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Rohingya man stoned to death in western Myanmar 05 Jul 2017 - 12:09 pm

YANGON, Myanmar: A Buddhist mob stoned a Rohingya man to death and wounded six others in the country’s western Rakhine state, the government...

Communal clashes leave 150 dead in Nigeria 05 Jul 2017 - 12:07 pm

LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 150 people were killed and several thousand others displaced in communal clashes last week in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Cross...

Syrian national arrested with suicide belt in Turkey 05 Jul 2017 - 12:01 pm

HATAY, Turkey: Turkish security forces on Tuesday arrrested a Syrian national carrying an explosive belt in southern Turkey’s Hatay province, according to a...

Scores of Iraqi civilians killed in clashes in W. Mosul 05 Jul 2017 - 11:53 am

BAGHDAD: Scores of civilians were killed in late June amid an ongoing Iraqi army campaign aimed at retaking the northern city of Mosul...

Ghana mine collapse kills 14 05 Jul 2017 - 11:51 am

ACCRA, Ghana: A 15-member rescue team was deployed on Tuesday to search for survivors after 14 miners died in a collapsed mine in...

Afghanistan agrees on joint border ops with Pakistan 05 Jul 2017 - 11:46 am

KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Tuesday said his country agreed to conduct joint border operations with Pakistan. His statement came two...

Syria regime planes hit sites inside de-escalation zone 05 Jul 2017 - 11:41 am

DAMASCUS: Assad regime warplanes on Tuesday struck the city of Douma east of capital Damascus, which lies within one of several so-called de-escalation...

UK car sales fall in June for third month in a row 05 Jul 2017 - 11:31 am

LONDON: British new car registrations fell by an annual 4.8 percent in June, the first time in six years sales have fallen for...

Russia, China display unity over North Korea 05 Jul 2017 - 12:38 am

ANKARA: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that finding solutions to the issues plaguing the Korean peninsula constituted a "joint foreign policy...

Detained Bahrain activist at risk of torture: Amnesty 04 Jul 2017 - 09:12 pm

Dubai: Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Bahraini authorities to release a detained human rights activist it said was at "high risk of torture"....

French smokers, at 10 euros a pack, may finally think twice 04 Jul 2017 - 08:13 pm

Paris: The cost of lighting up at a French sidewalk cafe may finally dissuade even the most ardent smoker, if Prime Minister Edouard...

Italy in migrant row with Austria as Europe arrivals top 100,000 04 Jul 2017 - 07:42 pm

Rome: Italy summoned Austria's ambassador Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border to stop migrants entering, as the number crossing...

Canada to award millions to former Guantanamo detainee 04 Jul 2017 - 07:28 pm

Montreal: Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured in Afghanistan...

US-backed forces breach IS defences in heart of Syria's Raqa 04 Jul 2017 - 07:19 pm

Beirut: US-backed forces have penetrated the heavily fortified heart of jihadist bastion Raqa for the first time, in a key milestone in the...

Sinn Fein blames British PM for Northern Ireland talks failure 04 Jul 2017 - 07:02 pm

BELFAST: Northern Ireland’s largest Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein on Tuesday blamed a deal between the rival Democratic Unionist Party and British Prime...

Fire kills girl at Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon 04 Jul 2017 - 03:07 pm

BEIRUT: A fire caused by an electrical malfunction killed a girl at a Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley overnight, a...

Vietnam's capital to ban motorbikes by 2030 04 Jul 2017 - 12:34 pm

Hanoi: Officials in Vietnam's traffic-choked capital Hanoi vowed on Tuesday to banish motorbikes by 2030 to ease environment and congestions woes, a decision...

5th round Syria peace talks gets underway in Kazakhstan 04 Jul 2017 - 10:36 am

ANKARA: The fifth round of peace talks aimed at ending the Syria conflict began Tuesday in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov...