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BERLIN German's Social Democrat vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, warned on Friday that a dispute among the conservatives over how to handle record inflows of migrants into the country was jeopardising the government's ability to act. Merkel and Horst Seehofer, the leader of her Bavarian sister party, have frequently clashed over how Germany should deal with the estimated 800,000 to 1 million it expects this year, many of them from war zones in the Middle East. Merkel, the leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU)... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier scrambled four fighter jets to intercept approaching Russian warplanes as it carried out a military exercise on Tuesday in the Sea of Japan, U.S. military officials said on Thursday

VIENNA/WASHINGTON The United States disclosed plans on Friday to station the first American boots on the ground in Syria in the war against Islamic State fighters, saying dozens of special forces troops would be sent as advisers to groups fighting against the jihadists.

Moody's Analytics cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country may lose domestic and global credibility if he doesn't rein in party members.

Chetan Bhagat irked historians everywhere with his extremely banal tweet questioning what exactly they do.

"I am committed to providing cheap electricity to people of Delhi. Our fight will continue (sic)," KejrIwal said in a series of his tweets.

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A court awarded death sentence to Chandrabhan Sanap, prime accused in the rape and murder of an Andhra Pradesh-based software engineer Esther Anuhya.

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As fans of the sport, we love Sehwag and Sachin for the way they thrilled us on a cricket pitch and carried the hopes of a cricket-crazy nation.

BJP on Friday moved the Election Commission against the grand alliance alleging that its leaders were trying to polarise voters of Bihar.

Demanding that the EC take action against Amit Shah over his "fireworks in Pakistan" remark, Sitaram Yechury charged Modi and the BJP president with "patronising and leading" communal forces.

WASHINGTON A former German rapper who participated in propaganda videos for Islamic State and sought to lure foreigners to the militant group has been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Thursday

CHICAGO/NEW YORK U.S. authorities on Thursday secured guilty pleas from two men in New Jersey and Chicago for trying to provide support to the Islamic State in a pair of cases following investigations nationally into potential supporters of the militant group. Alaa Saadeh, a 24-year-old who was among several men arrested in recent months in New York and New Jersey and accused of trying to aid the Islamic State, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to conspiring with others to provide material support to the group. Читать дальше...

BAGHDAD Around 15 rockets landed on Thursday near a camp next to Baghdad International Airport holding members of an exiled Iranian opposition group, an Iraqi military spokesman said. It was not immediately clear whether the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), based in Iraq since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, was the target of the attacks

BEIRUT A Syrian rebel group which is part of a new U.S.-backed alliance that also includes the Kurdish YPG militia announced on Thursday plans for an imminent offensive against Islamic State militants in Raqqa province, the jihadists' stronghold in Syria. U.S.

BEIRUT Syria's main political opposition body and representatives of the armed opposition have not been invited to international talks on the country's war, an opposition politician and a rebel leader said.

LinkedIn Corp's ( LNKD.N ) quarterly revenue and profit handily beat analysts' estimates as the world's biggest professional networking website operator earned more from its recruitment services business and from advertisements and paid memberships. Shares of the company, which also raised its full-year profit and revenue forecasts, jumped 12 percent in extended trading on Thursday. LinkedIn has been spending heavily on expansion by buying up companies, hiring sales personnel and increasing its... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON The well-preserved partial skull and skeleton of a gibbon-like creature that lived 11.6 million years ago in Spain is shedding new light on the evolutionary history of modern apes.    Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery in Catalonia of fossil remains of a small, fruit-eating female ape that lived in a warm, wet forested region teeming with animals including elephant relatives, rhinos and sabre-toothed predators.    They gave the ape, weighing 9-11 pounds (4-5 kg), the scientific... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES Tillman, the English bulldog who in 2009 set a Guinness World Record as the fastest skateboarding canine and starred in videos that demonstrated his four-wheeled prowess, has died in Southern California at age 10, his owner said on Thursday. Tillman, who suffered from an irregular heartbeat, died on Tuesday night after lapsing into a sudden bout of laboured panting, according to his owner, Ron Davis, 46

NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally taking on India's notorious red tape to clear tens of billions of dollars worth of stalled public projects, hoping that his hands-on intervention can bend a vast, dysfunctional bureaucracy.

NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally taking on India's notorious red tape to clear tens of billions of dollars worth of stalled public projects, hoping that his hands-on intervention can bend a vast, dysfunctional bureaucracy. Once a month, Modi holds a meeting with top state and federal bureaucrats to check why projects have not got off the ground. Since March this year, his intervention has helped revive nearly $60 billion in federal and state projects, according to government data through September seen by Reuters. Читать дальше...