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Obama welcomes 'quite good-looking' Trudeau to White House 10 Mar 2016 - 06:16 pm

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcome Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian First Lady Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau as they...

U.N. labor agency urges Gambia to investigate union leader's death 10 Mar 2016 - 06:15 pm

File photo of the president of Gambia Yayah Jammeh. AFP BY EMMA FARGE DAKAR: The head of the United Nations labor agency ILO...

Khamenei says Iranian economy yet to gain from foreign business visits 10 Mar 2016 - 06:04 pm

A handout picture released on March 10, 2016 by the official website of the Centre for Preserving and Publishing the Works of Iran's...

Migrants trapped in muddy no man's land 10 Mar 2016 - 05:49 pm

Migrants walk in a mud at a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece March 10, 2016. REUTERS/...

Iran says missile tests not violation of nuclear deal: state TV 10 Mar 2016 - 05:47 pm

A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, in this handout photo released by Farsnews on March 9, 2016....

Stephen Hawking joins 150 top scientists calling for Britain to stay in EU 10 Mar 2016 - 05:35 pm

British scientist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking attends a launch event for a new award for science communication, called the Stephen Hawking Medal...

Thousands evacuated as Iraqi forces advance against IS 10 Mar 2016 - 05:05 pm

Iraqi army vehicles and a helicopter deploy in the front line in al-Anbar desert, 50 kms north east of Haditha, where the country's...

Seven Kurdish militants killed in clash in southeast: sources 10 Mar 2016 - 04:58 pm

Turkish soldiers patrol in Sur district, which is partially under curfew, in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey February 26, 2016. REUTERS/SERTAC...

China gets go-ahead for contentious Sri Lanka port city 10 Mar 2016 - 04:52 pm

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the...

Suu Kyi nominates close aide for Myanmar president 10 Mar 2016 - 04:21 pm

Myanmar Pro Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) arrives for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party meeting in the city development...

North Korea fires missiles, liquidates South Korea's assets 10 Mar 2016 - 03:51 pm

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks through a pair of binoculars during an inspection of the Hwa Islet Defence Detachment standing guard...

'Thunder' in Saudi desert as huge military drill ends 10 Mar 2016 - 02:16 pm

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on March 9, 2016 shows The Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Salman...

INSIGHT: Ohio's "dirty little secret": blue-collar Democrats for Trump 10 Mar 2016 - 02:07 pm

Curtis Green, vice president of the United Steelworkers' local union, poses for pictures in Canton, Ohio, March 4, 2016. Picture taken March 4,...

Israeli official links Netanyahu's cancelled US trip to defence aid hold-up 10 Mar 2016 - 01:52 pm

Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) hugs US vice president Joe Biden as his wife Jill stands nearby upon their arrival in Jerusalem...

Four on trial for helping Copenhagen attacks gunman 10 Mar 2016 - 01:33 pm

Danish policemen stand guard in front of the city court in Copenhagen, Denmark, where a trial is to open on March 10, 2016...

EU tells Russia to free hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Savchenko 10 Mar 2016 - 01:27 pm

Former Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko looks out from a glass-walled cage as she attends a court hearing in the southern border town...

Insurgents in Syria attack government positions 10 Mar 2016 - 01:00 pm

BEIRUT: Insurgent groups attacked several Syrian government positions in Hama province on Thursday in what a rebel commander said was the biggest rebel...