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Canada offers $8 million in compensation to youngest Gitmo detainee
Ottawa: The Canadian government will apologize to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr and pay him around $8 million to...
Magnitude 6.0 quake hits off Ecuador coast, damage limited
QUITO: A magnitude 6 point 0 earthquake struck just off the coast of central Ecuador, the US Geological Survey (USGS)...
Gunman kills doctor, wounds 6 others in Bronx hospital rampage
NEW YORK: A doctor who had lost his job at a New York City hospital opened fire with an assault...
Iraqi PM declares “the end of the Daesh state of falsehood” after capture of Mosul mosque
MOSUL, Iraq: Islamic State's "state of falsehood" has come to an end, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today, after...
Thousands protest in Pakistan to demand security after deadly bombs
PARACHINAR, Pakistan: Tens of thousands of people protested in a Pakistani town today to demand better security after twin bombings...
South African culls 260,000 birds so far to contain bird flu outbreak-minister
PRETORIA: South Africa has culled 260,000 birds so far to contain an H5N8 bird flu outbreak, Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana...
US defense secretary says Syria appears to have heeded US warning on chemical attack
BRUSSELS: Syria appears to have heeded a US warning against staging any new chemical weapons attack as no such action...
Death toll in London tower block fire rises to 80 – police
LONDON: British police believe 80 people died or are missing presumed dead after the Grenfell Tower blaze two weeks ago,...
Hong Kong protesters arrested for democracy protest ahead of Xi’s visit
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police today arrested pro-democracy protesters, some of whom scrambled up a monument symbolising the city's handover...
China urges Afghans, Pakistan to form crisis-management mechanism
ISLAMABAD: China's foreign minister has urged leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan to improve relations and establish a crisis prevention and...
