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November 16, 2017 1:52 PM
In South Korea, more than 50 people were injured and over 1,500 taken to shelters after a 5.4-magnitude quake hit the southeastern port of Pohang yesterday. <br/><br/>The safety ministry said in a statement today that the quake, which was felt across the country including in the capital ...
November 16, 2017 10:47 AM
Sri Lankan navy has arrested ten Indian fishermen along with their boat on charges of poaching into Sri Lankan waters. A navy spokesman said the fishermen were arrested north of point Pedro last night. <br/><br/>They have been handed over to fisheries department in Jaffna for further leg...
November 16, 2017 10:46 AM
Japan and the United States launched a joint naval drill today in a show of force aimed at North Korea, whose nuclear ambitions dominated US President Donald Trump's recent Asia trip. <br/><br/>The US navy said in a statement in Tokyo that the 10-day exercise will take place in wate...
November 16, 2017 10:36 AM
The leaders of Germany and France pledged support for the Paris climate accord. Addressing a UN conference in Boon, Germany yesterday, French President Emanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for all members to steadily implement the Paris agreement, an international framework to c...
November 16, 2017 8:23 AM
A 500-year-old painting of Christ believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold in New York for a record 450 million US dollars. The painting is known as Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World). The painting shows Christ with one hand raised, the other holding a glass sphere.<br/...
November 16, 2017 7:58 AM
The UN Security Council will vote late tonight on a US-drafted resolution that would extend for a year an international probe to determine who is behind chemical attacks in Syria's six-year war.<br/><br/>The United States and Russia, Syria's ally, have put forward rival draft r...
November 16, 2017 7:57 AM
Bio-toilets to be installed in all trains by the end of next year. Stating this Member (Rolling Stock), Ministry of Railways said in Bonn, Germany, yesterday that under the dynamic leadership of Railway Minister Piyus Goyal, the target of 100 per cent completion of installing bio-toilets in the Indi...
November 16, 2017 7:57 AM
In Greece, flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central part of the country. The industrial towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara, west of the capital Athens, were the most affected. <br/><br/>Many of the dead were elderly...
November 16, 2017 7:57 AM
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States has dealt Islamic State terror group one crushing defeat after another. Earlier this year in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump spoke to the leaders of more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations about strategy to defeat terrorists by stripping them of financi...
November 16, 2017 7:47 AM
African Union (AU) says Zimbabwean military's takeover of power and detention of President Robert Mugabe seems like a coup. AU head, Alpha Conde, said the AU demands an immediate return to constitutional order.<br/><br/>The military denies staging a coup, saying that Mr Mugabe is sa...
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