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Cambodia urged to scrap trial of opposition leader 07 Sep 2016 - 04:10 pm

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH: Phnom Penh Municipal Court has been urged to scrap an upcoming trial against the embattled deputy leader of...

Road accidents kill 27 in Egypt 07 Sep 2016 - 04:09 pm

CAIRO: - At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in a road crash and a train derailment in Egypt on Wednesday....

Paris: Police probing suspicious car near Notre Dame 07 Sep 2016 - 04:08 pm

An armed French soldier patrols in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, December 24, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo PARIS: French anti-terrorism...

Free Syrian forces clear Islamic State from villages 07 Sep 2016 - 04:00 pm

Syrian refugees are pictured on their way back to the Syrian city of Jerabulus on September 7, 2016 at Karkamis crossing gate, in...

Syrian opposition says Assad must leave six months into transition 07 Sep 2016 - 01:00 pm

A fighter from the Free Syrian Army's Al Rahman legion walks past damaged buildings in the rebel held Jobar, a suburb of Damascus,...

Fighting in Syria's Hama province displaces 100,000 - UN 07 Sep 2016 - 12:14 pm

Members of Free Syrian Army carry out an attack to Assad Regime forces with missiles near Maan town of Hama, Syria on September...

Turkey ready to join US in capturing Syrian city from Islamic State: Erdogan 07 Sep 2016 - 11:37 am

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes a question at a press conference after the closing of the G20 Leaders Summit in Hangzhou on...

Cyprus finds 47 migrants on its coast 07 Sep 2016 - 12:00 am

Nicosia: Police in Cyprus on Tuesday discovered 47 would-be migrants, thought to be smuggled Syrians, whose boat reportedly ran into trouble off the...

4 killed in explosions in Somali capital 07 Sep 2016 - 12:00 am

By Mohamed Adam MOGADISHU, Somalia: Three people were killed and several wounded Tuesday when a bomb was detonated at the Somali capital’s main...

Turkey calls for Aleppo cease-fire by next week 07 Sep 2016 - 12:00 am

By Ilkay Guder ANKARA: Turkey is pressing for a cease-fire in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to be introduced before the Muslim...

Italy breaks up ring smuggling Syrian refugees to Western Europe 06 Sep 2016 - 05:39 pm

ROME: Italian police said on Tuesday they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Syrian refugees across the Balkans to Western...

Trump pushes just ahead of Clinton in new poll 06 Sep 2016 - 04:47 pm

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to supporters through a bullhorn during a campaign stop at the Canfield County Fair in Canfield, Ohio,...

Hurricane Newton smashes into Mexico resort 06 Sep 2016 - 03:56 pm

La Paz, Mexico: Hurricane Newton battered Mexico's northwestern resort of Los Cabos on Tuesday, tearing down trees and blowing away tin roofs as...

UK court sentences radical preacher Choudary to 5½ years 06 Sep 2016 - 03:11 pm

Demonstrator Anjem Choudary, protests in support of Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is appealing against his extradition to the U.S., outside the...

Police arrest 9 as London City Airport protest ends 06 Sep 2016 - 03:09 pm

A general view of London City Airport in London on September 6, 2016. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS LONDON: All flights in and...

First Paris refugee camp to open in mid-October 06 Sep 2016 - 02:54 pm

Paris: Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Tuesday, unveiling plans to take hundreds of people off...

Abbas says no meeting with Netanyahu in Moscow planned 06 Sep 2016 - 02:53 pm

WARSAW: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that a proposed meeting in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be...