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Unruly drivers undermine Paris pollution ban 08 Dec 2016 - 05:31 pm
A small-particle haze hangs above the Eiffel Tower, that is seen on the horizon from Suresnes, near Paris, France, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Israel, Greece, Cyprus plan joint firefighting force 08 Dec 2016 - 05:25 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) hosts Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades during a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem to discuss eastern Mediterranean oil and gas on December 8, 2016. AFP / GALI TIBB
UK government must not by-pass Scotland to trigger Brexit, court told 08 Dec 2016 - 05:18 pm
British police officers and members of the media gatrher outside the Supreme Court in London on the final day of a four-day hearing on December 8, 2016. British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a symbolic victory on Brexit yesterday, after MPs agreed no
EU states to return migrants to Greece from March 08 Dec 2016 - 05:10 pm
European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Nazi camp cash counterfeiter Adolf Burger dies at 99 08 Dec 2016 - 05:02 pm
This file photo taken on February 23, 2007 shows Czech Adolf Burger, 89, a former prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, showing his book
ThyssenKrupp hit by hackers eyeing industrial secrets 08 Dec 2016 - 04:31 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on December 11, 2012 shows a general view of the headquarters of German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp AG in Essen, western Germany.  AFP / PATRIK STOLLARZ
Pakistan opens probe into deadly plane crash that killed 47 08 Dec 2016 - 04:00 pm
Pakistani sit beside the wreckage of the crashed PIA passenger plane Flight PK661 near the village of Saddha Batolni in the Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on December 8, 2016. AFP / AAMIR QURESHI
Iraq's parliament speaker says airstrike killed civilians 08 Dec 2016 - 03:42 pm
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British spy chief says Islamic State plotting attacks as Russia makes 'desert' of Syria 08 Dec 2016 - 03:38 pm
Peninsula
Kerry warns OSCE of rise in 'authoritarian populism' 08 Dec 2016 - 03:33 pm
US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) arrives ahead of the two-day foreign ministers' meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Hamburg, northern Germany, on December 7, 2016. / AFP / John MACDOUGALL
Turkish police arrest 35 in FETO-linked dorms probe 08 Dec 2016 - 03:00 pm
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Several Turkish NGOs start aid campaigns for Aleppo 08 Dec 2016 - 02:57 pm
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Israel approves 770 new E. Jerusalem settlement units 08 Dec 2016 - 02:53 pm
The picture shows a general view of construction cranes and excavators at the site of new housing units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem al-Quds. (Photo: AFP)
Tigris lioness: Iraqi militiawoman fights for revenge against Islamic State 08 Dec 2016 - 02:35 pm
Miaad Madaad, the only female member of the Lions of the Tigris, a group of Sunni Arab fighters and part of PMU poses during a pause in a military operation against ISIS in Shayyalah al-Imam, Iraq November 30, 2016. (Reuters)
Egyptian women's rights advocate Azza Soliman freed on bail 08 Dec 2016 - 02:33 pm
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Ghanaians anxiously wait nail-biting presidential election results 08 Dec 2016 - 02:03 pm
Polling officials count the ballots at Jamestown square after the voting ended for the presidential and general elections in Accra, Ghana on December 7, 2016. (Jordi Perdigo - Anadolu Agency)
Chinese man who wrote online post given one-year prison sentence 08 Dec 2016 - 01:48 pm
Peninsula
French ex-minister who fought tax evasion jailed for tax fraud 08 Dec 2016 - 01:30 pm
Former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who resigned in 2013 after he admitted to having a Swiss bank account, arrives to attend the verdict in his tax fraud trial at the courtroom in Paris, France, December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer.