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October 22, 2017 9:01 PM
Tens of thousands of people across Japan are advised to evacuate, hundreds of flights were cancelled and train services disrupted on election day today as a typhoon roared towards the coast, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Typhoon Lan, classified as an intense Category 4 storm by the Tropical ...
October 22, 2017 8:01 PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, have secured a majority of seats in the Lower House. Abe had set it as a benchmark for victory in today's general election. The governing coalition has already secured at least 233 seats, a ma...
October 22, 2017 5:58 PM
US-allied forces said today that they have captured Syria's largest oil field from the Islamic State(IS) group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who are in a race with Russian-backed Syrian troops to seize parts of the oil-rch Deir el-Zour province, said they are in full control ...
October 22, 2017 5:57 PM
According to exit polls, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition is on course for a resounding victory in today's general election. One poll put Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition at 311 seats, allowing it to retain its two-thirds super majority. Other...
October 22, 2017 5:56 PM
The Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont says, the region will not accept Madrid's plan for direct rule. He described it as the worst attack on Catalonia's institutions since General Franco's 1939-1975 dictatorship, under which regional autonomy was dissolved. Prime Minister Mariano R...
October 22, 2017 4:56 PM
The filing of nominations for upcoming parliament and assembly elections in Nepal has begun. Candidates are filing their papers in 32 districts today for the first phase of elections scheduled on November 26. In the first round polling will be held for 37 House of Representative's constituencie...
October 22, 2017 2:27 PM
Heavy rain and wind, due to a powerful typhoon neared, lashed southern Japan today. It forced to cancel hundreds of flights and disrupted rail services. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon 'Lan' was situated at east of Okinawa this morning and moving northeast at 40 kilometres per...
October 22, 2017 2:26 PM
In Afghanistan, a bomb has killed a former warlord and his bodyguard and wounded eight other people. Spokesman for the chief of police in the northern Takhar province, Khalil Aseir said the blast today targeted Nazuk Mir, a militant commander during the struggle to drive out Soviet troops in the 198...
October 22, 2017 2:24 PM
Slovenians are voting for presidential election with incumbent President Borut Pahor running for his second five-year mandate against eight other candidates. Opinion polls had shown that Pahor, who is running as an independent and says his main task is bringing people together, will win most votes.&...
October 22, 2017 8:30 AM
In Japan, people across the country are casting their votes to choose their representatives to the Lower House of the Diet. Snap polls were called by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the face of the rising threat from North Korea. As many as 1,180 candidates are in the fray for 465 seats. <br/><...
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