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Maldives Opposition Protests Saudi King’s Visit
Maldivian opposition parties protested Friday a planned visit by King Salman following reports that Saudi business...
Ageing Legends Defy Odds At All-England Badminton Open
Ageing badminton legends Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan have been tenaciously defying the odds on their way to the last...
US Economy Adds 235,000 New Jobs In February
US economy had another strong month of job creation in February, with the manufacturing, health care, mining and...
Chemical Watchdog Condemns VX Use In Kim Murder
The world's chemical watchdog Friday condemned the use of the deadly VX nerve agent in the assassination of North...
IOC Freezes Funding For Kenya Over Governance
The International Olympic Committee has frozen all cash funding for sport in Kenya as it battles the national Olympic...
Niger Puts 1,000 ‘Boko Haram Fighters’ On Trial
Niger has begun the trials behind closed doors of about 1,000 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist movement,...
S.Africans March Over Looming Welfare Payment Crisis
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Pretoria on Friday over fears that South Africa's welfare agency may be...
.africa Joins the Internet
In the beginning was .com, followed by a host of other .somethings, but on Friday, 32 years after the world's first...
Taiwan Bus At Double Speed Limit Before Fatal Crash
Investigators probing a bus crash in Taiwan which killed 33 people in one of the island's worst ever road accidents...
Trump To Speak With Palestinian President Abbas
US President Donald Trump will on Friday speak by telephone with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the White House...
Gambia Coalition Near Collapse Over Legislative Election
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run...
S. Koreans Jubilant, Or Stunned By President’s Sacking
Thousands of younger demonstrators erupted with joy while a rival older crowd angrily clashed with riot police -- two...
31 Workers Convicted Over Killing At Indian Car Plant
An Indian court convicted 31 workers Friday over an outburst of deadly violence at a car plant in 2012, including 13...
Japan Troops To Withdraw From South Sudan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in...
India Moves 1000-Tonne Historic Armoury To Lay Rail Track
Dozens of workers are using cranes and jacks to shove and push a 1,000-tonne, 18th century armoury to make way for a...
Malaysia Police Confirm Kim Jong-Nam Identity
Malaysia's police chief on Friday confirmed that the man assassinated at Kuala Lumpur's international airport last...
Iraq Battles IS In Mosul, Commander Says Resistance Weakening
Iraqi special forces battled the Islamic State group on Friday in west Mosul, where a commander said jihadist...
What Next After S. Korea’s Presidential Impeachment?
Friday's final verdict by South Korea's Constitutional Court to sack impeached president Park Geun-Hye has finally put...
Vietnam King Kong Premiere Ruined By Monster Fire
Film buffs with the hottest ticket in town were left running for safety after a giant model of King Kong went up in...