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Iran tells UN envoy that row with Saudis won’t derail Syria talks 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Staffan de Mistura GENEVA: The United Nations envoy for Syria said on Sunday that Iran had assured him that its diplomatic row with...

16 dead in football team's bus crash in Mexico 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Coatzacoalcos: A bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunged into a river after careening off a bridge in eastern Mexico on Sunday,...

Qaeda in Syria briefly abducts prominent media activists 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Syrian 'citizen journalists' Hadi Abdallah (left) and Raed Fares Photo: Twitter Beirut: Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate briefly detained two of the country's most prominent...

Top Italian female football team scorns mafia-style threats 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Locri, Italy: One of Italy's top women's indoor football teams defied a mafia-style threat in the heartland of the powerful 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate...

Boyfriend held in Ghana over British actress's murder 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Sian Blake Accra: The boyfriend of former British soap actress Sian Blake has been arrested in Ghana over the murder of her and...

Arab League Council Condemns Attacks on Saudi Missions in Iran 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Representative image Cairo: Arab League Council Sunday condemned attacks against the Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad, holding Iran responsible for these...

After 3-year gap, Egyptian parliament picks speaker to push through Sisi laws 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Ali Abdelaty CAIRO: Meeting for the first time in more than three years, Egypt’s new parliament on Sunday elected...

Paris attacks ringleader visited UK: report 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

London: The Belgian jihadist suspected of planning the November terror attacks in Paris visited Britain last year despite being hunted by police, the...

Catalonia's leader-to-be, pro-independence 'since he can remember' 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Barcelona: Carles Puigdemont, the man who has been chosen to lead Catalonia to independence from Spain, has always been a convinced secessionist in...

Iraq forces evacuate hundreds of civilians from Ramadi 11 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

Caption Baghdad: Iraqi forces evacuated 635 civilians from Ramadi Sunday as they continued to clear the city two weeks after declaring victory against...

Secular Syrian alliance demands seat at peace talks table 10 Jan 2016 - 06:58 pm

Delegates at the talks in Vienna. October 2015. Joe Klamar, AFP Geneva: A recently formed secular Kurdish-Arab alliance demanded Sunday that the United...

“Friendly fire” by Iraqi drone kills nine anti-IS fighters 10 Jan 2016 - 06:51 pm

Representative image BAGHDAD: Nine fighters from a Shi’ite Muslim militia battling Islamic State were killed in northern Iraq when an Iraqi army aircraft...

As foreign crises pile up, Obama seen taking few risks in final year 10 Jan 2016 - 06:47 pm

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON: As Barack Obama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the U.S. president...

France pays tribute to 2015 terrorism victims in silent ceremony 10 Jan 2016 - 06:32 pm

People attend a ceremony at Place de la Republique square to pay tribute to the victims of last year's shooting at the French...

Lebanese army bombs militants' posts in Arsal outskirts 10 Jan 2016 - 06:11 pm

Beirut: The artillery of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) bombed on Sunday the posts of militants in the outskirts of Arsal, National News...

Lebanon arrests suspected mastermind of deadly blasts: security source 10 Jan 2016 - 05:52 pm

Beirut: Lebanese police on Sunday arrested the suspected mastermind behind blasts in southern district of the capital that killed dozens of people in...