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FBI probes Charlottesville deadly car ramming 13 Aug 2017 - 06:16 am

Charlottesville, United States: The FBI said it has opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances that led a driver to plow a...

Libya Releases 78 Tunisians Jailed Over Illegal Emigration 13 Aug 2017 - 06:10 am

Tunis: Libyan authorities released some 78 Tunisians jailed in Libya over attempted illegal emigration from the coast of the Libyan city of Zawyia....

Car ramming, helicopter crash claim 3 lives at US far-right rally 13 Aug 2017 - 05:59 am

Charlottesville, United States: A white nationalists' rally erupted into deadly violence Saturday as a car plowed into a crowd while demonstrators and counter-protesters...

Oregon coastal city at ‘double ground zero’ braced for solar eclipse 13 Aug 2017 - 01:02 am

DEPOE BAY: Oregon’s Depoe Bay is preparing for the first total eclipse to traverse the continental United States in a century as if...

Egypt punishes train disaster 'selfie medics' 13 Aug 2017 - 12:17 am

Cairo: Egypt's health ministry has punished six medics who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a...

One dead, 34 injured as white supremacists clash with counter protesters at Charlottesville rally 13 Aug 2017 - 12:10 am

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.: At least one person was killed and 34 others injured in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday when white nationalists protesting plans to...

Long road to recovery for South Sudan’s youngest 12 Aug 2017 - 11:15 pm

JUBA, South Sudan: For the past two weeks, Sandy has slept on the dirty floor of a small and stuffy tent, squeezed in...

End of an era as typewriting tests phased out in India 12 Aug 2017 - 07:11 pm

Mumbai: The unmistakable chatter of typewriters outside courthouses and government offices will soon fall silent in India's financial capital Mumbai as stenography colleges...

Former Syrian rebels flee, hide from army conscription 12 Aug 2017 - 06:49 pm

BEIRUT: After fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for six years, rebel soldier Abu Mohammed laid down his arms as part of a...

Italian tourist held over killing of hotel supervisor at Egyptian resort 12 Aug 2017 - 06:12 pm

CAIRO: An Italian tourist has been detained in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam on suspicion of killing a supervisor on...

Flash floods kill 11 in northeastern Iran 12 Aug 2017 - 11:51 am

Tehran: Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in northeastern Iran have left at least 11 people dead and two missing, the Red Crescent...

Two shot dead in protests against disputed Kenya vote 12 Aug 2017 - 11:34 am

Nairobi: Two people have been shot dead in Kenya in angry opposition protests which flared up again Saturday after the hotly disputed election...

Syrian army secures Islamic State-held town in Homs province 12 Aug 2017 - 10:49 am

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces seized full control of the last major town in Homs province held by Islamic State, Syrian state media reported...

Kuwait arrests 12 over ties to Iran, Hezbollah 12 Aug 2017 - 10:43 am

Kuwait City: Kuwaiti authorities on Saturday arrested 12 convicted members of a "terrorist cell" with ties to Iran and Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah...

Merkel embarks on Germany's 'strangest' campaign 12 Aug 2017 - 04:50 am

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, fresh from a three-week Alpine holiday, embarked Saturday on what may be the most bizarre election campaign in...

Trump says mulling 'military option' on Venezuela 12 Aug 2017 - 04:13 am

Bedminster, United States: US President Donald Trump said Friday he was considering military options as a response to the escalating crisis in Venezuela,...

Violence and vuvuzelas as split Kenya reacts to Uhuru Kenyatta's second term win 12 Aug 2017 - 01:59 am

Kisumu, Kenya: Immediately after news broke that President Uhuru Kenyatta had been re-elected as Kenya's president, people took to the streets across the...