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Pakistani leader defends slow vote reporting, notes previous 66-hour tabulation times
Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister on Monday defended the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week’s parliamentary election, ...

US says Gaza hostage deal ‘possible,’ with ‘tremendous’ benefits
WASHINGTON: The United States said Monday it still sought a deal to free Gaza hostages after a deadly Israeli strike ...

Al-Shabab terrorists kill 4 Emirati troops, 1 Bahraini officer in Somali capital
The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed four Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a ...

Hungarian PM faces political crisis as president resigns over backlash
Hungary’s prime minister is grappling with a political crisis following the resignation of the country’s president, who faced backlash for ...

EU foreign policy czar suggests US slash military aid to Israel
European Union foreign policy head Josep Borrell on Monday appeared to call for reductions in U.S. military assistance to Israel.Borrell ...

Indonesian police to charge suspects in mass-casualty nickel plant blast
Indonesian police on Monday named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned ...

Cambodia reports new bird flu case after 9-year-old boy dies of the virus
The brother of a 9-year-old boy who died from bird flu in Kratie province, Cambodia, has tested positive for the ...

Trinidad and Tobago facing ‘national emergency’ after major coastal oil spill
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused ...

Shooter opens fire in Houston’s Lakewood Church
1999: FORT WORTHIn September 1999, a man shot and killed seven people and wounded seven others before taking his own ...

Congolese demonstrators burn US, Belgian flags as instability tensions flare
Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fired tear gas on Monday to disperse protesters who burned tires and ...