France tightens infant formula rules after toxin scare
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Russia says two crew members from US-seized tanker released
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Spain to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants: Minister
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US withdraws from WHO
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Russia hits energy system in 5 regions of Ukraine
20 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Avoid Iranian airspace
18 January 2026, 00:00 AM
US approves $1.5bn deal for Peru naval base
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
UK govt retreats on mandatory digital ID to work
15 January 2026, 04:34 AM
kill two near Russian border
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
UN says Myanmar waging 'campaign against journos'
Myanmar, facing international outrage over the jailing of Reuters journalists for their reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, is conducting a "political campaign" against independent journalism, the UN said yesterday.
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Russia, China in show of force
Russia launched what it called its largest ever military drills, with hundreds of thousands of troops taking part along with Chinese soldiers in a show of force Nato condemned as a rehearsal for "large-scale conflict."
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Drugs ruled out in Paris knife rampage
A man being held after a knife attack that injured seven people along a canal in Paris was not under the influence of drugs at the time, a legal source told AFP yesterday.
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
ICC 'undeterred'
The International Criminal Court yesterday said it would "continue to do its work undeterred" a day after US National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened sanctions if the tribunal investigated US activities in Afghanistan.
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11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
UK 'failing' to save thousands of children from modern slavery
Britain is failing to protect thousands of children from being trafficked and enslaved, activists said yesterday, criticising the government for lacking a clear strategy to stop girls being sexually abused and gangs using young people as drug mules.
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Hunger rising with unruly climate
Extreme weather events were a leading cause of global hunger rising last year, with women, babies, and old people particularly vulnerable to the worsening trend, a UN report said yesterday.
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM
UK PM's party faces 'catastrophic split'
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party faces a "catastrophic split" if she persists with her proposals on Brexit, which 80 or more of her lawmakers are prepared to vote against, a former junior minister said.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Sweden risks govt deadlock
Sweden faces a political impasse after its mainstream centre-left and centre-right blocs virtually tied in an election on Sunday, while the far-right - which neither wants to deal with - made gains on a hardline anti-immigration platform.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Turkish authorities detain 60 over alleged Gulen links
Turkish authorities yesterday detained 51 soldiers and nine others over alleged links to the US-based cleric who Ankara says orchestrated the failed coup in 2016 against President Tayyip Erdogan, Istanbul police said.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
May wraps 'suicide vest' around UK over Brexit
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal wraps "a suicide vest around the British constitution" and hands the detonator to the European Union, former foreign minister Boris Johnson said in comments that drew strong criticism.
9 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Reverse 'unfair trial' death sentences
United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet yesterday urged Egypt's appeals court to overturn mass death sentences handed down by a lower court after what she said was an "unfair trial".
9 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Yemen talks falter
Long awaited UN-backed talks between Yemen's warring parties sputtered out yesterday before ever truly starting, after the Huthi rebels
8 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Syrian rebels planning imminent 'provocation'
Russia yesterday said it had "irrefutable information" Syrian rebels were planning an imminent "provocation" in Idlib province to justify
8 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Merkel, German intel chief clash on 'foreigner hunt' reports
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency yesterday raised doubts about reports of a "hunt on foreigners" by neo-Nazi mobs in a flashpoint city last month, directly contradicting Chancellor Angela Merkel.
7 September 2018, 18:00 PM
UK spy poisoning: Russians 'posed as businessmen'
Two Russians accused by London of trying to kill a former double agent with nerve agent posed as businessmen to obtain visas to visit Britain for the attack, a report said yesterday.
7 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Church of England numbers in Britain are at record low
The number of Britons who describe themselves as belonging to the Church of England has fallen to a record low with more than half now saying they have no religion, according to a survey.
7 September 2018, 05:17 AM
Migrants are 'mother of all political crisis'
A tense truce within German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative camp imploded yesterday after her hardline interior minister defended protests marred by neo-Nazi violence and blasted immigration as "the mother of all political problems".
6 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Activists seek strong voice from new UN rights chief
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who took the helm of the UN human rights office on Monday, will need a strong voice in confronting populists and crises marked by war crimes, activists said.
5 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Spain cancels sale of 400 bombs to Saudi
Spain said yesterday it has cancelled a 2015 deal to sell 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition fighting rebels in Yemen.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Europe's agencies blast Google, FB
Europe's biggest news agencies yesterday accused Google and Facebook of "plundering" news for free in a joint statement that called on the internet giants to share more of their revenues with the media.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM