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Trump golf course damaged sand dunes in Scotland 29 Jul 2018 - 07:00 pm

LONDON: U.S. President Donald Trump's family business partially destroyed legally protected sand dunes in Scotland when it built a golf course north of...

CBI takes over Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case 29 Jul 2018 - 06:42 pm

New Delhi/Patna: The CBI on Sunday took over the case of rapes in a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur and filed an FIR...

Monsoon rains collapse houses in northern India, killing 58 29 Jul 2018 - 06:42 pm

LUCKNOW, India: At least 58 people have been killed in the past two days as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide...

3 dead, 7 wounded after gunmen in New Orleans fire on crowd 29 Jul 2018 - 05:14 pm

NEW ORLEANS: Two armed individuals walked up to a crowd gathered Saturday evening outside a strip mall in New Orleans and opened fire,...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe says he will not vote for successor Mnangagwa 29 Jul 2018 - 02:35 pm

Harare: Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in November, said Sunday that he would not vote for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa...

Resistance continues, says Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi 29 Jul 2018 - 02:01 pm

NABI SALEH, West Bank: A Palestinian teenager released by Israel on Sunday after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli...

Iraqi PM suspends electricity minister over poor service 29 Jul 2018 - 11:30 am

BAGHDAD: Iraq's prime minister has ordered the suspension of the country's electricity minister over a power crisis and poor service. Haider al-Abadi made...

Powerful quake hits Indonesia's Lombok, 12 killed, houses damaged 29 Jul 2018 - 10:48 am

SEMBALUN, Indonesia: A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 12 people and sending...

Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi out of Israeli prison 29 Jul 2018 - 09:49 am

NABI SALEH, West Bank: Israel released 17-year-old Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi from prison early on Sunday, after she served her eight-month sentence...

Lebanon sinks old tanks to create underwater dive ‘park’ 29 Jul 2018 - 04:48 am

Sidon: Lebanese environmentalists yesterday sank 10 old tanks and armoured vehicles to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in a novel attempt to...

8 buses torched in northeastern Brazil 28 Jul 2018 - 10:59 pm

SAO PAULO: Police in Brazil say eight public buses have been firebombed with Molotov cocktails in the northeastern state of Ceara. The buses...

Mother and 5 of her children die in Michigan motel fire 28 Jul 2018 - 10:59 pm

SODUS TOWNSHIP: A fire that swept through a southwestern Michigan motel early Saturday killed five children and their mother, authorities said. The Cosmo...

Tweets scorn Egypt's Sisi in renewed online criticism 28 Jul 2018 - 10:59 pm

CAIRO: Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was "saddened" by a similar campaign...

Israel arrests Italian graffiti artists in West Bank: Palestinians 28 Jul 2018 - 10:12 pm

RAMALLAH: Israeli border police on Saturday arrested two Italian graffiti artists who were painting a mural of a jailed Palestinian teenager, Ahed Tamimi,...

Ex-pastor sentenced to 18 years in child sexual abuse case 28 Jul 2018 - 10:12 pm

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J: A former pastor who co-founded a Christian music festival before admitting he had sexual contact with children and being branded...

Deep 6.0 magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia: USGS 28 Jul 2018 - 10:12 pm

Washington: A deep 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami...