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Military aircraft crash kills 1 in central Vietnam: official By VnExpress August 26, 2016 | 10:17 am GMT+7 The crash site where a jet trainer aircraft went down just several minutes after takeoff in Phu Yen Province. Photo by LTPB A Czechoslovakia-era training aircraft crashes into a paddy...

Hollande 'open' to six-month extension of French emergency AFP on July 20, 2016, 5:58 am Paris (AFP) - President Francois Hollande said Tuesday he was willing to extend France's state of emergency for another six months following the Bastille Day massacre, as lawmakers prepared to debate the...

Families of Pulse club shooting victims to get highest payments Mike Schneider, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First posted: Thursday, July 14, 2016 01:42 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, July 14, 2016 05:48 PM EDT Members and supporters of the US Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus hold pictures of victims...

France to test air passenger data sharing AFP on May 21, 2016, 8:23 pm Paris (AFP) - France will test an EU-wide passenger data sharing system aimed at helping to detect jihadists at two of its busiest airports later this month, a senior interior ministry official said Saturday. The...

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All-female combat unit seeks revenge on ISIS Emily Wither, REUTERS First posted: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 01:11 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 02:05 PM EDT Iraqi Kurdish female fighter Haseba Nauzad (2nd R), 24, and Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir (3rd R), 21, aim their weapon...

Polio could be wiped out permanently within 12 months, insists World Health Organisation If the virus is wiped out, polio will become only the second human-hosted virus to be eradicated since the end of smallpox in 1980. PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 12 April, 2016, 3:31am UPDATED : Tuesday, 12 April...

Indonesia sinks 23 foreign boats captured for illegal fishing PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 April, 2016, 9:04pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 April, 2016, 9:08pm Associated Press Indonesian authorities on Tuesday blew up 23 foreign vessels that were captured for fishing illegally in the country’s waters...

Nurse suspected of murdering 13 patients dubbed 'the hospital ward killer' Reuters First posted: Thursday, March 31, 2016 07:08 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, March 31, 2016 01:21 PM EDT ROME - A 55-year-old Italian nurse has been arrested on suspicion of murdering 13 elderly patients in the...

Australia jails Chinese ex-Hanlong mining boss Steven Xiao for insider trading PUBLISHED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 5:23pm UPDATED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 5:24pm Agence France-Presse in Sydney Hanlong, based in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan, launched a takeover bid of A$1.3...

Three suspected Chinese men shot after bungled Bangkok gun shop robbery PUBLISHED : Friday, 04 March, 2016, 5:04pm UPDATED : Friday, 04 March, 2016, 5:29pm Agence France-Presse in Bangkok Thai police work at the scene of an attempted robbery of a gun shop in central Bangkok on Friday, March...

HSBC faces probe of princeling hires as it posts loss Bank reports US$1.33 billion fourth-quarter loss PUBLISHED : Monday, 22 February, 2016, 8:25pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 23 February, 2016, 2:20am Enoch Yiu [email protected] Asia contributed 83.5 per cent on HSBC’s pre-tax profit last year...

Bangladesh arrests publisher for ‘offensive’ book on Islam PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 16 February, 2016, 5:35pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 16 February, 2016, 5:35pm Agence France-Presse in Dhaka A sales representative displays books in a stall during the Ekushey Book Fair organised by the Bangla Academy...

Former Chinese police chief accused of shooting his lover dead charged with murder PUBLISHED : Thursday, 04 February, 2016, 1:43pm UPDATED : Thursday, 04 February, 2016, 1:43pm Agence France-Presse in Beijing Zhao Liping was the former police chief in Inner Mongolia. Photo: SCMP Pictures A...

Hong Kong robbers who attempted HK$6.4m heist at Central MTR Station jailed for up to three years Seven gang members shadowed foreign exchange courier carrying cash in her bag before striking; alleged mastermind still at large PUBLISHED : Thursday, 21 January, 2016, 7:41pm UPDATED : Thursday...

Japan to remove swastikas from maps as tourists 'think they are Nazi symbols' The ancient Sanskrit symbol which marks temples on Japanese maps continues to spread confusion among Western visitors The locations of temples are marked on a map of Kyoto By Julian Ryall, in Tokyo...

Hoverboard inventor says he has made no money - mostly because of cheap Chinese knock-offs PUBLISHED : Sunday, 10 January, 2016, 2:44pm UPDATED : Sunday, 10 January, 2016, 5:15pm The Guardian Shane Chen. Shortly before Christmas, with sales of hoverboards surging as the must-have gadget of...

Somali extremist recruiters use Trump clip AP January 3, 2016, 2:01 pm Al-Qaeda's East African affiliate has released a video to recruit American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States...

County officials sacked after gypsum mine collapse CRI, December 30, 2015 Four county officials have been sacked in the wake of a gypsum mine collapse in Shandong province on Friday. Rescuers try to contact the trapped people at a collapsed mine in Pingyi County, east China's Shandong...