China’s Didi suspends Hitch ride-sharing service after female passenger killed
China’s largest ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is suspending its Hitch services nationwide, the company said in a statement on Sunday, a day after police said a ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed by a dri…
Strong earthquake hits northwest Iran, killing two and wounding 241: Tasnim
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the Iranian city of Kermanshah, killing two and wounding 241, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
Afghanistan president rejects resignation of three top security officials
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani rejected on Sunday resignations tendered a day earlier by three senior security officials, the government said.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigns from Cabinet
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Sunday she has resigned from new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Cabinet, two days after a bruising leadership battle that toppled former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
China’s Didi suspends Hitch service nationwide after female passenger killed
China’s largest ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is suspending its Hitch services nationwide, the company said in a statement on Sunday, a day after police said a ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed by a dri…
Timeline: Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar
Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been detained in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. At the time of their arrests, they had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a village in Rakhine sta…
Strong quake hits northwest Iran, killing one and wounding 58: Tasnim
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the Iranian city of Kermanshah, killing one and wounding 58, the Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
Strong earthquake rattles Iraq and Iran: local media
A strong earthquake rattled the Iraqi capital Baghdad and also hit the border area with Iran, local media sources reported on Sunday.
Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Iran, felt in Baghdad: USGS
A shallow, magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck about 55 miles (88 km) west-northwest of Kermanshah, in western Iran early on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Italy disembarks stranded migrants, Salvini under investigation
Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants’ ordeal and a bitter stand-off between Rome’s anti-establishment government and its European Union partners.
