West is losing the battle for the heart of Europe
Comment LONDON: A little over a quarter of a century ago, Europe celebrated the healing of the schism that Communism enforced on it since World War II, and which produced great tribunes of freedom....
View ArticleJakarta attacks not a direct threat to Australia, experts say
Terror attacks in Jakarta should not be seen as a direct threat to Australia but could inspire similar attacks across south-east Asia, experts on the region say. Australian National University's...
View ArticleJakarta attacks: Terrorist Bahrun Naim's keyboard campaign for Islamic State
Police in Jakarta accuse a firebrand Indonesian fighting in Syria with Islamic State of inspiring Thursday's terrorist rampage. "Be lone wolves by whatever means you can," declared the man known as...
View ArticleBrazil court suspends Amazon hydrodam licence on native demands
Rio de Janeiro: A Brazilian court has suspended the operating licence for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, one of the world's largest, just weeks before its owner, Norte Energia, planned to start...
View ArticleUS mini atomic bombs a threat to nuclear-free world
Washington: As North Korea dug tunnels at its nuclear test site last year, watched by US spy satellites, the Obama administration was preparing a test of its own in the Nevada desert. A fighter jet...
View ArticleIndonesia vows to hunt for radicals after Jakarta attack
Jakarta: Indonesian authorities have vowed to round up members of a terror cell behind the deadly bomb and gun attack on Jakarta. Islamic State has taken responsibility for the assault that claimed the...
View ArticleUNICEF confirms severe malnutrition in Syrian town of Madaya
Beirut: UN children's fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where aid was delivered this week to thousands of people...
View ArticleThe original Doctor Strange, John Dee
One of the paintings in the Royal College of Physicians' new exhibition on the 16th-century scholar, alchemist and magician John Dee shows him performing an experiment at the court of his sometime...
View ArticleDirector-General condemns murder of Iraqi journalists Saif Talal and Hassan...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the murder of Saif Talal and Hassan al-Anbaki,' the Director-General said. 'Using violence to silence...
View ArticleChristian churches close to deal to fix common date for Easter: Archbishop of...
London: The heads of the Christian churches are close to sealing a deal to fix the date of Easter, the Archbishop of Canterbury has revealed, ending more than a thousand years of confusion and debate....
View ArticleSean Penn says Mexico wants him in cross-hairs of El Chapo's drug cartel
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn on Friday rejected Mexico's claim that his secret meeting with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was crucial to the drug kingpin's recapture, saying officials were trying to put...
View ArticleItalian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promises 'iron fist' against public...
Rome: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed on Friday to punish public sector shirkers with instant dismissal after investigations showed people clocking on and then immediately leaving their workplace to...
View ArticlePowerball lottery winner nearly threw out $1.5 m ticket
She almost threw away her winning $US1 million ($1.46 million) lottery ticket from Wednesday night's $US1 billion-plus ($2.33 billion) Powerball drawing. That's the story Kathryn and her husband,...
View ArticleGunmen take hostages in 'terror attack' at the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso
Armed assailants have stormed a hotel in the West African city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, taking hostages and burning vehicles in what the French Embassy described as a terrorist attack. Three armed...
View ArticleAlan Morison's 30-month battle with Thai authorities ends
Bangkok: Controversial defamation and computer-crime lawsuit brought by the Royal Thai Navy against Australian journalist Alan Morison and his Thai colleague Chutima Sidasathian​ for their coverage of...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's lead is evaporating, and anxious Democrats see 2008 all...
​Washington: Some leading Democrats are increasingly anxious about Hillary Clinton's prospects of winning the party's presidential nomination, warning that Bernie Sanders' growing strength in early...
View ArticleTurkey releases detained academics who signed petition defending Kurds
Istanbul: Turkish authorities briefly detained 27 scholars Friday, accusing them of spreading "terrorism propaganda" and of insulting the state after they signed a petition denouncing the military's...
View ArticleTurkey detained academics for signing petition that defended Kurds
Istanbul: Turkish authorities briefly detained 27 scholars Friday, accusing them of spreading "terrorism propaganda" and of insulting the state after they signed a petition denouncing the military's...
View ArticleJakarta gunman Sunakim had been jailed on terrorism charges
At least one of the five assassins in the Jakarta attacks had been jailed for terrorism offences raising fears those convicted are becoming further radicalised behind bars. The identity of the gunman...
View ArticleBurkina troops retake Splendid Hotel from Islamists
Gunmen storm hotel, kill 20 Security forces have ended a siege by al-Qaeda fighters at a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital, killing three Islamist gunmen and freeing 126 hostages, the West African...
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