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Top aide to Burundi president escapes assassination bid 29 Nov 2016 - 01:54 pm

Nairobi: A top advisor to Burundi's president and the most public face of the government has escaped an assassination attempt in the capital...

Myanmar: UN agency calls for help for women of Rakhine 29 Nov 2016 - 01:50 pm

YANGON, Myanmar: A United Nations agency has called for urgent help for women and girls recently uprooted by conflicts in Myanmar’s Rakhine State...

S.Korea to cull 3 percent of poultry to contain bird flu 29 Nov 2016 - 01:44 pm

SEOUL: South Korea will cull 3 percent of its total poultry population to curb an outbreak of bird flu that has hit a...

3 things to know about the Lufthansa pilots' strike 29 Nov 2016 - 01:31 pm

Frankfurt am Main: European air travel giant Lufthansa has been battling its own pilots over pay and conditions for more than two years....

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians in West Bank 29 Nov 2016 - 01:18 pm

Ramallah: Israeli forces detained at least 11 Palestinians during overnight raids across the West Bank, according to local sources. Army forces broke into...

7 perpetrators of Kazakhstan attack sentenced to life 29 Nov 2016 - 01:13 pm

ASTANA: A Kazakh court Monday gave life in prison to seven people for organizing a terror attack on a military unit and a...

3 killed, 8 injured in Baghdad bomb attack 29 Nov 2016 - 01:10 pm

BAGHDAD: At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb attack in Baghdad on Monday. The attack was carried...

4 Iraqis arrested in anti-IS probe 29 Nov 2016 - 01:01 pm

SAMSUN, Turkey: Four Iraqi nationals were arrested in Turkey's Samsun province Monday evening as part of an anti-Islamic State probe. According to sources...

Presidential elections delayed in Somalia, again 29 Nov 2016 - 12:55 pm

MOGADIHU, Somalia: The presidential election has been once again delayed, the country’s electoral commission announced late Monday. Commission chairman Omar Mohamed Abdulle, also...

led raid kills 14 civilians, 10 terrorists in Mosul 29 Nov 2016 - 12:52 pm

BAGHDAD: At least 14 Iraqi civilians and 10 Islamic State terrorists were killed in an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in the northern...

Turkish Air Force kills 11 IS terrorists in Aleppo 29 Nov 2016 - 12:46 pm

ANKARA: Turkish Air Force killed 11 terrorists in airstrikes carried out on four shelters used by Islamic State in Syria’s western Aleppo city...

Plane with more than 80 aboard crashes in Colombia 29 Nov 2016 - 12:39 pm

ANKARA: A plane carrying 72 passengers crashed near Medellin in Colombia while en route from Santa Cruz city in Bolivia on Tuesday, according...

Village guard martyred in southeast Turkey PKK attack 29 Nov 2016 - 12:35 pm

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: A member of the “village guard” was martyred and another wounded in an attack by PKK terrorists in southeast Turkey late...

Battle for Mosul: Peshmerga target ISIL-held Bashiqa 29 Nov 2016 - 11:52 am

Tension is high in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, as Peshmerga soldiers from Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government begin an offensive to...

Plane carrying football players from Brazil crashes in Colombia 29 Nov 2016 - 10:27 am

Bogota: A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, crashed late Monday near the Colombian city of Medellin, after...

Ohio campus attacker identified as student angry at US interference 29 Nov 2016 - 07:41 am

Columbus: A university student whose family immigrated from Somalia rammed his car Monday into a crowd at Ohio State University and attacked them...

Moise wins Haiti presidential vote in first round: early results 29 Nov 2016 - 07:36 am

Port-au-Prince: Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise, the candidate backed by former president Michel Martelly, won the presidential vote in the first round, official early...

Trump to name Georgia lawmaker Tom Price as health secretary pick 29 Nov 2016 - 07:26 am

NEW YORK: President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce on Tuesday that he has chosen Republican U.S. Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon...