India offers $5 billion credit line to Bangladesh for development projects including defense
India offered a $4.5 billion line of credit to neighboring Bangladesh on Saturday to help it implement development projects in priority areas such as...
Venezuela: Protesters clash with police in new anti government demonstration
Protesters throwing rocks clashed with Venezuelan police firing tear gas Saturday in 's fourth demonstration in a week against President Nicolas Maduro and his...
SWIFT takes off last North Korean banks from global financial transfer system
SWIFT, the inter-bank money transfer system, said Friday it has cut off the last North Korean banks on the network, as international pressure mounts...
Over 40 Somali refugees dead in attack on boat off Red Sea in Yemen
More than 40 people including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat carrying Somali refugees in the Red Sea off war-torn...
Ethiopia garbage dump landslide kills over 35 in Addis Ababa
Over thirty-five people have been killed in a landslide at a vast garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, officials say.
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Seven dead including Russians in Istanbul after helicopter crash into TV tower near airport
Seven people were killed including four Russians when a privately-owned helicopter crashed in Istanbul after hitting a television tower on Friday, local media reported,...
Park Geun-Hye, South Korean President fired by top court
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was fired Friday as a court upheld her impeachment over a corruption scandal that has paralysed the nation at...
North Korea launches another missile into sea of Japan off its east coast, South...
North Korea may have fired a few inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US mainland Monday morning, South Korea’s military said after it...
Arkansas is going to execute 8 death row inmates over 10 days
Eight inmates are to be executed over the next 10 days in the state of Arkansas. The pace of executions, which is unprecedented in...
Jordan hangs 15 death row prisoners in mass execution including convicted terrorists
Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners including convicted "terrorists" at dawn on Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with a moratorium...