WASHINGTON DC - Two of the U.S. president's most trusted advisors, had a huge row in the White House Oval Office on Thursday, with speculation later that one of them could resign.
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MOSCOW, Russia - The Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a revelation related to the ongoing war in Syria, that has triggered fears across several Western nations.
Addressing the Valdai
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MOSCOW, Russia - The number of people killed in the college attack in the city of Kerch, in the Russian-annexed Crimea on Wednesday has risen to 20.
It has also been confirmed the deaths were
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President Donald Trump said he would to deploy the US military and close the border if Mexico did not move to halt migrants headed for the US. Picture: Reuters/Yuri Gripas...
Tokyo - Cherry blossoms across Japan have bloomed six months early after two powerful typhoons pummelled the country in September, stripping leaves, bringing a warm snap and turning the trees unsea
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Johannesburg native Isabelle Boast talked about her decision to not only leave the comfort of home and head abroad but to choose Switzerland as her base. Picture: Khanyisile Ngcobo...
Washington - The Washington Post has published a new column by missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in which he warns that governments in the Middle East 'have been given free rein to continue
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London - London's black taxi cabs will hit the streets of Paris next year as the Chinese Geely-owned London Electric Vehicle Company continues its global expansion of the famous models. In 201
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Cape Town - Sixteen-year-old South African Skye Meaker was this week named Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018 at a ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London, which runs the internati
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London - Traffickers are using drugs to force a growing number of British people - often homeless or mentally ill - to work for them, a charity supporting victims of modern slavery said on Wednesda
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SINGAPORE - Southeast Asian countries agreed on Friday to guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft, with host Singapore calling the pact a world first and saying they would encourage their international partners to join.
The agreement, signed by defence ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a conference in Singapore, includes a region-wide agreement on the exchange of information on terrorism threats.
NEW DELHI - With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi as winter approaches, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month.
India, which has the world's 14 most polluted cities, has made little effort this year to curb the sale of ear-splitting, firecrackers that explode through Diwali night.
At the Indian temple that is the focus of a battle over gender equality, Hindu hardliners are in festive mood, successful -- so far -- in their bid to keep women out.
A supreme court decision to end a ban on women of "menstruating age" -- those between 10 and 50 years -- at the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala has sparked violent demonstrations on the roads leading to the site.
Traditionalists have threatened women trying to get to the complex and have clashed with police officers sent to enforce the court's ruling.
Two former military officers have each been sentenced to a total of 27 years imprisonment for colluding with a transnational criminal syndicate and trafficking in Rohingya people.
Ratchadapisek Criminal Court heard that the investigation that implicated the two defendants took place after Thai authorities discovered mass graves of Rohingya ethnics at alleged trafficking camps in the Thai-Malaysia border area early 2015.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl earthquake survivor in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
The girl and her family had left their hometown in neighbouring Central Sulawesi after an earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated the region on Sept. 28. They are currently living with relatives in Makassar.
The Japanese government has announced it will be introducing an electronic visa for tourists starting April 2020, according to The Japan Times.
The move is said to be an effort to achieve a goal of 60 million foreign visitors per year by the year 2030, starting with Chinese tourists, for single-entry visa applications due to the fact that 60 per cent of all visas issued in 2017 were for Chinese visitors, according to information released by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
A midnight drinking session in Chon Buri's Muang district ended with a trip to the beach for one man on Wednesday -- and his drinking buddies quickly followed him.
The Tri Khunnatham Foundation took a call for help at 6am, after friends of Songka Khamsaeng, 24, had tried for hours to extract him from the bed of sticky mud into which he’d fallen.
The foundation sent a forklift truck and the rescue operation took another hour. Songka emerged from the beach covered with mud from head to toes.
PETALING JAYA - Mabel Goo was just going about her duties as an AirAsia flight attendant during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong, unaware that an admiring passenger had snapped a few pictures of her and posted them online, garnering her instant global fame.
Goo, 24, was seen serving passengers by the trolley cart on the Oct 12 flight when a passenger, George Wong, snapped two pictures and posted them on his Facebook page the next day.
MANILA - Philippines sanitation workers unblocking a drain discovered dozens of wallets had been clogging it up, some containing credit cards and IDs, but no money.
A man working near the scene shot video footage showing the workers in a village in Batangas city, south of the capital Manila, sorting through wallets and removing and laying out items including identity cards found in them.
SEOUL - The last polar bear kept in South Korea has died of old age only weeks before his planned departure to better living conditions in Britain, zoo officials said on Thursday (Oct 18).
Tongki - a 23-year-old male named after a Japanese cartoon character of the 1980s - lived in a 330-square-metre concrete enclosure at the Everland theme park outside Seoul.
An opening ceremony has finally been announced for the world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, but critics hit back Thursday over the secrecy surrounding the launch.
Construction started in 2009 on the 55-kilometre (34-mile) crossing, which includes a snaking road bridge and underwater tunnel, linking Hong Kong's Lantau island to the southern mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai and the gambling enclave of Macau, across the waters of the Pearl River Estuary.
SEOUL - Tens of thousands of South Korean taxi-drivers held a massive rally on Thursday (Oct 18) in Seoul, the capital, saying a carpooling service planned by the operator of the country's top chat app would threaten their livelihoods and jobs.
The protest is the latest challenge to ride-sharing services in South Korea, which has one of the world's highest smartphone penetration rates, with nearly half its population of about 51 million living in the Seoul metropolitan area.
