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Trump mulls recognising Jerusalem as Israel capital

Trump mulls recognising Jerusalem as Israel capital

-- 2017-12-01 02:45:04

US President Donald Trump is considering recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a move that could upend decades of American policy and ratchet up Middle East tensions, but is expected to...

Gunmen kill 9 in Pakistan college

Gunmen kill 9 in Pakistan college

-- 2017-12-01 02:10:56

Taliban gunmen killing at least nine people and wounding 35, local media reported. The gunmen disguised in burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday. Police and ar...

Taliban, disguised in burqas, attack Pakistan college

Taliban, disguised in burqas, attack Pakistan college

-- 2017-12-01 01:05:11

Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burquas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said. Police and army troops...

Justin Trudeau delivers historic formal apology

Justin Trudeau delivers historic formal apology

-- 2017-11-30 12:07:05

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an apology for a discriminatory and unjust campaign by the federal government against LGBT people. The apology was specifically addressed victims what is refer...

US threatens N Korea with destruction

US threatens N Korea with destruction

-- 2017-11-30 12:00:00

The United States warned North Korea’s leadership it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out, after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced intercontinental ballistic mi...

Moscow wants pragmatic relations with US : Russian ambassador

Moscow wants pragmatic relations with US : Russian ambassador

-- 2017-11-30 12:00:00

Russia wants to have equal and pragmatism-based relations with Washington. Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday during a reception at the World Affairs Council non government organizati...

Israel demolishes structure in West Bank settlement

Israel demolishes structure in West Bank settlement

-- 2017-11-30 12:00:00

Israeli security forces demolished Wednesday an illegally-built carpentry workshop in a Jewish outpost in the West Bank, as dozens of settlers were rallying the site to protest the demolition. Army s...

Volcanic ash forces tourists to fly out of Bali

Volcanic ash forces tourists to fly out of Bali

Reuters 2017-11-30 12:00:00

Airlines laid on extra flights to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Thursday to allow thousands of passengers stranded for days by an erupting volcano to fly home as a switch in wind direction...

Trump hits out at UK PM May over tweets

Trump hits out at UK PM May over tweets

-- 2017-11-30 10:57:48

Donald Trump has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. "Don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islami...

Trump to replace Tillerson with CIA director soon

Trump to replace Tillerson with CIA director soon

-- 2017-11-30 09:57:36

US President Donald Trump's administration has developed a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with the Central Intelligence Agency director. A senior Trump administration official revea...

Net migration to UK plunges after Brexit vote

Net migration to UK plunges after Brexit vote

-- 2017-11-30 04:03:20

Net migration to UK fell by nearly a third to 230,000 in the year to June, new figures show. It is the first time that a full year of data has been available since the UK voted to leave the EU last J...

29 get life term for dictatorship crimes in Argentina

29 get life term for dictatorship crimes in Argentina

Reuters 2017-11-30 03:55:54

Argentina sentenced 29 people, some with nicknames like “Blond Angel of Death” and “The Tiger,” to life sentences on Wednesday in a trial involving some 800 cases of kidnapping...

Tanzania faces country-wide power outage

Tanzania faces country-wide power outage

-- 2017-11-30 03:12:24

Tanzania was hit by a country-wide blackout early on Thursday due to a technical glitch in its national power grid, the country’s state-run electricity monopoly said. “A technical fault ....

US drone hits Pak-Afghan border, kills three

US drone hits Pak-Afghan border, kills three

-- 2017-11-30 02:44:59

At least three people have been killed after a US drone fired missiles along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, local Urdu media reported on Thursday. The attack happened in Pakistani territory of Kurr...

Powerful storms hit Sri Lanka, killing four

Powerful storms hit Sri Lanka, killing four

-- 2017-11-30 02:15:43

Storms with heavy rain and winds across the country have left at least four people dead and several fishermen are among 23 people missing, Sri Lanka's government said. The Disaster Management Center...

Pope calls for peace in Myanmar

Pope calls for peace in Myanmar

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Pope Francis called on the people of Myanmar on Wednesday to embrace peace and reconciliation as their country emerges from nearly five decades of military rule. The pope made his appeal at an open-a...

UK’s Brexit offer 'worth up to 55b euros'

UK’s Brexit offer 'worth up to 55b euros'

BBC 2017-11-29 12:00:00

The UK has offered a larger potential "divorce bill" to the EU - which could be worth between 40 billion and 55 billion euros (£35 billion-£49 billion), the BBC understands. BBC political...

North Korea fires 'highest ever' ballistic missile

North Korea fires 'highest ever' ballistic missile

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

North Korea has fired its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile and poses a worldwide threat, US Secretary of Defence James Mattis has said. The missile, launched early on Wednesday, landed...

Clash kills 15 rebels in Philippine

Clash kills 15 rebels in Philippine

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Fifteen suspected communist rebels were killed and two others wounded in a clash with Philippine army in central Philippines. The military and news reports said on Wednesday. The military said five...

Australian state passes law permitting euthanasia

Australian state passes law permitting euthanasia

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Victoria on Wednesday became the first state in Australia to allow terminally ill patients to end their life as its legislature passed a euthanasia law. The other states are expected to use as a temp...

Bali airport to resume services after two-day hiatus

Bali airport to resume services after two-day hiatus

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Bali airport will reopen on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said, two days after a volcanic eruption spread ash across the island and forced the airport to close. The airport will reopen at 3:00pm (...

Cyclone Cempaka kills 19 in Indonesia

Cyclone Cempaka kills 19 in Indonesia

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

A tropical cyclone hit Indonesia's main island of Java has triggered severe flooding and landslides that left 19 dead an official said on Wednesday. Landslides claimed 15 lives in east and central Ja...

War criminal dies after ‘taking poison’ in court

War criminal dies after ‘taking poison’ in court

-- 2017-11-29 12:00:00

A Bosnian Croat wartime commander died after swallowing what he said was poison in a UN war crimes courtroom on Wednesday after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison sentence, Croatian state TV sa...

Egypt forces shoot dead 11 suspected militants

Egypt forces shoot dead 11 suspected militants

-- 2017-11-29 10:55:30

11 suspected militants have been killed by Egyptian security forces in a shootout near the Sinai, just days after more than 300 people were killed in an attack on a mosque in North Sinai, said the int...

NY truck attack suspect pleads not guilty

NY truck attack suspect pleads not guilty

-- 2017-11-29 10:27:35

A man accused of killing eight people and injuring 12 after driving a truck into pedestrians in New York in October has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and terrorism. Sayfullo Saipov, who arr...

US threatens action against S Sudan

US threatens action against S Sudan

-- 2017-11-29 10:26:37

The United States threatened on Tuesday to take further action against the South Sudan government if it does not end violence and allow United Nations peacekeepers to do their job, but UN sanctions ar...

Six die of suffocation in India

Six die of suffocation in India

-- 2017-11-29 03:51:51

Six men died while sleeping apparently due to suffocation inside a huge container in city of New Delhi on Wednesday. "The men working with a caterer slept in a huge container, which also had a coal o...

EU considers easing disputes over migrants

EU considers easing disputes over migrants

Reuters 2017-11-29 03:15:01

EU governments will study a new proposal aimed at overcoming the deep splits over sharing responsibility for asylum-seekers that has soured relations in the bloc since the migrant crisis of 2015, dipl...

Landmine blast kills 8 civilians in S. Afghan

Landmine blast kills 8 civilians in S. Afghan

-- 2017-11-29 02:29:12

Eight Afghan civilians were killed and two others wounded when a militants' landmine struck a vehicle in Kandahar province. A local official said on Wednesday. "The incident occurred along a dusty r...

Saudi detentions: Prince Miteb bin Abdullah released

Saudi detentions: Prince Miteb bin Abdullah released

-- 2017-11-29 01:11:21

Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah has been released more than three weeks after he was detained on allegations of corruption, officials say. Prince Miteb, once seen as a contender to the throne, was fr...