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Assange tells UK, Sweden to let him go after UN finding 05 Feb 2016 - 05:32 pm

London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador's embassy in London after a UN...

Pope, Russian patriarch to talk about persecution of Christians 05 Feb 2016 - 04:44 pm

Senior Orthodox cleric Metropolitan Hilarion said that long-standing differences between the two churches remain, most notably a row over the status of the...

Indian trucks cross freely into Nepal for first time in four months 05 Feb 2016 - 04:41 pm

Protesters stand near burning tyres as they gather to block the highway connecting Nepal and India, during a general strike called by Madhesi...

Germany launches scheme to find training places for 10,000 refugees 05 Feb 2016 - 04:39 pm

Berlin: The German government and the country's skilled craft sector on Friday launched an initiative to offer 10,000 refugees on-the-job training places as...

Volcano in southern Japan erupts: weather agency 05 Feb 2016 - 04:28 pm

In this image taken from a surveillance camera observed from Kusasenri and released by Japan Meteorological Agency, a column of black smoke rises...

In Indonesia, an experiment with bacteria to tackle Zika 05 Feb 2016 - 04:24 pm

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil, February 2, 2016. By Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor YOGYAKARTA/JAKARTA, Indonesia: A...

Thieving monkey bound and caged in India's Mumbai 05 Feb 2016 - 04:20 pm

Raju, a monkey, is seen chained to a wooden log on a thatched roof at Banetha village, located in the northwestern state of...

Nigerian senate president's graft trial to go ahead 05 Feb 2016 - 04:16 pm

Abuja: Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by senate president Bukola Saraki to stop his corruption trial, paving the way for...

Zika-hit nations should allow access to contraception, abortion: UN 05 Feb 2016 - 04:13 pm

Geneva: The United Nations on Friday urged countries hit by the Zika virus, believed to be linked to serious birth defects, to allow...

Top Iraq Shiite cleric to end weekly political messages 05 Feb 2016 - 04:10 pm

Baghdad: Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani will no longer provide weekly political messages that have had a major impact on...

Two Indian police suspended over Tanzanian student attack 05 Feb 2016 - 04:06 pm

Protests over the mob attack on a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru Bangalore, India: Indian authorities suspended two policemen and made four more arrests...

Migration flow from Turkey must be reduced: France, Germany 05 Feb 2016 - 04:02 pm

Athens: The huge flow of migrants and refugees to Europe via Turkey must be slowed, the interior ministers of France and Germany said...

French PM defends emergency rule, says terror threat “here to last” 05 Feb 2016 - 03:56 pm

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS: Thousands of house searches since November’s Islamist attacks in Paris have helped foil another terrorist plot, French Prime Minister...

Jihadists attack UN camp in Mali's Timbuktu: sources 05 Feb 2016 - 03:51 pm

Jihadists attack UN camp in Mali's Timbuktu Bamako: Suspected jihadists Friday attacked a UN military camp in the fabled city of Timbuktu in...

Sweden says does not agree with UN panel on Assange 05 Feb 2016 - 03:48 pm

Stockholm: Sweden said it did not agree with a UN panel which ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in Ecuador's London...

Ukraine soldier killed in rebel east as clashes intensify 05 Feb 2016 - 03:45 pm

File photo Kiev: A Ukrainian soldier was killed in a sudden upsurge in clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country's...

German far-right’s language is close to that of Nazis, Gabriel says 05 Feb 2016 - 03:41 pm

BERLIN: Germany’s far-right, led by the rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is using language similar to that deployed by Hitler’s Nazis,...