DIYARBAKIR AFP April11, 2017- An explosion which shook police headquarters in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday morning was an accident which occurred during repair work, the interior minister said.   

YANGON AFP April9, 2017- The UN children’s agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar’s government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Rakhine state.   

BEIJING AFP April11, 2017- China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, Amnesty said Tuesday, defying a global decline with thousands of killings that have disproportionately targeted poor citizens. 

North Korean state media on Tuesday warned of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of U.S. aggression as a U.S. Navy strike group steamed towards the western Pacific. 

ISIS claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks on two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday (09.04.2017) via its Aamaq news agency, after having recently warned it would step up violence against Egypt’s Christians.   

Indian police on Monday imposed curfew-like curbs on movement of people across several parts of disputed Kashmir, a day after clashes with protesters during a by-election killed eight people and injured more than 200.   

Russian and Iranian forces last night warned Donald Trump they would retaliate with military action if he launched more airstrikes on Syria.   

LONDON (Daily Mail, London/AP) - J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard bewitched the page and the screen, and stage sequel “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” cast its spell at British theatre’s Olivier Awards on Sunday.   

China’s top nuclear envoy arrived in Seoul Monday for talks on the North Korean threat, as a US naval strike group headed to the region in a show of force.   

The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that swiftly drew sharp criticism from Russia

Washington (dpa) 07th APRIL, 2017- The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee is removing himself from the investigation of Russian interference into the US presidential election amid questions about his independen

REUTERS, 07th APRIL, 2017- The Philippines will upgrade existing facilities on its inhabited islands and reefs in the South China Sea and not occupy new territories, adhering to a 2002 informal code in the disputed waters, defense and military offici

DAILY MAIL, 07th APRIL, 2017- President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened their high-stakes summit at Trump’s Florida beach resort Thursday, with the urgent threat of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and tensions over tr

New York (dpa)07th APRIL, 2017-  Twitter has filed a lawsuit against the US government after the Department of Homeland Security sought to unmask the user behind an account which has been critical of US President Donald Trump, US media reported

BEIJING - The Philippines president appeared to revive his quarrels with China on Thursday, ordering Philippine troops to occupy islands and reefs in the disputed South China Sea.  

US, (rt.com), 6 Apr, 2017 -*-President Trump said his attitude toward President Bashar Assad and Syria has “changed very much,” when asked at a joint news conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah if the alleged chemical attack in Idli

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 06th APRIL, 2017- Nikki Haley, the tough-talking and blunt US Ambassador to the UN, was heckled during an annual summit on women here as she spoke about President Donald Trump and Russia.

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 06th APRIL, 2017-Four wheels, four seats, but no brakes and no steering wheel.

 (Daily Mail, Australia), 6 April 2017 - Three people have been arrested over suspected links to the suicide bomber who attacked St Petersburg’s subway.  

A suspected chemical attack killed at least 58 civilians including several children in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Tuesday, a monitor said, with the opposition accusing the government and demanding a UN investigation.   

Before his first meeting with Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping will stop over in Helsinki. More than just logistics, the Finnish trip reflects a fundamental shift in commercial and diplomatic ties.   

A territorial dispute in northern Iraq threatens to disrupt oil output at a field containing as much crude as Norway, even as U.S.-backed forces prepare what could be a decisive blow against Islamic State militants in the nearby city of Mosul. Kirkuk

Last week’s bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric Co. is yet more evidence, if anyone needed any, that the economics of nuclear power are not good. Like coal, nuclear energy can’t compete against cheap natural gas and ever-cheaper renewable

Ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno is heading for a narrow victory in Ecuador’s presidential election, with the opposition claiming fraud after they led in the first exit polls, raising the prospect of a political crisis in the oil producing n

The search for hundreds of missing people has resumed after flooding and mudslides in Colombia sent torrents of water and debris crashing on to houses in the early hours of Saturday - killing more than 250 people.   

Boeing Co’s newest and largest ‘Dreamliner’ model, the 787-10, successfully made its first flight on Friday, kicking off a test programme for the high-tech jet.

The clean-up operation is underway in towns in northern New South Wales and Queensland that were ravaged by Cyclone Debbie and the devastating floods that followed.   

Rescuers clawed through piles of mud and twisted debris Sunday searching for survivors after violent mudslides destroyed homes in southern Colombia, killing over 200 people and injuring hundreds more.   

Police said at least 20 people had been murdered and others wounded at a Sufi shrine near the city of Sargodha, in Pakistan’s Punjab province.  

Vijayawada, (Hindustan Timesw), 02.04.2017 -  After spending eight years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, P Satyam Babu finally walked free on Sunday, two days after the Hyderabad high court acquitted him of raping and murdering a stu