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Kurdish parties opposed to Barzani report attacks on offices overnight 30 Oct 2017 - 08:53 am

BAGHDAD, Iraqi Kurdish political parties opposed to Masoud Barzani, the outgoing Kurdistan region leader, reported attacks on their offices in several cities overnight...

Crunch day for Catalonia as Madrid takes control 30 Oct 2017 - 08:39 am

Barcelona, Spain enters uncharted and potentially perilous territory on Monday as Madrid moves to take over the running of Catalonia in response to...

Clowns bring laughter to traumatised Rohingya children 30 Oct 2017 - 08:34 am

Kutupalong, Bangladesh: The Rohingya boys and girls shrieked with delight as the clowns juggled hoops and somersaulted, their red-nosed antics provoking a sound...

Filipinos line streets to welcome troops from Marawi 30 Oct 2017 - 08:24 am

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Thousands of Filipinos lined the streets Monday morning of this southern city and the country's capital city of Manila to...

PNG demands clarity from Australia on 'tense' Pacific camp 30 Oct 2017 - 08:17 am

Sydney, Refugee advocates warned of an "extremely tense" situation at a Papua New Guinea asylum-seeker camp Monday ahead of its closure, as Port...

Syrian hostages who escaped Islamic State receive rapturous homecoming 29 Oct 2017 - 11:15 pm

Qaryatayn, SYRIA: Twenty six Syrian hostages who escaped from their Islamic State captors received an emotional homecoming on Sunday in the central province...

One year on, tensions simmer in neglected Moroccan north 29 Oct 2017 - 11:01 pm

Al Hoceima, Morocco: Tensions still simmer in Morocco's neglected north a year after a fishmonger was crushed to death in a rubbish truck,...

Merkel, party leaders meet to rev up German coalition talks: media 29 Oct 2017 - 10:58 pm

BERLIN: Key allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday downplayed reports about a crisis among parties in a potential coalition government, saying it...

Brazil’s Lula, Bolsonaro well positioned for 2018 elections: Poll 29 Oct 2017 - 10:15 pm

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro would make it to a second round...

‘Margaret Thatcher is my role model’ -German far-right AfD leader 29 Oct 2017 - 10:02 pm

BERLIN: Alice Weidel, a leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, said the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is her...

#Metoo campaign moves to French streets 29 Oct 2017 - 10:02 pm

Paris: Several hundred people took the "Me too" online campaign against sexual harassment and assault started by the Harvey Weinstein affair onto the...

Ex-Burkina leader's brother held held over reporter's murder 29 Oct 2017 - 09:49 pm

Paris: The exiled brother of Burkina Faso's ousted ex-president Blaise Compaore was arrested at a Paris airport Sunday over the 1998 murder of...

“Nobody stood with the Kurds” says bitter Barzani 29 Oct 2017 - 09:06 pm

BAGHDAD: Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani gave a bitter speech on Sunday to announce his resignation, saying no one outside the Kurds’ home region...

Speculation rife as first arrest in US Russia probe said near 29 Oct 2017 - 08:59 pm

Washington: Official Washington was abuzz this weekend over reports that a grand jury has charged at least one person stemming from the US...

Somalia sacks security chiefs as attack toll hits 27 29 Oct 2017 - 07:48 pm

Mogadishu: The death toll from a deadly attack on a hotel in Mogadishu rose to 27 on Sunday, prompting the Somali government to...

Horror at how South Africa let 141 mentally-ill patients die 29 Oct 2017 - 07:43 pm

Johannesburg, Oct 29, 2017 (AFP) - Weeks of gruelling testimonies at an inquiry in South Africa have tried to answer an unfathomable question...

Kurdish leader Barzani’s dream of independence led to downfall 29 Oct 2017 - 07:00 pm

ERBIL: Masoud Barzani, who spent decades leading the long-oppressed Kurds, confirmed on Sunday he was stepping down as president of the Kurdistan Regional...