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Australia admits government hack attacks, boosts cyber security 21 Apr 2016 - 08:23 am

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces the federal government's Cyber Security Strategy at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney, Australia, 21 April 2016....

Ukraine warns it may take 'years' to end separatist war 21 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

Stepan Poltorak, Ukraine's defence minister . Reuters Kiev: Ukraine's defence minister warned Wednesday it may take years to settle the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Russian...

After 16 years in captivity: Tripura man's surprise homecoming 21 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala: As his family was at its wits end to obtain 50-year-old Ranjan Saha's death certificate, the banana seller startled...

Do more in Iraq, US Pentagon boss tells Gulf 21 Apr 2016 - 12:00 am

(From L to R) Kuwaiti Defence Minister Sheikh Khaled al-Jarrah al-Sabah, Qatari Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Khalid bin Mohamed...

UN starts to evacuate 500 people from besieged Syria towns 20 Apr 2016 - 06:31 pm

(File photo) Zabadani Zabadani, Syria: Twenty-five men were evacuated from a rebel-held stronghold west of the Syrian capital Wednesday, an AFP reporter said,...

Lessons of Ukraine's Chernobyl disaster, 30 years on 20 Apr 2016 - 06:26 pm

Ukranian Svitlana Shmagailo, a 42-year-old teacher affected by Chernobyl's disaster, poses for media in Barcelona, Spain, on 20 April 2016. EPA/ALEJANDRO GARCIA Vienna: ...

Podemos lawmakers on hunger strike in Spain in favour of refugees 20 Apr 2016 - 06:02 pm

Foreign spokesman of Spanish Podemos party, Pablo Bustinduy, intervenes at a Parliamentary session at the Lower House in Madrid, Spain, on 20 April...

Seven policemen guarding polio team killed; polio workers spared in Pakistan 20 Apr 2016 - 05:30 pm

pakistani security personnel gather around a police van after an attack by gunmen on security members guarding a polio vaccination team in Karachi ...

Syrian peace talks in quagmire as rebels prepare for more war 20 Apr 2016 - 04:59 pm

A rebel-fighter monitors the sky holding a FN-6 man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS) in the Syrian village of Teir Maalah, on the northern outskirts...

Philippine army urges no payments to free foreign captives 20 Apr 2016 - 04:50 pm

MANILA: The Philippines discouraged ransom payments on Wednesday for captives held by Islamist militants in a bid to stop a kidnap "industry" emerging...

Quake hit Ecuadorean beach town grapples with crisis 20 Apr 2016 - 04:23 pm

Rescue workers carry a corpse from earthquake rubbble in Pedernales, Ecuador on April 20, 2016. AFP / RODRIGO BUENDIA PEDERNALES, Ecuador: The rustic...

World's oldest message in a bottle discovered 20 Apr 2016 - 04:18 pm

London: A 108-year-old postcard offering a shilling in exchange for its return to an English marine research institute is now officially the world's...

How Swedish start-up Neo Technology helped crack the Panama Papers 20 Apr 2016 - 03:59 pm

A tourist takes a selfie next to a sign that shows the Mossack Fonseca law firm's name outside their office building in Panama...

U.N. deeply concerned as exodus from Aleppo grows 20 Apr 2016 - 03:44 pm

Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki fighters walk near damaged buildings in Handarat area, north of Aleppo, Syria, April 19, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail GENEVA: The...

Indian father chops off alleged rapist's hands 20 Apr 2016 - 03:43 pm

New Delhi: A father chopped off the hands of a teenager who allegedly raped his baby daughter before dumping him alive near a...

Heat wave kills more than 160 in southern, eastern India 20 Apr 2016 - 03:40 pm

A young girl carries bottles filled with drinking water beside the railway station in Agartala, India, April 20, 2016. (REUTERS/Jayanta Dey) By OMER...