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Amman, the capital of Jordan, is a fascinating city of contrasts – a unique blend of old and new, ideally situated on a hilly area between the desert and the ...
- MADRID: Spanish prosecutors have tabled another sex crime charge against four men calling themselves “The Wolf Pack” who assaulted a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.In a controversial ruling, a Spanish court last year gave nine-year prison sentences to the men for sexually assaulting the 18-year-old in ...
- VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is looking to leave the sex abuse scandal buffeting his papacy behind as he heads to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised wall at the US-Mexico border and a new caravan of migrants heading north.History’s first Latin American pope, the son of ...
- ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Three men and a high school student were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community named Islamberg with explosives, authorities said Tuesday.The Rochester-area residents are accused of plotting to attack the small Muslim enclave west of the Catskills, according to court papers.The timing ...
- UNITED NATIONS: The UN's envoy to the Mideast said Tuesday that peacekeepers in Lebanon have not been given access to tunnels stretching into Israel, which UN officials say violate a case-fire resolution that ended a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.Nikolay Mladenov told the Security Council that the ...
- UNITED NATIONS: The UN's envoy to the Mideast said Tuesday that peacekeepers in Lebanon have not been given access to tunnels stretching into Israel, which UN officials say violate a case-fire resolution that ended a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.Nikolay Mladenov told the Security Council that the ...
- ANKARA: A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent journalist serving a life sentence to almost six additional years in prison for leaking information deemed secret by the government, the state-owned Anadolu news agency said. Nazli Ilicak was sentenced to life in prison along with five other journalists last February for ...
- David Attenborough makes impassioned plea for natural world in Davos interview with Prince William DAVOS, Switzerland: Naturalist David Attenborough won a standing ovation from delegates at the World Economic Forum after warning them that the planet faces destruction if climate change is not dealt with imminently. In an interview conducted ...
- David Attenborough makes impassioned plea for natural world in Davos interview with Prince William DAVOS, Switzerland: Naturalist David Attenborough won a standing ovation from delegates at the World Economic Forum after warning them that the planet faces destruction if climate change is not dealt with imminently. In an interview conducted ...
- DAVOS, Switzerland: Skirting the first political scandal of his new presidency, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro will tout a "new Brazil" when he addresses the world's business elite in Davos on Tuesday.The president of Latin America's biggest economy is giving the keynote address at this year's World Economic Forum, where warnings are mounting ...
- KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas at crowds of demonstrators in the capital’s twin city Omdurman on Tuesday protesting against the fatal wounding of a demonstrator last week, witnesses said. The demonstration, which came ahead of planned nighttime rallies in both Omdurman and Khartoum just across the Nile, was the ...
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Philippine Senators oppose president’s push to lower criminal age to 9
MADRID: Spanish prosecutors have tabled another sex crime charge against four men calling themselves “The Wolf Pack” who assaulted a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.In a ... -
Spain charges ‘Wolf Pack’ with another sexual assault
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is looking to leave the sex abuse scandal buffeting his papacy behind as he heads to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised ... -
4 charged in plot to attack Muslim community named Islamberg
ROCHESTER, N.Y.: Three men and a high school student were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community named Islamberg with explosives, authorities said Tuesday.The Rochester-area ... -
Putin and Erdogan to hold Syria talks
UNITED NATIONS: The UN's envoy to the Mideast said Tuesday that peacekeepers in Lebanon have not been given access to tunnels stretching into Israel, which UN officials say violate a ... -
UN envoy: No access for UN peacekeepers to Lebanon tunnels
UNITED NATIONS: The UN's envoy to the Mideast said Tuesday that peacekeepers in Lebanon have not been given access to tunnels stretching into Israel, which UN officials say violate a ... -
Turkish journalist serving life gets another 6 years in prison
ANKARA: A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent journalist serving a life sentence to almost six additional years in prison for leaking information deemed secret by the government, the state-owned ... -
Anger as elite Afghan troops die in deadly Taliban strike
David Attenborough makes impassioned plea for natural world in Davos interview with Prince William DAVOS, Switzerland: Naturalist David Attenborough won a standing ovation from delegates at the World Economic Forum ... -
David Attenborough makes impassioned plea for natural world in Davos interview with Prince William
David Attenborough makes impassioned plea for natural world in Davos interview with Prince William DAVOS, Switzerland: Naturalist David Attenborough won a standing ovation from delegates at the World Economic Forum ... -
Brazil’s nationalist leader to address Davos globalist crowd
DAVOS, Switzerland: Skirting the first political scandal of his new presidency, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro will tout a "new Brazil" when he addresses the world's business elite in Davos on Tuesday.The president ... -
Italy’s Salvini says France has no interest in stabilising Libya
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas at crowds of demonstrators in the capital’s twin city Omdurman on Tuesday protesting against the fatal wounding of a demonstrator last week, witnesses said. ... -
Sudan security forces tear gas protesters in Omdurman
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas at crowds of demonstrators in the capital’s twin city Omdurman on Tuesday protesting against the fatal wounding of a demonstrator last week, witnesses said. ... -
UN rebukes Europe for failing to allow rescued Arab migrants to land
GENEVA: UN aid agencies criticized European countries on Tuesday for not allowing migrants to disembark at safe ports, after more than 140 people rescued at sea were taken to a detention ... -
US urges coalitions against Iran’s ‘malign meddling’
DAVOS: The US wants to build more coalitions in the Middle East to counter the “very real” threat of Iran’s malign meddling in the region, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ... -
France, Germany strengthen treaty ties to tackle EU crisis
NEW DELHI: India signed 11 memoranda of understanding (MoUs) worth a total of $9.5 million with Afghanistan, said the Indian Embassy in Kabul. “These projects come under the ambit of community-based ... -
$9.5m deal: India expands assistance to Afghanistan
KABUL: They were among Afghanistan’s best and most experienced fighters — elite Afghan special forces who had survived years of deadly combat on battlefields around the country. But that was no ... -
New Qatari funds for Hamas employees expected this week: official
ANKARA: A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent journalist serving a life sentence to almost six additional years in prison for leaking information deemed secret by the government, the state-owned ... -
Sinai clashes kill 7 Egyptian troops, 59 militants
BEIRUT: A car bomb detonated in Syria's government-held city of Latakia on Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring several other people, Syrian state media reported.Footage carried on the state-run Al-Ikhbariya ... -
Death toll from Israel’s Syria strikes rises to 21: monitor
BEIRUT: The death toll from Israel’s latest bombardment of military targets in Syria rose from 11 to 21, a war monitor said Tuesday, adding that most of those killed were ... -
Indian police arrest 61 Rohingya Muslims this week
GAUHATI,India: Police in northeastern India say they have arrested 61 Rohingya Muslims this week amid reports that more than 1,300 have recently crossed the border into Bangladesh.In Assam state, police ... -
Russian plane bound for Moscow in suspected hijacking
GAUHATI,India: Police in northeastern India say they have arrested 61 Rohingya Muslims this week amid reports that more than 1,300 have recently crossed the border into Bangladesh.In Assam state, police ... -
German prosecutors press terror charges against Syrian man
DAVOS, Switzerland: Skirting the first political scandal of his new presidency, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro will tout a "new Brazil" when he addresses the world's business elite in Davos on Tuesday.The president ... -
Car bomb explodes in Assad's Syria stronghold Latakia
GAZA CITY, Palestinian territories: An Israeli tank shelled a Hamas site in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after gunfire at soldiers near the border fence, the army said.There were ... -
Israel strikes Hamas post after gunfire at troops
GAZA CITY, Palestinian territories: An Israeli tank shelled a Hamas site in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after gunfire at soldiers near the border fence, the army said.There were ... -
One killed and several injured in Houthi attack in Taiz
GAZA CITY: A fresh tranche of Qatari funds for Hamas civil servants in Gaza will be delivered via Israel this week, the Qatar ambassador to the Palestinian enclave said Monday.Mohammed ... -
At least 10 dead as fire rages on Black Sea ships
MOSCOW: Ten crew died and another 10 were missing presumed dead in a fire that broke out on two ships while they were transferring fuel in the Black Sea, Russia’s ... -
American held in Russia for espionage to appear in court
BERLIN: German Justice Minister Katarina Barley said on Tuesday she was disappointed by British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to break a deadlock over Brexit and suggested Britain hold a ... -
Germany disappointed by May’s Brexit plan, suggests second referendum
BERLIN: German Justice Minister Katarina Barley said on Tuesday she was disappointed by British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to break a deadlock over Brexit and suggested Britain hold a ... -
Yemeni troops stop Houthi advances, inflict further casualties
JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are no longer getting food aid or basic health services from America, US-funded infrastructure projects have been halted, and an innovative peace-building program in ... -
US aid cuts hit Palestinians, further dimming hope for peace
JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are no longer getting food aid or basic health services from America, US-funded infrastructure projects have been halted, and an innovative peace-building program in ... -
In Iraq, political wrangling spawns debate over US troops
BAGHDAD: From the halls of parliament to the lightning-fast rumor mills of social media, pro-Iran factions are demanding US troops withdraw from Iraq in a challenge to the country’s fragile ...
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