Iran rejects US order to pay $180 m over reporter’s jailing
AFP, Tehran :Iran on Monday rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing...
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Powerful quake shakes Albania, kills seven, topples buildings
Reuters, Tirana :At least seven people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital Tirana and surrounding region...
Trump chosen by God to be US President, says aide
Donald Trump may have insisted he was only joking when he recently proclaimed himself the “chosen one,” but at least one member of his cabinet...
143 demonstrators killed across Iran: AI
At least 143 demonstrators were killed across Iran, almost all of them shot by security forces, Amnesty said Monday, as government supporters poured into central...
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Doctors fear Assange ‘could die’ in UK jailAFP, LondonMore than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published Monday saying they feared Julian Assange’s health was...
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN
Agencies, Geneva :The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said...
Former UK PM Blair says Britain is in a mess
Reuters, London :Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that Britain was in a mess, warning that neither his own Labour Party nor...
More secrets of China’s Xinjiang camps leaked to foreign media
Reuters, Shanghai :Classified Chinese government documents made public by an international group of journalists describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, in...
Kim orders N Korea artillery firing, drawing Seoul rebuke
AP, Pyongyang :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops to practice firing artillery near a disputed sea boundary with rival South Korea, Pyongyang’s...
Showdown looms over Syria chemical weapons probe
AFP, The Hague :Russia and the West are braced for a fresh showdown at the world’s chemical weapons watchdog this week over a new team...
Tanzania holds local polls, without opposition
AFP, Dar Es Salaam :Tanzania on Sunday (Nov 24) held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with...
Pope Francis calls for nuclear weapons-free world
Agencies, Nagasaki :Pope Francis has condemned the “unspeakable horror” of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities destroyed by American...