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Battle with IS leaves melting pot Iraq town in ruins 14 Nov 2016 - 08:38 pm
An Iraqi Kurdish man shows a knife engraved with a slogan in Arabic,
Islamic State ousted from Yazidi villages west of Mosul:Kurdish-Yazidi force 14 Nov 2016 - 08:32 pm
Iraqi Yezidis gather to perform their religious rituals after they return to their home following the operation to clear Bashiqa town as the operation to retake Iraq's Mosul from Daesh terrorists continues, at Bahzani village in Bashiqa town of Mosul, Ira
India’s efforts to protect children fail due lack of budget: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi 14 Nov 2016 - 08:25 pm
Kailash Satyarthi (Twitter)
Dutchman 'who almost broke the internet' escapes jail 14 Nov 2016 - 08:16 pm
A photograph of Sven Olaf Kamphuis taken from his Facebook page by Guardian
Shaves at barber’s, corpses in streets as Islamic State retreats in Mosul 14 Nov 2016 - 08:08 pm
Iraqi men are seen at a barber shop in Intisar district of Mosul, Iraq, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Lack of school drives girls into armed groups in eastern Congo: charity 14 Nov 2016 - 07:06 pm
In a 2013 file photo, a girl carries firewood as she walks past a Congolese government military tank in Kanyarucinya, near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Post offices in Africa offer migrants cheaper way to send money home 14 Nov 2016 - 06:57 pm
People walk past the general post office in the central business district in Lagos January in this 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
Right-wing leader Naftali Bennett: Under Trump, Israel can “reset” Middle East 14 Nov 2016 - 06:47 pm
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett (C) who heads the religious nationalist Jewish Home party speaks during a press conference for foreign press association correspondents in Jerusalem on November 14, 2016.
Israel's ministerial committee for legis
Integrate or face populist fury, London mayor warns 14 Nov 2016 - 06:34 pm
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and David Gill in the stands of Wembley Stadium, London as 2018 World Cup Qualifying European Zone - Group F match England v Scotland were being played out (Reuters  / Eddie Keogh)
UK lawmaker was murdered for “ideological cause”, court told 14 Nov 2016 - 06:01 pm
British lawmaker Jo Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children, was shot and repeatedly stabbed as she arrived for an advice session with constituents in the town of Birstall, part of her electoral district in northern England.
Photos: Supermoon in almost 69 years lights up sky around globe 14 Nov 2016 - 05:57 pm
The supermoon rises behind the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft, ahead of its upcoming launch to the International Space Station (ISS), at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
In Iraq, Syrian Kurds long to return home to fight Islamic State 14 Nov 2016 - 05:56 pm
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces patrol on November 13, 2016 in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometres north east of Mosul, after peshmerga fighters retook control of the town from jihadists of the Islamic State group. / AFP / SAFIN HAMED
Turkey's Erdogan warns of EU bid referendum next year 14 Nov 2016 - 05:51 pm
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, July 21, 2016. (REUTERS / Umit Bektas)
Guinea Bissau president says will dissolve government 14 Nov 2016 - 05:46 pm
his file photo taken on June 11, 2014 shows Guinea-Bissau's newly-elected President Jose Mario Vaz listening to questions during a joint press conference with his Ivorian counterpart after their meeting at the Presidential palace in Abidjan. Guinea-Bissau
Israel court sticks to deadline for controversial settlement 14 Nov 2016 - 05:11 pm
An Israeli flag waves in front of the minaret of a mosque in the Arab quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. AFP / THOMAS COEX
Heavy pollution shuts schools in Tehran 14 Nov 2016 - 05:00 pm
Iranians wearing face masks walk in Tehran as the first of the winter's heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital on November 14, 2016. A blanket of choking brown-white smog descended on the city, blocking out the view of the mountains that line its norther
Modi promises to ease cash crunch 14 Nov 2016 - 04:54 pm
Activists of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) shout slogans as they carry an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a protest against the government's decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation, according to a m
Hashd militia starts 3rd phase of campaign east of Mosul 14 Nov 2016 - 04:43 pm
Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division soldiers come under fire from Islamic State (IS) group fighters while running across an intersection as they try to push forward in the Karkukli neighbourhood of Mosul on November 13, 2016.   AFP / Odd ANDERSEN