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July 1, 2017 11:26 AM
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is joining The Elders, the group of former world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, justice and human rights worldwide. His predecessor as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is Chairman of The Elders. He said yesterday in announcing the appointmen...
July 1, 2017 7:57 AM
The French politician, women's rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil has died at the age of 89. Best known in France for her instrumental role in legalising abortion in the 1970s, she went on to serve as the first President of an elected European Parliament. <br/><br/>M...
July 1, 2017 7:57 AM
In Germany, a clear majority of MPs have voted to legalise same-sex marriage, days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her opposition to a vote. The reform grants couples now limited to civil unions full marital rights and allows them to adopt children. <br/><br/>Mrs Merkel's pol...
July 1, 2017 7:56 AM
In US, a gunman has opened fire with an assault rifle inside a hospital in the Bronx Lebanon Hospital of New York, killing one doctor and injuring six other people, five of them seriously. <br/><br/>The gunman, a former doctor at the hospital, killed himself in the attack. Mayor Bill de ...
July 1, 2017 1:46 AM
Argentina says more than 2,000 police and other security agents have staged a massive raid into one of the most dangerous slums of Buenos Aires. <br/><br/>Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said, they seized more than 500 kilograms of marijuana, 50 kilograms of cocaine and thousands of ...
June 30, 2017 8:59 PM
In Afghanistan, at least six policemen have been killed and three others injured in attack by Taliban militants at a security post in western Farah province. <br/><br/>Farah police spokesman said the attack in the Sheb Koh district was repelled after government forces sent reinforcements...
June 30, 2017 8:58 PM
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation in France over an alleged European Parliament funding scandal. The case relates to an amount of about 5 million euros. <br/><br/>The Parliament suspects the money went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's Natio...
June 30, 2017 6:09 PM
In Pakistan, the death toll in the oil tanker inferno rose to 194 on Friday, prompting the government to suspend six officials including a DSP-level officer for negligence that led to one of the worst fire accidents in the country.<br/><br/> A Punjab government official said, six childre...
June 30, 2017 6:08 PM
China has reacted angrily to a US decision to impose sanctions on a Chinese bank accused of laundering North Korean money. A foreign ministry spokesman urged the US to stop wrongful actions to avoid harming co-operation. <br/><br/>The US announced the move, as well as sanctions on a Chin...
June 30, 2017 5:58 PM
President Donald Trump has nominated Dr Jerome Adams as the next US surgeon general to succeed Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy. Murthy was dismissed in April by the Trump administration. He was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2014. <br/><br/>Adams is an anesthesiologist who...
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