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November 13, 2017 6:42 PM
UNESCO's new Chief today brushed aside the United States' decision to walk out of the UN cultural body, saying the organisation had survived long periods without Washington before. <br/><br/>Former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay, elected on Friday to head UNESCO, said t...
November 13, 2017 6:41 PM
The death toll in yesterday's 7.3 magnitude earthquake which has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, rose to 348. Nearly 5,660 were said to be injured. One Iranian aid agency said 70,000 people needed shelter after the quake, one of the largest this year. <br/><br/...
November 13, 2017 1:52 PM
The death toll from yesterday's seven-point-three magnitude earthquake that struck the border region between Iran and Iraq on Sunday has risen to 213. <br/><br/>Spokesman for Iran's National Disaster Management Organization, Behnam Saeedi, said on the state television that at l...
November 13, 2017 1:19 PM
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he will return home in days to formally submit his resignation. <br/><br/>In his first public remarks since he announced last week from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that he was stepping down, Hariri said if he was to rescind his resignation, the Hez...
November 13, 2017 1:18 PM
Nepal has scrapped the contract awarded to a Chinese Group for construction of Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project. <br/><br/>Lack of transparency and legal requirements is cited as the reason for this step.<br/><br/>A local newspaper 'The Himalayan Times' has reported...
November 13, 2017 12:18 PM
In Peru, a fire destroyed an over 2,000-year-old mural and much of the vestiges of an archaeological site. Director of the Tumbas Reales de Sipan Museum said, the fire has destroyed the archaeological monument of Ventarron. The temple is considered the oldest discovered in the Americas.<br/>&l...
November 13, 2017 10:28 AM
Pakistan has suspended licences for all automatic weapons as part of a commitment by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to ban deadly firearms in the country. <br/><br/>Prime Minister Abbasi in his inaugural speech in Parliament after assuming office in August had promised that he would...
November 13, 2017 8:18 AM
European business leaders will meet British Prime Minister Theresa May later today to voice concerns about the future of UK-EU trade. Experts from groups including the CBI and BusinessEurope will stress the need for a transitional deal that preserves the status quo after Brexit. <br/><br/&g...
November 13, 2017 8:16 AM
Slovenia's internet-savvy President Borut Pahor won the second term in a runoff vote that was marred by an abysmally low turnout. Centre-left ex-premier Pahor, 54, had been touted to win in October, but a record low 44-percent turnout triggered a repeat vote, with 1.7 million people called back...
November 13, 2017 7:06 AM
A strong earthquake of 7.3-magnitude rattled the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing 100 people and leaving around 1000 injured. Iraqi officials said that the quake killed over 30 people in Sulaimaniyah province and injured much more, but the figures are likely to go up. State medi...
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