Up to 20 feared dead in WWII vintage plane crash in Switzerland

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GENEVA –Up to 20 people are feared dead after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, local reports said Sunday.  The Junker JU52 HB-HOT...

Magnitude 7 earthquake rocks Indonesia's Lombok island: USGS

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JAKARTA – A major earthquake rocked Indonesia's Lombok island Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported, just a week after a quake killed 17 people on the holiday island.  ...

Pakistan road crash kills 18: police

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker killed at least 18 people and wounded 25 others in northwestern Pakistan, police said on Sunday.  ...

Suicide attack kills three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan: official

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KABUL – A suicide bomber killed three foreign soldiers in an attack on a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, NATO's mission in the country said.  "Three Resolute...

Bangladesh shuts down mobile internet to tackle teen protests

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DHAKA –Bangladesh authorities have shut down mobile internet across swathes of the country, officials and local media said Sunday, as the authorities try to quell massive student protests that have...

Imran Khan to be formally announced as Pak PM nominee tomorrow

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Islamabad –Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khanwould be formally announced as the nominee for the next prime minister of Pakistan on Monday, party spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said.  He...

helicopter crash kills 18 in Russia's Krasnoyarsk

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MOSCOW –A helicopter crash in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region has killed all 18 people on board, the regional emergency services said in a statement on Saturday.  "At 10:20 a.m....

Malala condemns attack on schools in Gilgit-Baltistan

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Gilgit-Baltistan –  Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai on Friday condemned the attack on 12 schools in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) which took place late on Thursday night.  She tweeted, "The extremists...

At least 11 workers dead in India quarry blast

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NEW DELHI –At least 11 workers were killed and four others injured after a stock of dynamite caught fire and exploded at a granite quarry in southern India, officials said...

Erdogan says does not want 'lose-lose' scenario in ties with US

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ANKARA –President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday insisted that Turkey did not want to see a "lose-lose" scenario emerge in ties with the United States after Washington slapped sanctions on...

GOP grumbles as Donald Trump reshapes midterm campaigns

6 years ago

  WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump's strategy of becoming aggressively involved in the midterm elections is prompting concern among some Republicans who worry he's complicating the political calculus for GOP...

BMW sedan catches fire amid safety concerns over German brand

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  SEOUL –A BMW sedan caught fire on a street in South Korea Saturday, the latest in a spate of reported car fires related to the German brand that...

North Korea criticises 'alarming' US behaviour

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SINGAPORE –North Korea on Saturday said the US was acting with "alarming" impatience on the issue of denuclearisation, after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed the need to maintain full...

Brexit on the menu at May, Macron dinner

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PARIS –British Prime Minister Theresa May heads to President Emmanuel Macron's "summer Elysee Palace" on the Mediterranean coast on Friday, seeking to soften resistance to a Brexit plan which has...

Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa gets re-elected

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HARARE –Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) declared early Friday that current President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won the nation's presidential election.  According to the counting result, Mnangagwa received 2,460 ...