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China denies Hong Kong visit request by US carrier group: Pentagon 30 Apr 2016 - 09:54 am

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits the Strait of Hormuz, in this file photo. REUTERS/US NAVY PHOTO BY...

Mauritania protesters denounce 'injustice' against ex-slaves 30 Apr 2016 - 09:42 am

File photo of a demonstration in 2015 where people hold banner reading "No to slavery" in Nouakchott. AFP Photo Nouakchott: Thousands of people...

Cambodian passenger train back on track after years-long hiatus 30 Apr 2016 - 09:32 am

Cambodian passengers board a train at the Phnom Penh station on April 30, 2016, as the railway service resumes. AFP / TANG CHHIN...

Kuwait deports 14,400 expats this year: report 30 Apr 2016 - 09:09 am

Kuwait City: Kuwait has stepped up deportations of expatriate workers this year, a newspaper in the Gulf emirate reported Friday, with most expelled...

Rouhani allies set for Iran parliament second round win 30 Apr 2016 - 09:06 am

An Iranian woman casts her ballot during a second round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in Shahriar district of Tehran, Iran ...

The lonely struggle of missing Mexican students' parents 30 Apr 2016 - 08:47 am

Experts of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), from left to right: Claudia Paz, Alejandro Valencia, Angela Buitrago, Carlos Beristain and...

China's 'Valentine's Day' killer acquitted of 1998 murder 30 Apr 2016 - 08:41 am

Beijing: A Chinese man sentenced to death for the Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend 18 years ago has been acquitted, a court...

Pop goes the weasel and down goes the Hadron Collider 30 Apr 2016 - 08:27 am

A file picture of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in...

Policeman wounded in Saudi roadside bomb attack: SPA agency 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A roadside bomb attack on a police patrol car in al-Ahsa in east Saudi Arabia wounded a policeman on Thursday evening, Saudi state...

UN demands restoration of Western Sahara mission 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

File photo: UN chief Ban Ki-moon meets with Ahmed Boukhari the Polisario Front's representative at the UN on March 5, 2016, near a...

Tajikistan bans Russian-style surnames for children 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Ex-Soviet Tajikistan on Friday imposed a legal ban on giving newborn babies surnames with Russian-style endings, in line with a government...

Iran moderates eye more gains in run-off parliamentary election 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Rouhani’s moderate and centrist allies made big gains in elections on Feb. 26 for parliament and a clerical body that will elect the...

Muslim leader in India under fire from activists for supporting FGM 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Dawoodi Bohra Muslims join their hands as they take blessings from their new spiritual leader Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin in Mumbai February 19, 2014....

Hyenas attack hungry women as Somaliland’s drought deepens: charity 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A woman walks past the carcass of a camel that has died due to the severe drought near the town of Qol Ujeed,...

Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree Orthodox Easter truce 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

A woman takes a selfie with painted eggs during the Easter eggs (Pysanka) festival in front of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine,...

Aleppo mourns Syrian doctor killed in air strike 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Dr Muhammad Waseem Maaz was killed in an air strike on Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo on 27 April, 2016. Photo credit: Syria...

Despite carnage, Syria's Aleppo left out of fighting 'freeze' 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Syrian men carry a body on a stretcher amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood...

Who are France's masked cobblestone throwers? Opinions abound 30 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

French CRS anti-riot police stand facing protesters and migrants who have occupied a high school in Paris' nineteenth district during a demonstration to...