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'Very strong' typhoon Jebi on course to hit Japan 03 Sep 2018 - 12:14 pm

Tokyo: A typhoon that forecasters warned could be the strongest to hit Japan in 25 years barrelled directly towards the western part of...

Ten shot at apartment complex in San Bernadino, California 03 Sep 2018 - 12:00 pm

Ten people including children were shot at an apartment complex in San Bernadino, California Sunday night, police said, with three people in dire...

Sri Lanka probes deaths of wild elephants 03 Sep 2018 - 11:04 am

Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities on Monday began investigating the deaths of wild elephants in the east of the island after pulling seven carcasses...

Syria strike kills 8 pro-regime fighters: monitor 03 Sep 2018 - 10:29 am

Beirut: An air strike near a US base in southeastern Syria has killed at least eight pro-government fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Chagos Islands: international dispute and human drama 03 Sep 2018 - 10:05 am

Paris, Fifty years ago Britain separated the Chagos Islands from its colony Mauritius, expelling the entire population to make way for the installation...

Philippines' Duterte apologises for cursing Obama 03 Sep 2018 - 09:33 am

Jerusalem, Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to former US president Barack Obama for calling him a "son of a whore" in 2016,...

Reuters Myanmar reporters jailed for seven years in landmark secrets case 03 Sep 2018 - 09:29 am

YANGON: A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven...

India's billion-dollar battle to build the world's biggest statue 03 Sep 2018 - 09:01 am

SARDAR SAROVAR DAM, India: The world's biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it...

Raging fire tears through prized Rio museum 03 Sep 2018 - 08:28 am

Rio de Janeiro: A massive fire on Sunday ripped through Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, in what the...

Cyprus police intercept 36 Syrian migrants aboard boat 03 Sep 2018 - 12:00 am

NICOSIA, Cyprus: Cyprus police say they have intercepted 36 Syrian migrants, including 11 women and 14 children, after their boat was located off...

Israel's Arab MPs back UK's Corbyn amid anti-Semitism accusations 02 Sep 2018 - 10:24 pm

JERUSALEM: A group of Arab lawmakers in Israel on Sunday praised British Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose party has been battling accusations...

Father of slain Iowa student decries using her as 'pawn' 02 Sep 2018 - 10:15 pm

BROOKLYN, Iowa: The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in an opinion piece spoke out against using his daughter's death in...

Nebraska Catholic diocese rocked by old abuse allegations 02 Sep 2018 - 07:10 pm

LINCOLN, Neb.: For more than a decade, a conservative Catholic diocese in Nebraska was the only church in the U.S. that refused to...

Bomb kills one and injures 15 in cafe in southern Philippines 02 Sep 2018 - 06:07 pm

MANILA: A bomb blast killed one person and injured 15 in an internet cafe in the southern Philippines on Sunday, in the second...

Tens of thousands mourn murdered Ukraine rebel 'hero' 02 Sep 2018 - 04:09 pm

Donetsk, Ukraine: Tens of thousands of mourners thronged the streets in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday to pay their final respects...

Iraqi protesters rally for jobs in Basra 02 Sep 2018 - 03:43 pm

BAGHDAD: Angry protesters blocked a main highway in Iraq’s southern Basra province on Sunday as part of pressure on the government to create...

18 injured in German protests for and against migrants 02 Sep 2018 - 03:30 pm

Chemnitz, Germany: Eighteen people were injured as the anti-migrant far-right and counter-protesters held opposing rallies in the German city of Chemnitz, which was...

Ebola survivors returning home to fear, stigma in Congo 02 Sep 2018 - 02:46 pm

BENI, Congo: Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom...