Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:53:42
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has invited Gulf leaders to attend the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, scheduled to be held in Riyadh in May.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:45:52
After a 25-year break, fractious Central Asian neighbours Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have re-established regular connecting flights, a spokeswoman at Tajikistan’s international airport said on Tuesday, paving the way for improved relations.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:32:39
Doctors Without Borders says 600 migrants are missing after they were evacuated from northern French camp that was ravaged by a blaze.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:29:48
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the California city of San Bernardino, killing a teacher and an eight-year-old boy before turning the gun on himself, police said. Another child caught in the crossfire was rushed to a hospital and said to be in critical condition.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:27:27
Somali security forces have liberated an Indian cargo ship from the pirates who hijacked it, but only two of the ten-man crew were rescued, authorities in central Somalia have said. Abdulahi Ahmed Ali, district commissioner for the pirate-hub region of Hobyo, told local press yesterday that the "Al Kauser" ship had been held off the Indian Ocean coast near Yemen after the hijacking on March 31.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:37:39
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai a U.N. Messenger of Peace on Monday to promote girls education, more than four years after a Taliban gunman shot her in the head on her school bus in 2012.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:32:05
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said that Pakistan wants good relations with all countries, particularly its neighbours, a day after a military court’s order to execute Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav spiked Indo-Pak tensions.
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Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:30:02
At least eight people were killed Tuesday in a gunbattle between Philippine forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists’ southern jungle bases and in a region where the US government has warned that the gunmen may be plotting kidnappings, officials said.
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