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200 Delhi government officials on protest leave 31 Dec 2015 - 10:55 am

File photo of Delhi Home Minister Satyendra Jain New Delhi: At least 200 senior bureaucrats of the Delhi government went on a day's...

25 ISIS militants killed in Afghan Nangarhar air strikes 31 Dec 2015 - 10:51 am

Kabul: Twenty five militants belonging to the (ISIS) group have been killed and 31 others wounded in two air strikes in eastern Nangarhar...

Israeli military on alert for possible ISIS attack 31 Dec 2015 - 10:23 am

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for the possibility of a substantial attack on the Israel-Syria border, following the recent attacks in...

Quake jolts Iran's Kerman province 31 Dec 2015 - 10:07 am

Tehran: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale shook Ravar city in the southern Iran province of Kerman early Thursday. Iran's Seismological...

Turbulence injures 21 passengers on air Canada flight 31 Dec 2015 - 09:59 am

Ottawa: A Canada-bound airliner was forced to make an emergency landing after severe turbulence injured 21 passengers, including three children, officials said. The...

Breaking wave kills one, injured two on Norwegian oil rig 31 Dec 2015 - 09:57 am

Photo from youtube. Oslo: One person aboard a North Sea drilling rig was killed when the vessel was struck by a huge wave,...

'Rat on a plane' forces Air India flight to turn back 31 Dec 2015 - 09:27 am

Image for representation only New Delhi: A "suspected rat sighting" in the cabin forced an Air India plane carrying more than 200 passengers...

Former Compaore ally elected head of Burkina Faso national assembly 31 Dec 2015 - 09:22 am

Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso's Salif Diallo, a former right-hand man of ousted president Blaise Compaore, was on Wednesday elected head of the national assembly,...

Japan zoo recovers missing red panda after frantic search 31 Dec 2015 - 09:19 am

This handout photo released and taken by the Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo on December 31, 2015 shows the red panda,called Sumire, on a...

Hong Kong leader blames Facebook 'hack' for racy pictures 31 Dec 2015 - 09:05 am

FILE —Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ Hong Kong: Hong Kong's leader Leung Chun-ying said his Facebook page...

Freed Afghan village reveals key to Taliban 'success' 31 Dec 2015 - 08:54 am

An Afghan fighter participates in a patrol targeting Taliban insurgents near Qara Ghoily in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province . AFP Photo/Wakil Kohsar QARA...

Brussels cancels NYE celebrations as Turkey holds IS 'plotters' 31 Dec 2015 - 08:40 am

Belgian authorities said a firework display and festivities to welcome the New Year that drew 100,000 people last year would not go ahead...

Mali extends state of emergency until March 31 31 Dec 2015 - 08:39 am

Malian Prime Minister Modibo Keita (2nd R) stands next to Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (3rd R) during the funerals of five victims...

Argentine judge blocks president's media overhaul 31 Dec 2015 - 08:32 am

Martin Sabbatella, the Argentine media-regulatory chief dismissed by President Mauricio Macri on December 23 2015, has denied that the president had authority to...

Syria releases opposition figures held on way to Riyadh meeting: party 31 Dec 2015 - 08:20 am

Munir al-Bitar (L), Ahmad al-Asrawi (R) Damascus: Syrian authorities have released two prominent members of the domestic opposition who were arrested on Wednesday...

Frantic US fight against record floods 31 Dec 2015 - 02:08 am

Chicago: Soldiers and volunteers packed sand bags Wednesday in a frantic effort to stave off floodwaters in the US state of Missouri, where...

Crimea official says Ukraine has cut off power again, Interfax reports 31 Dec 2015 - 02:02 am

MOSCOW: A Crimean official said on Thursday that Ukraine had cut off a major source of electrical power to the region, a month...

Georgia attorney general says state cannot bar Syrian refugees 31 Dec 2015 - 01:57 am

Georgia, whose Republican Governor Nathan Deal (pictured) has vowed to block entry to Syrian refugees, cannot deny them resettlement within the state or...