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Tycoon Tapie shapes up as Trump of French presidentials 02 Feb 2016 - 05:17 pm

By Andrew Callus and Laurence Frost PARIS: Bernard Tapie is considering a run for French president next year, a potentially far-reaching move even...

More girls taking up football in Pakistan through Generation Amazing programme 02 Feb 2016 - 05:07 pm

While historically there have been numerous cultural and lifestyle barriers to girls taking part in football and other sport-related activities in Pakistan, the...

Pakistan's greatest fiction writer Intizar Hussain dies at 92 02 Feb 2016 - 05:01 pm

Lahore, Pakistan: Pakistani author Intizar Hussain, widely recognised as one of the greatest Urdu writers in history, died on Tuesday aged 92 in...

Cameron's conundrum on when to hold EU referendum 02 Feb 2016 - 04:58 pm

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron faces a conundrum on when to hold a referendum on membership in the European Union, following the...

Growing numbers of children in migrant sea crossings: UN 02 Feb 2016 - 04:53 pm

Geneva: Children now make up more than one third of the migrants and refugees making the perilous sea journey from Turkey to Greece,...

Deal on new US, EU transatlantic data transfer pact imminent: sources 02 Feb 2016 - 04:50 pm

Deal to come before key meeting of EU privacy regulators Top EU court struck down previous pact in Oct Revelations of mass U.S....

Israel demolishes buildings in southern West Bank 02 Feb 2016 - 04:44 pm

Jerusalem: Israeli forces demolished more than a dozen buildings in a disputed military zone in the southern West Bank Tuesday, leaving a number...

Explosion on board an A321 few mins after taking off from Mogadishu 02 Feb 2016 - 04:21 pm

A Daallo Airline Airbus A321 flight D3159 made an emergency landing at Mogadishu today after an explosion soon after takeoff from Mogadishu, Somalia....

Tajikistan names new anti-narcotics chief to counter Afghan drug smuggling 02 Feb 2016 - 04:18 pm

Sherkhon Salimzoda Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Ex-Soviet Tajikistan, a key transit route for illegal drugs trafficked from Afghanistan, appointed a new head of its anti-narcotics...

Saudi gets 10 years for Twitter 'terrorism' support 02 Feb 2016 - 04:15 pm

Riyadh: A Saudi who used Twitter to call for the release of prisoners convicted of "terrorism" and security offences has been jailed for...

US, Italy warn of rising IS threat in Libya but strikes off agenda 02 Feb 2016 - 04:08 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) speaks during an anti-Daesh summit with the Foreign Ministers of 23 countries from Europe, the West...

France says 'no question' of strikes against IS in Libya 02 Feb 2016 - 03:51 pm

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius attends a meeting in Rome, Italy, 02 February 2016. Rome: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday refuted...

Australia reports two cases of Zika virus, detects mosquitoes at Sydney airport 02 Feb 2016 - 03:33 pm

Health ministry personnel fumigate against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses in Tegucigalpa, on February 1, 2016....

Two more sentenced to death for Bangladesh war crimes 02 Feb 2016 - 03:29 pm

Bangladeshi policemen escort Obaidul Haque Taher, third from left, after he was sentenced to death for his involvement in killing, kidnapping and looting...

Syria condemns Turkey 'cross-border shelling' 02 Feb 2016 - 03:20 pm

Damascus: Syria's government has condemned alleged cross-border shelling by Turkish forces on Monday as a "blatant breach of international law", state media reported....

Saudi executed for fatal shooting 02 Feb 2016 - 02:10 pm

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed one of its citizens for the fatal shooting of another Saudi, bringing to 57 the number of...

After IM, Bhatkal now becomes new recruiting ground for IS 02 Feb 2016 - 02:07 pm

By Rajnish Singh New Delhi: Once known in intelligence cirlces as the breeding ground of the homegrown Indian Mujahideen (IM) terror outfit, Karnataka's...