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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 ...Finnish PM Alexander Stubb concedes election defeat
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb conceded defeat in Sunday\'s general election, which saw the opposition Centre Party and its leader Juha Sipila ...Islamic State behead 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya
A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading ...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 ...