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Ukraine pilot plans hunger strike over Russia trial delay 03 Mar 2016 - 06:01 pm

Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadiya Savchenko looks out from a defendants' cell during a hearing in the southern Russian town of Donetsk on...

Mexico says won’t pay for Trump’s ‘terrible’ border wall 03 Mar 2016 - 05:57 pm

There is no way Mexico would fund Donald Trump’s “terrible” plan to build a wall along its border with the United States if...

Conquering Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain' against all odds 03 Mar 2016 - 05:28 pm

In this photograph taken on March 2, 2016, Italian climber Simone Moro, one of the world's leading alpinists, speaks with AFP during an...

Top Pakistani religious body rules women’s protection law “un-Islamic” 03 Mar 2016 - 05:14 pm

Aamir Qureshi/ AFP/Getty images/ File photo By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD: A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of...

Brazil on course for worst recession in century 03 Mar 2016 - 05:07 pm

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a breakfast with journalists at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 15, 2016. Reuters/Adriano Machado Rio de...

Somalia sentences al Shabaab media officer to death for killing journalists 03 Mar 2016 - 04:59 pm

Hassan Hanafi Haji, alleged senior commander of Somalia's Shebab Islamists, looks on as his sentence is read on March 3, 2016 at the...

Iran says blacklisting Hezbollah may jeopardize Lebanon's stability 03 Mar 2016 - 04:39 pm

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a public appearance at a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut's southern...

Two women killed in police operation after attack on police in Istanbul 03 Mar 2016 - 04:34 pm

Two women, one holding machine gun, attack a riot police bus at the entrance to a police station in the Istandbul suburb of...

Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin's Syria strikes 03 Mar 2016 - 04:32 pm

Gulchekhra (Gyulchekhra) Bobokulova, a nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care, sits inside a defendants' cage as she attends a court...

Nationwide power blackout hits Syria: state TV 03 Mar 2016 - 04:24 pm

Damascus: War-torn Syria was hit Thursday by a nationwide power cut, state television reported, but the cause was not immediately known. "Electricity has...

Saudi cleric's shooting in Philippines captured on film 03 Mar 2016 - 03:40 pm

his screen grab taken from video on March 1, 2016 shows medical personnel transferring Saudi preacher Sheikh Aaidh al-Qarni (R) into hospital in...

Bomb scare, plane held up at IGI 03 Mar 2016 - 02:20 pm

New Delhi: A Gorakhpur-bound flight of the Jet Airways was on Thursday held up at Delhi Airport following a hoax call that claimed...

Germany probing Islamic State link to policeman's stabbing-magazine 03 Mar 2016 - 02:11 pm

BERLIN: German prosecutors investigating a 15-year-old girl over the stabbing of a policeman in Hanover last week are exploring a possible connection to...

Thirteen killed as Turkish forces clash with Kurdish militants 03 Mar 2016 - 02:04 pm

A file picture of Turkish police special forces on patrol following an attack. Reuters DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Three Turkish soldiers and 10 Kurdish militants...

Sri Lanka bans landmines seven years after ethnic war 03 Mar 2016 - 01:59 pm

Colombo: Sri Lanka's government Thursday announced it would ban landmines and promised to destroy its stockpiles of the explosive devices, nearly seven years...

Indonesia's early tsunami warning buoys down when big quake hit 03 Mar 2016 - 01:51 pm

By Kanupriya Kapoor and Gayatri Suroyo PADANG/JAKARTA, Indonesia: All 22 of the early-warning buoys Indonesia that were deployed after the 2004 tsunami disaster...

Public support for Putin to serve another term hits highest level in four years: Poll 03 Mar 2016 - 01:29 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting with a delegation from Kyrgyzstan, led by President Almazbek Atambayev,...