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September 18, 2017 12:38 PM
Hurricane Maria is expected to become dangerous as it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the category one hurricane will rapidly strengthen over the next 48 hours and will hit the islands later today. The NHC said Maria has maximum sustained winds...
September 18, 2017 12:12 PM
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that he is committed to take measures to hold all future elections under the mixed electoral system while opposition MPs have termed it as a ploy to delay the elections. <br/><br/>Addressing a group of party workers at his residence last...
September 18, 2017 12:12 PM
Sterling K Brown today created history by becoming the first African-American to win the best actor drama Emmy awards in the past 19 years, for his performance as Randall on NBC's "This Is Us". The last to win the award was Andre Braugher in 1998 for his role in "Homicide: Life o...
September 18, 2017 10:36 AM
Britain has downgraded the nation's terrorism threat from its highest level, after police made a second arrest in their probe days after the bombing of a London Underground train. Interior minister Amber Rudd said in a televised statement yesterday that the Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre, whic...
September 18, 2017 9:23 AM
Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's wife Begum Kulsoom has won the crucial Lahore by-election. She defeated Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate Yasmin Rashid by a margin of more than 13,000 votes. The seat fell vacant after the Supreme Court dismissed Sharif from the ...
September 18, 2017 8:55 AM
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski appointed a former Economy Minister as his new Prime Minister today, two days after a no-confidence vote by the opposition-led congress forced the entire Cabinet to resign. Mercedes Araoz, who is also a lawmaker and one of Peru's two Vice Presidents, is ...
September 18, 2017 8:54 AM
The US is considering closing its embassy in Cuba after diplomatic staff reported health problems which Washington blames on a "sonic attack". Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said a decision whether to shut to the mission in Havana was under evaluation. More than 20 staff suffered conditi...
September 18, 2017 8:02 AM
Polling for third and final phase of local body elections in Nepal has begun. More than 26 lakh voters are expected to exercise their franchise to elect 136 local bodies in Province 2. AIR correspondent reports that voting is progressing peacefully. <br/><br/>Voters in Tarai are enthusia...
September 18, 2017 7:52 AM
The UN says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opposes the September 25 independence referendum planned by Iraq's Kurds for the enclave in the country's north. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said yesterday that Guterres believes any unilateral decision to hold a referendum now would detrac...
September 18, 2017 7:52 AM
In the United States, Maria became a hurricane today as it headed toward the storm-staggered eastern Caribbean with 120 kilometre per hour winds. US National Hurricane Centre said storm warnings and watches went up in many of the Caribbean islands still reeling from the destructive passage of Hurric...
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