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CPI-M plenum aiming to strengthen organisation begins on Sunday 27 Dec 2015 - 09:19 am

Some of the top CPI-M leaders meet before the five-day plenum Kolkata: Months before the crucial assembly polls in its erstwhile citadels West...

Three missing in Myanmar jade mine landslide: officials 27 Dec 2015 - 09:19 am

Yangon: Rescuers in northern Myanmar Sunday said they were confident only a handful of people are missing in a jade mine landslide, refuting...

Death toll at least 7 in Texas storms that spawned tornadoes 27 Dec 2015 - 09:01 am

DALLAS: Tornadoes swept through the Dallas area after dark on Saturday leaving substantial damage and at least seven people dead either from the...

Myanmar army chief asks Thailand for death sentence review 27 Dec 2015 - 08:34 am

Yangon: Myanmar's army chief has called on Thailand to review the sentencing of two countrymen to death for murdering a pair of British...

Tornado kills four near Dallas, Texas: US media 27 Dec 2015 - 08:32 am

Washington: Four people were killed when a tornado on Saturday ripped through Garland, Texas, near the city of Dallas, US media reported. The...

Czech leader calls migrant wave in Europe an 'organised invasion' 27 Dec 2015 - 08:29 am

Prague: Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday called the current wave of refugees to Europe "an organised invasion", adding young men from Syria...

Boko Haram kills at least 14 in Christmas Day attack in Nigeria: vigilantes 27 Dec 2015 - 08:24 am

Women and children sit at the army headquaters after being rescued from Boko Haram camps in Maiduguri, Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, on...

Jetliner evacuated in New York after smoke reported 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Representative image By Kevin Murphy Passengers and crew on a Spirit Airlines jetliner parked at a gate at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in...

IS claims attack on Ahmadi mosque in Bangladesh 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Bangladeshi men carry the body of a man killed in a suicide bomb blast at a Ahmadiyya mosque during Friday prayers in Rajshahi,...

Breakaway Muslim rebels kill nine people in southern Philippines 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

File photo MANILA: A breakaway Muslim rebel group killed nine civilians in the southern Philippines in a series of attacks on Christmas eve,...

Muslim prayer hall attacked in French Corsica island 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Attackers smashed windows and ransacked the Muslim prayer room in Ajaccio. AFP Paris: Demonstrators attacked a Muslim prayer hall and attempted to burn...

Floods hit parts of England as government scrambles to respond 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

People being rescued from their homes in a kayak after floods on Warwick Street in Carlisle, England. AP London: Heavy rains triggered floods...

Children of Cuban revolution recall exodus to US 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Javier Llorens shows on his mobile phone a picture of him and his brother in Cuba before they were sent unaccompanied to the...

German navy rescued more than 10,000 refugees in Mediterranean 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Berlin: The German Navy has rescued more than 10,000 refugees since May in the Mediterranean Sea. The armed forces said Saturday that more...

Tokyo to propose new fund for former 'comfort women': media 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Protestors sit next to a statue called the Peace Monument for former comfort women. AFP Tokyo: Japan plans to propose a fresh fund...

Central Africa wracked by decades of strife, mismanagement 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Bangui, Central African Republic: Volatile Central African Republic, which votes for a new president and parliament Wednesday, is rich in natural resources but...

Belgian college’s concerns over Paris attacker ignored: newspapers 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Bilal Hadfi, 20, named as one of the attackers who detonated a suicide bomb outside the Stade de France in Paris on Nov....

15,000 protest Turkey's military crackdown on Kurdish rebels 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Kurds in Düsseldorf, Germany, in a protest against Islamic State. File photo Berlin: Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest...