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Climate change fuels insurgency in Afghanistan INTERNATIONAL

Climate change fuels insurgency in Afghanistan

After two winters without snow, Kabul residents are anxiously scouring the hills for the first flakes, wary that the depletion of this major source of water further fuels instability in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Palestinians denounce Israel bill to legalise settler homes ASIA

Palestinians denounce Israel bill to legalise settler homes

Palestinian leaders on Monday denounced an Israeli bill to legalise several thousand Jewish homes in the occupied West Bank, vowing to take up the issue at the UN Security Council.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Suicide attack south of Baghdad kills 8 ASIA

Suicide attack south of Baghdad kills 8

A suicide attack in an oasis town south of Baghdad killed eight people and wounded at least six on Monday, Iraqi officials said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq military says recaptures Nimrud, home to ancient site ASIA

Iraq military says recaptures Nimrud, home to ancient site

The Iraqi military said Sunday that soldiers south of Mosul have recaptured the Nimrud area, home to the site of an ancient Assyrian city that was blown up by the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Russian warship flotilla now off Syrian coast: military INTERNATIONAL

Russian warship flotilla now off Syrian coast: military

A flotilla of Russian warships is now in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast after being sent to reinforce Russia's military in the area, a naval commander said on state television.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Trump to work for 'just, lasting' Mideast peace INTERNATIONAL

Trump to work for 'just, lasting' Mideast peace

US president-elect Donald Trump pledged Friday to work for a ‘just, lasting peace’ between Israel and the Palestinians, in his first public message on the issue since his upset victory.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS turns to tunnels in last stand for Iraqi town ASIA

IS turns to tunnels in last stand for Iraqi town

Iraqi Kurdish forces came under heavy fire from a salmon-coloured house on the edge of the Islamic State group-held town of Bashiqa, but when they stormed it, it was empty.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
'Caliphate' leaves Iraqis in administrative limbo ASIA

'Caliphate' leaves Iraqis in administrative limbo

Families fleeing Mosul as Iraqi forces move in are taking their ‘official’ documents with them but also wondering who will recognise the stamp of the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
German police detain five 'IS recruiters' INTERNATIONAL

German police detain five 'IS recruiters'

German police on Tuesday arrested five men suspected of links to the Islamic State group, who allegedly sought to recruit fighters for the jihadists.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Palestinian teen jailed 12 years for attack on Israelis ASIA

Palestinian teen jailed 12 years for attack on Israelis

An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian teenager Monday to 12 years in prison for the stabbing of two Israelis, one of the most high-profile attacks in a recent wave of violence.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US-backed forces launch assault on Syrian IS 'capital' ASIA

US-backed forces launch assault on Syrian IS 'capital'

US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces launched an offensive Sunday on the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa, upping pressure on the jihadists who are already battling Iraqi troops in Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kidnapped Italians, Canadian released in Libya INTERNATIONAL

Kidnapped Italians, Canadian released in Libya

Two Italians and a Canadian who were kidnapped in the south of conflict-torn Libya in September have been released and flown to Italy, the Italian government announced Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016