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South Tyrol debates dual Italian-Austrian citizenship 18 Oct 2018 - 08:20 am

Bolzano, Italy: The Austrian government has angered Italy with plans to offer dual citizenship to the majority German-speaking population of South Tyrol province....

Egyptian mediators race to restore calm in Gaza 17 Oct 2018 - 09:18 pm

Gaza CITY: A high-level Egyptian delegation on Wednesday held urgent talks with Gaza's Hamas rulers, seeking to restore calm after a rocket from...

Smoke forces Melania Trump's plane back to military base 17 Oct 2018 - 04:58 pm

Washington: A plane carrying US First Lady Melania Trump was forced to turn back Wednesday after smoke appeared in the cabin, journalists on...

Student gunman killed 17 at Crimea college: Russian official 17 Oct 2018 - 04:17 pm

MOSCOW: A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left...

India minister quits to fight sexual harassment allegations 17 Oct 2018 - 02:45 pm

NEW DELHI: Indian minister MJ Akbar said on Wednesday he had resigned to fight allegations of sexual harassment levied by several women, the...

Female reporters attacked at Indian temple town in dispute over ban on women 17 Oct 2018 - 02:21 pm

NILAKKAL, India: Rightwing Hindu groups attacked women journalists at an Indian hill temple on Wednesday, trying to prevent women of menstrual age entering...

Reports: 10 feared dead in gas explosion at Crimean college 17 Oct 2018 - 12:56 pm

MOSCOW: Russian news agencies say that up to 10 people may have been killed and at least 40 others wounded by a natural...

More than a thousand remain missing a week after Hurricane Michael 17 Oct 2018 - 11:33 am

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.: More than a thousand people were still missing on Wednesday a week after Hurricane Michael flattened communities across the...

Jailed Thai ex-monk gets further 16 years for child rape, abduction 17 Oct 2018 - 10:47 am

BANGKOK, A former Buddhist monk who sparked outrage in Thailand over his lavish lifestyle and is already serving time for fraud was sentenced...

Fighting in Kashmir's main city leaves 3 combatants dead 17 Oct 2018 - 10:35 am

Srinagar, India: Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gunbattle between militants and...

Barnier offers to extend Brexit transition by a year: diplomats 17 Oct 2018 - 10:25 am

Brussels: The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has opened the possibility of extending the one-year transition period in an effort to unblock...

Japan company admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbers 17 Oct 2018 - 10:05 am

Tokyo: A company supplying equipment to protect major buildings in Japan from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Wednesday, stressing there was...

Bomb under office chair kills Afghanistan election candidate, official says 17 Oct 2018 - 09:45 am

KABUL, An Afghan election candidate was killed by a bomb planted under his office chair in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday,...

58 Australian 'fairy penguins' slaughtered in suspected dog attack 17 Oct 2018 - 09:11 am

Sydney, Wildlife officials in the southern Australia on Wednesday announced an investigation into the mass death of 58 penguins they believe were killed...

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket fire 17 Oct 2018 - 09:02 am

Jerusalem, Israel launched raids against targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian territory that caused...

'Action!' US campaign videos go viral in 2018 17 Oct 2018 - 08:43 am

Washington: An eye-popping $4.5 billion is projected to pour into US political advertising in 2018, but a few thousand bucks last spring may...

Pakistan hangs child killer after death sparked riots 17 Oct 2018 - 08:36 am

Lahore: Pakistani authorities Wednesday executed a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in an incident that shocked the country and...

Harry and Meghan 'gift' rain to drought-stricken Aussie outback 17 Oct 2018 - 08:30 am

Dubbo, Australia, Prince Harry and his expectant wife Meghan visited a drought-stricken region of Australia Wednesday, bringing a rare and welcome rainstorm with...