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Car bomb against kills 14 in southern Baghdad 02 May 2016 - 02:00 pm

source. Twitter Baghdad: A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed at least 14 people in southern Baghdad on Monday, security and medical sources...

Hundreds promoting independence detained in Indonesia's Papua 02 May 2016 - 12:59 pm

Indonesian police on Monday detained hundreds of pro-independence demonstrators in the eastern province of Papua on the anniversary of Dutch New Guinea's 1963...

May Day rally in Los Angeles features strong anti-Trump theme 02 May 2016 - 12:36 pm

People march with an inflatable effigy of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an immigrant rights May Day rally in Los Angeles, California,...

Turkish soldier killed in PKK bombing in southeast: army 02 May 2016 - 12:20 pm

Diyarbakir: One Turkish soldier was killed and 20 others were wounded when a car bomb blamed on Kurdish militants exploded in the Kurdish-majority...

Militants threatened to slit our throats: Indonesian hostage 02 May 2016 - 12:12 pm

Indonesian sailors attend a ceremony to mark the hostages being handed over to thier families at the Foreign Ministry office in Jakarta on...

Reckitt Benckiser exec slapped in S. Korea while apologising for deadly sterilizers 02 May 2016 - 12:05 pm

Atar Safdar (C), the head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser Korea, is surrounded by the aggreived relatives of victims as he bows during a...

More than 1,000 people evacuated from Paris migrant camp 02 May 2016 - 11:47 am

A migrant sits on a mattress at a makeshift camp in Paris on March 24, 2016. AFP Photo/Joel Saget Paris: Police evacuated more...

Bodies of climbers emerge from Himalayan glacier after 16 years 02 May 2016 - 11:27 am

Alex Lowe (L) seen with Conrad Anker, who was climbing with him and cameraman David Bridges during the October 1999 avalanche and survived....

US in desperate bid to save Syria truce as Aleppo bombed 02 May 2016 - 11:23 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) gestures next to Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir during a meeting on Syria in Geneva, on...

More than a million people are unemployed in Algeria 02 May 2016 - 11:11 am

File photo of Algerian upper parliament. REUTERS Algeria: There is a working population of 11.932 million people in Algeria, distributed among working population...

Iran to grant citizenship to families of foreign 'martyrs' 02 May 2016 - 10:48 am

Tehran: Iran has passed a law allowing the government to grant citizenship to the families of foreigners killed while fighting for the Islamic...

Four killed in homemade bomb blast in India 02 May 2016 - 10:00 am

Kolkata: Four people were killed when the crude bombs they were making exploded in India's West Bengal, where bitterly fought state elections are...

UN: 741 People Killed in Violence across Iraq in April 02 May 2016 - 09:57 am

AFP/ File photo. Baghdad: A total of 741 Iraqis were killed and another 1,374 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed...

Kuwait freedoms make austerity drive tricky for government 02 May 2016 - 09:47 am

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical...

Sudan denies visa for US officials 02 May 2016 - 09:41 am

Khartoum: Sudan has denied United States officials visa in a tit for tat move against Washington because it had previously refused to grant...

Drones, Turkish artillery hit Islamic State in Syria, 34 dead: Military 02 May 2016 - 09:17 am

ANKARA: Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which took off from southern Turkey struck Islamic State targets in Syria on Sunday, killing 34...

China airs two more confessions by Taiwan fraud suspects 02 May 2016 - 09:16 am

Confessions by two more Taiwanese telecoms fraud suspects, from among dozens deported from Kenya to China last month, were aired by Chinese state...

Egyptian police raid press syndicate, arrest two journalists 02 May 2016 - 07:47 am

Egyptian police on Sunday raided the press syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters...