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Frontrunners Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson have tossed their old scripts in the trash bin and they don’t have new lines ready for the questions angry and anxious American voters are asking after the Paris Attacks.

DHAKA Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters. "Both of them were hanged simultaneously on two separate platforms," the police official said

DUBAI A Houthi delegation is to travel to Oman on Saturday for preliminary consultations on U.N.-sponsored Geneva peace talks aimed at resolving Yemen's complex civil war, a spokesman for the Iran-allied militia said. At the same time, spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam called on Houthi supporters to remain steadfast against what he called continued "schemes" by the Saudi-led Arab coalition that intervened militarily in March in support of exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi

DUBAI Six world powers will help Iran redesign its Arak heavy water reactor so that it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, according to a document released by the state news agency IRNA on Saturday. The document was signed separately on Nov. 13, 17 and 18 by the foreign ministers of Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany) as well as EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

The family homes of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks and one of the suicide bombers stand only a few blocks apart in the Belgian capital's Molenbeek neighborhood. After a string of attacks in recent years linked to its grimy streets in central Brussels, a key question arises: Why Belgium?

YAOUNDE A suicide attack by suspected members of Nigerian Islamist militants group Boko Haram killed at least 10 people over the border in the Far North region of Cameroon on Saturday, security sources said. Boko Haram has mounted numerous attacks in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria this year and is turning the border region near Lake Chad into a war zone, the United Nations refugee agency said last month.

Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections, subways were closed and many stores shut their doors in Belgium's capital Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks. At least one suspect from the deadly Paris attacks is at large and was last seen crossing into Belgium.

PARIS France calls itself "the homeland of human rights" but has focused in the past week on limiting them as the government pushed through sweeping curbs on basic freedoms in the wake of the Paris massacre.

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Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level in the capital Brussels

Kareena was in Raipur to take part in a series of programmes based on children organised by Unicef

For eight months now Prashant Kishor has been functioning out of 7 Circular Road, having breakfast and other meals with Kumar and visiting 10 Circular Road almost everyday to spend some time with Lalu Prasad Yadav, the key alliance figure.

Jaitley shouldn’t be obsessed with the fiscal deficit figure alone as happened in the UPA regime

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought enhanced cooperation from Asean to fight the scourge of terrorism

The Delhi High Court appointed observer Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal today said that a former Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) will look after the tender process for the fourth cricket Test between India and South Africa starting next month.

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Stan Wawrinka booked a potentially feisty all-Swiss semi-final clash against Roger Federer after knocking Andy Murray out of the ATP Tour Finals with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 victory on Friday.

The problem with the trailer of Bajirao Mastani is that the only function it serves is to showcase the fact that the film has been made at a massive scale

Fitch expects industry revenue to grow by low single-digits

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ACCRA The deadly attack on a hotel in Mali's capital on Friday claimed by two radical Islamist groups has put veteran militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar back in the spotlight months after he was reported killed.

UNITED NATIONS All able states should join the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and redouble efforts to prevent further attacks by the militant group, the United Nations Security Council said on Friday. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by France in the wake of a series of deadly attacks in Paris a week ago that killed 130 people and were claimed by Islamic State. "The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Daesh), constitutes a global... Читать дальше...

MELBOURNE Spot gold firmed on Friday but was still set to finish the week trapped near its cheapest in more than five years as the metal struggles against a stronger dollar ahead of a widely expected U.S. rate rise next month. "We're still negative and target $985 in the short run," said analyst Dominic Schnider of UBS Wealth Management in Hong Kong.

WASHINGTON The White House on Friday said it condemned the attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, and offered to help the Malian government as it investigates the "tragic terrorist attack." "We can confirm that the attack has ended, and we continue to coordinate with U.S officials on the ground to verify the location of all American citizens in Mali," White House National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

PARIS Anti-Muslim incidents including attacks on women and hateful graffiti have flared up across France in the week since Islamist militants killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, two monitoring groups said on Friday The National Observatory of Islamophobia, a group linked to France's official Muslim council, reported 32 anti-Muslim incidents during the week. It normally registers 4-5 complaints by aggrieved Muslims in a week, its head Abdallah Zekri said.

GUANGZHOU, China China's move to cut tax on small-engine cars may revive sales growth in 2016 only to leave the world's biggest auto market running on empty in years to come, analysts warn, raising the spectre of industry restructuring at the end of the road. As one of China's biggest auto shows got under way in Guangzhou on Friday, sector watchers said sales may rise from 1-8 percent next year after Beijing cut taxes to coax buyers who had turned fretful over China's slowing economic growth