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Cyprus & Greece insist on Turkish troops pullout for peace deal 19 Jan 2017 - 11:48 pm

Nicosia: CYPRUS and Greece yesterday insisted that any peace deal for the divided island must provide for the withdrawal of Turkish troops and...

Climate change: Perry softens stance 19 Jan 2017 - 11:46 pm

Washington: Rick Perry, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the US Energy Department, said during his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday that global warming...

Series of heavy storms soak California amid snow 19 Jan 2017 - 11:39 pm

San Francisco: Winter’s run of snow and rain goes another round with the West as the first in a series of storms soaks...

Perdue appointed US secretary of agriculture 19 Jan 2017 - 11:37 pm

Washington: Donald Trump announced yesterday he has nominated former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be US secretary of agriculture, completing the president-elect’s 15...

Michelle Obama: uber-mom, style icon, political force 19 Jan 2017 - 10:39 pm

Washington: In 2008, Michelle Obama was tentative on the campaign trail, wary of saying anything to jeopardize her husband's historic bid to be...

Obama praised for bridging gap between hip-hop, politics 19 Jan 2017 - 10:35 pm

ATLANTA: Not only is President Barack Obama the nation's first black president, but it's safe to say he has been America's first hip-hop...

Hungary set to turn screws on Soros-backed NGOs 19 Jan 2017 - 10:13 pm

Budapest: Hungarian NGOs have long felt the heat under strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban -- but they now fear that, emboldened by Donald...

Fleeing Chechens stranded at door to EU 19 Jan 2017 - 10:13 pm

Brest, Belarus: On a snowy day a commuter train leaves the Belarusian border city of Brest as usual for the town of Terespol...

Armed with apps and crops, women lead battle to save Senegal’s shrinking farmland 19 Jan 2017 - 08:08 pm

NDIAEL: The women of Thiamene, a tiny straw hut village in northern Senegal, used to scrape together a living by collecting wild baobab...

Egypt PM says cabinet reshuffle likely to be approved by month-end 19 Jan 2017 - 08:04 pm

CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said on Thursday he expected parliament to approve nominations for ministers in a cabinet reshuffle by the...

Adama Barrow: Gambia's unassuming president for change 19 Jan 2017 - 08:04 pm

Banjul, Gambia: He rose from nowhere, but Adama Barrow -- an Arsenal fan who was once a security guard in London -- was...

India's Modi refuses to step in over bull-wrestling ban 19 Jan 2017 - 06:59 pm

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused Thursday to overturn a Supreme Court ban on a festival featuring young men wrestling with bulls that...

Nearly 400,000 Syrian child refugees out of school in Turkey 19 Jan 2017 - 05:55 pm

Ankara: More than 40 percent of Syrian child refugees are missing out on education in Turkey raising the risk of a "lost generation",...

Islamic State using online "headhunters" to recruit young Germans 19 Jan 2017 - 04:30 pm

BERLIN: Islamic State is using "headhunters" on social media and instant messaging sites to recruit disaffected young people in Germany, some as young...

Nigeria's Buhari heads to Britain for medical treatment 19 Jan 2017 - 03:58 pm

Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari's office said on Thursday he was to travel to London for health checks -- the second time in...

Syria regime encircles rebel area supplying Damascus water 19 Jan 2017 - 03:24 pm

Beirut: Syrian government forces encircled a key rebel area northwest of Damascus on Thursday that serves as the capital's main water supply, a...

Uganda confirms hundreds of Congolese M23 rebels missing 19 Jan 2017 - 02:58 pm

KAMPALA, Uganda: Hundreds of members of a Congolese rebel group have fled a military camp where they had been awaiting amnesty since the...

DMK wants all-party meeting, assembly sitting on Jallikattu 19 Jan 2017 - 01:34 pm

Chennai: DMK Working President M.K. Stalin on Thursday urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam to call an all-party meeting during the day...