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Uganda switches sides, dumping North Korea for South 30 May 2016 - 10:29 am

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (C), first lady Janet Museveni (R) and South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye (L) drink a toast after a meeting...

Japan rescuers expand forest search for missing boy 30 May 2016 - 10:26 am

Tokyo: Japanese rescuers on Monday expanded the search for a seven-year-old boy missing for three days after his parents left him in a...

Starving Iraqis risk all to flee IS's crumbling rule 30 May 2016 - 10:07 am

Displaced Iraqi children stand outside a tent at a newly-opened camp in Amriyat al-Fallujah. AFP / Ahmad MOUSA Amriyat al-Fallujah, Iraq: Eight hands...

Kuwaiti parents accused of beating child to death 30 May 2016 - 10:02 am

Kuwait City: Kuwaiti police have arrested a father and a mother on suspicion of beating to death their three-year-old daughter and hiding her...

India police arrest two after gang-rape, hanging of teenager 30 May 2016 - 10:00 am

Lucknow, India: India police have arrested two men over the gang-rape of a teenage girl whose body was found hanging from a tree,...

Car bomb blew up in Shaab Shi'ite district of Baghdad: Police 30 May 2016 - 09:58 am

BAGHDAD: Eleven people were killed and 18 injured on Monday when a car bomb blew up in Baghdad's northern Shaab Shi'ite district, police...

Crocodile takes woman during night swim in Australia 30 May 2016 - 09:43 am

A male freshwater crocodile is seen at Sydney Wildlife World. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz Sydney: A woman is feared dead after being seized by a...

Three people killed in flooding in southwestern Germany 30 May 2016 - 09:33 am

BERLIN: Three people have been killed in floods in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a spokesman for the region’s interior ministry said...

"Tourists go home": Spain tourism surge brings backlash 30 May 2016 - 09:31 am

Dressed up tourists walk at Punta Ballena street in Magaluf, on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain, June 13, 2015. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo/File...

Chief Syria opposition negotiator quits over failed peace talks 30 May 2016 - 09:30 am

A file picture dated 15 April 2016 shows Mohammed Alloush, Chief negotiator for the main Syrian opposition body and rebel group Army of...

Fujimori says ready for presidency in final debate 30 May 2016 - 09:28 am

Peruvian presidential candidate for the Pupolar Force Party Keiko Fujimori gestures during the final electoral debate before elections in Lima, Peru, 29 May...

Israel charges Palestinian professor despite successful appeal 30 May 2016 - 08:58 am

Israeli security force member fires a tear gas canister towards Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank on March 30, 2016 (AFP Photo/Abbas...

Turkish shelling kills 28 Islamic State fighters north of Aleppo-TV 30 May 2016 - 08:48 am

File photo of a Turkish soldier standing guard is seen from the Syrian town of Khirbet Al-Joz at the Turkish-Syrian border, in Latakia....

Indian missiles, copters, subs - Anil Ambani's ambitious defense plan 30 May 2016 - 08:42 am

Anil Ambani, chairman of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, poses for photographers before addressing the annual shareholders meeting in Mumbai August 27,...

Airstrikes kill 29 militants in Afghanistan 30 May 2016 - 08:39 am

File photo of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters over Afghanistan. Lucas Jackson/Reuters Kabul: At least 29 militants were killed in separate airstrikes in northern Baghlan...

Iraqi forces enter IS-bastion Fallujah: commanders 30 May 2016 - 08:33 am

Baghdad: Iraqi forces entered the Islamic State group bastion of Fallujah from three directions on Monday in a new phase of the operation...

Iraq Kurds launch offensive east of Mosul 30 May 2016 - 12:00 am

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire an anti-tank cannon on the front line near Hasan Sham village, some 45 kilometres east of the city...

Hollande, Merkel call for European unity at Verdun centenary 30 May 2016 - 12:00 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) delivers a speech near French President Francois Hollande (L) in the Douaumont's Ossuary during a centenary of the...