Maestro Barenboim urges world to help Syrian refugees
GENEVA: Israeli-Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim on Saturday urged the world to join European efforts to help Syrians forced into exile…
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Russian plane carrying 224 people crashes in Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO: A Russian plane with 224 people on board crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula yesterday, with…
Nobel medal fetches nearly US$800,000
LOS ANGELES: The Nobel Prize awarded in 1963 to a Cambridge professor for his revolutionary work on the central nervous…
UN staff fired over child porn, death threats
UNITED NATIONS, United States: Four UN employees have been fired for storing child pornography on their UN computers, while another…
Bucharest nightclub fire kills 27
Nearly 200 injured in one of the worst disasters and Romania declares three days of national mourning
IS group in Egypt claims it downed Russian airliner
CAIRO: The Islamic State group’s affiliate in Egypt has claimed it downed the Russian passenger plane that crashed Saturday in…
Russian civilian plane crashes in Sinai *updated*
CAIRO: A Russian airliner crashed on Saturday (Oct 31) in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, the office of the prime minister…
UN staff fired over child porn, death threats
UNITED NATIONS: Four UN employees have been fired for storing child pornography on their UN computers, while another was sacked…