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Sea-Watch captain to sue Italy's Salvini for defamation 05 Jul 2019 - 07:21 pm

Rome: The captain of detained migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, will sue Matteo Salvini for defamation after a tirade of insults...

Malta heads off crisis with Italy migrant swap 05 Jul 2019 - 07:19 pm

Rome: Malta on Friday appeared to have headed off a brewing standoff between a charity rescue ship and Italy's far-right interior minister by...

Afghan official: Taliban mortars hit busy market, kill 14 05 Jul 2019 - 07:13 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan: An Afghan official says mortars fired by Taliban insurgents slammed into a busy market in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province killing at...

China developer Seazen issues apology after chairman arrested 05 Jul 2019 - 02:06 pm

BEIJING, China's Seazen Holdings Co Ltd issued an apology on Friday, days after media reported its chairman was arrested for suspected child molestation,...

India raises tariffs on imports, taxes for the super rich as it seeks growth 05 Jul 2019 - 01:23 pm

NEW DELHI, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government raised import tariffs on nearly 75 items including gold and automobile parts in its federal...

Love of country? Or a political stunt? Trump holiday speech divides Americans 05 Jul 2019 - 12:48 am

WASHINGTON: Jan Shairrick and two friends drove more than a thousand miles from southern Arkansas to join President Donald Trump's "Salute to America"...

Southern California earthquake strongest in two decades; damage reported northeast of Los Angeles 05 Jul 2019 - 12:35 am

LOS ANGELES: A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off house fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of...

Japan's biggest warship offers clue to military ambitions 04 Jul 2019 - 11:15 pm

ABOARD THE JS IZUMO: One of Japan's largest warships, the helicopter carrier Izumo, offers a glimpse of where its military is headed: For...

Reports of unwanted sexual contact up at US Coast Guard Academy 04 Jul 2019 - 11:02 pm

Almost half of female cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy said they were sexually harassed, and about one in eight women reported...

UN decries 'shockingly high' number of likely 'executions' in Venezuela 04 Jul 2019 - 08:46 pm

Geneva: Nearly 7,000 people have been killed during security operations in Venezuela in the past year and a half, the UN said Thursday,...

Earthquake rattles Southern California; no injuries reported 04 Jul 2019 - 08:46 pm

LOS ANGELES: A strong earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday morning, making hanging lamps sway...

Greek election front-runner keeps campaign unusually low-key 04 Jul 2019 - 08:46 pm

LAVRIO, Greece: On an exhaustive tour of Greece's blue collar towns and city suburbs, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a spring in his step. It's...

Dubai's ruler, estranged wife headed for court clash in UK 04 Jul 2019 - 06:50 pm

LONDON: A legal battle between the powerful, poetry-writing ruler of Dubai and his wealthy estranged wife is leading toward a showdown in a...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan to meet Trump in US July 22 04 Jul 2019 - 05:30 pm

Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan will travel to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump on July 22, the Pakistani foreign ministry said...

Pakistan's street cricketers bring game to life in Greece 04 Jul 2019 - 12:33 pm

Athens: In a barren Athens parking lot, young Pakistanis get in position for a game of cricket. On one end of the dust-covered...

Another death as heavy rains prompt evacuations in Japan 04 Jul 2019 - 11:54 am

Tokyo: Torrential rains killed one woman and caused flooding and landslides in southern Japan on Thursday, authorities said, as they began lifting evacuation...