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New York bans vaping in public places

New York bans vaping in public places

BBC 2017-10-24 04:12:45

Vaping is being outlawed in public indoor spaces in the US state of New York. A new rule, which will come into law in 30 days, will mean that the practice will be treated the same as smoking normal c...

Nicaragua joins Paris climate accord

Nicaragua joins Paris climate accord

-- 2017-10-24 03:55:42

Nicaragua has signed the Paris climate agreement, meaning that the US and Syria are the only two countries not to be giving the accord their support. The deal unites the world's nations in tackling c...

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Reuters 2017-10-24 01:48:05

The body of a toddler found in a culvert beneath a Texas road was likely that of a 3-year-old girl reported missing after her father said he punished her for not drinking her milk by making her stand...

WHO cancels Mugabe goodwill ambassador role

WHO cancels Mugabe goodwill ambassador role

BBC 2017-10-23 12:30:33

The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry. "I have listened carefully to all who have expressed thei...

Abe threatens N Korea after landslide win

Abe threatens N Korea after landslide win

-- 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised to "deal firmly" with North Korea after exit polls suggested he won a clear victory in Sunday's election. Mr Abe had called an early election for an in...

Myanmar Buddhists protest against Rohingya return

Myanmar Buddhists protest against Rohingya return

AP 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested Sunday to urge Myanmar's government not to allow in the nearly 0.60 million (600,000) minority Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh since late August...

Returning Rohingyas may lose land

Returning Rohingyas may lose land

Reuters 2017-10-23 12:00:00

Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find their crops have been harvested and sold by the government, according to...

Typhoon Lan batters Japan killing two

Typhoon Lan batters Japan killing two

BBC 2017-10-23 10:50:28

Two people have died and more than 10 injured after a typhoon struck Japan. Typhoon Lan made landfall at Shizuoka, 175km (110 miles) south-west of Tokyo, at about 03:00 local time on Monday (18:00 GM...

Philippines declares end of battle with IS

Philippines declares end of battle with IS

-- 2017-10-23 10:14:02

MARAWI CITY/CLARK, Philippines, Oct 23 (Reuters): The Philippines on Monday announced the end of five months of military operations in a southern city held by pro-Islamic State rebels, after a fierce...

Israel defies arms embargo to empower Myanmar!

Israel defies arms embargo to empower Myanmar!

-- 2017-10-23 09:31:03

Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel's long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic cleansing a...

Catalonia to disobey Madrid's orders

Catalonia to disobey Madrid's orders

-- 2017-10-23 08:40:23

Catalan authorities will not follow orders from the Spanish government if Madrid moves to reassert control over the region, a senior official says. Foreign affairs spokesman Raul Romeva said the cent...

Former US presidents gather for hurricanes fundraiser

Former US presidents gather for hurricanes fundraiser

BBC 2017-10-22 12:06:30

America's five living former presidents gathered together for a concert in aid of victims of the hurricanes which ravaged the US this year. Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush a...

Japan goes to polls in snap election

Japan goes to polls in snap election

BBC 2017-10-22 12:00:20

A typhoon has been drenching parts of Japan as the country heads to the polls after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election in the face of the rising threat from North Korea. Mr Abe called t...

WHO chief 'rethinking' Mugabe's appointment

WHO chief 'rethinking' Mugabe's appointment

BBC 2017-10-22 12:00:00

The new head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is rethinking a plan to appoint Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's original proposal spar...

Indian army kills militant in Kashmir gunfight

Indian army kills militant in Kashmir gunfight

Xinhua 2017-10-22 12:00:00

Indian army Sunday said it killed a militant in gunfight in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir. The gunfight broke out in Handwara area of frontier Kupwara district, about 90 km northwest of Srinagar...

Australian airport staff to undergo random security screening

Australian airport staff to undergo random security screening

Reuters 2017-10-22 12:00:00

Australia will introduce random searches of workers entering and inside its airports as it increases security after a recent foiled terrorism plot, officials said. “These measures strengthen ex...

Eight insurgents killed in Karachi shootout

Eight insurgents killed in Karachi shootout

Xinhua 2017-10-22 12:00:00

Troops in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi killed eight militants during a successful overnight operation, officials said Sunday. Paramilitary troops Rangers and the counter terrorism d...

Gunmen kill 13 Niger gendarmes

Gunmen kill 13 Niger gendarmes

Reuters 2017-10-22 11:39:28

Gunmen on pick-up trucks and motorcycles coming from Mali killed 13 gendarmes and wounded five more in an attack on their base in western Niger, security sources said on Saturday. The village is a fe...

Tillerson puts new light on Gulf crisis

Tillerson puts new light on Gulf crisis

-- 2017-10-22 09:11:45

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for the start of his Middle East tour as he looks for a fresh push to end the Gulf crisis. Upon his landing, the top US diplomat...

72 killed in Afghan mosque attacks

72 killed in Afghan mosque attacks

Reuters 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 72 people including children, officials and witnesses said. One bomber walked into a Shia Muslim mosque in the capital...

Catalonia could lose autonomy

Catalonia could lose autonomy

BBC 2017-10-21 12:00:00

The Spanish cabinet is expected to approve measures allowing the government to impose direct rule over Catalonia. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets with his cabinet almost three weeks after the regi...

30 police dead in Egypt militant gunfight

30 police dead in Egypt militant gunfight

Reuters 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Armed militants killed at least 30 policemen in a shootout during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in Egypt's Western desert, security sources said on Friday. A number of suspected militants we...

Landslide hits Malaysian construction site, up to 20 feared buried

Landslide hits Malaysian construction site, up to 20 feared buried

Xinhua 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Between 15 to 20 workers are feared to have been buried after a landslide hit a building construction site in the northwestern Malaysian state of Penang on Saturday morning. The state news agency Ber...

Foreign interference does not work: China official says on Rohingya crisis

Foreign interference does not work: China official says on Rohingya crisis

Reuters 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government’s efforts to protect stability, a senior Chinese official said on Saturday, amid ongo...

India ready for stronger US ties after Tillerson speech

India ready for stronger US ties after Tillerson speech

Reuters 2017-10-21 11:34:40

India stood ready to further strengthen ties with the United States, the government said on Friday, after US Secretary of State Tillerson vowed to dramatically expand cooperation as a way to counter C...

10 die as goods truck overturns in India

10 die as goods truck overturns in India

Xinhua 2017-10-21 11:09:34

At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured Saturday after a goods truck carrying tiles overturned in western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. The accident took place near Tasagoan...

Mogadishu car bomb toll rises to 358

Mogadishu car bomb toll rises to 358

BBC 2017-10-21 10:04:54

The death toll from last Saturday's huge truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 358, the information minister says. Some 56 people are also still missing, Abdirahman Osman says....

Brazil police detain 108 in anti-paedophilia raid

Brazil police detain 108 in anti-paedophilia raid

BBC 2017-10-21 09:49:29

Police in Brazil say they have arrested 108 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America. Suspects were arrested in 24 states and the capital, Brasilia. Justice Minister...

Japan's Abe getting easy victory: media polls

Japan's Abe getting easy victory: media polls

-- 2017-10-21 09:07:39

Media polls indicate Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition is going to win the general election to be held on Sunday. The coalition may keep its two-thirds majority in the more...

Trump intends to release classified JFK documents

Trump intends to release classified JFK documents

-- 2017-10-21 07:43:22

US President Donald Trump intends to allow the release of classified government documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy "subject to the receipt of further information." Trump's...