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German tourist industry hits ‘rocky road’ hiring new migrants 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Migrants are reflected in a puddle as they queue in front of the compound of the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs...

Rocket fire from Syria hits south Turkey 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE. A new multiple launch rocket system is test fired in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News...

US raises possibility of Syrian-style ceasefire in Yemen 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi King Salman (R) meets US Secretary of State John Kerry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 11,...

Brazil's Rousseff faces crucial weekend 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the embattled leftist will be under scrutiny Saturday as the largest party in her coalition, the Brazilian Democratic Movement...

Venezuelan protests seek Maduro's ouster 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Jesus Torrealba, secretary of Venezuela's coalition of opposition parties (MUD), speaks during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, March...

Slovakia's Fico step closer to securing third term as PM 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Slovakia's Prime Minister and the Slovak Smer-Social Democracy party leader, Robert Fico talks to media after he was assigned by Slovak President to...

Home of Romania's Ceausescu opened to the public 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Visitors inside the former residence of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest March 12, 2016. The house was opened for the first...

Scottish separatists to renew independence push 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivers her speech during the Scottish National Party's (SNP) Spring Conference in Glasgow, Scotland March 12, 2016. REUTERS/Russell...

Greece steps up efforts to move migrants to sheltered camps 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Refugees and migrants block the train tracks as they protest demanding the opening of the border between Greece and Former Yugoslav Republic of...

Ai Weiwei brings white grand piano to muddy refugee field 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Chinese contemporary artist, Ai Weiwei (R) protects himself and others from the rain, as Nour Al Khizam (2-L) from the city Deirez Zor,...

Lebanon announces 'fix' to trash crisis amid protests 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Masked Lebanese protesters take part in a demonstration against the on-going trash crisis and government corruption, in downtown Beirut, on March 12, 2016....

Brazil's Rousseff could lose key coalition ally 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Lawmaker Osmar Terra, a member of the powerful Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), said the decision had been taken at the centrist party's...

Israel calls on powers to punish Iran for its missile tests 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vehemently opposed to the international deal with Iran which led to the lifting of economic sanctions...

Trump under fire as calls mount to quell campaign violence 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Donald Trump. Reuters photo Cleveland: Donald Trump said Saturday he felt "energized" in his campaign a day after calling off a giant rally...

Obama rebukes Trump for campaign rhetoric 13 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

"What the folks who are running for office should be focused on is how we can make it even better -- not insults...

Yemen police clash with jihadists in Aden 12 Mar 2016 - 06:44 pm

Yemeni security forces inspect unexploded ordnance confiscated from the Shiite Huthi rebels and militant extremists, as they prepare to neutralise the mines and...

Former employee of French embassy arrested in Tehran 12 Mar 2016 - 06:32 pm

Nazak Afshar, 58, who has French-Iranian citizenship, had previously been arrested in 2009 on charges of spying and of acting against Iran’s national...