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Imran Khan avoids Parliament 17 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

ISLAMABAD: For more than a year, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has attended the House proceedings hardly twice, thus figuring among the...

One dead after small plane crashes onto train track in New York 16 Aug 2015 - 06:52 pm

One person is dead and one hospitalized after a small plane crashed onto railroad tracks on Long Island in New York State on...

Plane with 54 on board crashes in remote Indonesian region 16 Aug 2015 - 06:41 pm

The mother (C) of a missing Trigana Air Service flight attendant leaves the airlines office in Jakarta, Indonesia August 16, 2015 in this...

Airstrikes kill 40 militants in NW Pakistan: Military 16 Aug 2015 - 06:27 pm

A Pakistani police officer and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing in Shadi Khan, some 80 kilometers northwest from Pakistani...

Fire engulfs Philippine ship with 544; only 2 minor injuries 16 Aug 2015 - 05:56 pm

MANILA, Philippines: A two-story ferry with 544 passengers caught fire after docking in the central Philippines on Saturday and people jumped into the...

Air strikes near Damascus kill at least 80 people: activists 16 Aug 2015 - 04:55 pm

BEIRUT: A Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus killed about 80 people on Saturday, rescue workers and the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Iran submits nuclear activity information to UN watchdog 16 Aug 2015 - 04:04 pm

Iran denies it is trying to produce atomic weapons and insists the Bushehr reactor and its other nuclear facilities are purely for peaceful...

Al Qaeda in Syria 'frees seven US-trained rebels' 16 Aug 2015 - 03:23 pm

Fighters from Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al Nusra Front are seen driving through the northern Syrian city of Aleppo flying Islamist flags in...

Pakistan provincial minister among 10 killed in suicide attack 16 Aug 2015 - 02:53 pm

Punjab Home Minister Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada, who is among the 10 killed in today’s suicide bombing attack, is seen in this file...

In a Kerala prison, a poet, writer is born 16 Aug 2015 - 02:51 pm

By Sanu George KOZHIKODE, Kerala: Prisons may not be providing the ideal setting for the making of a poet-cum-writer but a middle-aged woman...

Nepal detains dozens in strike over new constitution 16 Aug 2015 - 02:48 pm

Nepalese police detain a protester during a general strike organised by a 30-party alliance led by a hardline faction of former Maoist rebels,...

Syrians begin boarding refugee ship on Greek island 16 Aug 2015 - 02:08 pm

Syrian refugees prepare to board the passenger ship 'Eleftherios Venizelos' at the port on the Greek island of Kos, August 15, 2015. KOS...

Trump says he'd deport undocumented immigrants as U.S. president 16 Aug 2015 - 01:59 pm

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media before heading over the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, United States,...

Indonesian plane with 54 people on board missing in remote Papua as night falls 16 Aug 2015 - 01:13 pm

JAKARTA: An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region,...

Bahrain to remove meat subsidies for expats as cheap oil hits budget 16 Aug 2015 - 11:29 am

DUBAI: Bahrain will remove government subsidies on meat from Sept. 1, allowing domestic prices to rise, state news agency BNA reported as the...

Iraq PM orders commanders to face trial over Ramadi withdrawal 16 Aug 2015 - 10:23 am

Iraqi protesters shout slogans and carry Iraqi national flags during a demonstration at Tahrir square in central Baghdad. Hundreds of Iraqis rallied on...

Khamenei ‘opposed to’ N-deal with US 16 Aug 2015 - 02:15 am

TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is opposed to a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers, a prominent hard-liner claimed yesterday....