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France plans to change constitution to extend state of emergency: govt sources 03 Dec 2015 - 11:36 am

Paris: France plans to change the constitution to allow it to extend a state of emergency "to a maximum of six months", government...

California Muslims condemn 'horrific' mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 09:07 am

Los Angeles: California's Muslim community expressed its horror on Wednesday at the mass shooting that killed at least 14 in San Bernardino, after...

At least 14 dead in California mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 08:59 am

A police officer officer guards a police line as officers prepare to raid the home of one or more suspects of a mass...

San Bernardino, desert town stunned by mass shooting 03 Dec 2015 - 08:46 am

Los Angeles: San Bernardino is prey to regular gang violence, but the California desert town has never seen carnage of the scale that...

California shooting suspect identified as Syed Farook: media 03 Dec 2015 - 08:39 am

Los Angeles: One of the suspects in a mass shooting that left at least 14 people dead in California has been identified as...

Obama welcomes British vote to join Syria air campaign 03 Dec 2015 - 08:38 am

Washington: US President Barack Obama hailed a vote Wednesday by British lawmakers to join the air campaign against the Islamic State group in...

Britain launches airstrikes on IS in Syria 03 Dec 2015 - 08:33 am

British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic...

California massacre differs from lone-wolf shootings 03 Dec 2015 - 08:31 am

Police vehicles line the street around a vehicle in which two suspects were shot following a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California December...

Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded 03 Dec 2015 - 01:55 am

Police officer and his canine walk the perimeter at the scene of the active shooting in San Bernardino,California December 2 SAN BERNARDINO: Fourteen...

France watchdog slams round-ups of migrants from Calais 'Jungle' 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

France's prisons watchdog condemned the government on Wednesday for locking up migrants in a bid to clear the notorious camp known as "the...

New Amazon legal drama to star Billy Bob Thornton 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

New York: Amazon announced Wednesday that it had commissioned a new legal drama series called "Trial" starring Oscar winners Billy Bob Thornton and...

France closes 'radical' mosque after big police raid 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

The Mosque of Lagny-sur-Marne has been recently closed as a result of the introduction of a state of emergency, in an eastern Paris...

Nigeria’s Buhari to ask China’s Xi for urgent infrastructure funding 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

ABUJA: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will ask China’s president at a summit this week to fund rail and power projects urgently needed to...

Century-old cake baked for Austrian empress sweetens museum collection 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Austria's Empress Elisabeth Vienna: This is one cake you can neither have nor eat: a tart baked 118 years ago for Austria's Empress...

Highlights of the Paris climate conference 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Visitors walk past animals from a Noah's Arc exhibition at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France,...

Estonian PM says Russian attack unlikely despite “worrying” signs 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Taavi Roivas Baltic states wary of Russian intentions since Crimea But Estonia’s PM plays down direct security threat PM says diplomatic resolve “still...

French officers deny "monstrous" Rwanda genocide allegations 03 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Jean-Claude Lafourcade, who headed France's UN-mandated Operation Turquoise force Paris: French army officers Wednesday denied "monstrous" allegations by rights groups that the country's...