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Indonesia executes foreign convicts despite protests 29 Jul 2016 - 12:15 am

A protester holds a candle during a demonstration against Indonesia's decision to execute 14 drug convicts in front of the Presidential Palace in...

Special Report: In Turkish sweatshops, Syrian children sew to survive 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Syrian refugee boys work at a small textile factory in Gaziantep, where they are employed by a 30-year-old Turk who gave his name...

Israel PM says he backs Egypt's peace push 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are given flowers during a ceremony marking the completion of a structural reinforcement project...

Russia announces aid operation for Syria's besieged Aleppo 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad walk past rubble after they advanced on the southern side of the Castello road in Aleppo,...

Opinion: Why the situation in Turkey may only get worse 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (2nd R) greets officers during his visit to Police Special Operation Department's Headquarters in Golbasi district of Ankara,...

Opinion: Is Vladimir Putin deliberately destabilizing US politics? 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015....

Melania Trump's website deleted after degree questions 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Donald Trump stands on stage with his wife Melania Trump following her address to delegates at the Republican National Convention on July 18,...

Zimbabwe arrests war veteran over Mugabe rebuke 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe speaks during the burial of two national heroines Victoria Chitepo and Vivian Mwashita at the National Heroes Acre on...

Syria’s Nusra Front says it is breaking ties with al Qaeda to avert attacks 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

An image released on July 28, 2016 by Al-Manara al-Bayda, the official news arm of Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, allegedly shows the...

Rebels form 'supreme council' to run war-torn Yemen 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Pro-government fighters sit in a village taken by pro-government forces from Iran-allied Houthi militia, in the al-Sarari area of Taiz province, Yemen July...

US concerned over Israel’s settlement activity: State Dept 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Such action by Israel “continues this pattern of provocative and counterproductive action,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement on Wednesday....

UN veto powers mull arms embargo on South Sudan, more troopst 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

People gather at a makeshift IDP camp at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound in Juba on December 22, 2013...

North American forests not the climate change remedy hoped for: study 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Representative image. Wikimedia Commons By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK: North American forests will not fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide at levels...

Brazil arrests man over terrorism allegations: lawyer 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Officials gave little detail about the arrest, which comes a week after 12 men were arrested on accusations of forming a cell to...

Insight: Fervent jihadist or suicidal refugee: the many faces of Bavarian bomber 29 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Police photographes a flat where the 27-year-old Syrian suspect lived, after an explosion in Ansbach near Nuremberg, Germany, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File...

Genies and Google trends: strange tales from post-coup Turkey 28 Jul 2016 - 04:04 pm

Istanbul: From a mysterious new moustache to suggestions that genies helped the coup plotters, here are some of the stranger stories emerging after...

Eminent writer Mahasweta Devi dead 28 Jul 2016 - 01:42 pm

Kolkata: Eminent activist-writer, honoured with Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay Award for her decades of crusade for the rights of tribals and the marginalised,...