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Kuwait arrests 2 Filipinos accused of helping runaway maids 22 Apr 2018 - 05:38 pm

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti police arrested two Filipinos for allegedly convincing housemaids to run away from their employers' homes as the Philippines' ambassador faced...

More than 20 dead in Nicaragua protests: rights group 22 Apr 2018 - 05:31 pm

Managua: More than 20 people have been killed in a clashes between Nicaraguan police and demonstrators in a wave of protests over pension...

Iraq says it killed 36 'Islamic State terrorists' in Syria raid 22 Apr 2018 - 04:49 pm

Baghdad: Iraq said Sunday its forces had killed "36 terrorists" belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group, including senior members, in air raids...

German Social Democrats elect Andrea Nahles as first female leader 22 Apr 2018 - 04:36 pm

Wiesbaden, Germany: Germany's centre-left Social Democrats on Sunday elected Andrea Nahles, a combative and outspoken former labour minister, as the first woman leader...

Archaeologists find bust of Roman emperor in Egypt 22 Apr 2018 - 04:00 pm

CAIRO: Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the southern city of Aswan. The Antiquities Ministry...

World's oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117 22 Apr 2018 - 03:43 pm

TOKYO: The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of...

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 48 in Kabul 22 Apr 2018 - 03:20 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 48 people in an...

President okays ordinance for death to child rapists 22 Apr 2018 - 02:58 pm

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday approved an ordinance to provide death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below age...

High-rise in Dubai catches fire 22 Apr 2018 - 02:30 pm

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: A fire has broken out at a high-rise building in Dubai. An Associated Press journalist saw smoke rising on...

Tourists at iconic French abbey evacuated after threat 22 Apr 2018 - 02:03 pm

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France: French authorities evacuated tourists from the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey and were searching houses Sunday on the famed outcropping in the English Channel...

Two suicide bombers kill three in north Nigeria mosque 22 Apr 2018 - 01:53 pm

Kano, Nigeria: Two suicide bombers killed three Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town still being rebuilt after virtual destruction...

Britain may regulate young people's use of social media - minister 22 Apr 2018 - 01:43 pm

LONDON: Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they did more to protect young people...

Hawaii shark bite victim previously attacked by bear, snake 22 Apr 2018 - 11:32 am

Washington, It was third time unlucky for a Colorado man attacked by a shark in Hawaii -- as he had already been mauled...

Jordan MP, family members among 8 killed in road crash 22 Apr 2018 - 11:00 am

Amman, A Jordanian MP, his wife and three of his children were among eight people killed late Saturday when their car collided with...

Blast at election centre in Afghan capital, dozens of casualties 22 Apr 2018 - 10:57 am

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 12...

Can Macron's White House visit save the Iran deal? 22 Apr 2018 - 10:47 am

Washington: French President Emmanuel Macron seems, as much as any world leader, to have developed some kind of rapport with his American counterpart...

Kim heralds more North Korea economic reforms: analysts 22 Apr 2018 - 10:32 am

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's promise to build "socialist economic construction" in his nuclear-armed but impoverished and isolated country could herald...

Mnuchin expresses optimism trade standoffs can be resolved 22 Apr 2018 - 10:15 am

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank repeatedly warned at their meetings this week that intensifying trade tensions could jeopardize a...