Turkey angered by US move to arm Syrian Kurds
AFP, Istanbul :Turkey on Wednesday reacted furiously to a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the force battling jihadists...
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Mexico fireworks blast kills 14AFP, Puebla, MexicoAn explosion at a fireworks warehouse killed 14 people, all but three of them children, in a poor Mexican...
Trump delays decision on Paris Climate deal
AFP, Washington :President Donald Trump delayed a decision to honor or walk away from the Paris climate accord until he returns from Europe late this...
NATO mulls sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan
AFP, London :NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that military chiefs wanted a few thousand more troops from the alliance to be deployed in...
Breastfeeding Aussie Senator in political first
AFP, Sydney :A breastfeeding senator has made Australian political history by becoming the first woman to nurse her newborn baby in the nation’s parliament.Greens’ senator...
Jakarta governor jailed for blasphemy
AFP, Jakarta :The outgoing governor of Jakarta has been jailed for two years for blasphemy after judges handed down a sentence that was harsher than...
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Police reopen Paris train station AP, ParisPolice gradually began reopening Paris’ Gare du Nord train station early on Tuesday morning after earlier evacuating the platforms...
Putin urges world to fight terror as Russia marks WWII victory
AFP, Moscow :President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned Russia could defeat any aggressors but insisted that the world come together to fight “terrorism” as Moscow...
Irish beach reappears 33 years after vanishing into Atlantic Ocean
Reuters, Ireland :A beach that was swept away more than 30 years ago from a remote island off the west coast of Ireland has reappeared...
Flood-hit Quebec declared state of emergency, military called in
Reuters, Quebec :Canada’s Quebec police hope to send divers into a swollen river on Monday to search for a toddler and a man who were...
US anti-Muslim bias incidents increased in 2016: Report
Reuters, Boston :When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its...
Trump admin insists travel ban not anti-Muslim
AFP, Washington :Did Donald Trump’s contested travel ban deliberately single out Muslims? The US administration fiercely denied it during an appeals court hearing Monday-despite the...