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Verdict on dissolving Bahrain opposition due next week 11 Jul 2016 - 12:07 pm

Anti-government protesters shout slogans while holding Bahraini flags during a protest outside Bahrain's leading opposition party Al Wefaq's headquarters in Manama in this...

Solar plane leaves Spain for penultimate leg of world tour 11 Jul 2016 - 11:26 am

Solar Impulse2, a solar powered plane piloted by Swiss aviator Andre Boschberg, flies over the GemasolarThermosolar Plant in Seville, Spain after taking off...

Egypt foreign minister meets Israel PM in rare visit 10 Jul 2016 - 06:12 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry after giving a joint statement prior to their meeting...

IS territory shrinks 12 percent since start of 2016: IHS 10 Jul 2016 - 05:50 pm

Beirut: The Islamic State group lost 12 percent of the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2016,...

Japan's ruling bloc wins landslide in upper house election 10 Jul 2016 - 05:41 pm

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd L), who is also leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles with LDP policy chief...

Yemen's Hadi threatens to boycott peace talks 10 Jul 2016 - 05:36 pm

Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is escorted by special forces during a visit to the country's northern province of Marib July 10, 2016....

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson arrested by Baton Rouge police 10 Jul 2016 - 05:25 pm

The AP tweet about the arrest. DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists associated with the police reform protest movement, was arrested...

Seven killed in two PKK attacks in Turkey: Army 10 Jul 2016 - 05:07 pm

Istanbul, Turkey: Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed six Turkish soldiers and a village guardsman in two separate attacks on...

Bangladesh bans Zakir Naik's Peace TV 10 Jul 2016 - 03:35 pm

Zakir Naik Dhaka: Bangladesh moved to counter a deadly wave of Islamist attacks Sunday, ordering an Islamic television station to stop broadcasting and...

Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east 10 Jul 2016 - 03:28 pm

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko waves as arrives at the PGE National Stadium, the venue of the NATO Summit, in Warsaw, Poland July 8,...

Arrests in US protests as racial tensions heat up 10 Jul 2016 - 03:24 pm

Protestors shout slogans during a protest in Times Square in support of the Black lives matter movement in New York on July 09,...

Osama Bin Laden's son threatens revenge for father's assassination 10 Jul 2016 - 01:41 pm

Osama bin Laden (Reuters / file photo) DUBAI: The son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the...

2 Spaniards gored, 3 injured in Pamplona bull run 10 Jul 2016 - 01:06 pm

Participants run ahead of Pedraza de Yeltes' fighting bulls on the fourth day of the San Fermin bull run festival in Pamplona, northern...

Typhoon Nepartak batters China's coast, killing at least 2 10 Jul 2016 - 01:03 pm

A road is seen damaged by heavy rainfall as Typhoon Nepartak lands in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, July 9, 2016. Picture taken July...

Obama makes symbolic but overshadowed Spain visit 10 Jul 2016 - 12:42 pm

U.S. President Barack Obama is welcomed by Spain's King Felipe (R) at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, July 10, 2016. (REUTERS/Andrea Comas) ...

15 die as protests roil Kashmir after rebel's death 10 Jul 2016 - 11:53 am

An Indian paramilitary trooper sets up a road-block during a curfew as a Kashmiri woman walks past in Srinagar on July 10, 2016....

Death toll from South Sudan fighting climbs to 272: Government source 10 Jul 2016 - 11:50 am

This file photo taken on July 9, 2011 shows a large crowd waving the flag of the new Republic of South Sudan during...

Egypt foreign minister heads to Israel for rare visit 10 Jul 2016 - 11:33 am

Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (REUTERS/MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY) Cairo: Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry was heading to Israel on Sunday for a...