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EU pushes for tax blacklist after Paradise Papers leak
The EU pushed on Tuesday for Europe to draw up a blacklist of tax havens after the "Paradise Papers" revealed loopholes used ...Saudi mass arrests jolt markets but many see overdue swoop on corruption
All major Gulf stock markets slid on Tuesday on jitters about Saudi Arabia\'s sweeping anti-graft purge, a campaign seen by critics as ...Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile over capital
Saudi Arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile from Yemen, reports say, after a loud explosion was heard near Riyadh airport.Lebanese PM Hariri resigns, attacking Iran and Hezbollah
Lebanon\'s prime minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and ...Thousands march against coal ahead of climate conference in Bonn
Thousands of people took to the streets of Bonn on Saturday to call for the phasing out of coal as a source ...Several people killed as truck drives down New York City bike path
A pickup truck struck down multiple people on a bike path in lower Manhattan, killing several and injuring numerous others on Tuesday ...At least 31 dead in central Nepal bus accident
At least 31 people, including 11 children, died when an overcrowded bus swerved off the road and plunged into a river in ...Bombs kill at least 17 people in Mogadishu
Two car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia\'s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, and Islamist group al Shabaab claimed ...Rwanda gets first cricket stadium
Rwanda\'s first cricket stadium was inaugurated Saturday by President Paul Kagame as a permanent home for developing the sport in the country.Spanish PM dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh elections
The Madrid government sacked Catalonia\'s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation, in ...




