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Power cuts return to South Africa 05 Jan 2020 - 03:19 pm

Johannesburg: South Africa's electricity utility Eskom at the weekend resumed power outages, citing a "vulnerable" generating system, just weeks after implementing the severest...

Hong Kong hospitalizes seven more people who traveled to Wuhan 05 Jan 2020 - 03:12 pm

Hong Kong public hospitals admitted seven more people with flu-like symptoms who had recently traveled to the central Chinese city of Wuhan, bringing...

Bolsonaro wants Brazil to be a tourism Eden, but he can't stop insulting everyone 05 Jan 2020 - 12:58 pm

SALVADOR, Brazil - Clovis Dias de Oliveira sat behind the counter of his empty store filled with touristy knickknacks, looking at his phone,...

'Serious' cyber attack hits Austrian ministry 05 Jan 2020 - 12:55 pm

Vienna - Austria's foreign ministry has been targeted by a "serious cyber attack", officials said, warning another country could be responsible. The attack,...

Dozens arrested after Hong Kong protest taking aim at Chinese traders 05 Jan 2020 - 12:24 pm

HONG KONG: Scuffles erupted between police and protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday, with dozens of arrests made, after thousands marched near the...

Car plows into German tourists in northern Italy, 6 dead 05 Jan 2020 - 11:56 am

Rome: A drunk driver ploughed into pedestrians in an Italian Alpine village on Sunday, killing six German tourists and injuring 11 other people,...

Man killed in fatal shark attack in Australia 05 Jan 2020 - 11:40 am

Sydney - A man died after being attacked by a shark off Australia's southwest coast on Sunday, officials said, adding that patrols of...

Australia's bushfire evacuees prepare for another night on the beaches 05 Jan 2020 - 11:28 am

Batemans Bay, Australia - The immediate threat from Australia's devastating bushfires may have eased - at least temporarily - but thousands of people...

Australia's 'insurance' koala population halved by bushfires 05 Jan 2020 - 10:47 am

Sydney: At least half of Australia's only disease-free koala population, a key "insurance" for the species' future, is feared dead with more badly...

Delta plane slides off taxiway at Green Bay airport 05 Jan 2020 - 10:33 am

Green Bay, Wis. - A Delta Air Lines plane slid off a taxiway amid icy conditions Saturday morning at an airport in Green...

Biggest bloom: 'world's largest' flower spotted in Indonesia 05 Jan 2020 - 10:23 am

Padang, Indonesia: Indonesian conservationists say they've spotted the biggest specimen ever of what's already been billed as one of the world's largest flowers....

Islamist group al Shabaab attacks Kenya base used by Kenyan, US forces 05 Jan 2020 - 09:50 am

NAIROBI: Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on Sunday attacked a military base in Lamu county in Kenya that is used by both U.S....

Croats vote to elect new president from candidates of two biggest parties 05 Jan 2020 - 09:41 am

Zagreb - The polling stations across Croatia opened at 0600 GMT on Sunday for voters to elect the country's new president in a...

Australia reels after another day of fire fury 05 Jan 2020 - 09:26 am

Nowra, Australia: Stunned Australians on Sunday counted the cost from a day of catastrophic bushfires that caused "extensive damage" across swathes of the...

Fourteen killed in bomb attack on bus convoy in Burkina Faso 05 Jan 2020 - 09:18 am

Dakar - Fourteen people were killed and 19 wounded when a bus carrying students ran over an improvised explosive device on Saturday in...

Trump says US would hit 52 Iranian sites if American targets attacked 05 Jan 2020 - 08:51 am

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans...

Cambodia building collapse kills 36 people, injures 23 others 05 Jan 2020 - 08:48 am

PHNOM PENH: Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble,...