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Colombian navy seizes more than one tonne of cocaine 04 Apr 2016 - 09:10 am

A Colombian navy sailor stands guard inside a patrol boat during a media visit to the navy base in Cartagena in this file...

Djibouti's strategic position draws world's armies 04 Apr 2016 - 09:00 am

A navy soldier (L) of People's Liberation Army (PLA) stands guard as Chinese citizens board the naval ship "Linyi" at a port in...

Panama Papers: huge tax leak exposes Putin aides, world leaders 04 Apr 2016 - 08:49 am

A file picture shows lightning striking a building in Panama City,Panama. EPA Paris: A massive leak of 11.5 million documents has exposed the...

Greece sends first migrants back to Turkey under EU deal 04 Apr 2016 - 08:35 am

Migrants are deported to Turkey from the port of Mytilene on April 4, 2016. AFP / ARIS MESSINIS Lesbos: Greece sent a first...

Peru's Fujimori signs pledge to avoid authoritarian ways of father 04 Apr 2016 - 08:31 am

Peruvian presidential candidate for the Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, and daughter of imprisoned former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, shows the...

Brazil's president makes final plea to impeachment committee 04 Apr 2016 - 08:09 am

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a signing ceremony of land expropriation for agrarian reform and granting slave descendants, or Quilombolas, titles to their...

Greece counts down to first Turkey migrant returns under EU deal 04 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A Syrian refugee holds a child carrying a placard reading "we ask the EU governments to help us" as refugees and migrants including...

Leader of Ansaru jihadist group arrested in Nigeria 03 Apr 2016 - 06:31 pm

Kano, Nigeria: The leader of Nigeria's Ansaru jihadist group, Khalid al-Barnawi, one of three Nigerians listed by Washington in 2012 as "specially designated...

In Brexit warm up, Dutch voters to consider EU treaty with Ukraine 03 Apr 2016 - 05:36 pm

By Anthony Deutsch and Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM: Dutch voters will decide on Wednesday whether to support a European treaty deepening ties with Ukraine...

Venezuela charges Interpol detective for smuggling drugs 03 Apr 2016 - 05:24 pm

BOGOTA, Colombia: The head detective for Venezuela's office of Interpol is being charged with smuggling drugs to the Dominican Republic. The Venezuelan Attorney...

Fire at Russian Defence Ministry's building in Moscow 03 Apr 2016 - 03:16 pm

Russian firefighters extinguish a fire that broke at the one of Russian Defence Ministry's building in Moscow, Russia, 03 April 2016. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV...

Refugee chefs bring their recipes to NYC food company 03 Apr 2016 - 03:12 pm

Representational image By Deepti Hajela NEW YORK: The kitchen hums with activity. Rachana Rimal is at one table, making momos, the traditional dumplings...

1st passenger flight leaves Brussels since March 22 attacks 03 Apr 2016 - 03:04 pm

Brussels airlines employees wait for passengers at a temporary check-in area , on April 3, 2016 at Brussels airport in Zaventem, on its...

Blast ahead of Serbian PM visit in Kosovo 03 Apr 2016 - 02:35 pm

Belgrade: An explosive device was thrown and automatic weapons were fired at a sports hall in northern Kosovo on Sunday some 12 hours...

Arrivals to Greek islands remain steady 03 Apr 2016 - 02:12 pm

Migrants are escorted by anti-riot police inside the Moria migrant camp transformed in police-run detention facility in Mytilene, on Lesbos island on April...

EU must watch rights in Turkey despite refugee deal: Schulz 03 Apr 2016 - 02:04 pm

Berlin: European Parliament President Martin Schulz said Sunday the EU must make no concessions to Turkey over human rights but voiced confidence in...