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Death toll at 90 in Nigeria air strike 21 Jan 2017 - 12:56 am

Kano: The death toll from a botched Nigerian air strike against Boko Haram that hit a camp for displaced people has risen to...

40 dead in Mozambique rainy season 21 Jan 2017 - 12:56 am

Maputo: At least 40 people have been killed and 76,000 others affected by floods and storms since Mozambique's rainy season started in October,...

Car bomb wounds 12 in Benghazi 21 Jan 2017 - 12:55 am

Benghazi: A car bomb exploded yesterday near a mosque in Libya's second city of Benghazi, wounding 12 people including a former interior minister,...

Netanyahu seeks stronger ties with Trump 21 Jan 2017 - 12:53 am

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he wants relations with the United States to be "stronger than ever" after Donald Trump...

Israel's supreme court asked to release body of Bedouin 21 Jan 2017 - 12:53 am

Jerusalem: Lawyers for a Bedouin Arab man killed during clashes in southern Israel announced yesterday they had filed a petition calling for his...

Japan drill to simulate China-Taiwan clash 21 Jan 2017 - 12:52 am

Tokyo: Japan will carry out a tabletop exercise next week to simulate its response in the event of a military clash between China...

Indonesia court jails Briton for abusing teen 21 Jan 2017 - 12:51 am

Mataram: A COURT in the eastern Indonesian holiday island of Lombok sentenced a British man to five years in prison for abusing a...

Korea prosecutors summon another Samsung official 21 Jan 2017 - 12:50 am

Seoul: South Korea's special prosecutor's office said yesterday it summoned a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd executive for questioning as it investigates a widening...

Filipino gunmen abduct three Indonesians 21 Jan 2017 - 12:48 am

Zamboanga City:Suspected IS-linked gunmen have taken three Indonesians from a fishing vessel in the Sulu Sea, in the southwestern Philippines, the military said...

Three dead in Afghan Buzkashi match explosion 21 Jan 2017 - 12:48 am

Mazar-i-Sharif:A BLAST hit spectators after a game of buzkashi, or polo with a carcass, in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least three people...

Pakistan bans NGOs over anti-state activities 21 Jan 2017 - 12:46 am

Islamabad: Authorities in Pakistan's largest province have ordered several women's and human rights groups to shut down, accusing them of unspecified "anti-state" activities,...

Two foreign insurgents arrested in Afghan raid 21 Jan 2017 - 12:46 am

Kabul: An Afghan official says four Taliban have been killed and two insurgents, with suspected ties to the jihadist group the Islamic Movement...

North Ireland’s Sinn Fein to name successor to McGuinness on Monday 21 Jan 2017 - 12:16 am

Dublin: Sinn Fein will name a successor to Martin McGuinness on Monday to lead the Irish nationalist party into Northern Irish elections in...

EU migration chief in Greece over islands’ refugee ‘burden’ 21 Jan 2017 - 12:13 am

Athens: The EU’s migration chief yesterday huddled with mayors of five Greek islands where anger is mounting over continued presence of more than...

Spain arrests Russian hacker wanted by FBI 21 Jan 2017 - 12:13 am

Madrid: Spain has arrested a 32-year-old Russian computer programmer at Barcelona airport who is alleged to have designed and used software to steal...

Belgian court upholds jail sentence for French comic 21 Jan 2017 - 12:13 am

Brussels: A Belgian court yesterday upheld French comedian Dieudonne’s two-month jail sentence for incitement to hatred over racist and anti-Semitic comments during a...

Opinion: Marching to ease the pain of Trump 21 Jan 2017 - 12:12 am

As an African-American woman, I find the 2016 campaign - and now the 2017 inauguration - doubly painful. Donald Trump’s victory revealed inconvenient...

Opinion: Operation Euphrates Shield: Aims and gains 21 Jan 2017 - 12:12 am

Turkey declared that is was exercising its rights of self-defence codified under the UN Charter Article 51, and launched Operation Euphrates Shield. A...