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Strong quake batters Russia

Strong quake batters Russia

-- 2018-01-07 11:05:15

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted 22km SW of Nikol'skoye, Russia at 02:24:06 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 35.0 km, was initially...

Cold wave takes nine lives in Nepal

Cold wave takes nine lives in Nepal

-- 2018-01-07 10:43:01

The spell of cold wave has claimed at least nine lives in southern Nepal's Terai region bordering India in the past two days, media reports said. Six people died of freezing cold in Saptari district...

Muslim population in USA to become second-largest

Muslim population in USA to become second-largest

-- 2018-01-07 10:42:01

The Muslim population in USA is set to become the second-largest religious group after Christians by the year 2040. A new report said there were 3.45 million Muslim people living in the US in the yea...

Arab League to lobby UN to recognise Palestinian state

Arab League to lobby UN to recognise Palestinian state

Reuters 2018-01-07 10:31:52

Arab states will soon embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, J...

Gunmen shoot dead 13, injure seven in Senegal

Gunmen shoot dead 13, injure seven in Senegal

-- 2018-01-07 10:29:50

Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal’s southern region of Casamance, the army said. It was not clear who was responsible or what the motive w...

Ahmadinejad arrested in Iran!

Ahmadinejad arrested in Iran!

-- 2018-01-07 09:32:38

Iranian government has reportedly arrested the country's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for 'inciting unrest against the government' The former president was detained during a visit to the west...

Russia foils drone attack on Syria airbase

Russia foils drone attack on Syria airbase

-- 2018-01-07 08:22:50

Russian forces have thwarted a drone attack on an airbase in Syria just days after reports that rebel shelling had damaged several planes, activists say. The attempt to bomb the Hmeimim base near the...

Malaysia's opposition names  Mahathir as PM candidate

Malaysia's opposition names Mahathir as PM candidate

-- 2018-01-07 07:22:55

Malaysia’s opposition alliance named former premier Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday as its prime ministerial candidate for a general election this year. The 'authoritarian' ran the country for two d...

Philippines sees second mall blaze in two weeks

Philippines sees second mall blaze in two weeks

Reuters 2018-01-07 04:02:09

Firefighters have brought under control a blaze that raged for two days at a shopping mall in the central Philippines, with no casualties reported, a regional fire official said on Sunday. The fire a...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says unrest is defeated

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says unrest is defeated

Reuters 2018-01-07 03:45:12

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday the country’s people and security forces had defeated unrest fomented by foreign enemies, as parliament and key security officials met to discuss...

PNG volcano eruption forces evacuations

PNG volcano eruption forces evacuations

-- 2018-01-07 02:12:46

A remote island volcano in Papua New Guinea has begun spewing ash into the air, forcing the evacuation of more than 500 residents, media and non-profit groups have said. Kadovar Island, a 365-metre (...

Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes India

Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes India

-- 2018-01-07 01:41:37

A earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck east of Imphal, capital of India’s northeastern state of Manipur, on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or d...

Saudi king orders new cost-offsetting allowances for citizens

Saudi king orders new cost-offsetting allowances for citizens

-- 2018-01-06 12:44:25

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered a monthly payment of 1,000 riyals ($267) to state employees over the next year in compensation for rising cost of living after the government hiked domesti...

Mnangagwa rules out forming coalition govt

Mnangagwa rules out forming coalition govt

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out forming a coalition government after visiting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday. Zimbabwe is due to hold elections in 2018 in t...

Pakistan PM calls US aid ‘insignificant’

Pakistan PM calls US aid ‘insignificant’

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Pakistan’s prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has declared himself mystified by US threats to cut off funding, saying that US financial assistance was “very, very insignificant”....

Malaysia okays fresh search for MH370

Malaysia okays fresh search for MH370

-- 2018-01-06 12:00:00

Malaysia's government said Saturday that it has approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years after the plane's disappearance sparked one of aviation's...

US slaps new sanctions on Venezuelan officials

US slaps new sanctions on Venezuelan officials

-- 2018-01-06 11:55:19

The US has imposed sanctions on four serving or retired Venezuelan generals for rights abuses or corruption. The list includes Rodolfo Marco Torres, whom the US Treasury sanctioned for food smuggling...

US piles pressure on Pakistan

US piles pressure on Pakistan

-- 2018-01-06 11:33:12

The United States is examining ways to mitigate any Pakistani retaliation as it piles pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants, a senior US official said on Friday. Pakistan is a crucial gate...

Macron says Turkey has no chance of joining EU

Macron says Turkey has no chance of joining EU

-- 2018-01-06 10:48:11

French President Emmanuel Macron has told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that there is no chance of progress towards Turkey joining the European Union at present. At a joint news conf...

Planes collide at Toronto airport, no casualties

Planes collide at Toronto airport, no casualties

-- 2018-01-06 10:21:16

Dozens of passengers were evacuated from an aircraft at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, after a plane under tow struck an arriving jet that was waiting to park, sparking a small fire, the airport aut...

Saudi police arrest 11 princes for protesting at ruling palace

Saudi police arrest 11 princes for protesting at ruling palace

-- 2018-01-06 09:33:59

RIYADH, Jan 06 (Agencies): Saudi police have arrested 11 princes for protesting at the ruling palace in Riyadh and refusing to leave, sources confirmed to Sabq local online news on Saturday. The princ...

Trump rejects accusations, calls him ‘stable genius’

Trump rejects accusations, calls him ‘stable genius’

-- 2018-01-06 07:45:06

US President Donald Trump described himself on Saturday as a "very stable genius", following the publication of a highly critical book that questioned his ability to do the job."Actually, throughout m...

Sudan closes border with Eritrea

Sudan closes border with Eritrea

-- 2018-01-06 07:26:59

Sudan has closed its border with Eritrea a week after Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir announced a six-month state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kurdufan. State news agency S...

'Fire and Fury' revelations will bring down Trump: Author

'Fire and Fury' revelations will bring down Trump: Author

-- 2018-01-06 06:35:46

The author of a book that is highly critical of Donald Trump’s first year as US president said his revelations were likely to bring an end to Trump’s time in the White House. Michael Wolf...

No reason to question Trump's mental fitness: Tillerson

No reason to question Trump's mental fitness: Tillerson

-- 2018-01-06 05:09:05

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has never questioned President Donald Trump's mental fitness and intends to remain at his post for the entire year. The top US diplomat made the remarks in an excl...

Yemen mine blast wounds army chief of staff

Yemen mine blast wounds army chief of staff

-- 2018-01-06 03:36:33

The chief of staff of the Yemeni army has been injured by a land mine that went off while he was visiting the northern al-Jouf province, where heavy fighting between government forces and Houthi fight...

18 die in US cold spell

18 die in US cold spell

-- 2018-01-06 03:16:20

Street crews are digging out snow-clogged roads across the US east coast after a powerful “bomb cyclone” winter storm, with temperatures set to plunge further during the brutal cold spell...

Massive explosion kills four policemen in Kashmir

Massive explosion kills four policemen in Kashmir

-- 2018-01-06 01:31:32

Four police officials have been killed after the rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir detonated a bomb in the northwestern town of Sopore, police say. Police say the massive blast...

Afghan airstrikes kill 20 IS rebels

Afghan airstrikes kill 20 IS rebels

-- 2018-01-06 01:00:29

At least 20 Islamic state militants including two commanders were killed as the government forces planes targeted the hardliner group's hideouts in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province on Frid...

US suspends security aid to Pakistan

US suspends security aid to Pakistan

Reuters 2018-01-05 12:00:00

The United States said on Thursday it was suspending an undisclosed amount of security assistance to Pakistan, which two officials said was worth more than $255 million, until Islamabad takes action a...