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Israel to run for U.N. Security Council seat for 2019-20

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday it plans to run for a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council for the time ever

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The FIFA executive committee is meeting on Thursday and Friday in Zurich to discuss the tournament's timetable after calls for it to be staged in winter because of the desert emirate's scorching summer.
Qatar announces probe into ‘slave labour’ claims

DOHA – Qatar has named a global law firm to probe media claims that migrant labourers working on massive infrastructure projects for the 2022 football World Cup are being exploited.

Chinese president leaves for Indonesia, Malaysia, APEC meet

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing Wednesday morning for state visits to Indonesia, Malaysia, and to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meet. He has been invited by Indonesian

Chinese dissident Chen to join conservative U.S. think tank

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident and legal rights activist who accused New York University of forcing him to leave this summer because of alleged pressure from

Kenya tells Somalia “put house in order” after mall attack

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s president told Somalia on Tuesday to “put their house in order,” in a sign of frustration at the festering instability in the neighbouring country after members

Ex-Indian minister Lalu Prasad convicted in corruption case

RANCHI: In a body blow to RJD before next year’s Lok Sabha polls, its president Lalu Prasad was on Monday convicted by a special CBI court here in the fodder

Over 70 missing as boats sink in China Sea

BEIJING: More than 70 people were missing after three fishing boats sank in a powerful typhoon in the South China Sea, Chinese state media said on Monday. “Three fishing boats

Jailed Pussy Riot member hospitalised

MOSCOW: A jailed member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot was hospitalised on September 27 after going on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions, her husband said, but her

President Barack Obama talks with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a phone call in the Oval Office on September 27, 2013 (THE WHITE HOUSE/AFP, Pete Souza)
Obama‚ Iran’s Rouhani hold historic phone call

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday, the highest-level contact between the two countries in three decades and a sign that

21 killed as bus falls in Himachal gorge

SHIMLA: All 21 people travelling by a private mini-bus were killed when it skidded off the road and rolled down more than a 500-foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur