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Pakistan frees 86 Indian fishermen 20 Mar 2016 - 12:16 pm

Karachi: Pakistan on Sunday released 86 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said, the second batch freed this month....

Fire hits home of witness to arson that killed Palestinian family 20 Mar 2016 - 11:46 am

Five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha, a Palestinian boy who survived a firebombing by Jewish extremists, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on March...

Philippines says defence strengthened under US 'rotational' deal 20 Mar 2016 - 11:31 am

Philippines Foreign Relations Secretary Albert Del Rosario listens as left as Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting between the U.S....

Exiled Tibetans to elect leader to sustain struggle against China 20 Mar 2016 - 11:16 am

Tibetans in exile stand in queue to get their ballot paper during the election for the Tibetan government-in-exile at a polling booth in...

Benin votes in second-round of presidential election 20 Mar 2016 - 11:00 am

Businessman Patrice Talon will team up with his beaten opponent Sebastien Ajavon to take on Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou in second round of ...

Kenya army says killed 21 Shebab in Somalia firefight 20 Mar 2016 - 10:58 am

AFP/ File photo Nairobi: The Kenyan military claimed on Sunday to have killed 21 Islamic insurgents in a firefight in neighbouring Somalia. Military...

EU, Turkey strike 'historic' deal to send back migrants 20 Mar 2016 - 10:47 am

Turkey's primeminister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) talks with EU Council President Donald Tusk during the EU summit in Brussels on March 18, 2016. AFP...

Kazakhstan's election could yield clue to succession 20 Mar 2016 - 10:38 am

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev casts his ballot at a polling station during a snap parliamentary election in Astana, Kazakhstan. REUTERS/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov ALMATY/ASTANA: Kazakhstan's...

Five killed, 20 injured in truck explosion in central China 20 Mar 2016 - 10:36 am

Beijing: Five people died and 20 others were injured after a truck exploded on a highway on Saturday in central China's Hunan Province,...

Dozens killed in air strikes on Syria's Raqqa: monitor, activists 20 Mar 2016 - 10:28 am

File photo of Islamic State billboards seen along a street in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State, October 29,...

Bakers, teachers, painters line up to volunteer to save lives in Syria 20 Mar 2016 - 10:23 am

Volunteers rush to save lives after an airstrike. Source: www.whitehelmets.org By Emily Wither LONDON: It looks like a sandstorm has blown in, the...

Two schoolchildren killed, nine missing in Pakistan avalanche 20 Mar 2016 - 10:22 am

Chitral: Pakistani rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of two schoolchildren hit by an avalanche in the mountainous northwest, while nine more remain...

Trump candidacy stirs alliance angst in Japan 20 Mar 2016 - 10:19 am

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter lands onto the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered super carrier, in the...

China shifts axed miners to lower-paid jobs in farming, cleaning 20 Mar 2016 - 10:10 am

People attend a lecture as they participate in a training session in Jin'an retraining centre in Shanghai, China, March 18, 2016. Reuters/Aly Song ...

Cuba casts aside rancor to welcome Obama on historic visit 20 Mar 2016 - 10:05 am

Tourists pass by images of US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in a banner that reads "Welcome to Cuba" at...

Australian government abandons campaign to log World Heritage forest 20 Mar 2016 - 09:59 am

File photo of a man riding a windsurfer on a lake located on the outskirts of Hobart, in Tasmania December 21, 2012. REUTERS/DAVID...

Brazil's Agnelli, who turned Vale into top miner, dies in crash 20 Mar 2016 - 09:49 am

Roger Agnelli, head of Brazilian investment group B&A Mineracao, speaks during a media conference in Belo Horizonte, in this February 22, 2013 file...