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2018-02-15 10:20
A shooter opened fire at a Florida high school, killing multiple people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets before being taken into custody by law enforcement. At least… Read More
2018-02-12 11:24
A Russian passenger plane crashed near Moscow soon after take-off, killing all 71 people on board. More than 70 people died when a Russian passenger plane crashed shortly after take-off from… Read More
2018-02-12 10:27
North Korea showcased new intercontinental ballistic missiles during a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army. North Korea's latest efforts are foc… Read More
2018-02-12 10:19
Hunters test their skills handling tamed golden eagles during an annual competition at Almaty hippodrome in Kazakhstan. Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throu… Read More
2018-02-11 10:11
Asma Jilani Jahangir born 27 January 1952 in Lahore – died 11 February 2018 in Lahore) was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Righ… Read More
2018-02-11 09:05
Tourists visit the historical Stari Most, an arch bridge designed by Mimar Hayruddin and built over the Neretva River connecting the two parts of the city, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina… Read More
2018-02-11 08:50
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in South Korea, landing at Incheon International Airport in a private jet with the rest of her entourage of senior officials, including… Read More
2018-02-08 07:54
Falcon Heavy is a reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX. The Falcon Heavy (which was earlier described as the Falcon 9 Heavy) is a variant of the Falco… Read More
2018-02-08 07:44
Rescuers combed the rubble of collapsed buildings, in a search for about 60 people missing after a strong earthquake killed at least six near Taiwan's popular tourist city of Hualien Read More
2018-02-06 12:09
Israeli authorities have begun distributing deportation notices to thousands of African refugees and migrants, who have been threatened with jail if they do not leave the country. In letters… Read More
2018-02-01 10:50
A fire in Nairobi's Kijiji slum has left around 6,000 residents homeless, according to local media Read More
2018-01-31 09:09
Thousands watch opposition leader Raila Odinga take a symbolic presidential oath in a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenya’s Interior Ministry has declared the oppositio… Read More
2018-01-31 06:01
Gunmen storm an office of the Save the Children aid agency in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad. Gunmen stormed an office of the Save the Children aid agency in the Afghan city of Jala… Read More
2018-01-30 11:47
Nearly half a million customers remain without power in Puerto Rico more than four months after Hurricane Maria battered the US territory, according to the island's electric power authority… Read More
2018-01-30 11:40
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained, and later released, after appearing at a Moscow rally to boycott the upcoming presidential election. Protesters gathered across Russia… Read More
2018-01-28 10:31
While Hong Kong has far fewer homeless residents than, say, the almost 58,000 in Los Angeles County, the pace of their increase has alarmed social workers Read More
2018-01-28 09:32
River levels are rising in Paris amid fears of a calamitous once-in-a-century flood that will leave much of the city submerged. The River Seine reached levels of over 18ft this morning and c… Read More
2018-01-25 10:31
Colombia evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field in its border town of Cucuta, highlighting growing unease over an influx of migrants from the crisis-hi… Read More
2018-01-25 10:19
Disgraced long-time USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison, following days of wrenching testimony from about 160 of his victims, including Olympic… Read More
2018-01-24 10:28
The closely watched 2018 edition of the World Economic Forum is suffering a deep freeze, including the heaviest snowfall in the meeting’s 48-year history. Held every year in the Swiss… Read More
2018-01-24 10:18
Eight prototypes for President Trump's border wall with Mexico are being built and tested in San Diego Read More
2018-01-23 08:39
Turkey says it will swiftly crush U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG fighters in an air and ground offensive in the Afrin region beyond its border. Turkish forces crossed the border into Syria's Afrin… Read More
2018-01-21 09:15
The Praia do Norte beach has become a destination for big wave surfers since Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set a world record there for the largest wave surfed in 2011 Read More
2018-01-21 08:55
Military jets of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in Syria's Afrin, according to a senior military official. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoga… Read More
2018-01-17 12:08
Philippines orders the forced evacuation of residents after the Mayon volcano spews ash. Nearly 15,000 people have fled their homes near the Philippines‘ most active volcano, which is… Read More
2018-01-17 08:14
Almost four months ago, Hurricane Maria decimated the U.S. territory's outdated electric grid so forcefully that 40 percent of its 3.4 million residents remain without power Read More
2018-01-17 07:11
Turkey has reportedly dispatched a convoy of over 40 military vehicles and tanks to the southern regions along the Syrian frontier amid growing Ankara-Washington tensions over a US plan to c… Read More
2018-01-15 08:17
Police have clashed with protesters hurling petrol bombs and bottles in central Athens after an anti-government rally called as part of a general strike in Greece turned violent Read More
2018-01-14 11:59
Mountain gorillas are under threat from poaching, war and habitat loss in Rwanda. The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla. T… Read More
2018-01-14 11:38
Demonstrators march during a protest against the pardon granted by Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to former President Alberto Fujimori, in Lima, Peru. Thousands of Peruvians marche… Read More
2018-01-14 09:18
Rescue boats resume their search in choppy waters for any survivors from the stricken Iranian oil tanker that collided with a freight ship and burst into flames. Rescue ships work to ex… Read More
2018-01-14 09:03
Search and rescue crews scour parts of California's Santa Barbara County for people still missing following mudslides that killed at least 18. Hundreds of rescue workers slogged throug… Read More
2018-01-11 13:55
Rescue personnel continued searching for victims where mudslides slammed into homes, covered highways and swept away vehicles. At least 15 people were killed and homes were swept from their… Read More
2018-01-11 10:19
The 40th Dakar Rally kicked off on 6 January. Formerly known as the Paris Dakar after its historic start and finish locations, the endurance race is divided into 14 stages and will take entr… Read More
2018-01-11 09:19
A man rides a motorbike through the water at Muara Baru area in Jakarta, Indonesia. The flash floods that swamped Muara Baru area is caused by supermoon phenomenon Read More
2018-01-11 07:23
Protesters set tires an garbage containers on fire to block a road during a demonstration against price hikes at al-Tadamun neighborhood of Tunis, Tunisia Read More
2018-01-11 05:42
South Korea and North Korea hold the first talks between the neighbors in two years at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. The meeting is taki… Read More
2018-01-11 05:42
A powerful blizzard battered the northeast of the United States, cutting the power for thousands of people amid a long storm that has affected most of the United States for more than a week… Read More
2018-01-04 13:57
The flowing waters of Niagara Falls partially freeze as the temperature drops. At the start of the New Year, Niagara Falls appeared to be frozen in time. Parts of Niagara Falls in Canada and… Read More
2018-01-04 13:13
A 'supermoon' full moon is seen rising in Pieta, Malta. Read More
2018-01-03 10:50
Rescue workers and police work at the scene after a bus crashed into a truck and careened off a cliff along a sharply curving highway north of Lima, Peru. At least 48 people were killed in t… Read More
2018-01-03 10:28
Iran's Supreme Leader accuses enemies of the Islamic Republic of stirring unrest across the country as a crackdown intensified against anti-government demonstrations that began last week.&nb&hell…Read More
2018-01-01 11:33
Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist rebels conducted the largest exchange of prisoners since conflict broke out in 2014, sending hundreds of captives home to their families ahead of New Year… Read More
2018-01-01 11:29
The annual festival of Els Enfarinats takes place in the town of Ibi in Alicante, Spain on December 28, as part of celebrations related to the Day of the Innocents. Els enfarinats comes from… Read More
2017-12-26 13:14
Tropical storm Tembin triggered floods and landslides leaving thousands displaced and killing 200 in the Philippines. Soldiers and police joined emergency workers and volunteers to sea… Read More
2017-12-26 12:18
Fighting in eastern Ukraine has escalated to the worst level in months, say officials monitoring the conflict Read More
2017-12-26 11:12
Thirteen years ago, a giant tsunami wave followed the 9.2 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 170.000 people in Aceh, Indonesia. The tsunami hit the coasts of several countries of Southe… Read More
2017-12-19 11:29
Demonstrators shouted out slogans and clashed with police in a protest against government-proposed pension reforms in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Protesters wearing face masks used sling shots… Read More
2017-12-19 11:20
Thousands of people gather to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged corruption at the Rotschild Boulevard in Tel-Aviv, Israel Read More
2017-12-18 13:15
Just days after North Korea successfully launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile — another dramatic weapons advancement that further escalated tensions with the United States… Read More
2017-12-18 13:11
Honduran security forces clash with protesters demanding a full recount of last month's contentious election that pitched the Central American nation into crisis. In the capital, supporters… Read More
2017-12-17 13:06
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as term president of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation called for an extraordinary meeting in Istanbul after U.S President Donald Trump decla… Read More
2017-12-11 12:06
North Korea said it successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile in a "breakthrough" that puts the U.S. mainland within range of its nuclear weapons whose warheads could with… Read More
2017-12-11 11:51
Ukrainian supporters of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili freed him from a police van after his detention on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization led to clashes with po… Read More
2017-12-11 11:31
Reinvigorated by strong winds, Southern California’s largest wildfire blazed into new terrain, forcing new evacuations in two wealthy Santa Barbara County communities. Fire crews scram… Read More
2017-12-10 13:30
A deadly explosion ripped through the Somali capital, Mogadishu. In the hours following the explosion, the death toll stood at 20. However, the figure had jumped to a devastating 276. With 3… Read More
2017-12-10 10:47
Indonesia's Mount Agung volcano erupts after spewing huge columns of ash over the past few days Read More
2017-12-10 10:27
Honduran police fired tear gas at rock-hurling protesters after a widely criticized presidential election that saw the opposition cry foul as the incumbent slowly pulled ahead four days afte… Read More
2017-12-10 10:21
President Trumps former national security adviser Michael Flynn lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russias ambassador to the United States, the U.S. special counsels office charged in a… Read More
2017-12-08 17:57
A Palestinian protester prays during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the Jewish… Read More
2017-12-08 17:53
President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel Read More
2017-12-08 17:37
Thousands of Palestinians protest in a "day of rage" in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and in East Jerusalem against President Donald Trump's recognition of the ancient city as Israel's capita… Read More
2017-11-22 13:43
Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led his country as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as President from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the Zimbabwe African… Read More
2017-11-19 10:50
This week India’s capital city, Delhi has been hit with extreme air pollution – so extreme that the city’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal described it as a gas chamber.&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-11-16 08:53
Zimbabwe's military seizes power saying it was targeting "criminals" around President Robert Mugabe, the only ruler the country has known in its 37 years of independence. Zimbabwe's arm… Read More
2017-11-14 13:25
At least 450 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday. Thousands of homeless Iranians huddled against the cold late on Monday, a day after at l… Read More
2017-11-08 13:30
The President has been applying pressure on his allies in the region to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea in the face of a series of missile tests conducted by Pyongyang. He will visit… Read More
2017-11-08 13:10
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdic… Read More
2017-11-06 12:07
More than 500 camels raced in the two-day Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Camel Race Festival in the Jordanian southern town of Wadi Rum. Sheikh Sultan bin Hamdan, adviser to the UAE presi… Read More
2017-10-29 14:16
Kenya was hurtling towards a deepening political crisis after violent clashes and a record-low turnout in its contentious presidential rerun, suggesting that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s… Read More
2017-10-29 11:21
Catalonia declared independence from Spain less than an hour before a vote in the country’s Senate gave Madrid the power to seize the region’s autonomous powers. The vote in the… Read More
2017-10-18 13:22
U.S.-backed militias in Syria declare victory over Islamic State in its capital Raqqa, raising flags over the last jihadist footholds after a four-month battle Read More
2017-10-17 11:09
Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more Californians to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll from the deadliest blaze recorded in the state's history r… Read More
2017-10-17 10:10
When a double truck bombing shattered the night in Mogadishu, rescue workers began the grim search for survivors that has become all too common. They picked through burned-out cars and hunte… Read More
2017-10-12 13:07
Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that knocked out power for the whole island and paralyzed the U.S. territory with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slo… Read More
2017-10-12 12:02
Wildfires fanned by strong winds sweep through California, killing at least 21 people and destroying 3,500 homes and businesses. Massive wildfires sweeping through California have kill… Read More
2017-10-04 10:02
Metro stations were closed, pickets blocked roads and state workers walked out during a general strike in Catalonia, after Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to disrupt an indepen… Read More
2017-10-04 09:53
People view a photo exhibit marking the 20th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election to general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, at the People's Palace of Culture, in this photo relea… Read More
2017-10-02 12:19
At least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in US history after a gunman fired on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival from a hotel ov… Read More
2017-10-01 14:17
Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a banned referendum on a split from Spain Read More
2017-10-01 11:32
Catalonia's leader made clear his government was determined to go ahead with an October 1 vote on independence that Madrid calls illegal and which has thrust Spain into its most dramatic pol… Read More
2017-09-26 11:42
Athletes stage on-field protests against police brutality and racial injustice, as President Donald Trump called for owners to fire those who refuse to stand during the anthem Read More
2017-09-26 11:33
Troops have started surrounding Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum to combat an escalation of violent clashes between police and drug gangs that has started affecting some of the city&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-09-21 14:09
Rescuers toil to find survivors in the rubble a day after a devastating earthquake in central Mexico killed more than 200 people. esperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodl… Read More
2017-09-21 13:50
Hurricane Maria grew stronger again in the warm Caribbean as it began to lash the Dominican Republic. The storm caused widspread destruction in Puerto Rico and continued to soak that island… Read More
2017-09-18 12:16
Irma is being linked to at least 18 deaths in the US since it struck as a category four storm, including 12 in Florida. Nearly 6.9 million homes were left without power in Florida, Georgia… Read More
2017-09-18 12:03
Ten days after Hurricane Irma turned St. Martin into a jigsaw of ripped metal and shattered wood, residents were still struggling with an existential question: Should they cling to an island… Read More
2017-09-12 13:41
Turkey has signed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 missile defence systems in its first major weapons purchase from Moscow, Turkish newspapers quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying… Read More
2017-09-11 10:47
Packing 130-mph winds, Hurricane Irma knocks out electricity to more than 1.3 million Florida homes and businesses and threatens the state's Gulf Coast with potentially catastrophic fl… Read More
2017-09-11 10:22
Hurricane Irma barreled through swaths of northern Cuba this weekend on its march toward Florida, ripping off roofs, knocking down power lines and dealing blow after blow to the island&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-09-09 13:49
The US and other Western governments are not sincere about their criticism of the Myanmar government for committing atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims, says a former US Senate policy ad… Read More
2017-09-09 13:28
Hurricane Irma is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that is currently making landfall in Cuba and is threatening the Southeastern United States. It is the strongest hurricane ever recor… Read More
2017-08-30 09:22
North Korea launched a ballistic missile that passed over Hokkaido, the second largest island of Japan. This is the first time North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over the territory of… Read More
2017-08-28 13:43
A ruthless Floyd Mayweather scored a 10th round technical knockout over mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor, the American cementing his legacy as an all-time boxing great with his 50t… Read More
2017-08-28 13:25
Flooding from Harvey has paralyzed the country's fourth biggest city, forced thousands to flee surrounding counties and swollen rivers to levels not seen in centuries Read More
2017-08-27 09:00
The Battle of Tal Afar (2017) is an ongoing offensive announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in order to liberate the Tal Afar region from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant… Read More
2017-08-27 07:25
Hurricane Harvey is a currently active tropical cyclone that recently made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane. It is the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States… Read More
2017-08-25 11:42
Widespread floods have killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million in India, Nepal and Bangladesh as rains continue to lash the affected areas Read More
2017-08-20 14:16
Early in the morning on August 14, 2017, after three days of torrential rainfall, devastating floods and mudslides occurred in and around Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown. So far, the n… Read More
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