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New Delhi targets older diesel vehicles to clear up choking smog 08 Nov 2016 - 09:25 pm

NEW DELHI: Authorities in New Delhi began revoking licences for thousands of older diesel vehicles on Tuesday and halted construction work on the...

Philanthropy’s drive for “better cities” needs data and collaboration boost - experts 08 Nov 2016 - 09:20 pm

LONDON: The doors of the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, a leafy south London suburb, shut for the last time seven months ago...

Americans choose between Clinton and Trump after bitter campaign 08 Nov 2016 - 08:46 pm

NEW YORK: After a long and exceptionally negative campaign, Americans by the millions voted on Tuesday for their next president as opinion polls...

Schindler factory to host Holocaust memorial 08 Nov 2016 - 08:42 pm

Prague: A disused factory in the Czech Republic where German industrialist Oskar Schindler employed more than a thousand Jews to save them from...

Democrats hold slight edge in contest to control US Senate 08 Nov 2016 - 08:32 pm

WASHINGTON: The Democratic Party was very slightly favored to wrest control of the U.S. Senate from the Republican Party in Tuesday’s elections, according...

Clinton far ahead of Trump on betting exchanges and online markets 08 Nov 2016 - 08:30 pm

NEW YORK: Betting exchanges and online trading platforms on Tuesday said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a far higher probability of winning...

Syrian army says takes Aleppo district, rebels say battle continues 08 Nov 2016 - 08:24 pm

BEIRUT: The Syrian army said it had taken a strategic district of Aleppo on Tuesday in what would mark the most important advance...

Russia preparing renewed strikes on Syria's Aleppo "in coming hours" 08 Nov 2016 - 07:55 pm

MOSCOW: Russia is preparing to resume air strikes around the Syrian city of Aleppo "in coming hours", the Interfax news agency cited a...

Who wears the pants? Swing state Florida has its say 08 Nov 2016 - 07:29 pm

Miami: When 74-year-old Leonor Perez cast her vote for Hillary Clinton under a cloudless Florida sky, there was not a shadow of doubt...

Man dies at Russian consulate in New York 08 Nov 2016 - 07:25 pm

NEW YORK: A 63-year-old man was found dead with head trauma inside the Russian consulate in New York City on Tuesday without any...

Will ‘Fantastic Beasts’ conjure up ‘Harry Potter’s’ global magic? 08 Nov 2016 - 07:20 pm

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK: The gates to J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world are set to re-open with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” but...

Afghan woman says raped by police chief when she tried to report her own rape 08 Nov 2016 - 07:14 pm

LONDON: A young Afghan woman who went to the police station to report being raped was then raped by the district police commissioner...

Philippines drug war turns a teeming jail into a haven 08 Nov 2016 - 07:06 pm

MANILA: Jason Madarang, awaiting trial on a charge of drug use, is in a muggy, windowless cell in a Manila prison so overcrowded...

Hashid Shaabi paramilitary forces target air base west of Mosul 08 Nov 2016 - 06:58 pm

BAGHDAD: A coalition of mainly Shi'ite Iraqi militias advancing on the Islamic State-held town of Tal Afar plans to seize a nearby military...

Leniency deal for Brazil’s Odebrecht may be world’s largest 08 Nov 2016 - 06:43 pm

SAO PAULO: U.S. and Swiss investigators are working with Brazilian counterparts to complete negotiations with Odebrecht, the construction company at the center of...