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Syrian militants getting chemical weapons training in Afghanistan: Russia

MOSCOW: Syrian militants are being trained in Afghanistan about how to use chemical weapons by a number of countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

Weapons Watchdog OPCW wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for ‘extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons’. The...

Obama, Republicans fail to strike deal over debt ceiling

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Republicans failed to reach a consensus finding a way forward to break their deadlock over...

Canada’s Alice Munro wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

STOCKHOLM: The 82-year-old Canadian Alice Munro won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties...

Malala wins EU’s Sakharov human rights prize

STRASBOURG: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot on a school bus by the Taliban last October for campaigning on the education of...

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan released after being kidnapped by former rebels

TRIPOLI: Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released, hours after he was kidnapped by a rebel-controlled Interior Ministry, state-run news agency said. Earlier in...

Truck crashes into gorge in northern India; 20 Hindu pilgrims killed

NEW DELHI: A truck carrying Hindu pilgrims crashed into a gorge in northern India on Thursday when its driver lost control of the vehicle...

US halts delivery of military systems, cash assistance to Egypt

WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it is suspending a large part of its military and other cash aid to Egypt. In a statement,...

Libyan PM Zeidan kidnapped by rebels from a hotel in Tripoli; former Libyan rebel group claims his kidnap in response to US operation

TRIPOLI: Rebels grabbed Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Thursday morning from the Corinthia Hotel in the Libyan capital and took him to an...

Ilham Aliyev wins third term as Azerbaijan’s President

BAKU: Ilham Aliyev has become the Azerbaijan’s President for a third term after he won polls held today (Wednesday) by securing nearly 84 percent...

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