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Jordan says to install cameras at Al-Aqsa mosque in days 20 Mar 2016 - 04:53 pm

Jordan said on March 20, 2016, it will set up security cameras around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the coming days to...

Nine migrants drown off Libya, hundreds rescued 20 Mar 2016 - 04:51 pm

A photograph made available on 20 March 2016 shows men working for the Libyan Red Crescent recovering bodies of drowned migrants from under...

Hong Kong student leader Wong to set up political party 20 Mar 2016 - 04:16 pm

Student protester Joshua Wong (C), 19, and other members of pro-democracy campaign group Scholarism shout slogans at the start of a press conference...

Migrants still arriving as EU-Turkey deal enters force 20 Mar 2016 - 03:53 pm

A rescue boat (L) shines a light on a dinghy carrying refugees and migrants as it approaches the shore near the city of...

Southern Russian city grieves after jet crash kills 62 20 Mar 2016 - 03:41 pm

Russian people pay their last respect at a memorial place at the airport of Rostov-on-Don to the victims of the FlyDubai plane crash,...

UNESCO adds 20 new sites to list of biosphere reserves 20 Mar 2016 - 03:24 pm

Isla Cozumel Mexico Lima: The United Nation's cultural body UNESCO has added 20 new sites to its network of protected biosphere nature reserves,...

Israel warns against Turkey travel after attack kills 3 citizens 20 Mar 2016 - 03:23 pm

Israeli military personnel with the coffins of Israeli victims who were killed in the Taksim explosion on aboard an aircraft for transfer to...

Turkey blames IS for Istanbul suicide blast 20 Mar 2016 - 03:03 pm

Ankara: A Turkish Islamic State recruit, Mehmet Ozturk, carried out the suicide bombing that killed four foreigners on a major shopping artery in...

Death toll in IS attack in Egypt's Sinai rises to 15 20 Mar 2016 - 02:59 pm

AFP Cairo: The death toll from an attack on a police checkpoint claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula...

Passenger scare delays Russian plane in Thailand 20 Mar 2016 - 02:53 pm

Phuket international airport BANGKOK: A Moscow-bound flight with 369 passengers on board was grounded temporarily at Phuket airport in southern Thailand on Sunday...

Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam spends first night in jail 20 Mar 2016 - 02:46 pm

Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam woke up behind bars on March 20, 2016 after spending his first night in jail on charges of...

Workers tackle piles of trash as Beirut clean-up begins 20 Mar 2016 - 02:43 pm

Trucks began moving stacked rubbish outside the Lebanese capital under a plan adopted by the Lebanese government to put an end to the...

Kenya army says killed 34 Shebab in Somalia firefights 20 Mar 2016 - 02:24 pm

Nairobi: The Kenyan military said Sunday it killed 34 Islamic insurgents in two separate battles in neighbouring Somalia this weekend. Military spokesman David...

Thinker, soldier, business boss: many faces of Germany's anti-immigrant AfD 20 Mar 2016 - 02:19 pm

Chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Frauke Petry (2nd R), and AfD candidates Uwe Junge in Rhineland-Palatinate, Andre Poggenburg in...