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Kuwait assures earthquake left no damage 13 Nov 2017 - 08:03 am

Kuwait: The earthquake which jolted Kuwait on Sunday evening has caused no damage or security repercussions, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior assured. In...

Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border kills more than 140 13 Nov 2017 - 07:45 am

TEHRAN: A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than 140 people and injuring 860 in the mountainous region of...

Trump to meet Philippines' controversial Duterte 13 Nov 2017 - 12:26 am

Manila: Donald Trump sits down Monday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who boasts about personally killing people and is waging a drug war...

Schwarzenegger: Let’s slap a public health warning on fossil fuels 12 Nov 2017 - 10:15 pm

BONN, Germany: Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and Hollywood actor and film producer, issued a challenge on Sunday to governments to start labelling...

Quake strikes Iran’s border towns with Iraq, several killed 12 Nov 2017 - 09:54 pm

ANKARA: Several people were killed and many others were injured in border areas of Iran when an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck neighbouring...

Some Iranian villages damaged by earthquake of 7.3 in Iraq 12 Nov 2017 - 09:53 pm

ANKARA: At least eight villages were damaged in Iran after an earthquake with magnitude of 7.3 struck Iraq on Sunday, Iran’s state TV...

Last exit from Myanmar, Rohingya wait for weeks on beach 12 Nov 2017 - 09:34 pm

AH LEI THAN KYAW, Myanmar: Some 1,000 Rohingya Muslims desperate to leave Myanmar are camped on this exposed, sun-baked beach on the Bay...

Israel signals free hand in Syria as US, Russia expand truce 12 Nov 2017 - 09:24 pm

JERUSALEM: Israel signalled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied...

Trump offers to mediate in South China Sea row 12 Nov 2017 - 08:19 pm

Manila: US President Donald Trump offered Sunday to mediate in a territorial dispute over the resource-rich South China Sea, after years of Chinese...

Seven found dead after Rio de Janeiro police operation 12 Nov 2017 - 07:53 pm

Rio de Janeiro: Seven people have been found dead in a Rio de Janeiro suburb after what police said was an operation against...

Tourists taking pictures trampled by elephant in Zambia 12 Nov 2017 - 07:29 pm

Lusaka: A Dutch and a Belgian tourist were trampled to death by an elephant in Zambia as they got too close to the...

Swiss journalists accredited to cover Louvre museum arrested in Abu Dhabi for filming marketplace 12 Nov 2017 - 07:01 pm

Geneva: Two journalists covering the opening of the Abu Dhabi Louvre museum for Swiss public broadcaster RTS were arrested and held for two...

At least 14 dead after boat capsizes in Krishna river near Vijayawada 12 Nov 2017 - 06:43 pm

Vijayawada, Nov 12 (IANS) At least fourteen tourists, including six women and two children, were killed and nine others missing as a boat...

Trump should be 'ashamed' of attacks on ex-intel chiefs: former CIA head 12 Nov 2017 - 05:18 pm

Washington: Former CIA chief John Brennan hit back at Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the president should be "ashamed" after he attacked as...

Canada’s Trudeau charms Manila while ordering fried chicken from Jollibee 12 Nov 2017 - 04:29 pm

MANILA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hopped from one table to the next, chatted with people and posed for selfies on Sunday at...

Spain PM Rajoy calls on companies not to leave Catalonia 12 Nov 2017 - 03:48 pm

Barcelona: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Sunday urged businesses not to abandon Catalonia after hundreds of firms moved their legal headquarters away...