-- 2017-12-31 03:29:19
A seaplane crashed into a Sydney river on Sunday, killing six people on a “wine and dine” sightseeing flight ahead of the city’s harbor-centred New Year’s Eve celebrations. Po...
Reuters 2017-12-31 03:11:19
South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday. The KOTI...
-- 2017-12-31 01:57:39
At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured as a Nairobi-bound passenger bus collided head-on with a truck on Nakuru-Eldoret highway in Kenya on Sunday morning. Police said the accident oc...
-- 2017-12-30 12:43:43
Beijing may have turned a corner in its battle against the city’s notorious smoke and the Chinese government deserves much of the credit for introducing tough anti-pollution measures. The Chine...
Reuters 2017-12-30 12:23:47
Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran on Friday, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrat...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
Former football star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia's presidential run-off election with 61.5 per cent of the vote based on 98.1 per cent of ballots cast, the ele...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group says it was behind Wednesday's bombing of a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg that injured at least 13 people. IS made the claim on its...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
A total of 29 kindergarten children have been sent to hospital with suspected food poisoning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said Saturday. The suspected food poisoning occ...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
Violent extremists use the Internet to attract younger audiences, disseminate contents and foster direct dialogue with young people, a United Nations agency-backed study found, but more research is ne...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
The CBI has registered an FIR after 22 minors from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi were illegally taken to France by three travel agents last year in the garb of giving them rugby coaching and went missing....
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
A Chinese court has sentenced 36 people to prison terms of up to 25 years for gang crimes including homicide, assault and setting up illegal casinos. Hainan gang leader Huang Tuwang was sentenced to...
-- 2017-12-30 11:56:46
Tanzanian authorities have threatened to shut down churches which mix religion and politics after a cleric criticised President John Magufuli. The cleric, Zachary Kakobe, used a Christmas sermon to s...
-- 2017-12-30 11:38:38
Turkey has finalised a deal with Moscow for the purchase of Russia's S-400 anti-missile system, Turkish defense officials announced Friday, despite concerns voiced by some of the NATO member's allies....
-- 2017-12-30 10:54:06
A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building leaving 12 people dead, including four children on Friday. The toddler had a history...
-- 2017-12-30 10:33:42
Demonstrators chanted anti-government slogans in several cities across Iran, Iranian news agencies and social media reports said, as price protests turned into the largest wave of demonstrations since...
-- 2017-12-30 09:37:00
A man believed to be strapped with explosives has taken nine adults and two children hostage in a post office in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Regional police said on Saturday that the unidentified...
-- 2017-12-30 07:07:32
Russian Supreme Court has upheld the ban against country's opposition leader Alexei Navalny from next year’s presidential election. The court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Alexei Navalny a...
-- 2017-12-30 05:23:22
A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday on charges of insulting the judiciary. The court also fined Morsi 2 million...
-- 2017-12-30 02:13:11
Myanmar on Friday freed two journalists working for Turkey’s state broadcaster, their local interpreter and a driver after they completed a two-month jail sentence for violating an aircraft law...
-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00
Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were critically injured on Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in New York City’s borough of the Bronx, said Mayor Bill de Blasio...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-29 12:00:00
India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in a sensitive border state ahead of the publication of a list of its citizens. The drive will be used to detect and deport illegal im...
-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00
China extended its visa-free period for people transiting through Beijing to 144 hours Thursday, and added neighbouring Hebei Province and Tianjin City to the program. Transit air, train, and ship pa...
-- 2017-12-29 11:22:55
Fourteen people were killed and many others injured in a late night fire at a multi-storey building in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel in Mumbai. The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the...
-- 2017-12-29 09:56:29
South Korea on Friday has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions. Officials said the Lighthouse Winmore...
-- 2017-12-29 06:49:41
At least 10 people have died after a gunman opened fire on a Coptic church near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The attacker tried to enter Mar Mina Church in Helwan City, south of Cairo, on Friday. Sec...
-- 2017-12-29 05:48:40
The leader of a prominent Russian environmental group has been brutally beaten by unknown attackers, his deputy said Friday. The Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus for years has exposed illega...
-- 2017-12-29 05:03:56
After facing after US President Donald Trump's criticism, China has denied the reports of illicitly selling oil products to North Korea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporte...
-- 2017-12-29 03:53:17
The military warned the US against ‘unilateral action’, saying that despite its desire for cooperation on Afghanistan, there could be no compromise on national respect and sovereignty. &l...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 12:00:00
At least 103 people accused of having links with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested in India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the central counter t...
-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00
The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar....
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