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KHARTOUM: Crowds of Sudanese waving flags and chanting “we toppled two presidents in two days” celebrated in the capital late Friday after the country’s military council chief stepped down a day after he was sworn in. “We have done it,…

Washington:US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will attend ceremonies to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy that broke Nazi Germany's grip on France. "I'll be there," he told reporters in the White…

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not have an opinion about the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces the prospect of extradition to the United States over the publishing of secret official…

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders gave Britain six more months to leave the bloc, more than Prime Minister Theresa May says she needs but less than many in the bloc wanted, thanks to fierce resistance from France. The summit deal in…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, in a dramatic gesture after an unprecedented retreat at the Vatican, knelt to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring leaders on Thursday as he urged them to not return to a civil war. He appealed to…

India’s Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi has filed his nomination for another term as a member of Parliament from Amethi, a family bastion in the vote-rich state of Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi’s mother, Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated…

WELLINGTON: Lawmakers in New Zealand voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after its worst peacetime mass shooting, in which 50 people were killed in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch.…

The Indian Election Commission has sought a report on the mention of armed forces by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally in Maharashtra a day earlier.  During his political speech, Modi was seen asking first-time voters to…

OTTAWA: When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office in late 2015, he was a political golden boy who seemed destined to build on the legend of his father, who led the country for more than 15 years. But six months ahead of an…

ISLAMABAD: The Saudi authorities have decided to add Pakistan in its pre-departure immigration facility under the ‘Road to Makkah project. The delegation of Saudi officials arrived here to hold talks with Pakistani officials, has left…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - From its clubhouses in Melbourne and Sydney, the Lads Society promotes drug-free living and exercise, as well as “white resistance” and Islamophobia, according to online statements and interviews with two of…

KAMPALA (Reuters) - An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda’s most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and Ugandan driver Jean Paul…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese prosecuters arrested ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn again on Thursday on suspicion of trying to enrich himself at the automaker’s expense, in a stunning twist that media reports linked to payments…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings. Critics warn that some…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The man accused of carrying out the Christchurch mosque attacks will face 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges when he makes his second court appearance, New Zealand police said…

Lima:Prosecutors in Peru say they are investigating the death of a 72-year-old British missionary and environmental activist whose body was found in a shelter for indigenous people in the Amazon. Prosecutors said McAuley "was the…

Washington:US Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday strongly criticized Germany at NATO's 70th anniversary gathering, saying the ally needed to pay more on defense and end a pipeline plan with Russia. "Germany must do more. And we…

MEXICO CITY: Closing the US-Mexican border would “not be good for anyone,” Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez warned Wednesday, as his American counterpart, Donald Trump, kept up his threats to do just that. The leftist leader made…

ISLAMABAD: United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad will arrive in Pakistan on a two-day official visit on Thursday (today), said diplomatic sources. The sources said that Zalmay Khalilzad,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three of eight importers granted waivers by Washington to buy oil from Iran have now cut their shipments to zero, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, adding that improved global oil market conditions…

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday sought to quell a crisis that threatens his chances of re-election, expelling from party ranks two former Cabinet members he said had undermined the ruling…

SINGAPORE/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX jet that crashed last month had initially followed Boeing Co’s emergency procedures but they still failed to regain control of the plane, the Wall…

WASHINGTON (AP) — His border shutdown went from imminent to uncertain. A major health-care push was declared and then delayed. Funding cuts were inserted in his proposed budget and just as quickly taken out. President Donald…

Five residents at a retirement home in southern France have died and more than a dozen others are in a serious condition after a suspected case of mass food poisoning, officials said Monday. Twenty-two people at the privately operated…

New Zealand will crack down on firearms ownership this week after the Christchurch mosques massacre that claimed 50 lives — and the Kiwi gun lobby, for the most part, is okay with that. In stark contrast to the United States, where even…

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan suffered stunning setbacks in local elections as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time since the party’s founding in 2001, and was on course to lose the biggest prize of…

Indian troops, in their latest act of state terrorism, martyred four Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district of occupied Kashmir on Monday. The killings were carried out during a cordon and search operation at Lassipora, Kashmir Media Service…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over the weekend, Gaza’s Hamas rulers marked a year of bloody, weekly protests that have failed to break the Israeli blockade. Rocket attacks brought a wave of Israeli airstrikes and unprecedented…

BEIJING (Reuters) - A plant explosion in China’s Jiangsu province has killed seven people, authorities said on Sunday, the second deadly blast in the province this month as Beijing begins a nationwide industrial safety inspection campaign.…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke declared that immigrants make the country safer as he staged rallies across Texas on Saturday to formally kick off his 2020 White House bid, looking to shore…