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Israeli planes hit Hamas in Gaza after rocket fire 03 Feb 2018 - 10:37 am

Jerusalem, Israeli aircraft hit a Hamas compound in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, after Palestinians there fired a rocket into the Jewish...

Maldives opposition fears government scuttling prisoner release 03 Feb 2018 - 10:20 am

Colombo, The Maldivian opposition Saturday accused President Abdulla Yameen of resisting local and international pressure to comply with a landmark Supreme Court order...

US immigration agents crack down on 'sanctuary state' California 03 Feb 2018 - 10:07 am

Los Angeles: US immigration officials said Friday they raided 77 California businesses this week as operations intensify in the state, whose own authorities...

Perfect storm: China's blizzard exposes flaws in rail, coal policies 03 Feb 2018 - 09:32 am

BEIJING: China's worst blizzard this winter exposed a flaw in Beijing's drive to create remote coal mining hubs as it tries to streamline...

Marines seek young, tough recruits in Super Bowl ad 03 Feb 2018 - 08:54 am

WASHINGTON, The US Marine Corps is running an ad during Sunday's Super Bowl for the first time in 30 years, using an online-only...

Suspect arrested for petrol bomb thrown at Suu Kyi's Yangon villa 03 Feb 2018 - 08:37 am

Yangon, Myanmar police say they have arrested a mentally ill man who confessed to tossing a petrol bomb into the Yangon compound of...

Venezuela's Maduro confirmed by party as candidate for re-election 02 Feb 2018 - 10:26 pm

Caracas: Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party on Friday confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro is its official candidate in a snap election due before the...

Venezuela derides US comments on military ouster of Maduro 02 Feb 2018 - 07:28 pm

CARACAS: Venezuela condemned on Friday U.S. comments that its own military could topple President Nicolas Maduro and said a Latin American tour by...

Myanmar denies report of new mass graves in Rakhine 02 Feb 2018 - 07:28 pm

YANGON: Myanmar denied on Friday that there were mass graves in a village in troubled Rakhine state, where a military crackdown on insurgents...

Mattis says has no evidence of sarin gas used in Syria, but concerned 02 Feb 2018 - 06:38 pm

WASHINGTON: U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that while he does not have evidence of the nerve agent sarin being used...

German mosque must stop broadcasting call to prayer, court finds 02 Feb 2018 - 06:23 pm

BERLIN: A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local...

Cleared Nasheed vows to challenge Maldives president in polls 02 Feb 2018 - 06:18 pm

Colombo: The exiled former leader of the Maldives vowed Friday to run for president after the Supreme Court quashed his conviction, dealing a...

Texas executes man for murdering daughters in killings wife heard on phone 02 Feb 2018 - 05:03 pm

AUSTIN: A man who killed his two young daughters at his Dallas apartment in 2001 while the girls' mother listened on the phone...

Israeli police disperse East Jerusalem protest, injuring dozens 02 Feb 2018 - 04:39 pm

JERUSALEM: Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday when Israeli police forcibly dispersed a demonstration in occupied East Jerusalem, according to eyewitnesses. "Some...

France sends police as migrant gangs clash in Calais 02 Feb 2018 - 04:32 pm

PARIS: The French government will send more police to Calais to crack down on migrant gangs, the interior minister said on Friday, after...

Five dead after two army helicopters collide in France 02 Feb 2018 - 04:24 pm

Cabasse, France: Five people were killed Friday after two army training helicopters crashed into each other near a lake in southern France, police...

Lebanon tensions ease as Shi'ite officials visit Christian area 02 Feb 2018 - 03:53 pm

BEIRUT: Officials from Lebanon's Shi'ite parties Amal and Hezbollah visited a mainly Christian district of Beirut on Friday to help defuse tensions ignited...