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January 3, 2017 5:40 AM

Turkish police arrest 12 people in connection with nightclub attack

In Turkey, police have launched raids in Istanbul and arrested 12 people, as the hunt for an attacker who killed 39 people in a nightclub intensifies. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said authorities had fingerprints and a basic description, and vowed to speedily identify the suspect. <br/&...

January 3, 2017 1:08 AM

60 killed in Brazil prison as fighting breaks out between rival gangs

In Brazil, at least 60 people were killed when fighting broke out between rival gangs in a prison in Amazon region. Head of the state's prisons administration, Pedro Florencio said the riot at a prison in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state began late yesterday and was brought under control b...

January 3, 2017 12:15 AM

Nepal SC refuses to stall Constitutional amendment bill

Nepal's Supreme Court today cleared the decks for the government to go ahead with a crucial Constitution amendment bill, deciding against issuing an interim order to stall the bid citing separation of powers.<br/><br/>A division bench of Chief Justice Sushila Karki and Ishwor Prasad...

January 2, 2017 11:39 PM

Airstrike kills at least 8 militants in Syria

In Syria, an air raid has struck several cars in northwestern town of Sarmada, killing at least eight people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack occurred yesterday on a road leading from Sarmada to the Bab al-Hawa area on the border with Turkey. <br/><br/&...

January 2, 2017 11:37 PM

Antonio Guterres takes charge as UN Secretary General

Antonio Guterres took charge as the UN Secretary General, making a strong appeal to the international community to strive for peace in 2017 at a time when millions of people are caught up in conflict and threat of global terrorism affects all.<br/><br/>67-year-old Guterres, who succeeded...

January 2, 2017 11:35 PM

60 killed in Brazil prison as fighting breaks out between rival gangs

In Brazil, at least 60 people were killed when fighting broke out between rival gangs in a prison in Amazon region. Head of the state's prisons administration, Pedro Florencio said the riot happened on Sunday at a prison in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state. <br/><br/>He told jo...

January 2, 2017 8:57 PM

Obama to deliver farewell address on Jan 10

US President Barack Obama will deliver a farewell address on Jan 10 to reflect on his time in office and say thank you to his supporters, he said in an email statement released today. Obama, noting that the first President of the United States, George Washington, had penned a farewell address in 179...

January 2, 2017 8:56 PM

Obama to deliver farewell address on Jan 10

U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver a farewell address on Jan 10 to reflect on his time in office and say thank you to his supporters, he said in an email statement released today. Obama, noting that the first President of the United States, George Washington, had penned a farewell address in 1...

January 2, 2017 8:44 PM

Baghdad suicide car bomb blast kills 35

In Iraq, at least 35 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in a busy square in the capital, Baghdad today. Iraqi police sources said sixty-one other people were injured by the blast in the predominantly Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City. The Sunni jihadist group Islamic State ...

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