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Bus Bombing Hits Syria’s Homs, Five Dead
A bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven on Wednesday, state...
Calls For Unity As Arab Leaders Gather
Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises...
Evacuation Deal Reached For Four Syrian Towns
Four Syrian towns are to be evacuated under an agreement between pro-government forces and rebels, in the latest of a...
Bob Dylan To Receive Nobel Prize In Stockholm At Weekend
Music icon Bob Dylan is to receive his Nobel Literature Prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in...
Maldives Ex-Leader Vows Fightback After Vote Chaos
Exiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed vowed Wednesday to keep up the pressure on the government after it...
Ghana Seeks New Dawn For Struggling Power Sector
Ghana's new government is looking to fix a crippling power crisis with a complete overhaul of its deficit-ridden energy...
Myanmar Rohingya Militants Call For Peacekeeping Troops
A nascent Rohingya militant group whose raids triggered a bloody crackdown by Myanmar's army called Wednesday for...
China Calls On US To Honour Climate Commitments
China on Wednesday called on the US to honour its commitments to tackle climate change, after President Donald Trump...
Google Translate App Now Unblocked In China
Google on Wednesday made available in China a new version of its translation app that is accessible without...
NBC To Air 2018 Games Live In All Time Zones In First
NBC will broadcast the 2018 Winter Olympics live across all US time zones for the first time, the TV network has...
All Blacks Not At Their Peak For Lions Tour, Says Lewsey
Ex-England international Josh Lewsey Wednesday said the British and Irish Lions had a great chance to overturn the All...
Engineers Set To To Enter IS-Held Parts of Syria Dam
Syrian engineers were expected to carry out urgent maintenance Wednesday on the country's largest dam, where US-backed...
Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas Meets Trump Envoy At Arab Summit
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has met one of US President Donald Trump's top envoys on the sidelines of an Arab...
Meningitis Outbreak Kills Nearly 270 In Nigeria
Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to...
Five Things We Learned From India V Australia Test Series
Five things we learned after India defeated Australia 2-1 to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Dharamsala this...
Philippines, China To Hold Direct Talks On Sea Row
China and the Philippines will hold direct talks on their maritime dispute in May, Filipino officials said Wednesday,...
India V Australia Test Series
India clinched a hard-fought series against Australia 2-1 after winning the fourth and final Test in Dharamsala. Here...
Hope For Elephants As Ivory Prices Fall
The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China...
‘Pink Star’ Diamond Set To Fetch Record Price In Hong Kong
A plum-sized pink diamond is expected to break the world record for a gemstone early next month when it goes under the...