Reuters 2017-11-09 12:00:00
British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as sh...
-- 2017-11-09 11:44:19
The US administration has published a series of measures increasing limits on Americans' dealings with Cuba. The package includes a blacklist of state-owned companies and entities, including shops an...
-- 2017-11-09 11:32:10
Volunteers have taken to the streets of India's capital and fitted green pollution masks over the mouths of willing residents to make a statement about the city's choking smog. Not everybody wanted t...
-- 2017-11-09 10:12:51
At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in Kagera region near the border with Burundi in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. The pupils were p...
-- 2017-11-09 10:09:51
Spain is considering constitutional changes that could allow its regions to hold referendums on independence in the future, the foreign minister says. Alfonso Dastis has told the BBC a nationwide vot...
-- 2017-11-09 09:55:00
Yemen faces the world's largest famine in decades "with millions of victims" if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned. Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary general for human...
-- 2017-11-09 09:46:03
Saudi Arabia's attorney general says at least $100 billion has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades. Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 199 people were being held for qu...
-- 2017-11-09 03:16:02
US President Donald Trump has lavished praise on Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a marked contrast to his previous criticism of China on the flashpoint issues of North Korea and trade. But he also urged M...
-- 2017-11-09 01:46:05
Colombian police have discovered 12 tonnes of cocaine in the largest single drug seizure in the country's history. The drugs were found buried in four banana plantations in the north of the country,...
-- 2017-11-08 12:49:11
The Security Council Tuesday adopted a resolution to condemn the acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia and to call for a comprehensive response to prevent and suppress such...
-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
Myanmar said on Wednesday that the UN Security Council’s statement on the Rohingya refugee crisis could “seriously harm” its talks with Bangladesh over repatriating more than 0.60 mi...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00
Malaysia has said it will send back controversial televangelist Zakir Naik upon the request from Indian government. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said this on Wednesday amid reports that...
-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker Tuesday who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is se...
-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
The Myanmar government appears committed to starting a repatriation programme but it is still in its early stages, the US State Department said. The department’s Population, Refugees and Migrat...
-- 2017-11-08 12:00:00
With lavish pageantry and an uncharacteristic personal flourish, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday rolled out a red carpet welcome for US President Donald Trump at the Forbidden City, the anci...
-- 2017-11-08 11:45:53
Britain’s Oxford University said one of its professors, the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, had taken a leave of absence after two women filed complaints against him in France...
FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 10:07:37
The gunman who killed 26 churchgoers in Texas fled from a mental health clinic in 2012, according to a police report. El Paso officers who detained Devin Kelley five years ago were told he was "a dan...
-- 2017-11-08 09:42:45
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a stark warning to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in an address to South Korea's parliament. "Do not underestimate us. Do not try us," he said, while a...
-- 2017-11-08 02:34:45
Four people were killed when a helicopter crashed in Gunma Prefecture in the northwest corner of Japan's Kanto region, Xinhua reported on Wednesday citing local media reports. According to local poli...
-- 2017-11-08 01:04:43
India's biggest airline IndiGo apologised to a passenger after video emerged of him being tackled by staff. The video released on Monday allegedly shows IndiGo staff manhandling the passenger on the...
-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00
The United Nations Security Council urged the Myanmar government on Monday to “ensure no further excessive use of military force in Rakhine state,” where violence has forced more than 0.60...
-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00
US President Donald Trump arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, the closest he has come to the frontlines of the nuclear standoff with North Korea, on a visit that could further aggravate tensions with P...
-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00
A private television station in the Afghan capital came under attack on Tuesday by a number of gunmen who broke into the building after an explosion, officials said. A tweet from the station’s...
-- 2017-11-07 11:56:29
Zimbabwe's Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been removed from his post, the country's government has announced. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, had displayed "traits of disloyalty", Information Minister Simon...
-- 2017-11-07 11:28:41
At least five migrants died and many others feared missing when a rubber boat, carrying about 140 people, overturned close to the border between Libyan and international waters on Monday, Libyan coast...
-- 2017-11-07 10:55:36
Two eight-year-old boys were killed and another three children badly hurt after a car crashed into a classroom in Sydney on Tuesday, Australian police said. A sports utility vehicle smashed through t...
-- 2017-11-07 10:34:32
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is the youngest female national leader in the world at age 37. She is the leader of the Labour Party and has been climbing through the ranks since she joi...
-- 2017-11-07 07:33:15
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has accused Iran of an act of "direct military aggression" by supplying missiles to rebels in Yemen. This "may be considered an act of war", state medi...
Reuters 2017-11-07 02:15:34
Two children, backed by the Clean Air Council environmental group, sued US President Donald Trump and two of his Cabinet members on Monday to try to stop them from scrapping a package of pollution-red...
-- 2017-11-06 12:49:21
The death toll from the typhoon that struck Vietnam at the weekend has risen to at least 49, the government said on Monday. After Typhoon Damrey’s winds tore off roofs, felled trees and ripped...
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