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Afghan forces end siege near Spanish embassy in Kabul 12 Dec 2015 - 08:58 am

Afghan security personnel stand guard at a guest house after an attack near the Spanish embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan December 12, 2015. By...

Bullet trains apart, India needs high-speed growth: Modi 12 Dec 2015 - 08:53 am

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of a meeting at a business forum in New...

US ready to help bring Mumbai attackers to justice 12 Dec 2015 - 08:48 am

File photo of the luxury hotel Taj Mahal in Mumbai during the terrorist attack By Arun Kumar Washington: Reiterating that it wants the...

Canada sets example on Syrian refugees, aid agencies say 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses with airport staff as they await Syrian refugees to arrive at the Toronto Pearson International Airport in...

14 killed in Boko Haram raid in Nigeria: resident, vigilante 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Kano, Nigeria: Fourteen people were killed, some of them decapitated, in a Boko Haram raid on a village in northeast Nigeria, a resident...

Caesar came, saw and conquered on Dutch soil in 55 BC 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

The Tusculum portrait, perhaps the only surviving statue created during Caesar's lifetime. Photo: Wikipedia The Hague: Archaeologists say they have proven for the...

Diplomatic pressure forces Syria opposition to table 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

File photo of Syrian opposition Riyadh: With international pressure growing for a political solution to Syria's war, opposition groups appear to have resigned...

India, Japan close in on military pacts as Abe visits 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) departs for India at Tokyo's Haneda airport, Japan, December 11, 2015. NEW DELHI: India and Japan are...

Anti-corruption crusader risks wrecking Indian tax reform 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Subramanian Swamy, then an opposition politician who brought the petition to revoke the telecom licences issued in 2008, speaks with the media after...

Arabs, Muslim detainees can sue Bush-era officials over post-September 11 treatment 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

George Bush By Joseph Ax NEW YORK: Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith...

Turkey lifts, then reimposes curfew in battered Kurdish city 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Diyarbakir, Turkey: The Turkish authorities on Friday lifted a nine-day curfew in a key district in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir after heavy...

US confidence in protection from attack lowest in over a decade 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

By Frank McGurty NEW YORK: Confidence in the U.S. government to protect its citizens from militant attacks has fallen to its lowest in...

What would happen in a region ruled by France’s far-right? 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Marion Marechal-Le Pen Election run-offs on Sunday after FN topped first round FN wants to use regions as platforms for national power Regions...

Top Iraq Shiite cleric criticises Turkish deployment 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Baghdad: Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday criticised the deployment of Turkish troops and tanks to...

UK girls as young as 12 'made available for' older men, court hears 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

London: The British trial of five men and two women accused of sexually exploiting a group of young girls over a period of...

Trump and Le Pen: Two takes on a rising populism 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Washington: On either side of the Atlantic, the 2008 recession, refugee crises and heightened terror threats have fueled an isolationist populism embodied by...