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NINE people, including at least five foreigners, were killed Tuesday in an assault on a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a spokesman for the security services said. The dead included

CYPRUS’S battered economy will remain in recession in 2015, albeit shrinking a slower pace than last year, a survey by the University of Cyprus predicted on Tuesday. GDP will contract by 0.4

BLANKET driving bans were lifted and New York public transport was to reopen Tuesday after a night of snowfall that saw around two feet (60 centimeters) dumped in some areas. New York

US consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Tuesday reported a sharp drop in quarterly earnings and warned of a tough year due to the strengthening dollar. P&G, which sells Bounty paper towels,

MILITANTS have attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in Libya’s capital, killing three guards, officials say. Several gunmen stormed Tripoli’s Corinthia Hotel and opened fire in the reception area. A car bomb

TEACHERS in northwest Pakistan are being given firearms training and will be allowed to take guns into the classroom in a bid to strengthen security following a Taliban massacre at a school

AT least two rockets fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday prompting Israeli forces to return fire, the army said. There were no immediate reports of casualties on the

GERMANY’S president said Tuesday that the memory of Auschwitz shapes German identity and gives the country a duty to protect the rights of all in a multicultural society. Joachim Gauck, in a

BELGIAN security forces arrested three suspected Islamist militants in fresh counter-terror raids after foiling a major plot to attack police earlier this month, officials said Tuesday. The three arrests were made in

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Greece’s new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Tuesday and wished him “much strength and success” after his anti-austerity party’s election victory. “You are taking office at a difficult