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Drone halts traffic at Dubai airport 28 Sep 2016 - 11:03 am

Dubai: An unauthorised drone forced Dubai airport to halt air traffic for about half an hour on Wednesday in the second such incident...

Lightning storms knock out power to entire Australian state 28 Sep 2016 - 10:54 am

SYDNEY: Severe storms and thousands of lightning strikes knocked out power to the entire state of South Australia on Wednesday, energy authorities said....

Air strike hits major Aleppo hospital - medical workers 28 Sep 2016 - 10:52 am

BEIRUT: Air strikes hit a hospital in rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, putting it out of service, medical workers...

At your service: cyber criminals for hire to militants, EU says 28 Sep 2016 - 10:12 am

Cybercriminals offering contract services for hire offer militant groups the means to attack Europe but such groups have yet to employ such techniques...

Israeli ex-president and Nobel laureate Peres dies 28 Sep 2016 - 10:07 am

Ramat Gan, Israel: Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke,...

Italy ready to build Sicily bridge: Renzi 27 Sep 2016 - 07:05 pm

Milan: Italy is ready to revive controversial plans to build a bridge to Sicily, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Tuesday, challenging the main...

Pakistan denounces Indian UN speech as 'litany of falsehoods' 27 Sep 2016 - 05:24 pm

Islamabad: Islamabad has branded an address by India's foreign minister to the UN in which she accused Pakistan of terrorism in disputed Kashmir...

Zimbabwe police fire teargas on street vendors 27 Sep 2016 - 05:10 pm

HARARE: Zimbabwe police fired teargas at stone-throwing vendors resisting removal from city streets on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of protests against President ...

London mayor Khan challenges Labour leader to deliver election win 27 Sep 2016 - 04:46 pm

LONDON: Pro-business London mayor Sadiq Khan one of the opposition Labour Party's most powerful figures, heaped pressure on his socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn...

Suicide bombings kill 13 in Baghdad 27 Sep 2016 - 03:34 pm

BAGHDAD: At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in two suicide bombings Tuesday in predominantly Shia districts in the Iraqi capital...

?Al-Qaradaghi call ‘Friday of anger’ for Aleppo 27 Sep 2016 - 02:20 pm

ISTANBUL: The Doha-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called for a global “day of anger” on Friday in support of the...

Houston gunman had 2 weapons, thousands of rounds at scene 27 Sep 2016 - 12:55 pm

HOUSTON: A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when...

Air France 'shirt-ripping' trial opens 27 Sep 2016 - 12:17 pm

Bobigny, France: Fifteen people went on trial Tuesday over rowdy scenes a year ago in which an Air France executive had his shirt...

As talks for aviation climate deal begin, India holds out 27 Sep 2016 - 12:03 pm

MONTREAL: Fast-growing aviation powerhouse India is not ready to join the world's first climate deal to curb pollution from commercial flights because it...

Bombs at mosque, congress center in Dresden, no one hurt: German police 27 Sep 2016 - 11:54 am

Two improvised bombs exploded in the eastern German city of Dresden on Monday evening - one at a mosque and one at an...

Pakistan assembly passes marriage bill protecting Hindu women's rights 27 Sep 2016 - 10:56 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill giving its small Hindu minority the right to register marriages, the last...

Soldier, civilian killed in Mali's Timbuktu 27 Sep 2016 - 08:44 am

Bamako: One soldier and a civilian were killed in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu in a suspected jihadist attack, military sources told AFP...

Reaction around the world to first Trump-Clinton debate 27 Sep 2016 - 08:37 am

Views from around the world on Monday's first US presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump: ___ CHINA WANG PEI,...