THE HINDU, 19th OCTOBER, 2017-In a sweeping marathon address that lasted over three hours, President Xi Jinping unveiled his vision of China’s future of achieving “moderate” prosperity in the next four years, and emerging as an adva

 Wellington (dpa), 19 Oct 2017 -  New Zealand finally has a new prime minister, a month after the country’s election.   

Kyushu, (Daily Mail), 19 October 2017 -  An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said.  

US President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger “he knew what he was signing up for,” according to a lawmaker who accused him of insensitivity.   

REUTERS, 18 October, 2017-The Kurdish independence vote championed by their leader Masoud Barzani was a gamble that may have made his quest for a homeland more elusive than ever.  

REUTERS, 18th OCTOBER, 2017-South Korea is considering levying its own sanctions on North Korea as the isolated state ramps up tension with its missile and nuclear provocations, the South’s vice foreign minister said on Wednesday, but no decisi

China has the resolve, confidence and ability to thwart any attempt by self-ruled Taiwan to declare independence, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, prompting Taipei to retort that only its people could decide their future.

REUTERS AFP, 18 October, 2017-Rights groups on Wednesday urged the European Union and Japan to consider halting their funding for the election panel in Cambodia, if the ruling party succeeds in a bid to dissolve the main opposition party ahead of nex

Two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces in Afghanistan left nearly 50 dead and more than 200 wounded, officials said Tuesday, the latest devastating assault on beleaguered security forces.   

LISBON REUTERS Oct 16- At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighbouring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday.  

DPA, 17th OCTOBER, 2017- A judge on the Spanish National High Court ruled Monday that two leading figures in Catalonia’s independence movement be sent to pretrial detention without bail on charges of sedition and agitating for the region’

REUTERS, 17 October, 2017 - The U.N. refugee agency urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to speed up vetting of up to 15,000 Rohingya refugees “stranded” near the border after crossing into the country from Myanmar and move them further inland to

MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government's demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a political collision course with Madrid later this week.

A woman who accused President Donald Trump of groping her nearly a decade ago has reportedly subpoenaed him for all of the documents from his presidential campaign about every woman who accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.   

The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia’s capital rose to 231 with at least 275 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the African nation, police and hospital sources said.   

REUTERS, 16th OCTOBER, 2017- Protests erupted after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner over opposition leader Raila Odinga in the vote. The Supreme Court later voided the result. Odinga has withdrawn from a re-run on Oct. 26, leaving Kenyat

Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn-backing youth wing has voted to quit Nato - branding it an ‘imperialist institution’ presided over by ‘fascist’ Donald Trump.  

 Vienna (dpa), 16 Oct 2017 - Austrian voters opted for a turn to the right on Sunday as young immigration hard-liner Sebastian Kurz and his conservative party won the parliamentary election, while the far right made strong gains.   

Hillary Clinton lumped President Donald Trump in with disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein during a TV interview taped Friday in Britain, saying that the problem of sexual assault is widespread.   

The death toll from a massive weekend truck bomb in a busy shopping district of Mogadishu surged to at least 137, police said Sunday, warning it could rise further after one of the worst-ever attacks to hit war-torn Somalia.  

 “Nothing more than ash and bones.” That grim description of how some victims were found underscores the horror of the wildfires that swept through and devastated Northern California.

You might think that the world’s best-known fugitive from U.S. law would want to stay on good terms with the government that is shielding him. But that’s not the way Julian Assange operates.  

The United States for the time being will stay in an international nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Sunday, adding that the Trump administration wanted to weigh a “proportionate” response to Tehran&rsq

(Daily MAil), 12 October 2017 -   TV presenter Myleene Klass was offered a ‘sex contract’ by Harvey Weinstein over lunch at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, she has claimed.    But the former Hear’Say star, then

SANTA ROSA AFP OCT13, 2017 -The death toll from raging California wildfires rose to 31 Thursday as body recovery teams used cadaver dogs to locate victims, making it the deadliest series of blazes in the state’s history. The fires, which began

BEIRUT REUTERS Oct 13- Turkey’s military announced on Friday it had begun setting up observation posts in northwest Syria’s Idlib province, part of a deployment that appears partly aimed at containing a Kurdish militia.    Turke

REUTERS, 12 October, 2017 - Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan blamed his country’s dispute with the United States on the outgoing U.S. ambassador on Thursday, saying Washington was “sacrificing” relations with its NATO ally.&n

WASHINGTON AFP Oct12, 2017 - The United States announced Thursday that it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization, accusing the body of “anti-Israel bias.” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert sai

BRUSSELS AFP Oct12, 2017  - Brexit negotiations are deadlocked on the crucial issue of Britain’s exit bill but a breakthrough remains possible in the next two months, the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday.  &

U.N. agencies said on Monday they were trying to provide urgent help to large numbers of migrants held and then stranded in the smuggling hub of Sabratha as rival factions battled for control of the city.