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Pakistan interior minister recovering after gun attack 07 May 2018 - 11:53 am

Lahore, Pakistan, Pakistan's interior minister was recovering in hospital Monday after being shot in a suspected assassination attempt possibly linked to blasphemy, with...

Afghan police shoot would-be suicide bomber in Kabul 07 May 2018 - 11:45 am

KABUL, Afghan police shot dead a suicide bomber on Monday as he was apparently preparing to attack an outdoor blood donor facility in...

UK's Johnson to Trump: Iran deal has weaknesses but don't dump it 07 May 2018 - 10:57 am

LONDON, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has appealed to US President Donald Trump not to end the Iran nuclear agreement, saying the deal...

Australia says hundreds likely to languish in Pacific camps 07 May 2018 - 10:50 am

Canberra, Hundreds of asylum-seekers held in Australian-run detention centres in the Pacific are likely to remain there indefinitely as no other country is...

McCain does not want Trump at his funeral: reports 07 May 2018 - 09:52 am

Washington, Senator John McCain, 81 and battling brain cancer, has made clear he does not want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral,...

Feral dog packs kill 6 Indian children, terrify villagers 07 May 2018 - 09:40 am

LUCKNOW, India, Police say roaming packs of feral dogs have killed six children in the last week in north India, terrifying villagers who...

Second India teen raped, set alight: police 07 May 2018 - 09:28 am

New Delhi, A 17-year-old was battling for her life Monday after being raped and set alight, the second such case to shake India...

Bollywood's Khan stays out of limelight for jail appeal hearing 07 May 2018 - 08:24 am

Jodhpur, India, Indian movie star Salman Khan managed to avoid the spotlight when he returned to court on Monday over his five-year jail...

Hawaii volcano destroys dozens of homes, forces evacuations 07 May 2018 - 08:18 am

PAHOA, Hawaii - Hawaii's Kilauea volcano destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how...

NAFTA talks enter critical week with US still pushing hard line 07 May 2018 - 08:04 am

WASHINGTON, Talks to update the NAFTA trade deal enter a make-or-break week on Monday, as ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico...

Taliban attack Afghan police patrol in Kandahar, killing 5 07 May 2018 - 08:02 am

KABUL, Afghanistan: An Afghan official says that at least five police officers have been killed in a Taliban attack on their patrol in...

CIA nominee offered to withdraw over interrogation program 07 May 2018 - 07:55 am

WASHINGTON: Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, offered to withdraw her nomination, two senior administration officials said...

French anger mounts after Trump says Paris needs more guns 06 May 2018 - 10:08 pm

PARIS: Former French President Francois Hollande has two words for U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that gun-toting Parisians could have thwarted Islamic State...

Pakistan interior minister shot, wounded in suspected assassination bid 06 May 2018 - 09:49 pm

Islamabad: Pakistan's interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in a suspected assassination attempt ahead of nationwide elections due this year, but will...

Israeli PM steps up calls to end the Iranian nuclear deal 06 May 2018 - 09:45 pm

JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister on Sunday stepped up his calls for world powers to end the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran as President...

Giuliani confounds, contradicts as he defends Trump in media 06 May 2018 - 09:37 pm

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is delivering confounding and at times contradictory statements as he tries to lessen the legal...

Hundreds in Thiruvananthapuram remember Latvian woman raped, killed in Kerala 06 May 2018 - 09:26 pm

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India: Friends and relatives gathered Sunday to remember the Latvian woman who police say was raped and murdered after she disappeared while...