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What's next for Peru after president's resignation 23 Mar 2018 - 07:34 pm

LIMA: After months of political upheaval in Peru, congress has accepted the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, making way for a new...

Iraqi asylum seeker gets life sentence for London Tube bombing 23 Mar 2018 - 06:52 pm

London: An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker on Friday received a life sentence with a minimum 34-year jail term over the botched bombing of...

Shooting in France kills 3; toll may rise; attacker known for petty crimes, not considered threat 23 Mar 2018 - 05:23 pm

TREBES, France: Three people were killed in southwestern France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and...

Siege in southern France kills one police man, seriously wounds another 23 Mar 2018 - 02:49 pm

PARIS (AP) - The Latest on a shooting and hostage-taking in southern France (all times local): 12:35 p.m. A police union official says...

Shooting, hostage-taking in south France 23 Mar 2018 - 01:22 pm

MAYOR OF TREBES SAYS HOSTAGE TAKER ALONE WITH ONE POLICE OFFICER IN SUPERMARKET, ALL OTHER HOSTAGES FREED Paris: A policeman was shot and...

Dead Romanian gets driving licence back 23 Mar 2018 - 01:22 pm

Bucharest: Days after a Romanian court refused to declare a living man alive, another tribunal has ruled that a dead man can have...

Malaysia's Mahathir gatecrashes 'too old to be PM' forum 23 Mar 2018 - 01:22 pm

Kuala Lumpur: Sick of people sniping about his advancing years, Malaysia's 92-year-old ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad gatecrashed a forum where voters were discussing whether...

Facebook co-authored study with Kogan in 2015 22 Mar 2018 - 09:25 pm

NEW YORK: Two Facebook employees co-authored a 2015 study with embattled Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan that used anonymized data that tallied 57 billion...

Mueller examining Cambridge Analytica, Trump campaign ties 22 Mar 2018 - 07:04 pm

WASHINGTON: Special counsel Robert Mueller is scrutinizing the connections between President Donald Trump's campaign and the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica...

Scimitar-wielding Turkey governor takes retirement 22 Mar 2018 - 06:57 pm

Istanbul: A Turkish regional governor who declared while wielding a double-bladed scimitar above his head that Turkey's forces would soon march into Mosul...

Journalist killed in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz known for drug cartel violence 22 Mar 2018 - 06:38 pm

Mexican police said Thursday a journalist who ran a local news website was shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz....

Turkey renovates schools, improves education in Afrin 22 Mar 2018 - 05:08 pm

AFRIN: After liberating the town of Afrin, Syria from terrorists, Turkey is now working to renovate schools for the local children. The renovation...

Juncker says Italy "not yet" in crisis 22 Mar 2018 - 04:50 pm

BRUSSELS: Italy is "not yet" in a political crisis and decision-makers there should be able to find a solution to their post-election deadlock,...

Three Turkish soldiers killed clearing bombs in Syria's Afrin: PM 22 Mar 2018 - 04:45 pm

Ankara: Three Turkish soldiers died Thursday clearing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Syrian region of Afrin after the capture of Afrin city...

Famous Turkish singer sentenced to 10 months in jail for insulting Erdogan 22 Mar 2018 - 04:43 pm

ANKARA: A famous Turkish singer and actress has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for insulting President Tayyip Erdogan during a performance...

6 dead in chemical factory explosion in Czech Republic 22 Mar 2018 - 02:57 pm

PRAGUE: Six people were killed and two were injured in an explosion in a chemical factory in the Czech Republic, officials said on...

German justice minister calls in Facebook over data scandal 22 Mar 2018 - 02:52 pm

BERLIN: Germany's justice minister said on Thursday she had asked to speak to Facebook executives to find out whether the social media site's...

Madrid accuses Catalan separatists of 'foul play' before vote 22 Mar 2018 - 02:49 pm

Barcelona: Spain's justice minister accused Catalan separatists of "foul play" Thursday as they prepared to appoint as new regional leader Jordi Turull, who...