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Colombian navy seizes more than one tonne of cocaine 04 Apr 2016 - 09:10 am

A Colombian navy sailor stands guard inside a patrol boat during a media visit to the navy base in Cartagena in this file...

Djibouti's strategic position draws world's armies 04 Apr 2016 - 09:00 am

A navy soldier (L) of People's Liberation Army (PLA) stands guard as Chinese citizens board the naval ship "Linyi" at a port in...

Seven dead after car plunges off Cambodian river ferry 04 Apr 2016 - 08:59 am

File picture of a river in Cambodia. Phnom Penh: Seven people including five children drowned in Cambodia when a car packed with passengers...

Panama Papers: huge tax leak exposes Putin aides, world leaders 04 Apr 2016 - 08:49 am

A file picture shows lightning striking a building in Panama City,Panama. EPA Paris: A massive leak of 11.5 million documents has exposed the...

Coalition planes destroy Islamic State-occupied Turkish consulate in Mosul: Ministry 04 Apr 2016 - 08:48 am

ANKARA: Aircraft from a U.S.-led coalition on Monday destroyed the Turkish consulate compound in Mosul in northern Iraq which has been occupied by...

Greece sends first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal 04 Apr 2016 - 08:35 am

Migrants are deported to Turkey from the port of Mytilene on April 4, 2016. AFP / ARIS MESSINIS Lesbos: Greece sent a first...

Peru's Fujimori signs pledge to avoid authoritarian ways of father 04 Apr 2016 - 08:31 am

Peruvian presidential candidate for the Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, and daughter of imprisoned former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, shows the...

Brazil's president makes final plea to impeachment committee 04 Apr 2016 - 08:09 am

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a signing ceremony of land expropriation for agrarian reform and granting slave descendants, or Quilombolas, titles to their...

Syrian opposition makes gains against IS in N. Aleppo 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Smoke rises after US-led coalition carried out airstrikes on IS terrorists' positions as Syrian oppositions took the control of two villages from IS...

Iraqi official urges MPs to dub Sinjar ‘disaster area’ 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

NINEVEH, Iraq: An Iraqi official who belongs to the Yazidi sect voiced surprise on Sunday that Iraq’s parliament had not designated the city...

Greece counts down to first Turkey migrant returns under EU deal 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A Syrian refugee holds a child carrying a placard reading "we ask the EU governments to help us" as refugees and migrants including...

India, Saudi Arabia to strengthen anti-terror cooperation 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia honors India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in...

IS rocket expert killed in Iraq strike: spokesman 03 Apr 2016 - 06:37 pm

Baghdad: An Islamic State group rocket expert believed to have been involved in an attack that killed a US Marine has died in...

Leader of Ansaru jihadist group arrested in Nigeria 03 Apr 2016 - 06:31 pm

Kano, Nigeria: The leader of Nigeria's Ansaru jihadist group, Khalid al-Barnawi, one of three Nigerians listed by Washington in 2012 as "specially designated...

Syria opposition sees US 'ambiguity' on Assad future 03 Apr 2016 - 05:46 pm

Paris: A Syrian opposition figure on Sunday criticised perceived "American ambiguity" on the future of President Bashar al-Assad and urged Washington to confirm...

In Brexit warm up, Dutch voters to consider EU treaty with Ukraine 03 Apr 2016 - 05:36 pm

By Anthony Deutsch and Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM: Dutch voters will decide on Wednesday whether to support a European treaty deepening ties with Ukraine...

Venezuela charges Interpol detective for smuggling drugs 03 Apr 2016 - 05:24 pm

BOGOTA, Colombia: The head detective for Venezuela's office of Interpol is being charged with smuggling drugs to the Dominican Republic. The Venezuelan Attorney...