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Swiss immigration slows, asylum requests boom 28 Jan 2016 - 02:33 pm

File photo of people in Zurich walking past a poster reading "Stop Mass Immigration" ahead of a previous referendum on February 9, 2014....

French, British schools on alert after bomb threats 28 Jan 2016 - 02:26 pm

Paris: Around 20 schools in France and Britain were placed on bomb alert Thursday following another round of telephone threats, the second in...

24 dead, including 10 children, in Greek migrant boat sinking: Coastguard 28 Jan 2016 - 02:16 pm

Migrants sleep covered with blankets as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, January 28, 2016. REUTERS...

Syrian opposition's Manna demands U.N. rethinks talks invites 28 Jan 2016 - 02:07 pm

Haytham Manna, co-leader of an opposition group called the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), talks to reporter outside a hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland January...

Turkey's Kurdish conflict impacting Syria, migrant crises: Demirtas 28 Jan 2016 - 01:52 pm

Kurdish residents flee with some of their belongings after new curfews were imposed in the Sur district of Diyarbakir on January 27, 2016....

France delivers 3 more Rafale fighters to Egypt 28 Jan 2016 - 01:46 pm

Rafale fighter jets queue on the flight deck as they prepare to take off from France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the...

Plant managers acquitted over Hungarian toxic spill 28 Jan 2016 - 01:23 pm

This file photo taken on October 07, 2010 shows the General director of the Hungarian Aluminium Plant (MAL) Zoltan Bakonyi speaking to the...

Double bomb attack hits school in north Cameroon: Local official 28 Jan 2016 - 01:21 pm

DOUALA: A double suicide bomb attack hit a school in the town of Kerawa in north Cameroon on Thursday, a local official said,...

I.Coast ex-leader Gbagbo denies crimes against humanity 28 Jan 2016 - 01:07 pm

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) and his close ally Charles Ble Goude go on trial on four charges of crimes against...

Seven Hamas members killed in Gaza tunnel collapse 28 Jan 2016 - 01:00 pm

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Seven members of Hamas' military wing were killed when a tunnel collapsed this week in the Gaza Strip, the...

Kazakh air ambulance with sick baby aboard crashes, killing five 28 Jan 2016 - 12:51 pm

Almaty region of Kazakhstan Astana, Kazakhstan: An air ambulance helicopter carrying a baby girl with suspected leukaemia to hospital has crashed in Kazakhstan,...

Italy claims over 200 million euros in unpaid tax from Google: Judicial source 28 Jan 2016 - 12:42 pm

Rome: Italy is demanding Google pay over 200 million euros ($218 million) in back taxes following an inquiry into its tax arrangements by...

Afghanistan had poor rights record: Human Rights Watch 28 Jan 2016 - 11:25 am

Kabul: Afghanistan’s new national unity government failed to make significant gains in achieving human rights reforms in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today...

Eight Al Qassam members missing after Gaza tunnel collapse 28 Jan 2016 - 11:18 am

Gaza: Ezz Eddin El-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the missing of eight of its members after a tunnel collapsed because...

At least 12 migrants, including 8 children, drown off Greece: coastguard 28 Jan 2016 - 11:15 am

Athens: The bodies of twelve migrants, including eight children, were discovered off the Greek island of Samos Thursday after their boat capsized, the...

Ceiling collapse at Philippines' biggest airport injures passenger 28 Jan 2016 - 11:05 am

Departure hall of Terminal 3 of Manila Airport Manila: Part of a ceiling collapsed in the Philippines' biggest airport Thursday, slightly injuring a...

Seven killed in landmine blast in Jharkhand 28 Jan 2016 - 10:58 am

Palamau in Jharkhand Ranchi: Seven people, including five policemen, were killed by the banned Maoist group, CPI-Maoist, in a landmine blast in Jharkhand's...