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Iran proposes regional anti-terror bloc AP, TEHRAN, IranIran has proposed the formation of a bloc of Muslim countries to fight terrorism and boost economic cooperation...
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IS militants recapture Palmyra
AP, Beirut :Islamic State militants seized the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra on Sunday from government troops despite a wave of Russian airstrikes, a major...
Santos accepts Nobel for peace deal, urges shift in drug war
AP, Stockholm :Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it helped his country achieve the “impossible dream” of ending...
160 dead in Nigerian church collapse
AP, Lagos :Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll...
S Korea indicts ex-presidential aide in scandal probe
Reuters, Seoul :South Korean prosecutors indicted a former senior presidential aide and a former vice culture minister as part of their investigation of a corruption...
New UN chief to be sworn in amid uncertainty over Trump
AFP, United Nations :Incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will take the oath of office on Monday, hoping to show he is primed for action despite...
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Trump may decide to quit presidency: MooreInternational Business TimesAcademy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore made headlines in August when he predicted Republican Donald Trump would win...
Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber attacks
Reuters, Washington :US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report...
US boosts Syria anti-IS forces, urges Gulf military self-reliance
Reuters, Manama :The United States will send 200 additional military personnel including special forces to the campaign against Islamic State in Syria to create a...
Trump’s cabinet so far: wealthy, white and war-tested
AFP, Washington : Four billionaires, three generals, a handful of women and nothing but conservatives: President-elect Donald Trump is building a super-rich, unorthodox and largely white...
Ivory Coast to register 3m undocumented children
AFP, Abidjan :Ivory Coast’s government on Friday announced a programme to provide birth certificates for three million children left undocumented by years of war, poverty...
Indonesia quake homeless soars to 43,000
BBC Online :The number of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia on Wednesday has soared to at least 43,000, emergency officials say.The...