CANNES, France: Jewellery worth more than $1 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d’Or trophy was safe, officials said.
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BAQUBA, Iraq: Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another targeting a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shiites that killed dozens.
The surge in violence raises the ...
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OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: An Israeli defence official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel.
The official says CIA chief John Brennan met Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon. He did not disclose ...
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WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism.
Amid the latest flare-up with China and ...
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RIYADH: Several government websites in Saudi Arabia were sabotaged in a series of heavy cyber attacks from abroad in recent days, disabling them briefly until the attacks were repelled, the government said.
An investigation traced the ...
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh: Bangladesh and Myanmar cleaned up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall.
At least 46 people were either ...
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SINGAPORE: Colleagues of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year told a coroner’s inquiry Friday he was not involved in projects with military applications and was never asked to compromise any country’s national security.
High-tech ...
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YANGON: Myanmar released about 20 political prisoners on Friday, a top official said, hours before its reform-minded leader was due to leave on a landmark visit to the United States to meet President Barack Obama.
President Thein Sein, a ...
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KABUL: Russia, predicting instability once Nato-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow’s envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.
Moscow, ...
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OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday reaffirmed his country’s friendship for Israel in “challenging times” for the region, as tensions mount over the Syrian conflict.
“I want to underline that in ...
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NEW DELHI: The mother of a 23-year-old Indian student who was fatally gang-raped in New Delhi last December appeared in court Friday to plead for justice, the Press Trust of India said.
The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, urged ...
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WASHINGTON: It will be impossible to reach a Middle East peace deal without a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas militants, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Friday.
“The process of unity between Fatah and Hamas, this has to ...
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PARIS: France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the United States air force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine reported on Friday.
It said on its online edition that an ...
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BUENOS AIRES: Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its “Dirty War,” died in prison on Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87.
Videla, who ruled at the head of a military junta between ...
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PETARE, Venezuela: Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.
Flashlights in his face, the driver steps out and places his hands on the roof ...
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