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Spanish ship returns home after dramatic migrant rescue 21 Jul 2018 - 07:35 pm

Palma, Spain: Two vessels of a Spanish NGO involved in rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean arrived in the Spanish port of Palma on...

Spain's conservatives swing to the right with new leader 21 Jul 2018 - 07:24 pm

MADRID: Spain's conservatives shifted to the right on Saturday, electing a traditionalist as leader as they seek to re-establish a clear political identity...

Hundreds protest over Hong Kong's move to ban separatist political party 21 Jul 2018 - 07:05 pm

HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Saturday rallied against the government's attempt to ban a political party, saying it dealt...

Democratic socialists stepping up in races across US 21 Jul 2018 - 07:05 pm

PORTLAND, Maine: A week ago, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn't quite ready to consider himself a member of the Democratic Socialists of America,...

Names of those 17 killed in Table Rock Lake boat accident released; 9 of them from single family 21 Jul 2018 - 06:09 pm

BRANSON, Mo.: More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the...

Trump denies wrongdoing, says lawyer Michael Cohen's tape 'perhaps illegal' 21 Jul 2018 - 05:52 pm

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denied any wrongdoing a day after reports that his onetime attorney Michael Cohen had recorded them...

Syrian army pushes into Quneitra province: Reports 21 Jul 2018 - 04:53 pm

AMMAN: The Syrian army and allied forces made advances in the southwest that bring it closer to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as rebels...

German prosecutors charge bus attacker with attempted murder 21 Jul 2018 - 03:00 pm

BERLIN: German prosecutors are charging a 34-year-old man who attacked passengers on a crowded city bus with a knife in the northern town...

Israel, Hamas agree to restore calm in Gaza Strip 21 Jul 2018 - 10:12 am

GAZA: Israel and Hamas have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas said on Saturday. "With Egyptian and...

Russian officials to meet suspected spy jailed in US 20 Jul 2018 - 05:51 pm

MOSCOW: Russian Embassy officials were to meet Thursday with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the...

Man arrested after knife attack on German bus 20 Jul 2018 - 05:38 pm

BERLIN: A man armed with a knife attacked people on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, wounding at...

Macron to fire bodyguard caught on camera beating protester - Elysee 20 Jul 2018 - 11:55 am

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to fire the bodyguard who was caught on camera hitting a May Day protester after "new...

Trump-Putin II: Planning fall event in aftermath of Helsinki 20 Jul 2018 - 11:33 am

WASHINGTON: Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump swiftly invited the Russian leader to the White...

Turkey lifts state of emergency 20 Jul 2018 - 01:27 am

Ankara: Turkey lifted its state of emergency, two years after the government imposed following the failed coup attempt on July 20, 2016. The...

Zimbabwe defends electoral roll over 'ghost voters' 20 Jul 2018 - 12:14 am

Harare: Zimbabwean authorities on Thursday defended a new electoral roll after allegations that thousands of fake names, duplicates and dead people are registered...

Israel adopts controversial Jewish nation-state law 20 Jul 2018 - 12:13 am

Jerusalem: Israel's parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it could...

Hamas supports new Egyptian bid for Palestinian unity 19 Jul 2018 - 09:15 pm

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Anadolu Agency has obtained a copy of an Egyptian proposal for achieving reconciliation between Palestinian factions Fatah and...

Despite summit criticism, Trump looks to next Putin meeting 19 Jul 2018 - 08:57 pm

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed forces within the United States on Thursday for marring what they called...