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Afghan forces raid frees 60 from Taliban prison INTERNATIONAL

Afghan forces raid frees 60 from Taliban prison

Afghan special forces backed by helicopter gunships freed more than 60 people held captive in a Taliban prison in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
4 dead in Saudi raid on 'terror' cell near Makkah ASIA

4 dead in Saudi raid on 'terror' cell near Makkah

Saudi police shot dead two suspected ‘terrorists’ and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of Makkah on Thursday, the interior ministry said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh Islamist leader to hang for war crimes INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh Islamist leader to hang for war crimes

The leader of Bangladesh's top Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami is set to hang within days after the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld his death sentence for war crimes.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Little Messi flees Afghanistan, appeals to UN after 'threats' INTERNATIONAL

Little Messi flees Afghanistan, appeals to UN after 'threats'

The young Afghan boy who captivated hearts after he was pictured wearing a plastic bag as an improvised Lionel Messi jersey has appealed to the UN refugee agency after fleeing Afghanistan.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistan army courts sentence 11 Taliban militants to death INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan army courts sentence 11 Taliban militants to death

Pakistan military courts have sentenced eleven Taliban militants to death for terrorism-related offences, the army said Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Tanker carrying illegal Libya oil forced back to port ASIA

Tanker carrying illegal Libya oil forced back to port

An Indian-flagged tanker has been forced to return a shipment of oil smuggled out of Libya thanks to international intervention, according to the country's National Oil Corporation (NOC).

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Hindu tailor hacked to death in Bangladesh: police INTERNATIONAL

Hindu tailor hacked to death in Bangladesh: police

At least two unknown assailants hacked a Hindu tailor to death in central Bangladesh Saturday, police said, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities by extremist groups ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Philippines' Aquino vows to 'neutralise' Abu Sayyaf kidnappers INTERNATIONAL

Philippines' Aquino vows to 'neutralise' Abu Sayyaf kidnappers

Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed Wednesday to launch a military assault aimed at ‘neutralising’ Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants who beheaded a Canadian hostage ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pressure mounts on Bangladesh after gay activists murdered INTERNATIONAL

Pressure mounts on Bangladesh after gay activists murdered

Pressure mounted on Bangladesh Tuesday after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistani Sikh politician killed by Hindu rival, not Taliban INTERNATIONAL

Pakistani Sikh politician killed by Hindu rival, not Taliban

A Sikh politician in Pakistan who was gunned down last week was murdered by hired assassins and not the Taliban, police said Monday, adding they had arrested his Hindu rival ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh police arrest student over professor's murder INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh police arrest student over professor's murder

Bangladesh police arrested an Islamist student on Sunday over the hacking to death of a professor one day earlier, the latest such killing claimed by the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh professor hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh professor hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

Unidentified attackers hacked to death a university professor in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said, adding that the assault bore the hallmarks of previous killings by militants ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016