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US lifts ban on refugees from ‘high-risk’ countries

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

A US ban on refugees from 11 "high-risk" countries has been lifted but any who seek to enter the country will face new security measures, officials say. They will undergo risk-based assessments befor...

Argentina blocks family members' entry in govt

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

Argentine President Mauricio Macri has announced government job cuts aimed at reducing the deficit and attacking a patronage system in place for decades. Ministers will be forbidden from employing cl...

'Unsolvable' maths question baffles China students

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

An apparently unsolvable exam question on a Chinese maths paper has left both students and social media stumped. Primary school students at a school in the Chinese district of Shunqing were faced wit...

Explosion kills six of a Pak family

-- 2018-01-30 00:00:00

Six members of a family have been killed and another one has been injured after an explosion ripped through their car on Tuesday. Officials said that they were heading towards a Pakistan village to a...

Indian stocks hit record highs

-- 2018-01-29 15:22:56

Indian stocks touched record highs on Monday after a government report predicted growth would accelerate in the coming fiscal year. The economic survey released earlier in the day projected economic...

S Sudan rebels release 15 prisoners

-- 2018-01-29 15:03:02

A South Sudanese rebel group released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups la...

FDA clears cancer drug that ‘killed’ Steve Jobs

-- 2018-01-29 14:47:53

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a radioactive drug to treat the ultra-rare type of digestive tract cancer that killed Steve Jobs in 2011. The approval for Advanced Accelerato...

Libya tribal fighting leaves three dead

-- 2018-01-29 11:45:22

Three people have been killed during a retaliatory tribal fighting in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, said a source of the Security Directorate of Sabha. The source told Xinhua on Sunday, "Three p...

Computers to function like human brain!

-- 2018-01-29 11:17:49

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado have developed a superconducting switch that "learns" like its biological counterpart. The switch, called a syna...

Finland's President Niinisto wins second term

-- 2018-01-29 11:08:22

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto has comfortably won a second six-year term in office. He secured 62.7% of the vote in Sunday's poll, easily beating his Green party rival (12.4%), according to offi...

Russia frees opposition leader after protests

-- 2018-01-29 10:50:14

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained by police at a Moscow rally in support of a presidential election boycott, has been released. His lawyer told the press that he had been rel...

Asia shares extend bull run

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

Asian shares extended their bull run on Monday amid upbeat corporate earnings and strong global economic growth, while the dollar tried to bounce even as the White House continued to complain of &ldqu...

China growth likely to slow to 6.5-6.8 in 2018

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

China’s economic growth will likely slow to 6.5-6.8 per cent this year, a senior official at the country’s top economic planner wrote in the Beijing Daily on Monday. The official said thi...

UK prison pays pub worker £10,000 in error

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

A pub worker has been paid at least £10,000 for his "job" at Nottingham Prison - despite never working there. The man accepted a prison officer job but did not start his training. Despite this,...

Indian teen dies in religious clashes, 112 held

-- 2018-01-29 00:00:00

As many as 112 people have been arrested in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP); two days after clashes between two communities took the life of a teenage boy. The incident occurred...

Clashes in Yemen’s Aden kill several

-- 2018-01-28 15:01:50

Several people have been killed and injured after clashes erupted between two armed groups in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday, medical staff at hospitals in the city said. Gunmen have been...

Czechs re-elect incumbent president Zeman

-- 2018-01-28 14:43:32

Czech President Milos Zeman has won a second term in office following a tight run-off vote against rival Jiri Drahos. Zeman, who fiercely opposes immigration and objects to EU sanctions against Russi...

Attack on Mali army camp leaves 14 soldiers dead

-- 2018-01-28 12:00:02

At least 14 soldiers have been killed and 17 wounded after some unidentified gunmen overran a military camp near Timbuktu in northern Mali early on Saturday, two army officers said. One of the source...

Spanish court to block Puigdemont’s presidential bid

-- 2018-01-28 11:40:57

A Spanish court has moved to block pro-independence politician Carles Puigdemont from assuming the presidency of Catalonia. The former leader has been living in Brussels since he declared independenc...

Low carbohydrate intake ‘may cause birth defects’

-- 2018-01-28 11:20:04

A new study shows women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant have bigger risk of having babies with neural tube birth defects as they avoid diets that reduce or eliminate carbohydrates. Th...

Venezuela opposition to attend talks as vote looms

-- 2018-01-28 10:57:14

The Venezuelan opposition announced it would attend talks with the government in the Dominican Republic, though it will protest President Nicolas Maduro’s “totalitarian vision.” The...

Tofail backs cash incentives for garment accessories makers

FE Report 2018-01-28 10:35:47

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday assured the garment accessories and packaging manufacturers of the government steps to help the sector meet export target. He also said the government would...

Brazil dance club shootout claims 14 lives

-- 2018-01-28 10:32:52

At least 14 people have been killed and six others wounded when a group of heavily armed men stormed a dance club in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, local authorities confirmed.  ...

State of the Union more likely to raise eyebrows than stocks

-- 2018-01-28 10:25:37

Anybody hoping for a replay of the stock market advance that followed U.S. President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress may be disappointed. This time around, shares could suffer if Trump...

Hollywood star terms Rohingya condition as ‘despicable’

-- 2018-01-28 00:00:00

Hollywood star Michelle Yeoh says she’s appalled by the plight of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh. Yeoh, a goodwill ambassador fo...

Beijing to shut 1,000 firms by 2020

Reuters 2018-01-27 17:49:12

Beijing will shut 1,000 manufacturing companies by 2020 under a years-long plan to restructure its economy, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing a city official. The closures...

Algerian army ambush leaves seven dead

-- 2018-01-27 12:53:15

Algeria’s troops have killed seven armed men have been killed in Khenchela province, 700 km east of the capital Algiers, the Defence Ministry said. The unidentified men described as “dang...

Global stocks extend gains

-- 2018-01-27 12:00:07

Global stocks extended winning streak on Friday, putting the markets on track for their longest weekly winning streak since 1999. The markets mostly gained, while Intel’s results boosted stocks...

Explosion rocks Afghan capital Kabul

-- 2018-01-27 12:00:00

An explosion has rocked an area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday near many foreign embassies and government buildings. The cause of the blast could not be known immediately, Reuters reporters...

Paris braces for floods as River Seine rises

-- 2018-01-27 11:35:21

Riverside homes and businesses in France’s capital Paris are on high alert as the swollen River Seine threatens to overflow its banks. Some basements in the city have already sprung leaks after...