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November 26, 2016 11:07 AM

Large-scale attack thwarted in France

In France, a large scale attack has been thwarted, following the arrest of 5 persons in Strasbourg and Marseille. <br/><br/>Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has said, the suspects were planning a terror attack in the country as early as next week on orders from Islamic State of Iraq and ...

November 26, 2016 10:44 AM

Tropical storm Otto kills nine in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, at least nine people were killed by tropical storm Otto.<br/><br/>President Luis Guillermo Solis said that the causalities occurred along Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua. He said, thousands of people were evacuated from the affected area. <br/><br/>He s...

November 26, 2016 8:00 AM

Sri Lanka sentences 18 to death in tea planter murder

A Sri Lankan court has sentenced 18 men to death for murdering a US tea company executive. <br/><br/>The court found the men - members of a criminal gang - guilty of hacking Nihal Perera to death three years ago on the outskirts of Colombo. Court officials said, the verdict was a legal r...

November 26, 2016 7:59 AM

6.7 magnitude quake strikes China's Xinjiang

In China, a strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Aketao County in the quake-prone Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last night. <br/><br/>United States Geological Survey said, the quake struck southern Xinjiang, a vast region bordering central Asia, at a relatively shallow depth of 12 k...

November 26, 2016 7:57 AM

Passenger trains collide in Iran, 44 killed

In Iran, at least 44 people were killed and 100 others injured when two passenger trains collided in Semnan province yesterday. <br/><br/>The crash occurred on the main line between Tehran and Mashhad. Officials said, more than 70 people have been taken to hospitals and the death toll co...

November 26, 2016 6:53 AM

Passenger trains collide in Iran, 44 killed

At least 44 people were killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station in the northern province of Semnan, about 250 kms east of the capital Tehran.<br/><br/>Semnan provincial governor Mohammad Reza Khabbaz said it appeared that a train enterin...

November 25, 2016 8:15 PM

31 people dead in Iran train crash

At least 31 people were killed in Iran today when a passenger train rammed into the back of an intercity express which had broken down. The provincial governor said that more than 70 people were admitted to hospital after the crash in the northern province of Semnan on the main line between the capi...

November 25, 2016 7:04 PM

Israel arrests dozen on suspicion of arson

Israeli police have arrested 12 people on suspicion of arson over a series of wildfires that have burned around the country for four days. <br/><br/>Firefighters have brought a blaze under control around the northern city of Haifa, where about 80,000 people were ordered to evacuate. But ...

November 25, 2016 6:43 PM

32 bodies, 9 heads found in Mexico mass graves

Mexican authorities have discovered 32 bodies and nine heads hidden in mass graves in a southern region plagued by violence from drug cartels. <br/><br/>Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are c...

November 25, 2016 10:32 AM

Canada introduces bill allowing expats to vote

Canada's Liberal government introduced a bill to increase voter eligibility, including rolling back a measure that excluded more than one million expatriates from voting in 2015. <br/><br/>The expatriates who have stayed outside the country for more than five years will be allowed t...

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