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Police in Moscow said they arrested more than 1,000 people yesterday at a banned opposition protest calling for city authorities to reverse decisions to exclude key opposition candidates from the ballot paper.
The protest was the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for fair local elections in the capital.
Around 3,500 people took to the streets for the unauthorised rally,...
Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a series of earthquakes struck islands in the far northern Philippines early yesterday, toppling historic buildings and sending terrified locals fleeing their homes.
The tremors hit the province of Batanes, a group of sparsely populated islets north of the nation’s largest Luzon island, tearing deep cracks in roads and forcing the evacuation...
Russian President Vladimir Putin went diving on board a research submarine yesterday during his trip to the Baltic Sea island of Hogland.
The Russian president accompanied experts to the sea floor to witness a sunken submarine from World War II, several Russian media outlets reported.
One diver attached a commemorative plaque to the wreck in memory of the 40 crew members...
HEC Paris, has recently been No 3 worldwide in executive education for 2019 by the Financial Times.
Life-long learning is central to HEC Paris’s strategic vision and lies behind its move up in the Financial Times World Executive Education Rankings.
The ranking is compiled from the scores underlying the Financial Times Executive Education 2019 open-enrolment and custom rankings, wherein both sets...
Ooredoo announced yesterday that Al Zaman Exchange has joined the Ooredoo Money network as a new international money transfer (remittance) partner.
Al Zaman Exchange, a Qatari exchange house with three decades of experience, joins a renowned roster of existing Ooredoo Money remittance partners, which comprises MoneyGram, Ooredoo Exchange, and Al Dar Exchange.
The new partnership means Ooredoo Mobile Money customers will...
Sale at the fourth edition of Local Dates Festival at Souq Waqif by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) and Souq Waqif management has crossed 47,000kg at the end of the fourth day on Friday.
The festival, which is on until August 3, continues to draw crowds and the total number of visitors stood at around 13,900 until Friday,...
Parliament Speaker Ennaceur sworn in as interim president after country's first democratically elected leader dies.
Tunisian government has declared seven days of mourning following the death of its first democratically elected president on Thursday morning, as condolences poured in from several Arab countries.
In a hasty ceremony hours after the death of the 92-year-old President Beji Caid Essebsi, the head of parliament, Mohamed Ennaceur, was...
A year after 2018 elections, thousands of opposition supporters hold rallies across Pakistan against the government.
Islamabad, Pakistan - Thousands of opposition supporters have rallied in major cities across Pakistan to mark a "black day" of protests against Prime Minister Imran Khan's government, as the country's opposition parties step up efforts to mobilise demonstrations against his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
Rallies were held in Karachi,...
Five inmates sentenced to death are scheduled to be executed starting in December.
The United States Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decade-long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.
"Congress has expressly authorised the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress...
The Sudanese Journalists' Union demanded the military rulers release journalist Sadiq al-Rizaigi, or put him on trial.
A Sudanese editor who heads the country's main journalist's union has been detained, the union said.
The Sudanese Journalists' Union called on the ruling Transitional Military Council to "immediately release" its head Sadiq al-Rizaigi, who is also editor of Al-Sayha newspaper, or that he...
The wealthy financier is being held on charges of sex trafficking dozens of underage girls.
Wealthy US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of trafficking underage girls for sex, was found unconscious in his New York jail cell with injuries on his neck this week, US media reported on Thursday.
It was not clear whether the injuries were self-inflicted or from an assault,...
German footballer and club teammate Kolasinac involved in attempted carjacking in London; both unhurt, Arsenal says.
German footballer of Turkish descent Mesut Ozil was attacked by bikers armed with knives in an attempted carjacking in the UK.
The 30-year-old Arsenal footballer was chased in Golders Green, north London, when the gang surrounded his black jeep around 5pm local time (16:00 GMT) on...
Republicans call for an end to Trump investigations, as Democrats vow to press their case in federal courts.
Washington, DC - Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's highly-anticipated testimony to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday may have proved anticlimactic, but Mueller's few words left important questions on the table.
Mueller, 74, gave a halting and at times mumbling performance that did not give the Democrats who...
Two boats carrying about 300 people capsized off Libya's coast in the 'worst tragedy' of the year.
More than 100 migrants and refugees are feared drowned after the boats they were travelling in capsized off Libya's coast in the Mediterranean Sea, aid agencies said on Thursday.
Ayoub Qasim, a spokesman for Libya's coast guard, told The Associated Press that two boats carrying around 300 migrants...
