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Afghan Taliban tighten squeeze on Helmand capital 10 May 2016 - 02:10 pm

epa05295009 Afghan Police inspect a destroyed check post in Baba jee area of Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, 08 May 2016. Five Afghan cops...

U.K. ‘must probe’ legality of drones in war 10 May 2016 - 02:03 pm

LONDON: A group of British lawmakers has called on the U.K. government to urgently clarify the legality of its drone strikes in Iraq...

U.S. launches second WTO complaint in China chicken trade dispute 10 May 2016 - 02:02 pm

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Tuesday brought a fresh challenge to China’s anti-dumping duties on U.S. broiler chicken products at the World Trade...

Philippines' Duterte open to territory-row talks with China 10 May 2016 - 01:47 pm

Rodrigo Duterte, Mayor of Davao and presidential candidate, speaks during a news conference after casting his vote during the presidential election on Monday....

Israel court convicts Palestinian boy of attempted murder 10 May 2016 - 01:41 pm

Ahmed Manasra, a Palestinian from Beit Hanina in northern Jerusalem, sits in his hospital bed at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, in this handout...

US weighs remaining Myanmar sanctions under Suu Kyi administration 10 May 2016 - 01:33 pm

US ambassador Scot Marciel discusses US-Myanmar relations during a press conference in Yangon, on May 10, 2016. AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad Yangon: Washington's new...

German knife man kills one, wounds three in possible Islamist attack 10 May 2016 - 01:28 pm

Police investigators looks at bloodstained footprints leading out of a train and on a platform following a knife attack in Grafing train station,...

Tired of waiting, Greece’s migrants turn to business to survive 10 May 2016 - 01:23 pm

A refugee shops from a tent which has been transformed into a mini-market at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the...

Air India flight does emergency landing in Bhopal 10 May 2016 - 01:07 pm

File picture used for representation. Bhopal: A Delhi-Kochi Air India flight had to make an emergency landing here on Tuesday morning due a...

70-year-old Indian woman gives birth to first baby 10 May 2016 - 12:52 pm

New Delhi: An Indian woman who gave birth at the age of 70 said Tuesday she was not too old to become a...

Rwandan mayors on trial in France over 1994 genocide 10 May 2016 - 12:50 pm

Skulls preserved at the Genocide memorial in Nyamata, inside a Catholic church, where thousands were slaughtered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. AFP...

Air strikes kill 10 in Syria’s Idlib province - monitoring group 10 May 2016 - 12:46 pm

BEIRUT: Air strikes on a town in Idlib province in Syria’s northwest killed at least 10 people on Tuesday, monitoring group the Syrian...

Bison officially designated as national mammal of US 10 May 2016 - 12:25 pm

Wild bison eye a visitor at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge outside Denver. US Forest Service/File Photo/Handout via Reuters/Files By Laura...

Italy arrests 2 people suspected of planning attacks in Rome, London 10 May 2016 - 12:20 pm

BARI, Italy: Italian police on Tuesday arrested two people as part of an investigation into a militant cell suspected of planning attacks in...

Armed tribesmen kill 6 civilians in Sudan's Darfur: UN 10 May 2016 - 12:19 pm

Khartoum: An attack by armed tribesmen near a makeshift camp for displaced people in Sudan's conflict-hit Darfur region killed six civilians, including two...

Massive tornadoes rip across Oklahoma, at least two killed 10 May 2016 - 12:12 pm

A tornado rips through a residential area after touching down south of Wynnewood, Oklahoma on May 09, 2016. AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT /...

Israel boycott campaigner 'prevented from travel' 10 May 2016 - 12:08 pm

Jerusalem: Israeli authorities have refused to renew the travel documents of a leader of a campaign to boycott the Jewish state, officials said...

Austrian government seeks new start to counter far-right 10 May 2016 - 11:47 am

Werner Faymann resigned as Austrian chancellor on May 9, 2016 (AFP Photo/Dieter Nagl) Vienna: Austria's unpopular and squabbling centrist coalition began the search...