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NEW YORK: Fifteen years after the attacks that killed her husband, Lorie Van Auken thinks she still hasn’t been told the whole truth about 9/11. She wants to know what’s in 28 classified pages locked away in a basement room of the US Capitol. They describe investigative leads about “specific sources of foreign support” for […]

CAIRO: Memos containing internal instructions from Egypt’s Interior Ministry were leaked to the media on Tuesday, outlining strategies on how to deflect public outrage over arrests it made inside the journalists’ union, handle the media in general, and deal with the case of an Italian student found tortured to death. The documents were sent to […]

MOGADISHU: For Abdiqadir Dulyar, simply reading messages sent to his phone can be chilling. His voice breaks as he reads a recent one: “Keep doing what you do, and we shall come to give your well-deserved reward: death.” Dulyar, the 40-year-old director of the Somali TV station Horn Cable, said the threats often lead him […]

NAIROBI: Rescue workers pulled a six-month-old baby girl out of the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital on Tuesday and reunited her with her father, more than three days after it collapsed following days of heavy rain. At least 23 people have so far been confirmed dead after the six-storey residential block in Nairobi’s […]

NEW DELHI: India and Italy should work toward an agreement to allow an Italian marine to return home while an arbitration process continues in the fatally shootings of two Indian fishermen in 2012, a tribunal said Tuesday. The two countries should present their arguments over relaxing the marine’s bail conditions to India’s Supreme Court, the […]

COLOMBO: Several lawmakers were injured in fisticuffs inside Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Tuesday after a protest over the removal of military security for former President Mahinda Rajapakasa. One lawmaker was hospitalized. The fracas occurred after the session commenced following an argument between opposition and government lawmakers over the removal of army soldiers from the security […]

NEW DELHI: Police detained three men for questioning Tuesday in the rape and murder of a law student whose body was found mutilated in southern India, officials said. The case has drawn comparisons to the deadly 2012 gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus that sparked widespread outrage and nationwide protests demanding […]

YANGON: A fire broke out on Tuesday in a camp for internally displaced Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, destroying shelters where about 2,000 people had lived and injuring about 14 of them, the United Nations said. Camps in the area largely house members of the marginalized Rohingya Muslim minority, who were displaced by fighting between […]

BUDAPEST: Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early October on whether to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants, the prime minister’s office said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year and opposes a plan, agreed by a […]

MANILA: A Philippine senator has expressed alarm over a presidential front-runner’s plan to allow communist guerrillas to participate in government if he wins, saying this would cause rumblings within the military. In his latest controversial remark, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte told reporters his administration could be an all-inclusive one where communist guerrillas can take part in […]