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British referendum decides on future EU membership
Published On: June 23, 2016 04:52 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, June 23: Voters in Britain are deciding Thursday whether the country should remain in the European Union — a historic referendum that threatens to undermine the experiment in continental unity that began in the aftermath of World War II.
11 killed in China aluminum plant accident
Published On: June 23, 2016 02:53 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, June 23: State media reports say 11 workers have been killed in an accident at an aluminum refinery in central China.
Lightning kills 56 people, mostly farmworkers, in east India
Published On: June 22, 2016 02:14 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PATNA, India, June 22: Lightning has killed 56 people, mostly farm laborers working in fields, across the eastern India state of Bihar over the past 24 hours, a state official said Wednesday.
Egyptian court rejects transfer of islands to Saudis
Published On: June 22, 2016 08:53 AM NPT By: Associated Press
CAIRO, June 22: An Egyptian court on Tuesday struck down an agreement to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, delivering a rare rebuke to President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government over a decision that sparked the biggest street protests of his two-year rule.
Thai drunken drivers to work in morgues as punishment
Published On: June 21, 2016 06:13 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BANGKOK, June 21: Several convicted drunken drivers were brought to a Bangkok morgue today to see a corpse and reflect on the gory consequences of their actions as part of a program aimed at combating the carnage on Thailand's roads.
Lawmakers remember Jo Cox as markets sense rising EU support
Published On: June 21, 2016 11:06 AM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, June 21: Britain's normally raucous House of Commons was given over to tears, roses and warm tributes Monday as legislators urged an end to angry and divisive politics in honor of their slain colleague Jo Cox, who was killed last week.
Bahrain strips nationality from top Shiite cleric
Published On: June 21, 2016 09:10 AM NPT By: Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 21: Bahrain's government on Monday stripped the country's leading Shiite cleric of his nationality in a move that brought thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to further ignite sectarian tensions across the region.
Clashes between police, teachers leave 6 dead in Mexico
Published On: June 20, 2016 10:44 AM NPT By: Associated Press
OAXACA, Mexico, June 20: Violent clashes between police and members of a radical teachers' union who had blockaded roads in southern Mexico on Sunday left six people dead and more than 100 injured, officials said.
Floods, landslides kill 24 people in Indonesia
Published On: June 19, 2016 12:54 PM NPT By: Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 19: An Indonesian official says 24 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in central Java and many others remain missing.
Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death
Published On: June 19, 2016 11:10 AM NPT By: Associated Press
CAIRO, June 19: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
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