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Turkish PM targets single party govt 13 Sep 2015 - 02:25 am

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his wife Sare greet their supporters as they arrive for the 5th AK Party Congress in Ankara...

Huge pro-migrant rallies in Europe 13 Sep 2015 - 01:39 am

London: Tens of thousands of Europeans hit the streets yesterday to show solidarity with huge numbers of refugees entering the continent, as Hungary’s...

Four children missing after migrant boat sinks: Greek coastguard 12 Sep 2015 - 06:14 pm

A file photo of migrants being rescued. Four children have gone missing after a dinghy carrying them and other migrants sank off the...

Marx admirer Corbyn elected UK Labour leader 12 Sep 2015 - 06:07 pm

Labour leadership candidates Yvette Cooper (L) and Liz Kendall (R) applaud new leader Jeremy Corbyn (C), at the Queen Elizabeth Centre in central...

Syria says two Russian aid planes arrive in country 12 Sep 2015 - 05:08 pm

File photo a Russian plane carrying 17 tonnes of food aid that arrived at Bassel al-Assad Airport in Lattakia last year. BEIRUT: Two...

Russia's Putin welcomes Ukraine ceasefire 12 Sep 2015 - 04:25 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow,...

Iran says finds unexpectedly high uranium reserve 12 Sep 2015 - 03:53 pm

The Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi walks through a garden at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel during an...

Egypt government resigns, oil minister to form new cabinet 12 Sep 2015 - 03:21 pm

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) meeting with Minister of Petroleum Sherif Ismail, in Cairo, Egypt. CAIRO: Egypt's prime minister and his cabinet...

Sonia, Rahul plough lonely furrow in darkening political landscape 12 Sep 2015 - 02:03 pm

By Amulya Ganguli The extension of Sonia Gandhi's term as Congress president by another year in her 17th year in the position is...

Muslim mosque 'sentinels' make Israel anxious 12 Sep 2015 - 02:02 pm

A Palestinian woman holds a copy of the Koran as she confronts an Israeli soldier outside the Al-Aqsa mosques compound in Jerusalem's Old...

Two killed in Karnataka train derailment 12 Sep 2015 - 01:54 pm

BENGALURU: Two women passengers died and eight other people were injured early Saturday when nine coaches of a speeding Mumbai-bound Duronto express from...

Hindu religion or culture was never under attack during Muslim rule in India: Book 12 Sep 2015 - 01:47 pm

WASHINGTON: At a time when religious discourse is coming under friction, a new book by a Stanford University historian has revealed a cultural...

India gas cylinder blast toll reaches 104: police 12 Sep 2015 - 01:45 pm

People gather around the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Jhabua district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on...

Kalka-Shimla toy train derails, two foreigners killed 12 Sep 2015 - 01:44 pm

PARWANOO, Himachal Pradesh: Two foreigners were killed and 14 people were injured on Saturday when two coaches of a Kalka-Shimla toy train derailed...

Modi's praise of Mulayam stokes rumour mills in UP 12 Sep 2015 - 01:35 pm

By Mohit Dubey LUCKNOW: In middle of last year's high-octane Lok Sabha campaign, Narendra Modi had thumped his "chappan inch ka seena" (56-inch...

Adventurers' Grand Slam: Awards elude twin Indian sisters 12 Sep 2015 - 01:26 pm

By Aroonim Bhuyan NEW DELHI: After having conquered the highest peaks in each of the seven continents in the world and having skiied...

No Hanuman Sena can stop me from writing: Author MM Basheer 12 Sep 2015 - 01:05 pm

By Preetha Nair NEW DELHI: Contradicting reports of being forced to stop writing after threats from right wing groups, Malayalam literary critic M.M....