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US to screen passengers for China mystery virus 17 Jan 2020 - 10:26 pm

Washington:US authorities will begin screening passengers Friday arriving on direct or connecting flights from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious...

Fit for office? Gabbard wins campaign push-up battle 17 Jan 2020 - 10:26 pm

Washington: She posts videos of her workouts, and surfed in the frigid Atlantic on New Year's Day. Now Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard...

Cambodia enlists tuk-tuk drivers in fight against trafficking 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm

LONDON: Thousands of tuk-tuk drivers in Cambodia are to join the fight against human trafficking under a plan by the ride-hailing app Grab...

India's Dalits protest against plan to develop common land 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm

BANGKOK: Protests have flared in the Indian state of Punjab over a government plan to use common land for industrial development, a move...

In Peru's highlands, student radio show sounds alarm on trafficking 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm

CUSCO, Peru: Huddled around a microphone in a village in southern Peru, five teenagers took to the airwaves one Sunday with a stark...

Slave descendants in tiny South African town battle for church-owned land 17 Jan 2020 - 09:28 pm

ELIM, South Africa: On the plains of South Africa's Western Cape, a tiny town has become an unlikely contender in South Africa's drive...

Painting found in Italian museum wall is stolen Klimt 17 Jan 2020 - 08:45 pm

Piacenza, Italy: A painting found stashed inside a wall at an Italian museum has been confirmed as the stolen "Portrait of a Lady"...

Pentagon denies trying to underplay injuries from Iran attack 17 Jan 2020 - 08:45 pm

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries...

Courthouse to be named after Elijah Cummings 17 Jan 2020 - 08:45 pm

BALTIMORE: The city of Baltimore will formally name a courthouse after the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in the first half of 2020....

Iran's top leader strikes defiant tone amid month of turmoil 17 Jan 2020 - 08:45 pm

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's supreme leader lashed out at Western countries as he led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight...

Horse takes a bus ride in Wales 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm

London: A loose horse found running on a busy main road in the Welsh capital Cardiff was put on a public bus to...

Adult content greets commuters at Sweden bus stop 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm

Stockholm: Commuters in a southeast Swedish city were briefly roused from their wintry routines by a public display of pornography at a bus...

Angolan ex-president dos Santos denies ties to daughter's alleged graft 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm

Luanda: Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has denied links to alleged public company embezzlement during his rule, in his first response...

Ukrainian president asks PM who disparaged him to stay 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected his prime minister's resignation and asked Oleksiy Honcharuk to stay on the job. Honcharuk submitted...

Brexit throws up foreign policy balancing act for Britain 17 Jan 2020 - 07:17 pm

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears torn between the United States and the European Union as he tries to chart Britain's course on...

Historic Trump impeachment trial begins in Senate 17 Jan 2020 - 02:32 pm

Washington - The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be...

Dozens injured at India bull-taming festival 17 Jan 2020 - 01:56 pm

Madurai, India - Dozens of young men were injured on the first day of a traditional bull-taming festival in southern India that activists...

Philippine residents retrieve animals, belongings amid threat of volcano eruption 17 Jan 2020 - 01:33 pm

Agoncillo, Philippines - Thousands of residents under orders to evacuate from a town near the Philippine volcano Taal were allowed to briefly visit...