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2 Israelis, Palestinian shooter killed in attack

Two Israelis died after they were shot at a tram station in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, officials said. At least six others were wounded, the Magen David Adom emergency service said. The Palestinian attacker was killed by police after opening fire on a crowd, local media, which...

Bodies of 7 Indonesian teens recovered after boat sinks

The bodies of seven missing teenagers have been recovered from a river on Indonesia's Java island after their overloaded boat capsized. The vessel was carrying 25 students from an Islamic boarding school in East Java when it sank on the Bengawan Solo river -- Java's longest -- on its way to...

Latakia: People suffer greed of traders, Shabiha

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of coastal Latakia city said the lack of security turned a second concern after mounting cases of poisoning due to expired food and dairies, regime social media said.  The Directorate of Internal Trading and protecting consumers announced capturing three...

Agreement on Turkish gas pipeline 'nearly completed'

The final touches to the agreement to pipe Russian natural gas through Turkey should be completed when President Vladimir Putin meets his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency ahead...

UN, US outraged after deadly Yemen attack

United Nations aid envoy Stephen O'Brien said he was "horrified and extremely disturbed" by an attack on a funeral ceremony in Yemen that killed more than 140 victims late Saturday. "This horrendous and heinous attack displayed an utter disregard for human life," O'Brien said. "It highlights...

Car bomb attack kills six soldiers in southeast Turkey

Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a border region of the country's southeast, security sources said. The sources said the blast hit the Durak gendarmerie station, 20 km (12 miles) from...

Bangladesh kills 12 Islamists blamed for cafe attack

Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday killed 12 members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July, senior officials said. Most of the militants were killed in a three-hour gun battle as security forces raided four hideouts on the outskirts of...

9 detained in drug raids across Turkey

At least nine suspects were into custody late Saturday in drug trafficking operations across Turkey, according to police. Anti-drug police raided various addresses in Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakir and Kayseri and seized more than two tons of marijuana including skunk -- a good quality...

Seven killed in Afghan helicopter crash

An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least seven people on board, said Afghan Defence Ministry officials who described the crash as an accident. Four crew members and three soldiers were among the those killed in the crash of the Russian-made...

US: 2 officers shot dead in California

Two officers were killed and a third was wounded Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance in Palm Springs, California, local media reported. At least one suspect is still sought by police amid an ongoing manhunt after the deadly encounter at approximately 12.30 p.m. (1930GMT),...

Egypt: Court delays hearing of Mohamed Morsi's appeal

An Egyptian Court on Saturday has postponed a hearing of an appeal by Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president in Egypt, in the case known in the media as "Itehadeya Palace incidents", a judicial source told Anadolu Agency . Morsi, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison,...

Russia vetoes U.N. demand for end to bombing of Aleppo

Russia vetoed a French-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's city of Aleppo, while a rival Russian draft text failed to get a minimum nine votes in favor. Moscow's text was effectively the French...