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India’s government has fired Sanjiv Bhatt, a senior police officer who accused Narendra Modi of being complicit in deadly anti-Muslim riots in the prime minister’s home state of Gujarat in 2002. Bhatt

A powerful car bomb blast tore through a Cairo police building Thursday injuring at least 29 people in the latest attack claimed by the Islamic State group against Egyptian security forces. Six

Cyanide levels more than 350 times standard limits have been detected in water close to the site of deadly explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials said Thursday. The Tianjin

Somali lawmakers said Thursday they were determined to stage a vote of no confidence to oust the president, dismissing international warnings it would hamper peace efforts in the war-torn nation. “This motion

A Palestinian prisoner on a two-month hunger strike was in a medically induced coma Thursday as a debate raged over a decision by Israel’s top court to suspend his being held without

MERS coronavirus infections have soared in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, forcing the closure of a major hospital’s emergency ward in Riyadh and killing three people, officials and the press