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Israel charges Palestinian for hacking drones, airport info 23 Mar 2016 - 06:01 pm

Representative image. AFP, Michal Cizek JERUSALEM: Israel has charged a Palestinian computer hacker from the Gaza Strip with breaking into Israeli military drone...

Column: Gulf migrant workers will be biggest victims of oil shock 23 Mar 2016 - 05:48 pm

An Indian labourer looks at the construction site of a building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 16, 2014. REUTERS, Faisal Al Nasser By...

China to supply petroleum products to landlocked Nepal 23 Mar 2016 - 05:38 pm

File photo of a sign reading "no petrol" is pictured at a petrol pump when fuel crisis hit Kathmandu, Nepala. Photo: Reuters BEIJING:...

Poroshenko says new Ukrainian government must be formed next week 23 Mar 2016 - 05:32 pm

Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian President Kharkiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Wednesday urged parliament to approve a new government next week that could end...

Popular London mayor eyes Trump-style insurgency to win British EU exit battle 23 Mar 2016 - 05:28 pm

London Mayor Boris Johnson delivers Vote Leave speech in Dartford Kent south east England, 11 March, 2016. EPA, ANDY RAIN Johnson, Trump both...

Syria allows aid deliveries to more besieged areas: UN 23 Mar 2016 - 04:57 pm

Syrian children playing on a street in the Teshreen neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, 22 March 2016. The area is controlled by forces opposing...

Japanese man detained in Turkey for trying to join Islamic State -sources 23 Mar 2016 - 04:39 pm

ANKARA: A Japanese man who had attempted to join the Islamic State militant group has been detained by Turkish security forces near the...

Kerry in Moscow to sound out Putin on Assad rule 23 Mar 2016 - 04:24 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry upon his arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo-II airport, Russia, 23 March 2016. Kerry arrived in Moscow to meet...

Sisi names 10 new ministers in Egypt cabinet reshuffle 23 Mar 2016 - 04:15 pm

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday swore in 10 new ministers in a cabinet reshuffle, as Egypt struggles to revive an economy...

Brussels police find 15kg of high explosives after attacks: prosecutor 23 Mar 2016 - 03:59 pm

Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw gives a press conference after the multiple explosions in Brussels at the airport and in the metro. Brussels: ...

Brussels airport bomber left will saying 'I don't know what to do': prosecutor 23 Mar 2016 - 03:55 pm

This handout picture obtained via Interpol on March 23, 2016 shows Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of the two Belgian brothers identified as the...

More aid agencies pull out of Greek camps, spurning EU deal 23 Mar 2016 - 03:30 pm

A refugee boy, rescued at open sea, is helped to disembark a Frontex patrol vessel at the port of Mytilene on the Lesbos...

Brothers identified as Brussels suicide attackers: prosecutor 23 Mar 2016 - 03:28 pm

This combination of handout pictures obtained via Interpol on March 23, 2016 shows Khalid (L) and Ibrahim (R) El Bakraoui, the two Belgian...

U.S. targets Islamic State with 25 strikes in Iraq, Syria 23 Mar 2016 - 02:27 pm

WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies staged 25 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday in the U.S.-lead coalition's...

Brussels airport to remain closed Thursday: CEO 23 Mar 2016 - 02:24 pm

Policemen control passengers at the entrance of Bruges' airport in Ostende, on March 23, 2016, one day after two massive suicide blasts by...

IS claims murder of Christian convert in Bangladesh 23 Mar 2016 - 02:20 pm

Dhaka: The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the murder of a Christian convert in northern Bangladesh, according to a US-based...

Belgian media say Brussels prime suspect not arrested 23 Mar 2016 - 02:16 pm

This undated file photo released on March 21, 2016 by the federal police on demand of Brussels' king prosecutor shows a combination of...

Dutch consulate in Istanbul closed due to "possible terror" threat 23 Mar 2016 - 02:03 pm

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch consulate in Istanbul has been evacuated and closed temporarily due to a "possible terror threat", the foreign minister said in...