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Strong earthquake shakes Indonesia’s Bali island 22 Mar 2017 - 12:27 pm

TUBAN, Indonesia: A strong earthquake shook the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednesday, causing people to panic and rush out of buildings....

US proposes alternative dates for NATO meeting 22 Mar 2017 - 12:19 pm

WASHINGTON: The U.S. said Tuesday it proposed alternative dates for a planned NATO ministerial meeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will not attend...

UN says South Sudan government blocking aid 22 Mar 2017 - 12:07 pm

JUBA, South Sudan: The South Sudanese government is preventing aid reaching hundreds of thousands of people threatened by famine, the UN said Tuesday....

Turkish court holds 2 suspects in Berlin truck attack 22 Mar 2017 - 11:58 am

ISTANBUL: Two men suspected of links to the Berlin Christmas market truck attacker were remanded in custody by a court in Istanbul on...

2 PKK terrorists killed in southeastern Turkey 22 Mar 2017 - 11:41 am

MARDIN, Turkey: Security forces killed two PKK terrorists in the southeastern province of Mardin on Tuesday, the governor’s office said. They were killed...

Syria talks to resume Thursday with same participants 22 Mar 2017 - 11:35 am

GENEVA: The UN on Tuesday urged those attending this week’s Syria peace talks to engage “substantively and proactively”. The next round of the...

Seven killed in Somalian car bombing 22 Mar 2017 - 11:24 am

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Seven people were killed in a suicide attack in the Somalian capital Mogadishu late Tuesday, an official said. Soldiers and civilians...

EgyptAir bans electronic devices on US-bound flights 22 Mar 2017 - 11:13 am

CAIRO: EgyptAir, Egypt’s state-owned national carrier, said Tuesday that -- as of Friday -- it would ban passengers traveling to the U.S. from...

US bans electronic carry-ons from 8 Muslim countries 22 Mar 2017 - 11:06 am

WASHINGTON: The U.S. on Tuesday issued stringent regulations for airline passengers carrying electronic devices. The Department of Homeland Security said the restrictions would...

Air strike kills more than 30 near Raqqa, Syrian Observatory says 22 Mar 2017 - 10:56 am

BEIRUT: At least 33 people were killed in an air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near Islamic State-held Raqqa, the...

Multiple bomb blasts rock migrant camp in Nigeria: officials 22 Mar 2017 - 10:47 am

Kano, Nigeria: Suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants who have fled Boko Haram insurgents near Nigeria's restive northeastern city of Maiduguri...

33 dead in US-led raid on north Syria school: monitor 22 Mar 2017 - 10:38 am

Beirut: At least 33 people were killed in a US-led coalition strike on a school used as a centre for displaced people near...

Scores killed and injured in Mogadishu car bombing 22 Mar 2017 - 10:30 am

Mogadishu: A deadly car bomb blast targeting a security checkpoint near the Presidential Palace in the Somali capital has killed at least ten...

Macron, 39-year-old French prodigy eyeing presidency 22 Mar 2017 - 10:17 am

Paris: "Neither of the right, nor the left" in his own words, Emmanuel Macron is a 39-year-old former banker hoping to convince the...

New Syria peace talks as fight comes to Damascus 22 Mar 2017 - 10:03 am

Beirut: A fifth round of UN-backed Syria peace talks begins Thursday in Geneva with scant hope of a breakthrough against a backdrop of...

US to charge Malaysia businessman in 1MDB scandal: report 22 Mar 2017 - 09:55 am

Kuala Lumpur: US authorities plan to file criminal charges against a businessman suspected to be at the centre of a major corruption scandal...

N.Korea missile test fails, US and South say, as tensions simmer 22 Mar 2017 - 09:49 am

SEOUL: A North Korean missile appeared to have exploded on Wednesday just after it was launched, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said...

S.Korea's Park goes home after 14-hour interrogation in graft probe 22 Mar 2017 - 09:24 am

SEOUL: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left prosecutors' offices early on Wednesday after being questioned in an investigation into a corruption scandal...