up make-shift camps for 30,000 Rohingyas

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 07:05:29

Myanmar is building a camp to temporarily house 30,000 Rohingya Muslims targeted for repatriation after fleeing violence in Rakhine State. State media of Myanmar reported on Monday as part of Myanmar...

India, Israel inks defence deal among others

India, Israel inks defence deal among others

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:50:21

India and Israel have hailed the "dawn of a new era" in their relations after signing key deals in defence, agriculture and aviation sectors. The deals were announced after Israeli Prime Minister Ben...

Tripura police arrests six Rohingya children

Tripura police arrests six Rohingya children

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:40:53

Tripura police arrested six Rohingya refugees, all of them minors, , suspecting that they had crossed the border with Bangladesh to enter India. North Tripura district police held them from Dharmana...

Burning Iranian tanker heightens worries over sea damage

Burning Iranian tanker heightens worries over sea damage

Reuters 2018-01-15 03:29:11

Black smoke was billowing from the East China Sea site where a burning Iranian oil tanker sank, Japanese authorities said on Monday, as worries grow about damage to the marine ecosystem from the worst...

Kashmir gunfight leaves five ‘militants’ dead

Kashmir gunfight leaves five ‘militants’ dead

-- 2018-01-15 03:14:07

At least five suspected militants have been killed in a gunfight with government troops Monday after they crossed into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed ter...

Saudis start screening films as ban goes

Saudis start screening films as ban goes

-- 2018-01-15 02:33:00

Saudi Arabia began screening feature-length animated children’s films this weekend in a makeshift theatre, after a 35-year-old ban on cinemas was lifted in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The...

Indonesia stock exchange ceiling collapses, dozens wounded

Indonesia stock exchange ceiling collapses, dozens wounded

-- 2018-01-15 02:03:20

A mezzanine ceiling collapsed at the Jakarta stock exchange building (IDX), with reports that at least a dozen people have been injured. Images on social media show pieces of ceiling and broken furni...

Former trans soldier to run for US senator post

Former trans soldier to run for US senator post

-- 2018-01-14 12:53:36

Chelsea Manning, the transgender US Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for the US Senate seat from M...

Top US diplomat for refugees to leave post

Top US diplomat for refugees to leave post

Reuters 2018-01-14 12:01:57

The US diplomat in charge of refugee issues plans to leave his post within days, becoming the third senior US official to depart or be re-assigned from refugee work in recent weeks. Simon Henshaw, th...

False missile alert sparks panic in US state

False missile alert sparks panic in US state

-- 2018-01-14 12:00:00

An incoming missile alert plunged residents of US state Hawaii into panic on Saturday morning before it was declared a false alarm. Mobile phone users received a message saying: "Ballistic missile th...

Tunisia announces social reforms after protests

Tunisia announces social reforms after protests

-- 2018-01-14 12:00:00

The Tunisian government has announced a wave of social reforms, following days of demonstrations by anti-austerity protesters. Protests broke out ahead of Sunday's seventh anniversary of the ousting...

US ultimatum on nuclear deal draws Iran threat

US ultimatum on nuclear deal draws Iran threat

Reuters 2018-01-14 11:45:54

Iran said on Saturday it would retaliate against new sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump set an ultimatum to fix “disastrous flaws” in a deal curbing Tehran...

Volcano spews ash in Philippines, alert level raised

Volcano spews ash in Philippines, alert level raised

-- 2018-01-14 11:43:26

The Philippines raised the alert at its restive Mayon volcano by one notch early on Sunday, citing signs of rising magma that could lead to hazardous eruptions. Residents were evacuated from two vill...

California mudslide death toll reaches 19

California mudslide death toll reaches 19

-- 2018-01-14 11:28:18

The death toll from mudslides that devastated parts of California’s scenic Santa Barbara County rose to 19 on Saturday amid a massive influx of emergency crews searching for five people still mi...

Iraqi PM Abadi to seek re-election in May vote

Iraqi PM Abadi to seek re-election in May vote

Reuters 2018-01-14 11:23:35

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Sunday his candidacy for the May 12 parliamentary elections to choose a prime minister. Abadi, a Shi‘ite Muslim who led the country in the four...

H&M in SA faces backlash over ‘racist’ ad

H&M in SA faces backlash over ‘racist’ ad

-- 2018-01-14 10:47:57

South African police have used rubber bullets to disperse a mob trashing H&M stores in and around Johannesburg, after the brand used a controversial picture of a black child. The protests were or...

Czech presidential poll heads to run-off

Czech presidential poll heads to run-off

-- 2018-01-14 10:23:19

The Czech presidential election will go to a run-off after incumbent Milos Zeman led the first round but did not secure enough votes to win outright. With nearly all results in, Zeman had 39% ahead o...

Portugal stampede takes lives of eight

Portugal stampede takes lives of eight

-- 2018-01-14 09:42:43

At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire and stampede in a local leisure association in the town of Vila Nova da Rainha in northern Portugal on Saturday night, officials sai...

Panic breaks out as Turkish jet skids off runway

Panic breaks out as Turkish jet skids off runway

FE Online 2018-01-14 08:48:01

Panic broke out on a passenger jet when it skidded off the runway at a Turkish airport and plunged down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea. The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 168 passenger...

Deadly earthquake shakes Peru, at least two dead

Deadly earthquake shakes Peru, at least two dead

-- 2018-01-14 08:29:48

Two people were killed when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Peru on Sunday, says CNN in accordance to a regional governor. One of the two victims was a 55-year-old man crushed by a rock in Yauca, tw...

India to raise 15 battalions to fortify borders

India to raise 15 battalions to fortify borders

FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 07:00:56

India is planning to raise 15 new battalions to strengthen its defence along its borders, said a senior Union home ministry official. The battalion will be placed along its frontier with Bangladesh,...

Turkey prevents "terror corridor" in northern Syria

Turkey prevents "terror corridor" in northern Syria

FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 06:50:31

Turkish forces on Sunday hit PKK/PYD targets in the Afrin district of Syria's Aleppo province to prevent a "terror corridor" from forming along Turkey's borders. Anadolu Agency in Idlib says, Turkish...

Afghan forces kill four insurgents

Afghan forces kill four insurgents

-- 2018-01-14 03:36:14

Four Taliban insurgents were killed and one other arrested in an operation in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand overnight, said the command of Special Forces on Sunday. "The operation began...

Netanyahu to visit India for strengthening ties

Netanyahu to visit India for strengthening ties

-- 2018-01-14 01:54:49

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed on Saturday night for a six-day visit to India to boost trade and solve out differences over a New Delhi decision to cancel a defence deal. A statem...

Doctors want President Trump's head examined

Doctors want President Trump's head examined

-- 2018-01-14 01:45:15

President Donald Trump is "in excellent health," White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson said following his physical Friday. But it's not clear whether any mental health tests were conducted, despite...

PNG volcano explodes, prompting mass evacuations

PNG volcano explodes, prompting mass evacuations

-- 2018-01-14 01:38:41

About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday. A volcano on the island of K...

UK party leader's lover suspended over racist remarks

UK party leader's lover suspended over racist remarks

-- 2018-01-14 01:35:08

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suspended the girlfriend of party leader Henry Bolton after she apparently made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle. The Mail on Sunday has...