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Putin slams NATO for 'aggressive' activities, rhetoric 22 Jun 2016 - 01:27 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) attend a wreath-laying ceremony marking the 75th...

US Coast Guard searching for missing family off Florida 22 Jun 2016 - 01:23 pm

Washington: Rescuers are searching for a father and his three teenage children who went missing off Florida's Gulf Coast aboard a 29-foot (9-meter)...

Zambian newspaper shut down ahead of elections 22 Jun 2016 - 01:04 pm

Lusaka: Zambia's biggest independent newspaper has been shut down by the authorities over unpaid taxes, the editor said Wednesday, calling the move an...

36 Libyan troops killed in Sirte clashes with Islamic State 22 Jun 2016 - 01:02 pm

file photo: Reuters TRIPOLI: At least 36 unity government troops were killed in clashes with Islamic State militants in Libya’s northern city of...

Afghanistan risks "new spiral in violence", UN official says 22 Jun 2016 - 11:55 am

Afghan policemen arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul Afghanistan June 20, 2016. Reuters/Omar Sobhani Kabul: Afghanistan faces the risk...

Dutch-based easyJet pilots to hold day-long strike on Friday 22 Jun 2016 - 11:53 am

AMSTERDAM: Dozens of easyJet pilots based in the Netherlands will hold a second strike on Friday lasting 24 hours after failing to secure...

India launches record 20 satellites in single mission 22 Jun 2016 - 11:39 am

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman, Kiran Kumar Rao (2R), along with members of the team, gestures as he displays models of the...

Snap election may not end Croatia’s political deadlock 22 Jun 2016 - 11:03 am

Tomislav Karamarko, president of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, listens to the national anthem during an election rally at Arena in Zagreb, Croatia,...

Final Yugoslav president 'knew I would be last' 22 Jun 2016 - 10:56 am

File photo of the final leader of Yugoslavia Stipe Mesic. Zagreb: Even its last president did not have faith. Twenty-five years after the...

US court convicts two of conspiring to join IS 22 Jun 2016 - 10:56 am

Los Angeles: A US court on Tuesday convicted two men of attempting to help the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with...

Indonesia says has no overlapping South China Sea claims with China 22 Jun 2016 - 10:43 am

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s foreign minister on Wednesday rejected China’s stance that the two Asian nations have overlapping claims in the South China Sea, where...

China jails top executive at China Resources unit 22 Jun 2016 - 10:41 am

Beijing: A Chinese court has jailed a former top executive in one of the country's largest state-owned conglomerates for 10 years for bribery...

Peru president-elect jokes about ending ties with U.S. if Trump wins 22 Jun 2016 - 10:36 am

Incoming Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski attends a mass in Manchay on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo Lima:...

French authorities ban union demo in Paris Thursday: police 22 Jun 2016 - 10:23 am

Paris: Paris police authorities said they have banned a planned union demonstration in the capital on Thursday, after previous such marches descended into...

Somalia security chief killed by own guard, al Shabaab claims responsibility 22 Jun 2016 - 10:15 am

MOGADISHU: The Islamist militant group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Somalia security official, who was was gunned down...

Lightning kills at least 67 as monsoon sweeps India 22 Jun 2016 - 09:40 am

Men walk past submerged vehicles as they wade through a water-logged street after heavy rains in Jammu on June 21, 2016. AFP New...

Afghan Taliban release some kidnapped bus passengers 22 Jun 2016 - 09:36 am

File photo of Taliban insurgents. Reuters Kandahar, Afghanistan: The Taliban have released 21 of some two dozen hostages pulled from their vehicles on...