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Tunisians Get Jail Terms For Eating During Ramadan
A court in northern Tunisia handed one-month jail terms Thursday to four men for eating in public during the Muslim...
Foo Fighters Rock Out At Nursing Home In New Song
Foo Fighters made clear they don't think they'll get too old to rock as they released a surprise new single Thursday...
Indian Judge Claims Peacocks Shed Tears To Conceive
An Indian judge has been mocked after bizarrely claiming during a legal argument about sacred cows that peacocks shed...
Bangladesh’s Tamim Tames England In Champions Trophy Opener
Tamim Iqbal's superb hundred helped take Bangladesh to 305 for six against England in the opening match of the 2017...
Israeli Minister In Rare Meeting With Palestinian PM
Israel's finance minister has met the Palestinian premier to discuss measures aimed at improving the Palestinian...
Facebook, Google Crack Down On Hate Speech
Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top...
US Private Sector Hiring Surges In May
Private US companies hired at a blistering pace in May, accelerating from the pause in April back to the trend of the...
Six Killed In Attack On Niger Military Post
Six members of the Niger security forces were killed when heavily-armed attackers ambushed a military position near the...
It’s A Girl! Not Necessarily, Says Serena
Serena Williams said Thursday that big sister Venus did not necessarily reveal that she is expecting a baby girl....
East Timor Reporters Cleared of PM Defamation Charge
Two East Timor journalists accused of defaming the prime minister were found not guilty by a Dili court on Thursday, in...
India To Get World’s First Professional ‘match Poker’ League
India is to get the world's first professional "match poker" league, organisers said Thursday, as the card game follows...
Vietnam and US Sign New Deals Worth $8 Billion
The US has agreed deals worth $8 billion with Vietnam - including a massive engine contract with a Vietnamese budget...
EU Leader Urges Trump To Stay In Paris Climate Deal
European Council President Donald Tusk made a personal appeal Thursday to US President Donald Trump not to pull...
Israel Minister Says State Won’t Fund Shows With Nudity
Israel's outspoken culture minister is threatening to withhold funding from two productions showing at a top festival...
Move To Re-Write Venezuelan Constitution Amid Planned Protests
Venezuela's opposition called for weekend protests as Thursday's deadline neared for candidates for an assembly to...
Rights Groups Urge Probe Into Bloodshed In DR Congo’s Kasai
International and local rights groups called on the UN on Thursday to open an urgent inquiry into the months-long...
Prayers In the Crossfire of Deadly Philippine Urban Battle
Muhamer Macayman cowered for four days as bullets tore through the shanty home he was hiding in, praying neither the...
Philippine Friendly Fire Airstrikes Kill 11 Troops
Philippine airstrikes aimed at Islamist militants who are holding hostages as human shields killed 11 soldiers,...
China Rejects Uganda Ivory Trafficking Claims Against Diplomats
China on Thursday rejected allegations that two of its diplomats working in Uganda were involved in the trafficking of...