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January 16, 2017 6:02 PM
A top Egyptian court has upheld a ruling halting a plan to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The High Administrative Court rejected an appeal by the government against a lower court's decision to stop it handing over Tiran and Sanafir. <br/><br/>Cheers erupted as the jud...
January 16, 2017 4:07 PM
Turkey's Parliament has voted in favour of constitutional reform in a first round ballot on a constitutional bill that will extend President Tayyip Erdogan's powers. The Parliament approved the final 18th article of the package yesterday. It will now take a two-day break from the talks bef...
January 16, 2017 12:24 PM
President Barack Obama has said, the pace of Israeli settlements in the Middle East has gotten so substantial that it has become harder to imagine an effective Palestinian state.<br/><br/>In his final interview to a private channel as the President of the United States, Mr. Obama said, t...
January 16, 2017 12:16 PM
In Bangladesh, a court has sentenced prime accused Narayanganj Councillor Nur Hossain and former Bangladesh Army Lieutenant Colonel Tarek Sayeed and 24 others to death in the 2014 Narayanganj multiple-murder case.<br/><br/>Two other former Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officials figure am...
January 16, 2017 11:04 AM
In Kyrgyzstan, at least 32 people were killed after a Turkish cargo plane crashed in a populated area while attempting to land at its main airport in thick fog today. The majority of the dead are from the nearby village of Dacha-Suu of Kyrgyzstan.<br/><br/>According to the Health Ministr...
January 16, 2017 8:25 AM
Oxfam, an international organisation says, eight men own the same wealth as half the world's population which threatens to pull societies apart.<br/><br/>Ahead of the World Economic Forum summit in Davos tomorrow, Oxfam, the confederation of charitable organizations focused on the a...
January 16, 2017 7:53 AM
Delegates from 70 countries have called on Israel and the Palestinians to revive work toward long-elusive peace, including an independent Palestinian state.<br/><br/>The closing declaration at a Mideast peace conference in Paris on Sunday urged both sides to "officially restate thei...
January 16, 2017 7:10 AM
Facebook to introduce new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world's largest social network has said, it would enable German users to flag potentially false stories.<br/><br/>The stories will then be passed to third-party fact-checkers and if ...
January 16, 2017 7:09 AM
In US, protest rallies were held for the preservation of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Democrats and civic group members staged rallies in more than 40 cities yesterday to save the program.<br/><br/>President-elect Donald Trump has been critical of the program...
January 16, 2017 6:33 AM
In Brazil, at least 30 people were killed in a brutal prison massacres in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Natal. <br/><br/>Officials said violence erupted between members of rival gangs on Saturday night at Alcacuz prison in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte. <br/>&...
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