LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters): British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to seek more concessions but the European Union refused to renegotiate and lawmakers doubted her chances of winning big changes.May's abrupt move less than 30 hours before parliament was to vote...
Read moreBANGKOK, Dec 11 (Agencies): Thailand's military government has lifted a ban on political activities it imposed when it seized power in a coup more than four years ago, an action taken in preparation for elections promised for early next year.Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha invoked a special executive power on Tuesday...
Read moreMOSCOW, Dec 11 (Agencies): Two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers arrived in Venezuela on Monday, a deployment that comes amid soaring Russia-US tensions.Russia's Defence Ministry said a pair Tu-160 bombers landed at Maiquetia airport outside Caracas on Monday following a 10,000-kilometre (6,200-mile) flight. It didn't say if the bombers were carrying...
Read moreNEW YORK, Dec 11 (Xinhua): Children who spend more than seven hours a day on screens like smartphones and video games experience "premature thinning of the cortex," according to a new and ongoing study.Funded by US National Institute of Health (NIH), the study plans to follow more than 11,000 adolescents...
Read moreKABUL, Dec 11 (AFP): At least 12 people were killed and another six injured after a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of security forces in Kabul early on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody Taliban-claimed attack in the Afghan capital.The blast took place in Paghman district in western Kabul...
Read moreCALIFORNIA, Dec 11 (BBC): Two nuns who worked at a Catholic school in California have admitted embezzling about $500,000 (£396,000) and using it to gamble in Las Vegas.Sisters Mary Kreuper and Lana Chang took the money from St James' Catholic School in the city of Torrance, near Los Angeles, to...
Read moreSRINAGAR, Dec 11 (AFP): Suspected rebels attacked a police post in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday killing four officers, police said, two days after soldiers killed two teenage rebels in the restive territory.In the latest incident of the region's bloodiest year since 2009, the assailants mounted a surprise attack in Zainpora...
Read moreSEOUL, Dec 11 (Xinhua): Almost four out of 10 South Korean newlyweds had no child as of 2017, a government data showed on Tuesday.Among 1.1 million newlywed couples who have been legally married for less than five years as of Nov. 1 last year, 414,000 couples, or 37.5 per cent...
Read more250,000 Syrian refugees could return home next yearANKARA, Dec 11: Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the UNrefugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Some 5.6 million Syrian...
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