New Delhi (dpa), 17 August 2018 - At least 164 people have died in the latest wave of floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala, pushing the death toll during the monsoon season in the region to 324, officials said Friday.  

(c) 2018, The Washington Post, Aug 17, 2018 -    GUWAHATI, India - The list drew lines through villages, divided families and caused chaos in communities.  

JAKARTA AFP Aug17, 2018-A police crackdown on petty crime in the run-up to the Asian Games in Indonesia has claimed dozens of lives, Amnesty International said Friday, criticising what it said was an “unnecessary and excessive” campaign.&

Washington (dpa) - More than 350 US media outlets published editorials on Thursday to counter US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the free press, following a call for a nationwide campaign by the Boston Globe.   

New Delhi, (Hindustan Times),16 August 2018 -  Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first non-Congress leader to serve a full term in power and who ordered nuclear tests to make India a nuclear weapons power, died on Thursday,  a

US, (Daily Mail), 16 August 2018  - Aretha Franklin, the long-reigning Queen of Soul, died on Thursday morning at age 76 from advanced pancreatic cancer.  

KOCHI AFP Aug16, 2018 -   Hundreds of troops led a desperate operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floods in India’s Kerala state Thursday as the death toll reached 86 with dozens more feared perished.   

KABUL REUTERS Aug 16-   Gunmen attacked an area around a security base and training centre for Afghanistan’s intelligence service in the capital Kabul on Thursday, holding off security forces for hours before being killed.   

Italian rescuers searched through the night Wednesday for any survivors under the shattered remains of a motorway bridge in Genoa as investigators probed what could have caused such a catastrophic collapse.   

BEIJING (Reuters), AUGUST 15, 2018-One of China’s highest-ranking Buddhist monks quit as the head of the country’s Buddhist association on Wednesday after facing a government investigation over accusations of sexual misconduct.  &nbs

A third summit of Korean leaders planned for next month will be a further step toward denuclearization of the peninsula and a peace treaty to end the Korean War, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday.   

Israel allowed commercial goods back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in a sign of an easing of tensions as neighbouring Egypt pursued a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian enclave’s dominant armed faction.  

LONDON (Reuters), AUGUST 15, 2018 - A man detained on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack outside Britain’s parliament is Salih Khater, a British citizen of Sudanese origin, a European security source told Reuters on Wednesday. &n

A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was likely to be “an immense tragedy”.

Youths torched and vandalized scores of cars in the Swedish city of Gothenburg and surrounding towns and Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Tuesday the disturbances looked organized “almost like a military operation”.

Canberra (dpa) - Former Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be convicted of concealing child sexual abuse, has avoided jail after a judge on Tuesday allowed him to serve his 12-month custodial sentence in home

Turkey’s lira pulled back from a record low of 7.24 to the dollar on Monday after the central bank pledged to provide liquidity and cut reserve requirements for Turkish banks, but its meltdown continued to rattle global markets.   

DPA, 13th AUGUST, 2018-North and South Korea have reportedly agreed to hold a third summit in September, this time in Pyongyang, making it the first such meeting in the North Korean capital in more than a decade.  

New Delhi, (Hindustan Times), Aug 12, 2018 -  As many as 774 people have died in incidents related to floods and rains in seven states during the monsoon season so far, the Home ministry said on Sunday.  

A 29-year-old “suicidal” airport worker who commandeered an empty plane from Seattle’s main airport and took it on an hour-long flight chased by F-15 fighter jets before crashing into a small island did not commit any security viola

REUTERS, 12th AUGUST, 2018-Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump may meet if they feel the need to focus on improving relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday, according to the RIA state news agency.

DPA, 12th DPA, 2018-Hundreds of white nationalists are expected to hold a demonstration on Sunday in Washington, marking one year since a Unite the Right rally where an anti-racism counter protester was killed by a far-right extremist.

NASA launched a space probe early Sunday that will go closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before, the agency announced.   

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn criticism abroad.   

Heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked the strategic central Afghan city of Ghazni on Friday, burning police checkpoints and seizing control of parts of the centre before being driven back by U.S.-backed forces, officials said.   

U K, (Daily Mail), 10 August 2018 -  Thousands of Muslims have been gathering at a mosque in north-west China to protest its planned demolition in a rare public pushback.  

The Maldives wants India to withdraw military helicopters and personnel posted there following the expiry of an agreement in June, its envoy said, the latest snub to New Delhi by President Abdulla Yameen’s China-backed government.   

Washington (dpa), Aug 10, 2018-- US President Donald Trump says he is doubling steel and aluminium tariffs on Turkish imports amid a worsening diplomatic spat with Ankara.  

Korea, (Daily Mail), 10 August 2018 - North Korea has called on the United States to reciprocate its ‘goodwill measures’ by easing sanctions and stopping demands that the North denuclearise first, which they branded insulting.  

Dozens of people, most of them children, have died in an air strike in rebel-held northern Yemen on Thursday after a missile hit a school bus at a busy local market.