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Greek farmers clash with police amid protests over delayed EU subsidies

Greek farmers clash with police amid protests over delayed EU subsidies ## Farmers Disrupt Key Greek Highway in Subsidy Dispute **ATHENS, GREECE** – Hundreds of Greek farmers brought traffic to a standstill on a crucial artery connecting Athens and Thessaloniki on Tuesday, escalating a simmering... read more »

Why is work-related migration to rich co...

Why is work-related migration to rich countries falling?

Why is work-related migration to rich countries falling? ## Shifting Tides: Economic Headwinds and Evolving Demographics Reshape Global Labor Migration A notable deceleration in work-related migration to affluent nations is prompting economists and policymakers to re-evaluate long-held assumptions... read more »

LIVE: Over 900 killed in floods in Indon...

LIVE: Over 900 killed in floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia

LIVE: Over 900 killed in floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia **Catastrophic Flooding Claims Nearly 1,000 Lives Across Southeast Asia** Widespread and devastating floods have ravaged Southeast Asia in the past week, claiming the lives of nearly 1,000 individuals across Indonesia, Sri... read more »

Lisbon car fire horror as six 'burn...

Lisbon car fire horror as six 'burned to death' in inferno outsid...

Lisbon car fire horror as six 'burned to death' in inferno outside US Embassy ## Fatal Vehicle Fire Claims Six Lives Near U.S. Embassy in Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal – A tragic single-vehicle accident in the early hours of this morning resulted in the deaths of six individuals near the U.S.... read more »

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Islamic State video shows beheading of British hostage Alan Henni...

LONDON: British taxi driver Alan Henning, who skipped Christmas with his family to raise funds to purchase ambulances and medical equipment and join an aid convoy to Syria, has been beheaded by... read more »

Bomb at bus station in northwest Pakistan kills 5

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb exploded Saturday at a bus station in northwest Pakistan, killing five people and wounding three others,... read more »

Pakistan condemns US drone attack in Waziristan

Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the latest US drone attack in the tribal region of Waziristan which left two people killed earlier in the day. The... read more »

Pakistan needs to concentrate on internal issues instea...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Saturday that Pakistan should stop making Kashmir a parachute of politics and instead concentrate... read more »

4 schoolchildren killed in China knife attack

BEIJING: Four primary schoolchildren were killed in a knife attack by a man in south China’s Guangxi autonomous region, the latest such incident in the... read more »

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UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

United Nations – The UN Security Council Tuesday extended by another year the sanctions on Liberia in connection with the country’s civil war. In an adopted resolution, the council... read more »

UN chief concerned over religious violence in Syria

UN chief concerned over religious violence in Syri...

United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over the targeting of people based on their religion, community or ethnic... read more »

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

A car bomb near a cafe in central Iraq has killed at least eight people in the latest in a series of attacks. Monday’s blast in the town of Buhriz,... read more »

Saudi militants behind attack on Defence Ministry: Yeme...

Saudi militants behind attack on Defence Ministry: Yemen

Saudi militants were behind the massive car bombing and assault on Yemen’s military headquarters that killed more than 50 people, including an Indian nurse... read more »

Probe human rights abuses in Cote d’Ivoire: UN

Probe human rights abuses in Cote d'Ivoire: UN

United Nations – The UN Friday called for investigations into serious human rights abuses committed in Cote d’Ivoire by the Dozo, traditional... read more »

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UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

Pakistan opposes new permanent seats in UNSC

Islamabad – Pakistan has opposed the creation of new permanent seats in the 15-member UN Security Council during the two-day UN General Assembly debate on Security Council reform. “There... read more »

New Pak Taliban chief’s appointment was backed by Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar

New Pak Taliban chief’s appointment was backed by ...

Islamabad – New Pakistani Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah’s appointment has been allegedly backed by Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad... read more »

Nawaz Sharif to appoint new Pak army chief on Nov. 28

Nawaz Sharif to appoint new Pak army chief on Nov. 28

Islamabad – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will make a decision regarding the appointment of new army chief on November 28, an official... read more »

Violence in Bangladesh over crackdown on opposition

Violence in Bangladesh over crackdown on opposition

Dhaka – Demonstrators and police clashed in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country after six senior opposition figures were... read more »

Brisk start to voting in Maldives presidential poll

Brisk start to voting in Maldives presidential poll

Male – Hundreds of people lined up outside polling stations in over 200 islands to elect a new president for the Maldives here Saturday. As many as 470... read more »

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Palestinian American teen freed after 9 months of Israeli detention

Palestinian American teen freed after 9 months of Israeli detention ## Palestinian-American Teenager Released After Months of Israeli Detention **JERUSALEM** – Mohammed Ibrahim, a... read more »

Death toll from flooding in southern Thailand reaches at least 145

Death toll from flooding in southern Thailand reaches at least 145 **Southern Thailand Grapples with Devastating Floods as Death Toll Mounts** Southern Thailand is reeling from catastrophic... read more »

Sri Lanka closes schools and offices as damage from heavy rains kill 56 people

Sri Lanka closes schools and offices as damage from heavy rains kill 56 people ## Sri Lanka Grapples with Devastating Floods and Landslides as Death Toll Climbs Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri... read more »

Little boy with cough dies after doctors 'give him wrong dose' of medication

Little boy with cough dies after doctors 'give him wrong dose' of medication ## Child’s Death in Brazil Under Investigation Following Multiple Cardiac Arrests Manaus, Brazil... read more »

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Doctors find tape inside mum's nose that may have been there from birth ## Decades-Long Respiratory Mystery Solved: Medical Anomaly Discovered in Adult Patient’s Nasal Cavity For 35 years,... read more »