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First aid convoy to two besieged Syria towns since 2012: Red Cross 29 Jun 2016 - 02:59 pm

Damascus: A convoy of food and medicines entered two besieged Syrian towns near Damascus on Wednesday, the first aid delivered to them since...

Fears for stranded Syrian refugees as Jordan blocks access 29 Jun 2016 - 02:50 pm

Amman: Concern is growing for tens of thousands of refugees on the Syrian-Jordanian border after Amman blocked access to a makeshift refugee camp...

Istanbul airport terror attack death toll rises to 41 29 Jun 2016 - 01:31 pm

People carry the coffin of a victim of a bombing to a hearse at the forensic building close to Istanbul's airport on June...

Putin and Erdogan hold first phone talk since jet downing 29 Jun 2016 - 01:02 pm

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during an iftar event in Ankara, Turkey, June 27, 2016. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS Moscow: ...

Thousands displaced from Fallujah: Iraqi official 29 Jun 2016 - 01:02 pm

An Iraqi boy displaced from the city of Fallujah squats nearby tents at a newly opened camp where hundreds of displaced Iraqis are...

Cambodian PM threatens key rival with prison 29 Jun 2016 - 12:52 pm

File photo of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Phnom Penh: Prime Minister Hun Sen, accused of intensifying a crackdown on dissent before Cambodia's...

Russia’s Putin is talking to Erdogan on phone now: Kremlin 29 Jun 2016 - 12:35 pm

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin is talking to Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan now on the telephone and the Kremlin will comment on the results...

The NY entrepreneur swapping start-ups for charity 29 Jun 2016 - 12:31 pm

Alexandre Mars, founder and CEO of Epic Foundation, speaks at an event in New York, on June 6, 2016. AFP New York: After...

Trudeau hosts Obama and Pena Nieto amid Brexit drama 29 Jun 2016 - 12:28 pm

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (L) responds to a question as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) listens during a youth question and...

Italy recovers 2015 sunk migrant boat, hopes to ID victims 29 Jun 2016 - 12:27 pm

AFP/ File photo/ for representation only By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME: The Italian navy said Wednesday it has recovered the migrant ship that sank...

Cold kills homeless in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest city 29 Jun 2016 - 12:25 pm

Homeless children spend the night on the street in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 26, 2016. AFP / Miguel Schincariol / Sao...

Cracks show inside Islamic State's shrinking caliphate 29 Jun 2016 - 12:22 pm

An IS flag hangs amid electric wires over a street in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, near the port-city of Sidon, southern Lebanon...

Drug pusher deaths jump as Philippine leader takes office 29 Jun 2016 - 12:13 pm

This photo taken on June 27, 2016 shows Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte gesturing as he speaks before city hall employees in Davao City,...

Murders, violence on rise as parched central India battles for water 29 Jun 2016 - 12:05 pm

By Shuriah Niazi BHOPAL, India: Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbors in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region...

Bombing in Kurdish-controlled Syrian town kills at least five -witnesses 29 Jun 2016 - 11:57 am

AMMAN: At least five people were killed and scores injured on Wednesday in a bomb attack on a local administrative office in the...

Scotland determined to stay in EU, Sturgeon says in Brussels 29 Jun 2016 - 11:49 am

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is welcomed by European Parliament President Martin Schulz ahead of a meeting at the EP in Brussels, Belgium,...

Syria rebels battle IS at Iraqi border, aim to cut "caliphate" in two 29 Jun 2016 - 11:48 am

File photo of Syrian rebels. Reuters By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Tom Perry AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian rebels advanced into an Islamic State-held town at the...

Mongolians vote for new parliament with economy on the rocks 29 Jun 2016 - 11:19 am

Villagers leave a polling station after voting for the parliamentary elections in Mandalgovi. AFP / JOHANNES EISELE By Terrence Edwards ULAANBAATAR: Mongolians voted...