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Inter-Korean summit earns optimistic praise

Inter-Korean summit earns optimistic praise

-- 2018-04-28 19:06:08

The declaration, made by North and South Korea to work for “complete denuclearisation” in the peninsula, has earned guarded but optimistic praise from Korean media and world leaders. The...

India, China agree to maintain peace at border

India, China agree to maintain peace at border

-- 2018-04-28 16:10:34

India and China have agreed to improve communication between their militaries to maintain peace at the border. Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale came up with the statement on Saturday at the end...

Malaysia's election campaign kicks off

Malaysia's election campaign kicks off

-- 2018-04-28 15:04:05

Campaigning for Malaysia’s general election started officially on Saturday, pitting Prime Minister Najib Razak against his former mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, in a contest marred by claims of sabot...

Five die in Cambodia head-on crash

Five die in Cambodia head-on crash

-- 2018-04-28 15:01:45

Five local people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a tanker truck and a Lexus SUV on Saturday in Southwest Cambodia's Koh Kong province, a local police chief said. The fata...

Suicide car bomber kills six in Afghanistan

Suicide car bomber kills six in Afghanistan

-- 2018-04-28 14:05:46

At least four civilians and two soldiers were killed in a suicide bomber attack in an army base in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, officials have said. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provin...

Australian military aircraft to monitor N Korean vessels

Australian military aircraft to monitor N Korean vessels

-- 2018-04-28 10:41:09

Australia will send a military patrol aircraft to monitor North Korean vessels suspected of transferring prohibited goods in defiance of United Nations sanctions, Defence Minister Marise Payne said on...

Saudi-led air strike kills two Houthi leaders in Yemen

Saudi-led air strike kills two Houthi leaders in Yemen

-- 2018-04-28 10:23:37

Two leaders of the armed Houthi group have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit the Houthi’s Interior Ministry in Yemen’s city of Sanaa, Saudi state TV Ekhbariya said ear...

Knife attack at Chinese school: Seven students die

Knife attack at Chinese school: Seven students die

-- 2018-04-27 20:11:27

At least seven students were stabbed to death in a knife attack outside a school in northern China. More than 12 students were injured in the attack near a secondary school in Mizhi County in Shaanxi...

Situation in Rakhine extremely concerning: UN

Situation in Rakhine extremely concerning: UN

-- 2018-04-27 17:44:33

The United Nations said the situation in Rakhine State of Myanmar remains extremely concerning. Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric came up with the statement at a in a re...

UN chief appoints new special envoy to Myanmar

UN chief appoints new special envoy to Myanmar

-- 2018-04-27 17:28:54

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Christine Schraner Burgener as new special envoy to Myanmar. The UN Secretary-General made the announcement on Thursday, report global...

Koreas vow to work for complete denuclearisation

Koreas vow to work for complete denuclearisation

FE Online Desk 2018-04-27 16:46:38

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have agreed to work for the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. They signed the "Panmunjom Declarat...

Kim, Moon plant tree for peace at border

Kim, Moon plant tree for peace at border

Reuters 2018-04-27 14:34:00

The leaders of the two Koreas planted a pine tree on the heavily fortified border dividing their countries on Friday as the afternoon session of their summit got under way. North Korean leader Kim Jo...

Modi begins China tour

Modi begins China tour

-- 2018-04-27 13:16:30

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will get a tour of a museum and dinner with President Xi Jinping on Friday, the first day of an ice-breaking visit to China in which the giant neighbours will seek to re-s...

Leaders of two Koreas at historic summit

Leaders of two Koreas at historic summit

Reuters 2018-04-27 09:37:15

Smiling and holding hands, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone between the countries on Friday in the first summit fo...

Modi, Xi meeting likely to ease border tensions: Experts

Modi, Xi meeting likely to ease border tensions: Experts

-- 2018-04-26 17:16:39

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a visit that some experts believe could reset a complicated relationship that faced several tests last year, includ...

Armenian lawmakers to choose new PM on May 1

Armenian lawmakers to choose new PM on May 1

-- 2018-04-26 16:02:01

The Armenian parliament will elect the country’s new prime minister on May 1, according to a statement posted on the parliament’s website on Thursday. Armenia, which has been gripped by a...

Israel threatens to retaliate if Iran attacks Tel Aviv

Israel threatens to retaliate if Iran attacks Tel Aviv

-- 2018-04-26 16:01:43

Israel would retaliate if there was an Iranian attack on Tel Aviv by striking Tehran, Israel’s defence minister said in remarks published on Thursday, as the arch-foes faced off over Syria. &ld...

A 'new Koreatown' silenced by Canada van attack

A 'new Koreatown' silenced by Canada van attack

-- 2018-04-26 13:07:25

The van that killed 10 in Toronto on Monday plowed through the heart of a vibrant Korean community in Canada’s largest city, barrelling past a cluster of Korean restaurants, a grocery store and...

Korean summit: Moon to meet Kim at border

Korean summit: Moon to meet Kim at border

-- 2018-04-26 11:11:58

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to enter the South for the first summit between the two sides...

13 children die as train hits school van in India

13 children die as train hits school van in India

-- 2018-04-26 10:39:43

Thirteen school students have been killed and eight others injured when the van they were travelling in was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The chi...

Russia, China pledge new  military ties, challenge US

Russia, China pledge new military ties, challenge US

-- 2018-04-25 21:30:47

Russia and China have pledged to strengthen their bilateral military and political ties as part of a strategic cooperation that challenges US interests, especially to Washington's stance on Middle Eas...

Kachin conflict intensifies in northern Myanmar

Kachin conflict intensifies in northern Myanmar

-- 2018-04-25 21:30:05

On the front lines, the army is pounding rebels with airstrikes and artillery. In the displacement camps, terrified civilians are building bomb shelters of sandbags and stones. And everywhere in this...

Rouhani questions West’s right to change N deal

Rouhani questions West’s right to change N deal

-- 2018-04-25 21:28:53

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has questioned the legitimacy of efforts by the US and its European allies to change a nuclear deal with his country, reports BBC. The US and French leaders announced...

India jails ‘godman’ for life in rape case

India jails ‘godman’ for life in rape case

-- 2018-04-25 17:11:12

A self-styled Indian spiritual guru who claims millions of followers worldwide has been given a life sentence for raping a 16-year-old girl. Asaram Bapu carried out the 2013 attack at his ashram in t...

Afghan Taliban snub peace talks offer

Afghan Taliban snub peace talks offer

-- 2018-04-25 16:01:02

The Taliban announced the start of their annual spring offensive on Wednesday, dismissing an offer for peace talks by President Ashraf Ghani but pledging to focus on US forces in Afghanistan. The ann...

India finds popular guru guilty of raping teenage girl

India finds popular guru guilty of raping teenage girl

-- 2018-04-25 13:44:00

An Indian spiritual guru who claims to have millions of followers worldwide has been found guilty of rape. A court in the northern city of Jodhpur ruled that Asaram Bapu raped a 16-year-old girl in 2...

Indonesia oil well fire kills 10

Indonesia oil well fire kills 10

Reuters 2018-04-25 11:17:52

Firefighters in Indonesia are struggling to contain a blaze at an oil well in the northwestern province of Aceh that killed ten people and injured as many as 40, authorities said on Wednesday. Flames...

China warns of more action after military drills near Taiwan

China warns of more action after military drills near Taiwan

-- 2018-04-25 10:00:15

A series of Chinese military drills near Taiwan were designed to send a clear message to the self-ruled island and China will take further steps if Taiwan independence forces persist in doing as they...

China fails to get Indian support  for belt, road ahead of summit

China fails to get Indian support for belt, road ahead of summit

-- 2018-04-24 21:34:14

China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers' meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice-breaking trip...

Israel abandons plan to forcibly deport African migrants

Israel abandons plan to forcibly deport African migrants

-- 2018-04-24 21:26:52

The Israeli government said on Tuesday it was abandoning a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who had entered the country illegally, reports Reuters. The government, which had been working on a...