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Brazil VP 'accidentally' releases post-impeach speech 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff talks to Vice President Michel Temer at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia in this file photo. Reuters Brasília: Brazil's...

Panama squirms as 'Panama Papers' scandal keeps expanding 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela delivers a speech at Bolivar Palace in Panama City on April 6, 2016. AFP, RODRIGO ARANGUA Panama City:...

World Bank invests in firms using tax havens, says Oxfam 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

The charity said 84 percent of the bank’s International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) investments in the region in 2015 went to companies whose use...

IS-held Raqa, Mosul 'must fall' in 2016: French defence chief 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A handout picture released by Iraqi Ministry of Defense shows Iraqi Defence Minister Khalid al-Obaidi (L) and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian...

Cubans embrace the English language as Cold War enmity fades 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

In this TV grab the former Cuban President Fidel Castro talks with students in a school of Havana on April 7, 2016. AFP...

Netanyahu admits Israel hit Hezbollah-bound arms in Syria 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem April 10, 2016. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon Jerusalem: Prime...

Nazi-pillaged artwork pulled from Vienna auction 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Bartholomeus van der Helst, a Self Portrait. Image courtesy: Google Art Project via Wikipedia Vienna: A Vienna auction house has cancelled the planned...

‘Dog Whisperer’ Millan cleared in US probe over cruelty 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

The Department of Animal Care and Control in Los Angeles County launched the investigation after a Feb. 26 episode of the Nat Geo...

EU action on tax havens after Panama leaks may prove ineffective: activists 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A miniature flag of Panama on a mailbox of a building in Kaufbeueren Germany, April 4, 2016. EPA, KARL-JOSEF HILDENBRAND By Francesco Guarascio ...

Hoping to restore trust, UK’s Cameron tightens tax laws 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

British Prime Minister David Cameron at a European Union summit in Brussels. REUTERS By Elizabeth Piper and William James LONDON: British Prime Minister...

Death toll climbs to 10 in Peru guerrilla attack 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Peruvian National soldiers stand guard at a polling station in Lima on April 10, 2016. Almost 23 million Peruvians in Peru and abroad...

Zika spread, impact ‘scarier than we initially thought’ 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen at the Laboratory of Entomology and Ecology of the Dengue Branch of the US Centers for Disease...

Turkey retaliates after rockets from Syria hit border town, official says 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

File photo of A Turkish soldier standing guard is seen from the Syrian town of Khirbet Al-Joz in Latakia count. Reuters ANKARA: The...

Canada steps up audits of overseas tax havens 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

The Canadian flag flies on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Reuters / Blair Gable Ottawa: Canada said Monday it is hiring 100 new auditors...

Ex-FIFA vice president pleads guilty to US bribery charges 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

his file photo taken on November 5, 2015 shows former Honduran Football Federation Alfredo Hawit at a press conference in Tegucigalpa. Former FIFA...

UN lifts secrecy in race for next chief, but backroom deal may still prevail 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

The search for a successor to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - a former South Korean foreign minister who steps down at the end of...

UN: food situation in Iraq’s Falluja extremely worrying 12 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Refugees queue in a line to receive food from volunteers at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, as they wait to...

US embassy warns of possible attack on hotel in Kabul 11 Apr 2016 - 06:57 pm

US Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy: diplomacy.state.gov WASHINGTON: The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan issued an emergency warning to U.S. citizens on Monday, saying...