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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks during a news conference about the shooting yesterday in Chicago, Illinois.  CHICAGO: An apparently gang-related shooting spree...

A view of a home nearly covered by flood waters in Mocorito, Mexico, yesterday. Rescuers resumed yesterday the grim task of digging out...

  LONDON: British police saidyesterday they had arrested eight people including the suspected mastermind of a cyber-theft in which criminals infiltrated the computer system...

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel looked on track to win a third term in a weekend election in Germany but faced a battle to...

LONDON: What’s a prime minister to do? Facing the prospect of a family wedding just hours after a gruelling G20 summit, David Cameron...

ABUJA: Boko Haram Islamists opened fire yesterday on security agents conducting an operation near a residence for lawmakers in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, starting...

MOSCOW: Russian authorities have detained a Greenpeace ship and threatened to bring criminal charges after activists scaled Russia’s first Arctic offshore oil platform....

BISHKEK: Chyngysbek Uzakbaev, the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Kyrgyzstan met here on Friday with HE Mohamed Bin Arrar Al-Nuaimi, Qatar's...

SRINAGAR: Several people, including an AFP photographer, were injured Friday in Indian Kashmir when government forces thwarted a procession to a southern town...

KABUL: Militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 police in an ambush, the interior ministry said Friday, as the nation's security forces struggle to...

SAMARRA: Two bombs exploded in a Sunni mosque in Iraq as worshippers entered for prayers on Friday, killing 16 people, police and a...

PARIS: France will reduce use of fossil fuels by 30 percent by 2030 as part of a strategy to halve overall energy use...

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi oil ministry announced the increase in its crude oil production and revenues for August, 2013. The exported quantities reached to...

PARIS: British upmarket shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood has won the lucrative endorsement of the world's biggest luxury goods group in a deal which...

YANGON: Japan's Nissan Motor unveiled plans Friday to launch production in Myanmar, as international automakers compete for a share of the former junta-ruled...

MULTAN: Four Pakistani sisters killed themselves after a row with their father who could not afford dowries for them to get married, officials...

BEIRUT: Rebels of the mainstream Free Syrian Army (FSA) have agreed a truce with jihadists who seized a town on the Turkish border...