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Iraq Probes Report of Rights Abuses In Mosul Operation
Iraq is investigating a report that members of a special forces unit carried out torture, summary killings and rapes...
Saudi Telecom To Form $500 Mn Venture Capital Fund
Saudi Arabia's largest telecommunications firm said Thursday it will set up a $500-million venture capital fund to...
Libya Says Working Closely With Britain Over Concert Attack
Libya is working closely with Britain to identify possible "terrorist networks" involved in the attack at a pop concert...
In Europe, Trump Feels the Heat On Climate
At every stop in Donald Trump's whirlwind of summit meetings in Europe, the issue of climate change -- and the US...
Vietnam Man Kills Wedding Guest After Karaoke Row
A man at a wedding in Vietnam stabbed a fellow guest to death and seriously injured another after he was booed off...
Pakistan Economy Grows At Highest Rate In Decade
Confidence in Pakistan is growing, but economists believe the country will need to register sustained growth of six to...
Indian Woman Forced To Marry Pakistani Returns Home
An Indian woman who said she was forced to marry a Pakistani at gunpoint returned to India on Thursday after a court...
Suspected Jihadists Wreck Mali Primary School
Suspected Islamic extremists have wrecked a primary school in central Mali out of hostility to Western-style education,...
‘Panic’ In Bangladesh Factories As Workers Collapse In Heatwave
Panic broke out in more than a dozen factories in Bangladesh's capital as hundreds of garment workers fell ill in a...
Sisi’s Egypt Cracks Down On News Websites
Egypt's government, already accused of muzzling freedom of expression and opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,...
Myanmar To Deport Turkish Family Amid Crackdown Fears
Myanmar authorities have detained a Turkish family and are trying to deport them to Turkey, where activists fear they...
Funding Shortfall Hits Starving In NE Nigeria
Lack of funding is forcing aid agencies to cut feeding programmes for starving people in northeast Nigeria, the UN said...
‘Afghan Spielberg’ Shaheen Goes Down A Storm At Cannes
In the hierarchy of world cinema, Hollywood is at the top. Then comes Bollywood and Nigeria's Nollywood. And then "way,...
Father of Manchester Bomb Suspect ‘was In Militant Group’
The father of suspected Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was once part of a Libyan militant group with alleged...
Iran Says It Has Built Third Underground Missile Factory
Iran has built a third underground plant to manufacture ballistic missiles, the head of its Revolutionary Guards...
Five Kenyan Police Killed In New Bombing
Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northeastern Kenya, a day after two...
Bangladesh Jails High-Profile Islamist Leader
A Bangladesh court Thursday jailed a senior Islamist militant for more than seven years for leading an extremist group...
Obama ‘heartbroken’ By Manchester Attack
Former United States President Barack Obama said at a Berlin reunion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday he...
Afghan Plane Forced To Fly Back After Angry MPs Miss Flight
Supporters of two Afghan MPs who missed a domestic flight from Kabul blocked an airport runway with rocks, forcing the...