Asia
7 Jan
At least 15 people, including children, have been killed in an air strike on a village in northwestern Myanmar, local media said Sunday.
7 Jan
Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been left without shelter after a suspected arson attack ripped through their camp burning nearly 800 homes, an official said Sunday.
7 Jan
Nine people were killed Sunday in the occupied West Bank, including seven Palestinians who were targeted in an air strike by the Israeli army, sources on both sides said.
7 Jan
North Korea conducted live-fire drills on its western coast, Seoul's military said Sunday, the third consecutive day of military exercises near its contested maritime border with the South.
7 Jan
Two pro-Iranian fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi alliance were killed in an attack in Iraq, the Hashed and an Iraqi security source said Sunday, blaming the Islamic State group (IS).
7 Jan
A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under rubble caused by a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were further complicating relief efforts on Sunday.
6 Jan
North Korea's military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island on Saturday, Seoul's military said, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border.
6 Jan
A bombing attack in southern Iran claimed by the Islamic State group has killed 91 people, state media said Saturday, raising an earlier toll after two victims had succumbed to wounds.
6 Jan
Lebanon's Hezbollah fired Saturday more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the barrage as a response to the killing of Hamas's deputy leader in Beirut.
6 Jan
Twenty-five minutes after the New Year's Day earthquake, a tsunami several metres high barrelled into Shiromaru, leaving a trail of destruction for the Japanese coastal community's mostly elderly residents.
5 Jan
The head of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned Israel Friday that it will respond swiftly "on the battlefield" to the killing of Hamas's deputy leader in one of its Beirut strongholds.
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Tanzania has shut down five hydroelectric stations to reduce excess electricity in the national grid, the prime minister Kassim Majaliwa has said. According to Majaliwa, the main plant, Mwalimu Nyerere Hydroelectric Station, has alone generated enough electricity to power major cities. Among the cities that are being powered is Dar es Salaam, the country’s commercial…
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