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Burkina Faso president held by presidential guard 16 Sep 2015 - 08:55 pm

Burkina Faso president Michel Kafando (AFP) OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Isaac Zida were detained at the presidential...

U.N. chief "shocked" by treatment of refugees on Hugarian-Serbian border 16 Sep 2015 - 08:00 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday expressed shock and alarm at the treatment of refugees and migrants...

Hungary shuts EU border, taking migrant crisis into its own hands 16 Sep 2015 - 02:17 pm

Migrants wait to enter Hungary near the village of Horgos, Serbia, September 15, 2015. Hundreds of migrants pressed against a barrier erected by...

Croatia says migrants will be allowed to pass through to western Europe 16 Sep 2015 - 01:39 pm

ZAGREB (Croatia): Migrants entering European Union member Croatia will be allowed to pass through and continue their journey to western Europe, Prime Minister...

China continued South China Sea reclamation despite halt claim: expert 16 Sep 2015 - 01:35 pm

Mischief Reef is shown in this handout satellite image dated September 8, 2015 and provided by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/Digital Globe September...

Facebook working on long-sought ‘dislike’ button 16 Sep 2015 - 09:55 am

San Francisco: Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a “dislike” button, announced Tuesday it was working on the feature and will...

Charlie Hebdo stirs another row with migrant cartoons 16 Sep 2015 - 01:03 am

Syrian refugees wait at the bus station in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. According to local reports thousands of refugees are trying to walk to...

40,000 dead under Chad's Habre an underestimate 15 Sep 2015 - 08:20 pm

Ex-dictator Hissene Habre (Reuters) DAKAR: The number of Chadians killed under the brutal regime of ex-dictator Hissene Habre far exceeded the frequently-quoted estimate...

EU ministers to hold new migration crisis meeting next Tuesday 15 Sep 2015 - 08:15 pm

BRUSSELS: European Union interior ministers will hold an emergency council next Tuesday, September 22, to discuss the migration crisis, the meeting's chairman said...

7 dead in French Alps avalanche 15 Sep 2015 - 07:20 pm

GRENOBLE: Seven people were killed Tuesday when an avalanche swept them away in the French Alps, a local official told AFP, one of...

Germany urges penalties for EU states rejecting refugees 15 Sep 2015 - 03:58 pm

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere BERLIN: Germany urged the European Union to consider imposing financial penalties on states that refuse to take...

Syrian refugee count nears 2 million in Turkey, down in Iraq, Lebanon 15 Sep 2015 - 02:40 pm

BY TOM MILES GENEVA: The numbers of Syrian refugees in Iraq and Lebanon fell in August, while the number in Turkey has risen...

Iran says wants China's help to resolve Middle East tensions 15 Sep 2015 - 02:02 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attend a news conference after a bilateral meeting in Beijing,...

A record 156,000 migrants entered EU in August: border agency Frontex 15 Sep 2015 - 01:46 pm

A refugee assists a toddler crossing Hungary's barbed-wire fence in this file photo. BRUSSELS: A record 156,000 migrants entered the European Union in...

UN voices deep disappointment at lack of EU consensus on migrants 15 Sep 2015 - 01:37 pm

GENEVA : The United Nations said on Tuesday it was "deeply disappointed" at the failure of European Union ministers to reach a final...

Twenty-two migrants drown as boat capsizes in Aegean Sea 15 Sep 2015 - 01:22 pm

ANKARA: Twenty-two migrants drowned and 200 more were rescued when a boat capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast while trying...

Migrant boat heading to Greece from Turkey sinks, 13 dead 15 Sep 2015 - 10:08 am

ANKARA: At least 13 migrants including four children trying to reach Greece drowned Tuesday when their boat from Turkey sank in the international...

North Korea says it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants 15 Sep 2015 - 10:01 am

A file satellite handout image from DigitalGlobe dated 29 September 2004 shows the Yongbyon complex nuclear facility, some 100 km north of Pyongyang,...