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Hollande pardons woman who killed husband 28 Dec 2016 - 10:04 pm

Paris: French President Francois Hollande yesterday pardoned a woman who killed her abusive husband, allowing her to walk free from jail where she...

Rise in migrants leaving Germany 28 Dec 2016 - 10:04 pm

Berlin: Nearly 55,000 migrants who were not eligible for or were likely to be denied asylum left Germany voluntarily in 2016, up by...

Trump slams 'inflammatory' Obama 28 Dec 2016 - 08:50 pm

Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday accused Barack Obama of making "inflammatory" statements and complicating the impending transfer of power -- the latest...

California teens rescued from capsize boat 28 Dec 2016 - 08:47 pm

Little Torch Key: Three stranded teenage boys from California called 911 and calmly sat atop a capsized boat before being rescued from waters...

US charges 3 Chinese with hacking 28 Dec 2016 - 08:47 pm

New York: Three Chinese citizens have been criminally charged in the United States with trading on confidential corporate information obtained by hacking into...

Colombia kidnappings down 92% 28 Dec 2016 - 08:38 pm

Bogota: Kidnappings in Colombia have fallen 92 percent since 2000, a "historic" change, the authorities said as the government and FARC rebels implement...

Kerry urges Israel, Palestinians to agree on 1967 lines with land swaps 28 Dec 2016 - 08:38 pm

Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Wednesday that Israel and a future Palestine should live as two states based on the...

Gambians turn back to migration as political impasse drags 28 Dec 2016 - 07:01 pm

Banjul, Gambia: Ansu Sanyang was ready. Sick of providing so little for his parents and sisters with any work he could find, the...

Israel's other army expanding illegal settlements 28 Dec 2016 - 06:39 pm

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank: Abuses of power committed by Israel's Civilian Security Coordinators (CSCs), civilian guards of the illegal settlements, continue to contribute...

Floods in southwest Congo kill at least 50 28 Dec 2016 - 06:39 pm

KINSHASA: Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left another 10,000...

Hong Kong's feline friends offer insight into city's past 28 Dec 2016 - 06:19 pm

Hong Kong: Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not a problem for these cats. Four-legged "assistants" can be found perched in certain...

Chinese middle class in uproar over alleged police brutality 28 Dec 2016 - 06:10 pm

BEIJING: Thousands among China's middle class are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of an alleged police brutality case, representing a rare...

Serial testers and cursory checks: India’s flawed generic drug trials business 28 Dec 2016 - 05:49 pm

HYDERABAD: Vasudeva Prakash left his job as a mechanic in Hyderabad three years ago for what he calls a more lucrative career: taking...

Beijing buyers club? China’s cancer patients gamble on grey market 28 Dec 2016 - 05:22 pm

SHANGHAI: When her father’s lung cancer worsened, Yin Min, a 51-year-old financial broker from Shanghai, faced a choice: pay nearly $3,000 a month...

Rise in baby trafficking in India cuts adoption numbers and fuels trade 28 Dec 2016 - 04:55 pm

MUMBAI: An increase in baby trafficking in India is reducing the number of children available for adoption and fuelling the lucrative trade as...

Traffickers get life in prison in India for chopping off labourers’ hands 28 Dec 2016 - 04:55 pm

Eight human traffickers found guilty of torturing and chopping off the hands of two labourers have received life prison sentences and hefty fines,...

German police detain alleged contact of Berlin truck attacker 28 Dec 2016 - 04:44 pm

Berlin: German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian national on suspicion of having ties to Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned...