Singapore Protest Demands Inquiry Into PM Family Feud
Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a rare protest Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into a bitter family feud between Prime ...
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Security Tight, Holy Site Shut After Jerusalem Attack
Security forces locked down parts of Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday and an ultra-sensitive holy site remained closed after an ...
India To Get Head of State From Lowest Caste
India's next president will emerge from the Dalit caste -- a community so marginalised they were once known as "untouchables" ...
JPMorgan CEO Being American ‘almost An Embarassment’
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon ripped into the political gridlock in Washington and said Friday that they dysfunction threatened ...
UN Chief Fears Jerusalem Attack Could Ignite More Violence
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday that an attack that killed two Israeli police officers in Jerusalem could ignite more ...
Italians Debate Citizenship Rights As Migrant Pressures Grow
With a flood of migrants arriving on Italy's shores, a bitter debate has erupted over whether children born on Italian ...
More Than 800,000 People Still Displaced From Mosul
More than a million people were displaced from Mosul by the battle in the Iraqi city against the Islamic State ...
Netanyahu, Abbas Speak By Phone After Attack
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone following Friday's attack near an ultra-sensitive holy ...
Thailand To Check Monks’ Bad Habits With ‘smart ID Cards’
Thailand's Buddhist monks could soon be issued "smart ID cards" flagging any drug or criminal records, in the latest move ...
An Expatriate For Special Prosecutor Office? [Article]
History is littered with countless examples of sovereign states engaging professionals from different nations to man sensitive national positions. The ...
Ranatunga Seeks Probe Into 2011 World Cup Defeat
Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday demanded an investigation into the country's 2011 World Cup final defeat by ...
China Won’t Pay Price For Nobel Winner’s Death
When China allowed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo to die in police custody, it made a bet that world governments were ...
Indian Police File Case Over ‘insulting’ Modi Meme
Indian police have filed a defamation case against a group of comedians accused of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ...
Iraq’s Mosul Residents Search For Their Old City Dead
Abdelrazaq Salman has lost everything but clings onto one last hope: finding the bodies of his family members killed when ...
Australia To Compel Chat Apps To Hand Over Encrypted Messages
Social media giants like Facebook and WhatsApp will be compelled to share encrypted messages of suspected terrorists and other criminals ...
Baghdad Probing Rights Abuses By Iraqi Forces
Baghdad is investigating allegations of torture and rights abuses meted out by Iraqi security forces to Islamic State prisoners in ...
Morocco PM Plans Government Visits After Social Unrest
Morocco's government will make a regional tour to examine development projects, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani said Thursday after ...
Videos Appear To Show Killing, Beatings By Iraq Forces
Videos allegedly shot in the Mosul area appear to show Iraqi security personnel executing a detainee and brutally beating others, ...
Italy Proposes Libya Pact To Curb Illegal Migration
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti on Thursday proposed a pact with Libya to combat human trafficking during a visit to ...
Israel Freezes Palestinian Housing Plan After Settlers Object
Israeli ministers have frozen a plan to allow for the construction of thousands of Palestinian homes in a West Bank ...