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More arrests over 'El Chapo' prison escape in Mexico 20 Sep 2015 - 10:01 am

A vendor shows a t-shirt with the face of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera for sale in the popular and dangerous Tepito neighborhood...

Egypt floods tunnels 20 Sep 2015 - 09:57 am

A Palestinian youth shows how to abseil into one of the tunnels on the Gaza side after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels beneath...

Sharif Ismail is Egypt’s new prime minister 20 Sep 2015 - 09:52 am

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (right) meets with Sharif Ismail at the presidential palace in Cairo. Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi swore in...

870 Trucks Enter Gaza 20 Sep 2015 - 09:49 am

GAZA: Coordination Committee for entry of goods in the Gaza Strip said that the Karam Abu Salem crossing was opened on Sunday morning...

China launches new type of carrier rocket 20 Sep 2015 - 09:40 am

SHANGHAI: China on Sunday launched a new, smaller type of rocket from its "Long March" family which will be primarily used for carrying...

Coalition warplanes pound interior ministry in Sana’a 20 Sep 2015 - 01:35 am

SANA’A: Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen’s interior ministry in the capital, Sana’a, late on Friday and launched several other raids on...

Democratic donors urge Biden to challenge Clinton in U.S. 2016 race 20 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

US Vice President Joe Biden. BY LUCIANA LOPEZ AND JAMES OLIPHANT NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: A group of prominent Democratic Party fundraisers on Friday began...

Over 4,500 migrants rescued off Libya in one day 19 Sep 2015 - 08:05 pm

Illegal migrants stand on the deck of a Libyan oil tanker that rescued them off the coast of the Libyan capital Tripoli on...

Qatar Committed to Supporting the Syrian People 19 Sep 2015 - 06:52 pm

GENEVA: The State of Qatar that it will stand by the Syrian people during their crisis by providing all the necessary humanitarian aid,...

Column: BJP's divisive impulses are test of India's plurality 19 Sep 2015 - 06:15 pm

By Amulya Ganguli The 12 percent increase in the BJP's vote share at the national level between 2009, when it secured 18.8 percent,...

Beef and meat bans cast shadow over Eid-ul-Azha 19 Sep 2015 - 06:00 pm

By Aijaz Nazir NEW DELHI: With hundreds of families across the country preparing Eid-ul-Azha in the last week of September, the ban on...

Meter-gauge rail track is now history in northeast India 19 Sep 2015 - 05:57 pm

Representational image of Himalayan Queen (Kalka – Shimla) By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala: Saturday morning was a momentous day in the history of the...

U.S. says Assad must go, timing down to negotiation 19 Sep 2015 - 02:36 pm

LONDON: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday Syria's President Bashar Al Assad has to go but the timing of his...

Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed: sources 19 Sep 2015 - 02:28 pm

DIYARBAKIR (Turkey): At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources...

Qaeda in Syria executes 56 regime troops: monitor 19 Sep 2015 - 01:52 pm

Members of Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies sit on a Syrian army MiG-21 fighter jet after they seized the Abu Duhur military...

Four killed in suspected Iraq cholera outbreak 19 Sep 2015 - 01:45 pm

Displaced populations in Iraq have been affected by the lack of clean water. BAGHDAD: A suspected cholera outbreak has killed four people west...

Bulgaria detains 137 migrants in sweep in central Sofia 19 Sep 2015 - 01:40 pm

SOFIA: Bulgaria's security forces have detained 137 foreigners in the capital Sofia in a sweep aimed at combating illegal migration, the country's latest...

Polish right joins eastern EU's anti-migrant camp 19 Sep 2015 - 01:36 pm

WARSAW: Poland's conservative party chief who appears poised to win the October general election has ruled out taking in refugees, bolstering the hardline...