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Quake hits Indonesia's Lombok island; tsunami warning lifted 05 Aug 2018 - 05:08 pm

JAKARTA, Indonesia: A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's popular tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, triggering a brief tsunami warning, one week after another...

UK Labour leader says ending anti-Semitism a vital priority 05 Aug 2018 - 05:03 pm

LONDON: British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is vowing to rebuild trust with the Jewish community as he tries to calm a storm...

Suicide attack kills three NATO soldiers in Afghanistan: official 05 Aug 2018 - 02:54 pm

Kabul: A suicide attack claimed by the Taliban killed three foreign soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the deadliest assault on...

52 jihadists killed in Egypt's Sinai: army 05 Aug 2018 - 12:49 pm

Cairo, Egypt's army said on Sunday its forces have killed over the past few days 52 jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula where the...

Britain likely to leave EU without deal: minister 05 Aug 2018 - 12:41 pm

London, Britain is now likely leave the European Union without a deal due to the "intransigence" of the European Union, International Trade Secretary...

Bangladesh PM urges teen protesters to go home amid violence 05 Aug 2018 - 12:25 pm

Dhaka, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged students Sunday to go home as police fired tear gas during an eighth day of unprecedented...

Head of Syrian regime research centre killed: monitor 05 Aug 2018 - 12:20 pm

Beirut, The head of a Syrian government research centre fabricating weapons has been killed in an explosion targeting his car, a Britain-based monitor...

Venezuela's Maduro says drone blast was bid to kill him, blames Colombia 05 Aug 2018 - 11:06 am

CARACAS: At least one explosion rocked a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech on Saturday and the government...

115 students injured in clashes as Bangladesh teen protests turn violent 04 Aug 2018 - 09:29 pm

Dhaka: More than 100 people were injured in Bangladesh Saturday after police fired rubber bullets at students protesters, a doctor and witnesses said,...

Melted asphalt, shoes for dogs: Europe wilts in heat 04 Aug 2018 - 08:11 pm

Madrid: Europe sweltered Saturday in intense heat with temperatures hitting near-record highs of 46 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit) in Portugal, while elsewhere...

Brazil's Lula gets presidential nomination -- even behind bars 04 Aug 2018 - 07:21 pm

Sao Paulo/Brasília: Even though he's behind bars, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was set to secure his leftist party's nomination Saturday, maintaining...

Erdogan says to freeze assets of 'US justice, interior ministers' 04 Aug 2018 - 03:09 pm

Ankara: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Ankara would freeze the assets in Turkey of the US ministers of "justice and interior",...

North Korea criticises 'alarming' US behaviour 04 Aug 2018 - 02:22 pm

Singapore: North Korea on Saturday said the US was acting with "alarming" impatience on the issue of denuclearisation, after Secretary of State Mike...

Zimbabwe opposition in court over post-vote violence 04 Aug 2018 - 12:42 pm

Harare, Members of Zimbabwe's defeated opposition party were due to appear in court Saturday, accused of involvement in the deadly violence that followed...

Russian helicopter crash in northern Siberia kills 18: ministry 04 Aug 2018 - 11:36 am

Moscow, Moscow on Saturday said 18 people were killed when a helicopter crashed on its way to an oil station in northern Siberia...

Pompeo "optimistic" about ending N.Korea's nuclear programme 04 Aug 2018 - 10:05 am

SINGAPORE, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday the process of ending North Korea's nuclear programme would take time but he...

Ex-Guatemala president, arrested over graft, leaves detention 04 Aug 2018 - 09:55 am

Guatemala City, Former Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom, arrested in February over corruption allegations, left preventative detention Friday night after his bond was paid,...