Turkey launches new strikes on PKK as NATO meeting called
ISTANBUL: The Turkish military on Sunday launched new air strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq as Ankara invoked an…
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Female suicide bombers kill dozens in Cameroon, Nigeria
YAOUNDE: A 12-year-old girl suicide bomber killed 20 people in an attack on a bar in Maroua in Cameroon, while in…
Greece’s headache: how to lift the capital controls?
ATHENS: It is just the headache Greece’s government does not need right now: how can it loosen the capital controls that…
Three dead as small plane crashes
Two people on board and one woman on the ground killed while five others injured
6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia
JAKARTA: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java yesterday, the US Geological Survey reported, but local…
Passenger subdued after arson attempt on Chinese plane
BEIJING: A man who tried to set fire to the cabin of a plane with more than 100 people aboard…
Iraq forces retake university on edge of Ramadi
BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces recaptured a university campus yesterday on the outskirts of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, seizing…
Obama urges young Kenyans to shape their future
NAIROBI: Billing himself as America’s first Kenyan-American president, Barack Obama implored Kenya’s youthful populous to cast aside ‘bad traditions’ and…