REUTERS, 01st OCTOBER, 2018- Macedonia’s hopes of joining the European Union and NATO were in limbo on Monday, a day after voters backed a plan to change the country’s name by a large margin but failed to hit the 50 percent turnout requir

N. Korea, (Daily Mail), 30 September 2018 -  North Korea’s foreign minister on Saturday told the United Nations there was ‘no way’ that his country would disarm first as long as the United States continued to push for tough enf

TOKYO AFP Oct1, 2018  -Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm’s aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo’s morning commute.   

WASHINGTON AFP, Oct1, 2018  - Negotiators from Canada and the United States went down to the wire but were able to reach an agreement on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, the governments announced late Sunday night.   

Two-meter-high tsunami waves have crashed through an Indonesian coastal city after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday.    A 6.1 magnitude quake struck Indonesia’s densely populated Sulawesi region on Friday morning, quickly f

Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Sep 28, 2018 - No woman can be stopped from entering Sabarimala temple, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, ending a traditional ban on the entry of women between 10 and 50 years of age to the hilltop shrine in Kerala. 

London (dpa), 28 Sept. 2018 -  Divisions over Brexit intensified in Britain’s ruling Conservative party on Friday after former foreign minister Boris Johnson launched another scathing attack on Prime Minister  Theresa May.  

WASHINGTON   AFP Sept28, 2018 -Brett Kavanaugh’s US Supreme Court nomination was expected to pass a first hurdle in the Senate Friday, a day after a dramatic hearing that saw the conservative judge fight off assault allegations recoun

Germany will take part in an international conference with Russia, Turkey and France in October over the conflict in Syria, Chancellor Angela  Merkel said.  

 By Anna Fifield (c) 2018, The Washington Post, Sep 27, 2018 - BEIJING - China is flatly denying President Donald Trump’s accusation that it is interfering in November’s midterm elections, implying that it is the United States that h

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Iran, with national security adviser John Bolton also warning there would be “hell to pay” if Tehran crossed the US.  

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters), SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 - Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, arrived on Wednesday at the country’s anti-graft agency for a second round of questioning over a corruption probe at state fund

NEW YORK (Reuters) , sep 26 2018 -Bangladesh’s leader accused neighbouring Myanmar of finding new excuses to delay the return of more than 700,000 Rohingya who were forced across the border over the past year, and said in an interview late Tues

The opposition was awarded victory in the Maldives presidential election on Monday, in a possible setback for China as the new leaders of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation aim to review major projects agreed with the outgoing administration. 

REUTERS, 25th SEPTEMER, 2018-The relatives of thousands of Indians who died cleaning sewers protested in the capital on Tuesday, aiming to stop the practice of workers entering underground conduits to unclog drains and remove waste with their bare ha

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters), SEPTEMBER 25, 2018- The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal agreed to keep working to maintain trade with Tehran despite skepticism this is possible as U.S. sanctions to choke off Iranian oil sales resume in November.

BEIJING AFP, Sept 25, 2018- China said on Tuesday it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like “holding a knife to someone’s throat”.   

AFP, 25th SEPTEMBER, 2018-UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday opened the world’s largest diplomatic gathering with a stark warning of growing chaos and confusion as the rules-based global order comes under threat of breaking down.&

Maldives opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who fought a bitter election campaign against President Abdulla Yameen, said he won Sunday’s presidential vote with a 16 percent margin after 92 percent of the votes had been counted.  &nbs

AFP, 24th SEPTEMBER, 2018-US President Donald Trump said Monday he expected to meet again soon with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he saw “tremendous progress” in easing tensions.   

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called late Sunday for a delay in further consideration of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct. 

Tanzanian rescue workers scrambled Friday to find scores of people feared drowned after a ferry capsized in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, killing at least 79 people.   

Montreal (dpa), Sep 21, 2018-Canada’s parliament unanimously adopted a motion on Thursday recognizing the brutal crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar as “an act of genocide.”   

MOSCOW AFP, Sept21, 2018-Moscow said Friday Washington’s latest raft of anti-Russian sanctions that also target China undermined global stability, warning the United States against “playing with fire.

TOKYO (Reuters), SEPTEMBER 21, 2018- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet U.S. President Donald Trump next week as fears grow in Tokyo that Washington could demand that Japan curb its car exports to the United States.   

Hindustan Times, Srinagar, Sep 21, 2018-Three policemen, two of them special police officers, were kidnapped on Thursday night and killed hours later in south Kashmir’s Shopian, considered the hotbed of militancy in the state.   

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to hold a second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump soon to hasten denuclearisation, South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday quoted the North’s leader as saying at a summit this week.  &nbs

Dozens of passengers suffered ear pain and nose bleeds after crew on a Boeing 737 flight from Mumbai, India, reportedly forgot to maintain cabin pressure.   

US, (Hindustan Times), 20 Sept 2018 -  Several people were shot on Thursday in Perryman, Maryland, and residents were asked to avoid the area, according to authorities.  

BEIRUT AFP Sept20, 2018-   Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Thursday it had acquired “precision missiles” despite extensive efforts by neighbour and foe Israel to prevent the Shiite movement developing this capability.