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Kuwait expels 14 accused of Hezbollah links: Report 21 Mar 2016 - 11:06 am

DUBAI: Kuwait has expelled 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis suspected of belonging to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Monday, nearly three weeks...

Israel 'rescues' 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen in covert operation 21 Mar 2016 - 10:47 am

Yemeni Jewish boys read at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida in this file photo. Reuters Jerusalem: Israel has...

Australian PM threatens early elections over union row 21 Mar 2016 - 10:39 am

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (C) listens to a question during a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, March 21, 2016....

As Iraqi civilian rule weakens, Shi’ite clerics call the shots 21 Mar 2016 - 10:22 am

Supporters of prominent Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr display a huge Iraqi flag during a protest against government corruption at Tahrir Square in...

China urges Indonesia to release crew after sea confrontation 21 Mar 2016 - 10:02 am

Jakarta: A Chinese envoy called on Indonesia Monday to release eight crew members of a Chinese fishing boat detained during a maritime confrontation,...

Paris fugitive helped more by friends and neighbours than Islamic State 21 Mar 2016 - 10:02 am

Belgium police outside 79 Quatre-Vents in in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS: After the Paris attacks, ...

North Korea fires short-range missiles into sea: Yonhap 21 Mar 2016 - 09:59 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches landing and anti-landing exercises being carried out by the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an unknown...

Biden says 'watching Iran like a hawk' on nuclear deal 21 Mar 2016 - 09:56 am

Biden spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference less than two weeks after a fence-mending visit to Israel. AFP Washington:...

Kazakh leader's party wins landslide in snap parliamentary vote 21 Mar 2016 - 09:52 am

Kazakhstan citizens went to the polls on March 20 in an early parliamentary election. AFP ASTANA: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party...

Walls to protect Zanzibar resorts threaten fishing communities 21 Mar 2016 - 09:40 am

File photo of fishermen as they walk to the sea at Paje beach in Zanzibar. Reuters/Hereward Holland By Mohamed Issa UROA, Tanzania: A...

Ukraine pilot faces verdict in Russian murder trial decried by Kiev 21 Mar 2016 - 09:35 am

Nadiya Savchenko is both lionised as a fearless Ukrainian freedom fighter -- and demonised as the alleged accomplice in the murder of two...

Curfew lifted in area of southeast Turkey, security tight for festival 21 Mar 2016 - 09:31 am

Two Kurdish women walk near the security operations' zone in Sur district, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. EPA/SEDAT SUNA DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Turkish authorities lifted a...

IPS Association reject Sahay Commission report on Muzaffarnagar riots 21 Mar 2016 - 09:26 am

File picture of the army vehicles parked in the riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar. Reuters Lucknow: The Indian Police Service (IPS) Association of Uttar...

Somali militants overrun military base, killing at least one 21 Mar 2016 - 09:18 am

By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU: The Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Somali military base southwest of the capital Mogadishu on...

Taiwan security agency says China's Gambia gambit meant to pressure president 21 Mar 2016 - 08:48 am

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hand with his Gambian counterpart Neneh Macdouall-Gaye at a signing ceremony in Beijing, China, March 17,...

Southern Libya could be new frontier for IS: experts 21 Mar 2016 - 08:43 am

Last year, IS claimed attacks on the Bardo museum in Tunis and a popular resort hotel, killing 59 tourists in total, and the...

Khamenei accuses US of failing to respect nuclear deal 21 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AFP) Tehran: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Washington of failing to respect the terms of...

All US presidential candidates hostile to Iran: Khamenei 21 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AFP) DUBAI: US policy is preventing big companies from doing business with Iran, while US presidential candidates...