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Railway line between Ethiopia and Djibouti inaugurated 05 Oct 2016 - 05:29 pm

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The longest railway line so far in Africa, which links Addis Ababa to Djibouti, was inaugurated in the Ethiopian capital...

Irish Data Protection Commissioner examining Yahoo email scanning report 05 Oct 2016 - 05:17 pm

DUBLIN: Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner is examining a report that Yahoo Inc scanned emails for U.S. intelligence officials and said it would view...

Hong Kong activist deported from Thailand 'at China's request' 05 Oct 2016 - 05:09 pm

Hong Kong: Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong returned home Wednesday after being deported from junta-run Thailand, where he was due at events...

Congo demands deportation of S. Sudan rebels by U.N. mission 05 Oct 2016 - 04:33 pm

KINSHASA: Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued an ultimatum to the country's U.N. peacekeeping mission to deport South Sudanese rebels...

US government sets goal of zero traffic deaths in 30 years 05 Oct 2016 - 04:10 pm

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is setting a goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and injuries in the United States within the next 30 years....

Duterte set to talk peace with fugitive Moro leader 05 Oct 2016 - 04:01 pm

ZAMBOANGA CITY, the Philippines: The Philippines president is expected to soon meet and hold talks with fugitive Moro leader Nur Misuari in the...

U.S. citizen killed when vehicle hit by stone-throwers in Ethiopia 05 Oct 2016 - 03:51 pm

NAIROBI: A U.S. citizen was killed on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital when the vehicle she was in was struck by rocks thrown...

Crowds attack Turkish-owned factory in Ethiopia as protests rage 05 Oct 2016 - 03:35 pm

ADDIS ABABA: Crowds attacked and partially destroyed an Ethiopian factory run by Turkish textile firm Saygin Dima, its manager said, as a wave...

New images capture Med's never-ending migrant tragedy 05 Oct 2016 - 02:59 pm

ABOARD THE ASTRAL, Italy: The stomach-churning horror, raw terror and delirious joy experienced during life-or-death rescues of crammed migrant boats have been captured...

Syria aid convoy hit by air strike: UN expert 05 Oct 2016 - 02:45 pm

Geneva: An air strike was responsible for the attack on an aid convoy in Syria that killed 18 people last month, a UN...

At least 32 migrants dead off Libya: coastguard 05 Oct 2016 - 02:42 pm

Aboard the Astral, Italy: At least 32 Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, an...

UK government to make a decision on new runway "shortly" 05 Oct 2016 - 02:29 pm

BIRMINGHAM, England: British Prime Minister Theresa May said the British government would soon make a decision on where to build extra airport capacity...

$British Prime Minister Theresa delivers a keynote address on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2016. / AFP / PAUL ELLIS\$

Islamic State claims responsibility for U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan 05 Oct 2016 - 02:14 pm

CAIRO: Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an explosion that killed a U.S. service member in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the organization's Amaq...

20 Iraqi fighters killed by US airstrike near Mosul 05 Oct 2016 - 02:11 pm

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 20 Sunni fighters were killed Wednesday by a U.S.-led coalition airstrike south of Mosul in northern Iraq. Tribal commander...

INSIGHT-Aleppo will eventually fall, but Syrian war will go on 05 Oct 2016 - 01:56 pm

BEIRUT: It may take weeks or months, but Aleppo is likely to fall to Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power and...

May faces Brexit backlash as UKIP loses new leader 05 Oct 2016 - 01:29 pm

Birmingham, United Kingdom: Prime Minister Theresa May will give a speech to close her party's conference Wednesday against a backdrop of currency turmoil...

Three win Nobel chemistry prize for molecular machines 05 Oct 2016 - 01:22 pm

STOCKHOLM: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard "Ben" Feringa on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing...

Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources 05 Oct 2016 - 11:17 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information...