Student Amr Nohan jailed for three years over Mickey Mouse meme of Egypt...
Law student and former soldier Amr Nohan has been jailed for three years after posting a doctored image of Egypt's president wearing Mickey Mouse ears on Facebook. An Egyptian military court upheld Mr...
View ArticleThe turbulent story of 2015, in the words of 15 world leaders
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: "We have a great opportunity for a new beginning". The leftist Greek politician's Syriza party won landmark elections in January. Tsipras preached a new way forward...
View ArticleNew York's Governor Andrew Cuomo to pardon 10,000 former teen offenders
Thousands of New Yorkers may soon be able to move beyond the sins of their past. New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday unveiled a plan to pardon as many as 10,000 eligible residents who...
View ArticleSecret Santa pays off strangers' lay-by purchases
There's a Secret Santa making the rounds and paying off strangers' lay-by purchases. An anonymous local woman has paid off $300 worth of lay-bys at bike shop Crank House in Nelson, New Zealand.. It's...
View ArticleMigrant crisis: arrivals in Europe pass 1 million in 2015 - UN
Geneva: The number of refugees and migrants arriving by land and sea in the European Union has passed 1 million this year, while a further 3600 died or went missing, the UN refugee agency and the...
View ArticleTwo survivors pulled from sea but little hope for 74 still missing from...
Jakarta: Two survivors have been pulled from the sea in eastern Indonesia, three days after a ferry they were on sank in stormy waters, but a senior rescue official said he held out little hope for 74...
View ArticleIraqi troops storm centre of Islamic State-held Ramadi
Baghdad: Iraq's armed forces stormed the centre of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold...
View ArticleTeaming up with ALECSO and ISESCO to promote accessibility for persons with...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The opening of the conference was attended by H.E. Bassima Hakkaoui, Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social...
View ArticleINA and UNESCO conclude agreement to safeguard, digitize and make accessible...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Cooperation between UNESCO and INA began ten years ago on the occasion of the Organization's 60 anniversary. To mark...
View ArticleFifteen years ago the CIA tried to predict the world in 2015. Here's what...
London: Back in the futuristic year 2000, the CIA convened a group of experts from outside the Agency. Their mission: to gaze into the near future and predict 2015 would look like. The result was a...
View ArticleNew Islamic State radio station spreads panic
Jalalabad: At exactly 6 pm across this nervous city and surrounding districts, a clandestine radio broadcast comes to life each night with sounds of clashing swords, drumming hoofbeats and bursts of...
View ArticleDetained indefinitely: 'Ginger extremist' who plotted to kill royals to make...
London: A "ginger extremist" who fantasised about shooting the Prince of Wales so Harry could be king has been detained indefinitely under the mental health act for plotting a terror attack "for the...
View ArticleIndian parliament passes tough juvenile law, two days after young rapist is...
New Delhi: Two days after the juvenile convicted of participating in the fatal gang rape of a young woman in 2012 was released, India's parliament has passed controversial law that will now try...
View ArticleGeorgia clears way for mentally ill to buy guns
Atlanta: The records of thousands of people who were involuntarily committed for mental health treatment in Georgia have been removed from the national database that gun dealers use to run background...
View ArticleMichael Punke wrote The Revenant but he can't talk about it
It was a DC lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when The Revenant, the highly anticipated new film adapted from Michael Punke's...
View ArticleAustralian woman falls 300 metres to her death while climbing New Zealand...
An Australian woman has died after falling 300 metres off a mountain in Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park on New Zealand's south island. Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin said the...
View ArticleIraqi forces push into key Islamic State-held city of Ramadi
Baghdad: Iraqi forces engaged Islamic State fighters within the city centre of Ramadi for the first time on Tuesday, reaching the edge of the inner government district in an attempt to seize the...
View ArticleReal battle for Iraq's future lies in Baghdad, not Ramadi
Beirut: As the Iraqi forces battled to wrest control of the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants, pushing deep into the provincial capital, it appeared the military operation may deliver a major...
View ArticleIndonesian terror suspects slip police net as nation on highest alert
Jakarta: Indonesian police failed to arrest another terrorist group suspected of assembling a bomb with a house in West Sumatra found deserted during a raid this week. The head of the National...
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