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Norway shutting down FM radio stations
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture plans to shut down FM in January 2017 and the government is confident of ensuring a smooth ...China unveils $46 billion super highway to Pakistan
China and Pakistan launched a plan on Monday for energy and infrastructure projects in Pakistan worth $46 billion, linking their economies and ...EU holds migrant boat crisis talks as more deaths reported
European Union foreign ministers met on Monday under pressure to produce more than words and save desperate migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, ...Lebanon receives French arms for anti-jihadist fight
The first shipment of French weapons and military equipment arrived in Lebanon on Monday under a Saudi-funded deal worth $3 billion to ...Powerful quake hits Taiwan and Japan, tsunami warning lifted
One man died and another was hospitalised Monday after a fire caused by a powerful quake off Taiwan that also set buildings ...Egypt sentences 22 to death for attack on police
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced 22 people to death after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing ...Air strike on missile base in Yemen capital kills at least seven
An air strike on a Scud missile base in the Yemeni capital Sanaa caused a big explosion that blew out windows in ...Pakistani man sets wife on fire for leaving house without permission
A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the country\'s latest so-called "honour killing" after they set the son\'s wife ...700 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes off Libya
As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in one of ...Two suspected FARC fighters killed in Colombia
Two suspected FARC guerrillas have been killed in central Colombia, officials said, days after President Juan Manuel Santos lifted a suspension of ...