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Ammunition, IS propaganda found after France mosque closure 07 Dec 2015 - 09:51 am

Mohammed Ramdane, president of the Lagny-sur-Marne Mosque Association, answers questions December 2, 2015 Kalashnikov ammunition and Islamic State propaganda videos were seized in...

Filling 400 vacancies of judges suitably not easy: CJI 07 Dec 2015 - 09:43 am

File photo of Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur on Sunday said appointment...

Omar Abdullah hails India-Pakistan dialogue 07 Dec 2015 - 09:37 am

Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah. Reuters Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday welcomed what he said was the resumption of...

BSF trooper killed in accidental fire 07 Dec 2015 - 09:34 am

File pic for representation. Jammu: A border security force trooper was killed in an accidental fire in Jammu district on Sunday. “A trooper...

Chief justice says take a bus to cut air pollution 07 Dec 2015 - 09:21 am

Delhi has been battling with smog as winter sets in. New Delhi: India's chief justice has backed a plan to restrict cars on...

Climate talks shift from binding targets to 'name and shame' 07 Dec 2015 - 08:59 am

French businessman Richard Attias tries to organize using a megaphone a group picture along with mayors from various cities during a meeting with...

Political knives out after California attack 07 Dec 2015 - 08:33 am

With dust from the California massacre barely settled, the killings are sharpening the US political divide over gun control and spurring attacks on...

Venezuela opposition claims victory ahead of vote results 07 Dec 2015 - 08:29 am

CARACAS, Venezuela: Leaders of Venezuela's opposition are claiming victory ahead of official results in Sunday's crucial legislative elections that could alter the country's...

Jet trainer crash kills 2 at Southern California airport 07 Dec 2015 - 08:26 am

Authorities say a small jet has crashed and burned at a Southern California desert airport, killing both people on board. Fire officials say...

Germany refugee influx sparks surge in racist hate crimes 07 Dec 2015 - 08:25 am

Arson attacks on refugee shelters, assaults, swastikas sprayed on walls -- as Germany has taken in record numbers of asylum seekers, it has...

Big city land-grab sowing seeds of next China property boom 07 Dec 2015 - 12:02 am

By Xiaoyi Shao and Sue-Lin Wong BEIJING: In the Chaoyang district of northeast Beijing, a nondescript wall covered in patriotic posters protects one...

Central Africa slams rebel leader as 'public enemy no.1' after vote move 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Nourredine Adam Bangui, Central African Republic: The Central African Republic's interim government on Sunday branded senior rebel figure Nourredine Adam "public enemy No....

Man overpowered on Lufthansa flight after interfering with door 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Representative image Berlin: Lufthansa crew and passengers Sunday overpowered and restrained a man who had interfered with the controls of a cabin door...

Obama to make forceful pledge of U.S. power against Islamic State in address 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will pledge to use "every single aspect of American power" to destroy Islamic State during a rare Oval Office...

32 IS fighters dead in US-led Syria raids, Assad slams UK vote 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Beirut: At least 32 Islamic State group fighters were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition raids on Syria as President Bashar al-Assad...

Pakistani security seeks to tamp down reporting on California shooter 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik MULTAN, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces appeared to be trying to dampen down reporting this weekend on the background of Tashfeen...

Author of Brazil's last presidential impeachment defends Rousseff 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Marcelo Lavenere Brasília: The lawyer who initiated Brazil's last impeachment of a president, in 1992, on Sunday attacked what he said was the...

'We feel ashamed': Pakistani relatives of California shooter 07 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Pakistani students arrive at Al-Huda Institute, one of the most high-profile female seminaries (Islamic religious school), in Multan on December 8, 2015, where...