-- 2017-12-26 01:02:00
At least 10 extremist rebels have been killed and several injured in airstrikes launched by Philippine troops in the country’s Maguindanao province. In response to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freed...
Reuters 2017-12-25 12:34:33
Pope Francis strongly defended immigrants at his Christmas Eve Mass on Sunday, comparing them to Mary and Joseph finding no place to stay in Bethlehem and saying faith demands that foreigners be welco...
-- 2017-12-25 12:17:15
At least 20 people have been killed and 24 others injured when a passenger bus collided head-on with a mini-bus carrying people on the way to Christmas Mass at a popular church in Agoo town, 200 kilom...
-- 2017-12-25 12:09:55
A suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near a compound belonging to the Afghan intelligence agency in Kabul today, killing six civilians, officials said. The attacker struck at a time when worker...
BBC 2017-12-25 12:00:00
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has ordered to move the country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. In a Facebook post, Mr Morales said the decision was taken after he had spoken with Israel's PM Be...
-- 2017-12-25 12:00:00
A bus swerved off course and drove into a busy pedestrian underpass in Moscow on Monday, killing at least five people, Russian news agencies reported. Reuters says video from the scene posted on soci...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-25 12:00:00
India will link its major highway corridors to international trade points at a cost of Rs 250 billion to facilitate trade with Bangladesh and other bordering countries. Indian Road Transport and High...
-- 2017-12-25 10:38:01
Some 200 skiers were stranded in chair lifts after a gondola broke down at a resort in the French Alps, said French authorities. Rescue operations were under way and no injuries were reported. An o...
-- 2017-12-25 10:24:26
China called on Monday for all countries to make constructive efforts to ease tension after North Korea said the latest UN sanctions against it are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic...
-- 2017-12-25 09:57:13
Dubai airline Emirates will stop flying to Tunisia, it said on Sunday, after the North African country said it had banned flights from the United Emirates carrier. The announcement came two days afte...
-- 2017-12-25 09:37:32
The king of Spain has issued a renewed call for unity amid the ongoing fallout from Catalonia's outlawed independence referendum. In his Christmas message, Felipe VI urged the people of Catalonia to...
-- 2017-12-25 08:14:17
Pope Francis has used his traditional Christmas Day message on Monday to call for "peace for Jerusalem" and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Acknowledging "growing tensions" between them,...
-- 2017-12-25 04:06:45
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari in an attack by Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants, the military said on Monday. Another soldier was wounde...
-- 2017-12-25 03:30:37
Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines with floods and landslides that...
-- 2017-12-25 02:40:34
South Sudan’s army clashed with rebels in an oil-producing region, both sides claimed, shattering a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. Both sides accused the other of starting the fight...
-- 2017-12-25 02:08:22
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori late on Sunday, triggering Christmas Eve street clashes as protesters denounced the decision as part of a...
-- 2017-12-25 01:39:08
A federal judge ruled that the US military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with Islamic State militants...
-- 2017-12-24 12:12:38
Rescuers in the Philippines searched on Sunday for survivors of a storm that triggered floods and landslides and killed about 200 people, left scores missing and thousands homeless, most of whom appar...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
The Myanmar military accused of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has been invited back as an observer in a major multinational military exercise next year led by...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked US President Donald Trump’s newest restrictions on refugee admissions on Saturday, the latest legal defeat for his efforts to curtail immigration and...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
The Iranian parliament has recognised Jerusalem as "eternal capital of Palestine" and approved a draft legislation in this regard. Iran's State TV said some 187 out of 233 lawmakers in attendance vot...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Turkey said on Sunday that 2,756 people were dismissed from their jobs in public institutions including soldiers, teachers, and ministry personnel over links to “terror” organisations. Th...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed retired army boss Constantino Chiwenga and veteran politician Kembo Mohadi as the ruling party’s vice presidents. The appointments pave...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
The world's largest amphibious aircraft, China's AG600, has made a successful one-hour maiden flight. The plane, roughly the size of a Boeing 737 but with four turboprop engines, lifted off from Zhuh...
-- 2017-12-24 11:48:11
Officers providing security protection to the president and other senior political leaders have been reminded to make sure their security convoys comply with traffic rules, without compromising the sa...
-- 2017-12-24 11:20:30
The latest UN sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against the country, North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to pu...
-- 2017-12-24 10:57:20
Venezuela has expelled the Brazilian ambassador to Caracas, Ruy Pereira, and Canadian charge d'affaires Craib Kowalik. The move was announced by the head of Venezuela's powerful Constituent Assembly...
-- 2017-12-24 10:00:09
The Myanmar leader should be cut from Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, critics insist. It is one of the most popular children’s books of 2017, a collection of stories about female role model...
-- 2017-12-24 09:31:33
Fire swept through a shopping mall in the Philippines killing at least 37 people, most of them workers at a call center, city government officials said on Sunday. The vice mayor of the southern city...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-24 07:35:40
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny says he has gathered enough nominations to challenge Vladimir Putin in March's presidential polls. His supporters met in 20 cities across the country to s...
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