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Iraqi protesters wave their national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration against corruption in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square yesterday. Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqis...

    Members of the riot police by an armoured vehicle during demonstration in Ankara on June 5, 2013 (AFP)   ANKARA: Turkish police have detained...

Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard after their boat sank on August 28, 2015 (AFP)   ZUWARA: Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at...

    A boat carrying migrants when it sank is pulled to shore in Zuwara, Libya (AP)   ROME: Italian authorities said Friday they had arrested...

    WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy US teenager from Virginia was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison on Friday for conspiring to provide...

    MAPUTO: A veteran Mozambican crime journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Maputo on Friday in an attack that echoed the...

    Migrants wait to be rescued from an overcrowded boat off the coast of Libya on August 23, 2015 (AFP: Photo)   LIBYA: At least...

    The photo shows security forces in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. (AFP) BAGHDAD: 11 Daesh militants, some of them belonging to foreign nationalities,...

Forensic experts investigate a lorry in which refugees were found dead on autobahn A4 between Parndorf and Neusiedl, Austria, yesterday. Vienna: Austrian police...

US President Barack Obama (right) and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu (left) meet residents during a tour of the Treme neighbourhood in New...

  Was   Was Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two WDBJ7-TV employees, who were killed in an attack at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, on...

Iranians stand in front of a cinema featuring "Muhammad" in Tehran on August 27, 2015 -- the first day of screening TEHRAN:  Iran's...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: The White House said on Thursday that the U.S. State Department continues to review TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL...

    Bosnian Muslims hail Naser Oric, (C) former commander of the Bosnian Muslim-dominated army in Srebrenica, at the Sarajevo Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia and...

  ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN:    ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN:  Marinika Babanazarova had been director of the Karakalpakstan State Art Museum for more than 30 years. A world-renowned collection...

PARIS: From round disks to oval clusters; many galaxies in the Universe have undergone a dramatic transformation over the past eight billion years...

UNITED NATIONS:  The Palestinians on Thursday asked the United Nations to allow their flag to be raised at the world body ahead of...

SAN FRANCISCO: - Apple Inc on Thursday invited journalists to a Sept 9 event, where it is expected to unveil new iPhones and...