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Mnangagwa becomes Zimbabwe president

-- 2017-11-24 04:43:38

Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn in as Zimbabwe's new leader, following Robert Mugabe's resignation this week after nearly four decades of rule. Mnangagwa, the country's former vice president, swore...

Saudi Crown Prince calls Iran leader 'new Hitler'

-- 2017-11-24 04:35:31

Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince called the Supreme Leader of Iran “the new Hitler of the Middle East” in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply esca...

Suicide attack kills Pakistani police officer: Official

-- 2017-11-24 03:53:21

A top Pakistani police officer and one of his guards were killed in a suicide bomber attack on Friday in Peshawarcity, police said.Additional Inspector General Ashraf Noor was leaving his home for wor...

Turkey issues warrants for 79 former teachers

-- 2017-11-24 03:24:17

Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Friday for 79 former teachers as part of a widening crackdown since last year’s failed coup attempt. The teachers were formerly employed at scho...

13 Myanmar passengers killed in Thai van crash: police

-- 2017-11-24 02:35:19

Thirteen Burmese people were killed on Friday as their van hit a truck in central Thailand that burst into flames, police said. The latest gruesome accident took place on the kingdom's notoriously d...

Pakistan frees 'mastermind' of Mumbai attacks

-- 2017-11-24 01:20:21

Pakistani cleric Hafiz Saeed, who is accused by the US and India of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been released. Saeed, who carries a $10 million US bounty, had been under house arrest i...

Violence at Indian university after student’s suicide

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Students of an Indian university went on a rampage and set hostel properties on fire after a first-year student, who was caught allegedly cheating during an exam, committed suicide. Agitated students...

China wants closer ties with Myanmar military

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

China wants closer ties with Myanmar’s military to help protect regional peace and security, a senior Chinese general told the visiting head of the southeast Asian country’s army. China a...

Nuclear strategists call for scrapping ICBM arsenal

Reuters 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Imagine it is 3 am and the president of the United States is asleep in the White House master bedroom. A military officer stationed in an office nearby retrieves an aluminum suitcase - the “foot...

Latin America is world’s most violent region for women: UN

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region in the world for women, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting Central America and Mexico as particularly dangerous. In a report pr...

‘Changed US stance may prompt Myanmar sanction’

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

The overnight change in Trump administration's stance on atrocities on the Rohingyas is likely to expose Myanmar to sanctions as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson now calls it "ethnic cleansing", shift...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe gets immunity from prosecution

-- 2017-11-23 12:00:00

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will not be held liable to prosecution as part of a deal that led to his resignation. He was also assured of safety in his home country as part of the...

Taiwan apartment fire claims nine lives

-- 2017-11-23 11:58:02

Nine people, including foreign migrant workers, have been killed and two others slightly injured by a massive fire that broke out at a rental apartment in New Taipei City’s Zhonghe District in n...

Four die in Georgia anti-terror raid

-- 2017-11-23 10:34:21

Three suspected militants and a special forces soldier have been killed in a siege on an apartment in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, reports say. Explosions and gunfire rocked a block of flats in the...

Argentine Navy detects ‘explosion’ near missing sub

-- 2017-11-23 09:55:33

The Argentine navy says an event consistent with an explosion was recorded near where a submarine disappeared last week with 44 crew on board. An "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear even...

Libya deports 124 illegal migrants

-- 2017-11-23 03:21:04

Libya's Anti-Illegal Immigration Department has deported a total of 124 illegal African immigrants from the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to a local official. "The child Mamani returned to her ho...

Zimbabwe's incoming leader thanks public for support

-- 2017-11-23 03:18:41

Zimbabwe's incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday thanked Zimbabweans and the military for their support. In his first public address to supporters upon his return to Zimbabwe from exile,...

Duterte likely to bring police back to drug war

-- 2017-11-23 03:04:35

There is a “strong likelihood” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will lift a suspension on police from his war on drugs, his spokesman said on Thursday, a move likely to alarm activists...

US calls Myanmar over ‘ethnic cleansing’

-- 2017-11-23 01:20:14

The United States has called Myanmar for “ethnic cleansing” and threatened targeted sanctions against those responsible for what it called “horrendous atrocities”. “The...

Afghan air strikes kill 11 IS militants

-- 2017-11-22 12:55:57

At least 11 Islamic States (IS) militants have been killed during air strikes by Afghan security forces in Nargosi and Khamon areas of Achin district in Nangarhar province, the provincial governor's s...

50 die in Nigeria mosque bombing

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday in an attack on a mosque which bore the hallmarks of a faction of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The bombing in...

China indefinitely suspends flights between Beijing, Pyongyang

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

“The flights were suspended because “business was not good”. He declined to comment on when flights might resume, said an official in the company’s Beijing-based press office,...

US navy aircraft crashes with 11 on board

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

An aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed into the Pacific Ocean Wednesday while on the way to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy said. The Japan-based 7th Fleet said in a sta...

Ratko Mladic sentenced to life imprisonment over Bosnia genocide

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been jailed for life for genocide and other atrocities in the 1990s Bosnian war. Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", Mladic led forces during the massacre...

Lebanese PM Hariri puts resignation on hold

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has announced Wednesday to put his resignation at the request of country's President Michel Aoun Hariri's decision eased a crisis that had deepened tensions in...

Pope to meet Myanmar army chief

-- 2017-11-22 12:00:00

Pope Francis will meet the Myanmar’s army chief and some Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, both late additions to a tour of the two countries next week. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said on Wedn...

Hariri is back in Lebanon

BBC 2017-11-22 10:44:03

Lebanese PM Saad Hariri has arrived back in Beirut for the first time since announcing his resignation in Saudi Arabia more than two weeks ago. Mr Hariri was greeted at Beirut international airport b...

Mugabe successor to return from exile

BBC 2017-11-22 04:10:44

Zimbabwe's former vice-president, whose sacking led to the shock resignation of long-time leader Robert Mugabe, will be sworn in as the new president on Friday, the state broadcaster says. Emmerson M...

Delhi police set up female motorbike squad to tackle crime

-- 2017-11-22 03:36:53

Police force of Delhi has created an all-female motorcycle squad in an attempt to tackle rising crime against women in the city’s narrow alleyways. The patrol, called Raftaar (Speed), will depl...

Western India road crash claim nine lives

-- 2017-11-22 02:34:51

At least nine people have been killed and several others sustained injuries when a state-run passenger bus collided with an overloaded jeep coming at high speed on Nokha-Sujangarh Road in the western...