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Germany has announced plans to make it easier to throw out foreign criminals and strip sex attackers of refugee status. The decision follows hundreds of sexual assaults and robberies on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve by men of mainly Arab and North African origin. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said no-one could put themselves above the law. Thousands of ...

A US-led coalition air strike has destroyed a bank used by the Islamic State group in the Iraqi city of Mosul. A US official told the BBC two 900kg bombs had hit the building on Monday. He estimated that millions of dollars earned by IS through oil sales, looting and extortion had been destroyed. Video posted online by IS showed ...

Some 400 people in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya need to be urgently evacuated for medical treatment, says UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien. Mr O’Brien was speaking after the UN Security Council held an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis in the rebel-held town near Damascus. Earlier, an aid convoy brought food to 40,000 town residents who have been ...

At least 10 people, most of them German tourists, have been killed in an explosion in a central area of Istanbul, Turkish officials say. They say a Syrian national carried out a suicide bomb attack in the Sultanahmet district, near the city’s famous Blue Mosque. Fifteen people were wounded, the Istanbul governor’s office said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey ...

The meeting comes after Barack Obama’s call in his address on December 6 for government and technology community to work together to combat terrorism and counter violent extremism online. (AFP Photo) Washington:  Top officials of the Obama administration have met leading Internet companies in Silicon Valley in an effort to build cooperation with them in combating online radicalisation and recruitment ...

The front-runners for the 2016 US presidential elections from the Democratic and Republican parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, would be neck-to-neck if it came to a hypothetical battle for the White House between the two, a new survey says. Friday’s survey conducted by Reuters and Ipsos, looked at a hypothetical situation where these two candidates lock horns in the ...

The Israeli military says two Palestinians were shot dead after trying to stab soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint. Saturday’s incident is the latest in more than three months of near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers that have killed 21 people, mostly in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming assaults. At least 137 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Pathankot on Saturday morning to take stock of the situation in the aftermath of the terror attack at the air base last Saturday. He is likely to conduct an aerial survey of Punjab’s border areas and address the soldiers at the air force base. Security had been tightened ahead of the PM’s visit in ...

Image caption Local forces have been supported by the US and UK military in combating the Taliban in Helmand One US service member has been killed and two wounded during a special forces mission in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. The forces were taking part in a counter-terrorism operation when they came under fire, officials told US media. A medical helicopter ...

US President Barack Obama is to widen background checks on buyers of firearms, in a series of measures to address gun violence. The plans will be announced on Tuesday by the president, despite opposition from Congress to new gun laws. All sellers who operate online or at gun shows will be forced to conduct background checks on potential buyers. Republican ...