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Children return to Army Public School in...

Children return to Army Public School in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Child survivors of Pakistan´s worst ever terrorist attack returned to the school on Monday, where Taliban militants massacred their classmates, with both the students and their parents expressing a mixture of defiance and apprehension. The December 16 attack on the Army Public School in... read more »

AirAsia flight data recorder retrieved n...

AirAsia flight data recorder retrieved near jet’s wrecked wing, secon...

Indonesian navy divers on Monday retrieved the black box flight data recorder from an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official said. Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on December 28, less than halfway into a... read more »

France fears more attacks, armed woman s...

France fears more attacks, armed woman suspect at large

Key members of the French government will meet Saturday morning to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that culminated in a massacre of 12 people at a satirical newspaper, and a supermarket bloodbath that left four hostages dead. World leaders have telephoned... read more »

US court jails radical imam Abu Hamza fo...

US court jails radical imam Abu Hamza for life for terrorism

The radical imam Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in New York on terrorism charges. He had been convicted last May of helping Yemeni militants kidnap Western tourists in 1998, leading to the deaths of three British hostages and one Australian. Jurors found him guilty of... read more »

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First Chinese-American US ambassador to China to quit

First Chinese-American US ambassador to China to quit

Beijing – US Ambassador to China Gary Locke said Wednesday he will step down from his position early next year to rejoin his family. “When I met with President (Barack) Obama earlier this... read more »

Nawaz Sharif names judges for Musharraf's trial

Nawaz Sharif names judges for Musharraf’s tr...

Islamabad – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a panel of three judges for a special court for the trial of former president... read more »

Serial blasts kill 19 in Baghdad

Serial blasts kill 19 in Baghdad

Baghdad – Up to 19 people were killed and 62 wounded in a series of car bomb explosions across Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday morning, a police... read more »

Netanyahu leaves for Moscow on Iran nuclear campaign

Netanyahu leaves for Moscow on Iran nuclear campaign

Ben Gurion Airport – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took off for Russia in a last-minute bid to sway an emerging deal with Iran over its... read more »

Israel denies involvement in Iran embassy attacks in Be...

Israel denies involvement in Iran embassy attacks in Beirut

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials denied their country was involved in the twin bombings on Tuesday morning outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which left... read more »

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One dead, 200 arrested as Kenya police raid radical mosques

Mombasa: One man was killed on Monday as Kenyan security forces arrested over 200 people and seized weapons in raids on mosques accused of links with Somalia’s Al Qaida affiliated Al... read more »

Suicide attack in Afghan capital wounds female MP

A suicide bomber tried to assassinate a prominent female member of Afghanistan’s parliament on Sunday, killing three people and wounding the lawmaker, a senior official said. Shukria... read more »

Nuclear deal with Iran would help Obama salvage his battered legacy

Washington: A nuclear deal with Iran would be a rare coup for a beleaguered President Barack Obama already seeking to shape his White House legacy, but analysts caution that renewing full... read more »

Islamic State beheads American hostage Peter Kassig, Obama calls ...

Islamic State militants have beheaded another American hostage, Peter Kassig, issuing a video claiming the killing on Sunday and warning the United States they would kill other US citizens “on... read more »