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France, UAE launch fund to protect monuments in conflict areas 03 Dec 2016 - 04:30 pm

DOHA: France and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday launched a $100 million fund to protect heritage sites threatened by extremism and conflict...

First plane arrives with bodies of Brazil footballers killed in crash 03 Dec 2016 - 02:38 pm

Chapecó, Brazil: The first of two Brazilian air force planes carrying the remains of a football team killed in a plane crash arrived...

Egypt's court rules part of protest law unconstitutional 03 Dec 2016 - 02:32 pm

Cairo: Egypt's top court has struck down part of a law that allowed authorities to ban all but officially sanctioned protests, a court...

Indonesia police plane missing, feared crashed 03 Dec 2016 - 02:29 pm

Jakarta: An Indonesian police plane carrying 13 people went missing Saturday on a short domestic flight and is feared crashed, police said, the...

IS attack breaches militiamen's defenses in northern Iraq 03 Dec 2016 - 01:54 pm

BAGHDAD: An official from Iraq's state-sanctioned Shiite militias says Islamic State militants have breached their defenses at a village west of the northern...

Intense Syrian bombing of besieged Aleppo, troops advance 03 Dec 2016 - 01:36 pm

ALEPPO, Syria: Syrian warplanes, artillery and mortar rounds have pounded areas in the eastern rebel-held Aleppo enclave, killing at least three, according to...

Syria army retakes over half of rebel east Aleppo 03 Dec 2016 - 01:33 pm

Aleppo, Syria: Syria's army advanced overnight deeper into east Aleppo where it now controls more than half of the former rebel stronghold after...

Police fire teargas outside Sri Lanka parliament 03 Dec 2016 - 01:26 pm

Colombo: Police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse thousands of opposition-backed protestors outside parliament Saturday as law makers debated the annual budget....

Saudi Arabia replaces labour minister, reshuffles religious and Shura councils 03 Dec 2016 - 01:25 pm

RIYADH: The Custodian of the Two Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz has replaced Saudi Arabia’s labour minister, state media reported on Friday, after...

Islamic State: Raqqah Leader is invited to Iraq to “choose a successor to Baghdadi.” 03 Dec 2016 - 01:25 pm

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information from several reliable sources that the leadership of the “Islamic State” in Iraq have...

Beijing protests to US over Trump Taiwan call 03 Dec 2016 - 01:22 pm

Beijing: Beijing has lodged a protest with the United States over a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen,...

US ready to offer Kabul more support under Trump 03 Dec 2016 - 01:14 pm

Kabul: US President-elect Donald Trump has assured Afghanistan's leader in a phone call that his administration stands ready to up support to the...

Malaysia hits out at Myanmar over 'ethnic cleansing' 03 Dec 2016 - 01:11 pm

Maungdaw, Myanmar: Malaysia accused Myanmar of engaging in the "ethnic cleansing" of its Rohingya minority Saturday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan visited...

Two migrants killed in accident in Austria 03 Dec 2016 - 01:09 pm

Vienna: Two suspected migrants were killed Saturday and a third was seriously injured in an accident as they hid in a cargo train...

Indonesian police plane with 15 on board goes missing 03 Dec 2016 - 12:50 pm

JAKARTA: A twin-engine Indonesian police plane went missing on Saturday with 15 people on board en route to the island of Batam, south...

Morocco sacks high security officials over ‘violations’ 03 Dec 2016 - 12:35 pm

RABAT: Several senior Moroccan security officials were dismissed -- while others were referred to disciplinary action -- for committing "professional violations", Morocco's National...

Iran's supreme court upholds tycoon's death sentence for graft 03 Dec 2016 - 12:20 pm

DUBAI: Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty against Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani for corruption, the judiciary said on Saturday, a sentence...

Mass protest demands ouster, arrest of S. Korea president 03 Dec 2016 - 12:09 pm

Seoul: Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched in Seoul for the sixth-straight week Saturday to demand the ouster and arrest of scandal-hit President...