Source: Yahoo news Paris (afp) – Hundreds of mosques across France
are participating in a major open-house event this weekend, offering
visitors the opportunity to come in f...
London (afp) - From Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke and Aladdin
Sane, David Bowie was rock's definitive chameleon.
A master of reinvention whose career spanned two gene...
A South Korean official said Monday Seoul and the United States are
discussing other U.S. "strategic assets" that can be deployed on the
Korean peninsula, a day after the U.S....
Riyadh (afp) Dec 27, 2015 - Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile fired
on its territory from Yemen's rebel-held capital, the Saudi-led
coalition announced on Sunday, in the lat...
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Oromo protesters have put up barricades on the road in the t...
French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez died at his home in
Baden-Baden, Germany, on Tuesday, Jan. 5. He was 90 years old.
An extensive obituary in Le Monde
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China landed two more planes on a contested reef in the South China
Sea Wednesday, state media said, despite international condemnation of
a landing at the same location days ...
Taipei (afp) Dec 21, 2015 - Chinese hackers are targeting Taiwan's
opposition party and journalists, security experts and officials said
Monday, weeks away from a presidentia...
Washington (afp) Dec 28, 2015 - Iran sent a major shipment of
low-enriched uranium materials to Russia on Monday, a key step in
Tehran's implementation of this year's histori...
Karbala, Iraq (afp) Jan 2, 2016 - The execution in Saudi Arabia of a
prominent Shiite cleric Saturday sparked outrage in neighbouring Iraq,
from protesters threatening the ro...
Geneva: At least 81 civilians were killed in Yemen last month, most of
them in Saudi-led airstrikes, despite a short-lived and repeatedly
violated ceasefire, the United Nation...
Clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in eastern
Ukraine have dwindled, but villages in the buffer zone around the
frontline have been surreptitiously ch...