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Oman to start budget airline 21 Jan 2016 - 01:23 pm

Budget airline expected to boost tourism. (representative photo) DUBAI: Oman plans to establish its first budget airline to boost tourism as the plunge...

Two more held in Belgium over Paris attacks: Prosecutors 21 Jan 2016 - 01:18 pm

File photo of Belgian soldiers and police as they patrol Brussels following a raid in connection with the Paris attacks. AFP Brussels: Two...

Islamic State threatens more Libyan oil facility attacks: Video 21 Jan 2016 - 11:57 am

CAIRO: Islamic State threatened on Thursday to attack more Libyan oil facilities following an earlier attack on oil installations close to the Ras...

Militants attack near Libya's Ras Lanuf oil terminal: Sources 21 Jan 2016 - 11:55 am

A general view of the industrial zone at the oil port of Ras Lanuf in this March 11, 2014 file photo. BENGHAZI, Libya: ...

Kenya police kill four terror suspects in tourist town shoot-out 21 Jan 2016 - 11:51 am

Kenya Army soldiers unload the remains of their fallen comrades on January 18, 2016, at the Wilson airport in Nairobi after they were...

Kuwait's Emir lines up subsidies cut 21 Jan 2016 - 11:10 am

Picture for representation only. Kuwait City: Kuwait's Emir HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said Thursday that the Gulf country plans to cut heavy...

Taliban car bomber kills seven Afghan TV channel employees 21 Jan 2016 - 10:46 am

Afghan soldiers inspect the site of a suicide bomb blast near the Russian embassy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 January 2016. EPA Kabul: Seven...

Taliban send message of impunity with school massacre 21 Jan 2016 - 10:40 am

Pakistani relatives and residents offer funeral prayers for victims of the Bacha Khan university attack in Charsadda, about 50 kilometres from Peshawar, on...

Gunmen kill five Egyptian police in Sinai: Ministry 21 Jan 2016 - 10:25 am

Cairo: Unknown assailants have shot dead five Egyptian policemen in an attack on a security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry...

Family of cousin of Paris attacker file murder complaint over her death 21 Jan 2016 - 10:20 am

French special police forces raid an appartment in Saint-Denis on November 18, 2015, hunting those behind the Paris attacks. AFP/Jerome Groisard Paris: The...

Hyderabad varsity teachers slam Smriti Irani 21 Jan 2016 - 10:11 am

Education Minister Smriti Irani Hyderabad: Protests over suicide of a Dalit research scholar continued unabated on Thursday at the University of Hyderabad, with...

Police foil bomb attack at bus station in NW Pakistan 21 Jan 2016 - 10:01 am

Peshawar, Pakistan: Police said they caught a man planting a bomb at a crowded bus station in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar Thursday,...

Terror must not be allowed to win: Pakistani daily 21 Jan 2016 - 09:29 am

Pakistani students light candles for the victims of Bacha Khan University attack, in Quetta, Pakistan, 20 January 2016. EPA/Jamal Taraqai Islamabad: Terror must...

14 Indian diaspora students picked to compete in top US science contest 21 Jan 2016 - 09:23 am

Picture for representation only; The semi finalists from 2015 who were selected for the competition. New York: Fourteen students from the Indian diaspora...

It's Official: 2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record by Far 21 Jan 2016 - 09:10 am

This illustration obtained from NASA on January 20, 2016 shows that 2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according...

With IS 'retreating', time to 'boost joint efforts': French minister 21 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Paris: French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday that the coalition fighting IS jihadists must increase its efforts against the group, which...