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  • Search area widened for missing AirAsia plane

    The search for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 has expanded beyond the plane's flight path, three days after the jet presumably crashed, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief has said. Henry Bambang Soelistyo said on Tuesday that the search area had widened beyond the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in the Java sea, as 30 ships, 15 aircraft.. More

  • Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces

    The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank at the Zaatara checkpoint south of Nablus city, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military shot and killed 17-year-old Imam Dwikat on Monday after soldiers encountered a group of stone throwing Palestinians near the Zaatara checkpoint. A 19-year-old Palestinian.. More

  • Palestinians to push ahead with UN resolution

    The Palestinian leadership has presented changes to a UN draft resolution that could set a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary of State John Kerry he would press ahead with a resolution calling for a peace deal with Israel within a year with an "end to occupation" of Palestinian.. More

  • First air strikes hit Libyan city of Misrata

    Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognized government have for the first time carried out air strikes on targets in the third largest city of Misrata, which is allied to an armed group that seized the capital in the summer. The internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has been forced to run a rump state in the east since.. More

  • AirAsia flight with 162 people missing

    An AirAsia flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control after take-off, the airline has said. Flight QZ8501, which had 162 people on board, was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:30am local time on Sunday. "At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers.. More

  • Severe flooding hits southeast Asia

    Severe flooding has killed 18 people and left at least 180,000 displaced in Malaysia and neighboring Thailand, officials said. In Malaysia, rescue teams on Saturday were struggling to reach inundated areas in the northeast as victims accused the government of being slow to provide aid and assistance after the country's worst flooding in decades. Malaysians.. More

  • More illegal settlements approved by Israel

    Israeli authorities has given final approval to the construction of 380 new illegal settler homes in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said. "The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa," Yosef Pepe Alalu, a Jerusalem city councilor with the opposition Meretz party,.. More

  • Heritage sites ravaged by Syria's war

    Hundreds of ancient sites in Syria have been destroyed, damaged or looted in the course of the country's ongoing conflict according to new "alarming" satellite evidence, the UN has said. In a report published on Tuesday, the UN said 290 sites have been directly affected by fighting, of which 24 had been destroyed, 104 severely damaged, 85.. More

  • Five explosions rock Yemeni capital

    Five bombs have exploded in Sanaa's old quarter, where many supporters of the Shia Houthi group live, killing at least one person and wounding another, according to a Yemeni security official. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks. Witnesses said the blasts occurred early in the morning at a time when only a few people were on the streets. On.. More

  • N Korea boycotts UN meeting on its 'abuses'

    North Korea has refused to take part in a UN Security Council meeting where the country's bleak human rights situation is being discussed for the first time. The UN Security Council meeting on Monday puts North Korea's human rights record on the agenda for the first time, in a groundbreaking move that may set in motion a way to hold leader Kim Jong-un.. More

  • Kurdish fighters move on ISIL's Mosul hub

    Kurdish forces in Iraq have taken more ground from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and are moving closer to the northern city of Mosul. The Peshmerga, a term used by Kurds to refer to Kurdish fighters, delivered aid to Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar on Saturday and expanded a major offensive against ISIL in northwestern Iraq.. More

  • Essebsi declares win in landmark Tunisia vote

    Beji Caid Essebsi has declared victory in Tunsia's presidential run-off vote, seen as the last step in a shift to full democracy four years after an uprising toppled long-time leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Official results are not due until Monday and his rival, the incumbent president, Moncef Marzouki, refused to concede defeat. Soon after polls.. More

  • Turkey builds 'upgraded' Syria refugee camp

    Turkey has begun building a new and upgraded refugee camp in the country’s southeast to accommodate tens of thousands of Syrians who escaped the conflict in the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria. The new camp will open in mid-January and house 32,500 people, the provincial head of Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency,.. More

  • Opposition seizes key bases in Syria's north

    In a major military development in northern Syria, the Syrian opposition said it had seized control of Wadi al-Daif and al-Hamdiyah, two of the regime's last major military strongholds in Syria's north. The offensive, which started on Sunday night and lasted until Monday afternoon, resulted in the killing of scores of regime forces and the capturing.. More