BAGHDAD, May 14 (Agencies): Shia rivals of Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi have made big gains in Saturday's parliamentary elections, partial results suggest.With most votes counted, a bloc headed by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and another led by a militia leader are ahead, voting officials are quoted as saying.They suggest Mr...
Read moreNEW DELHI, May 14 (Agencies): At least 70 people have been killed and over 100 injured after a fresh wave of violent sandstorms and thunderstorms battered India, officials said Monday. At least 61 people have died in fierce dust storms across four Indian states since Sunday evening, with officials warning...
Read moreJERUSALEM, May 14 (AFP): Washington's contentious new embassy in Jerusalem is high-profile, but it's no gleaming new building changing the ancient city's skyline. Instead, Ambassador David Friedman will set up shop in existing consular offices in the leafy middle-class Arnona neighbourhood on the city's southern edge for the near to...
Read moreMOSCOW, May 14 (AFP): Iran's foreign minister said on a visit to Moscow on Monday he was seeking "assurances" from the backers of the country's nuclear deal after the US pulled out. Russia is trying to keep the landmark 2015 accord alive in the wake of US President Donald Trump's...
Read moreBARCELONA, May 14 (AFP): The Catalan parliament prepared Monday to elect fiercely pro-secession candidate Quim Torra as the region's new leader, who promised to keep fighting for an independent republic.In a pre-vote speech to lawmakers Monday morning, Torra said he would respect the result of an independence referendum that took...
Read moreCOLOMBO, May 14 (Xinhua): Over 8,000 people were affected as heavy rains caused flash floods in Sri Lanka's southern districts of Galle and Kalutara last Sunday, the Disaster Management Center said in a statement on Monday. Spokesperson for the center Pradeep Kodippilli told Xinhua that several people had been evacuated...
Read moreCAIRO, May 14 (AFP): The Arab League (AL) will hold emergency talks Wednesday to discuss Washington's "illegal" decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a senior official said. The meeting will focus on "ways of countering the illegal decision by the United States to move the embassy...
Read moreISLAMABAD, May 14 (Al Jazeera): Thousands of protesters have called for an end to alleged rights abuses by Pakistan's military at the latest rally by a grassroots rights group, defying restrictions and a string of detentions of the movement's organisers.The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a human rights group formed earlier...
Read moreEuropean spy chiefs warn of hybrid threats from RussiaBERLIN, Apr 14: European intelligence chiefs warned Monday that Russia is actively seeking to undermine their democracies by disinformation, cyberattacks and more traditional means of espionage. The heads of Britain and Germany's domestic intelligence agencies, as well as the European Union and...
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