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Thinker, soldier, business boss: many faces of Germany's anti-immigrant AfD 20 Mar 2016 - 02:19 pm

Chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Frauke Petry (2nd R), and AfD candidates Uwe Junge in Rhineland-Palatinate, Andre Poggenburg in...

Brazil's restive rich draft a duck to protest president 20 Mar 2016 - 02:03 pm

People demonstrate against Brazilian former president (2003-2011) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 19 2016. AFP PHOTO /...

14 killed as bus carrying foreign students crashes in Spain: regional official 20 Mar 2016 - 01:49 pm

Pic: 324 TV Barcelona: Fourteen people were killed and 43 injured on Sunday when a bus carrying foreign students crashed in northeastern Spain,...

Congo presidential election opens under communications blackout 20 Mar 2016 - 01:33 pm

Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso votes at a polling station in Brazzaville, Congo, October 25, 2015. REUTERS/ROCH BAKU By Aaron Ross...

Merkel takes high-risk bet on Turkey in refugee crisis 20 Mar 2016 - 01:26 pm

Turkey's Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Britain Prime minister David Cameron (L) during the European...

U.N. staffers pull out of Western Sahara mission - state media 20 Mar 2016 - 01:19 pm

RABAT: Dozens of United Nations international staffers pulled out of their Western Sahara mission on Sunday after Morocco demanded they leave because of ...

Swedish newspaper websites shut down in hacker attack 20 Mar 2016 - 01:15 pm

Stockholm: The online editions of Sweden's main newspapers were knocked out for several hours by unidentified hackers at the weekend, police said Sunday...

Stuck in hostels, Spain's new wave of politicians lament deadlock 20 Mar 2016 - 01:08 pm

Maria Such, a 25-year-old lawyer and the youngest new lawmaker in the Socialist (PSOE) party, poses for a photograph in front of the...

Benin votes in second-round of presidential election 20 Mar 2016 - 11:00 am

Businessman Patrice Talon will team up with his beaten opponent Sebastien Ajavon to take on Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou in second round of ...

Kenya army says killed 21 Shebab in Somalia firefight 20 Mar 2016 - 10:58 am

AFP/ File photo Nairobi: The Kenyan military claimed on Sunday to have killed 21 Islamic insurgents in a firefight in neighbouring Somalia. Military...

EU, Turkey strike 'historic' deal to send back migrants 20 Mar 2016 - 10:47 am

Turkey's primeminister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) talks with EU Council President Donald Tusk during the EU summit in Brussels on March 18, 2016. AFP...

Cuba casts aside rancor to welcome Obama on historic visit 20 Mar 2016 - 10:05 am

Tourists pass by images of US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in a banner that reads "Welcome to Cuba" at...

Australian government abandons campaign to log World Heritage forest 20 Mar 2016 - 09:59 am

File photo of a man riding a windsurfer on a lake located on the outskirts of Hobart, in Tasmania December 21, 2012. REUTERS/DAVID...

Brazil's Agnelli, who turned Vale into top miner, dies in crash 20 Mar 2016 - 09:49 am

Roger Agnelli, head of Brazilian investment group B&A Mineracao, speaks during a media conference in Belo Horizonte, in this February 22, 2013 file...

Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea 20 Mar 2016 - 09:35 am

CONAKRY: A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than...

Ukraine pilot verdict set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine 20 Mar 2016 - 09:11 am

Former Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. AFP/ File photo Moscow: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko awaits the verdict in her controversial trial over the...

Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, block Arizona road 20 Mar 2016 - 08:45 am

People take part in a protest against Republican presidential candidate DonaldTrump, on March 19, 2016 in New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP ...