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Commodities tycoon Margarita Louis-Dreyfus gives birth to twins 21 Mar 2016 - 11:50 am

File picture of Olympique de Marseille's owner Margarita Louis-Dreyfus at the French Ligue 1 soccer match. REUTERS/GONZALO FUENTES Paris: Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, majority owner...

Indonesia says it feels peace efforts on South China Sea “sabotaged” 21 Mar 2016 - 11:43 am

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi makes a statement at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta, IndonesiaMarch 21, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside By Fergus Jensen and...

Russia tries to decipher crash plane pilots' final conversations 21 Mar 2016 - 11:36 am

The flight recorder from the crashed Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, is seen in Moscow, Russia, in this...

Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty of killing reporters: Agencies 21 Mar 2016 - 11:26 am

Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda (Nadia) Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at the Basmanny district court...

7 Italians, 2 Germans among Spain coach crash dead: regional official 21 Mar 2016 - 11:21 am

People sign books of condolence at Barcelona's University in memory for victims of bus crash in Freginals, south of Barcelona, Spain, March 20,...

Russia's Rostov-on-Don airport reopens after deadly crash 21 Mar 2016 - 11:09 am

People walk near the airport of Rostov-On-Don in Russia, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Moscow: The airport in the southern Russian city of...

Kuwait expels 14 accused of Hezbollah links: Report 21 Mar 2016 - 11:06 am

DUBAI: Kuwait has expelled 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis suspected of belonging to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Monday, nearly three weeks...

Israel 'rescues' 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen in covert operation 21 Mar 2016 - 10:47 am

Yemeni Jewish boys read at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida in this file photo. Reuters Jerusalem: Israel has...

Australian PM threatens early elections over union row 21 Mar 2016 - 10:39 am

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (C) listens to a question during a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, March 21, 2016....

As Iraqi civilian rule weakens, Shi’ite clerics call the shots 21 Mar 2016 - 10:22 am

Supporters of prominent Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr display a huge Iraqi flag during a protest against government corruption at Tahrir Square in...

China urges Indonesia to release crew after sea confrontation 21 Mar 2016 - 10:02 am

Jakarta: A Chinese envoy called on Indonesia Monday to release eight crew members of a Chinese fishing boat detained during a maritime confrontation,...

Paris fugitive helped more by friends and neighbours than Islamic State 21 Mar 2016 - 10:02 am

Belgium police outside 79 Quatre-Vents in in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS: After the Paris attacks, ...

North Korea fires short-range missiles into sea: Yonhap 21 Mar 2016 - 09:59 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches landing and anti-landing exercises being carried out by the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an unknown...

Biden says 'watching Iran like a hawk' on nuclear deal 21 Mar 2016 - 09:56 am

Biden spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference less than two weeks after a fence-mending visit to Israel. AFP Washington:...

Kazakh leader's party wins landslide in snap parliamentary vote 21 Mar 2016 - 09:52 am

Kazakhstan citizens went to the polls on March 20 in an early parliamentary election. AFP ASTANA: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party...

Walls to protect Zanzibar resorts threaten fishing communities 21 Mar 2016 - 09:40 am

File photo of fishermen as they walk to the sea at Paje beach in Zanzibar. Reuters/Hereward Holland By Mohamed Issa UROA, Tanzania: A...

Ukraine pilot faces verdict in Russian murder trial decried by Kiev 21 Mar 2016 - 09:35 am

Nadiya Savchenko is both lionised as a fearless Ukrainian freedom fighter -- and demonised as the alleged accomplice in the murder of two...

Curfew lifted in area of southeast Turkey, security tight for festival 21 Mar 2016 - 09:31 am

Two Kurdish women walk near the security operations' zone in Sur district, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. EPA/SEDAT SUNA DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Turkish authorities lifted a...