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Yemeni forces shoot down spy drone
Armed forces in Yemen shoot down a spy drone flying over the country’s capital, Sana’a.

Armed forces in Yemen shoot down a spy drone flying over the country’s capital, Sana’a.

Gunmen kill three policemen in an overnight attack in central Mali.

China jails a former party chief of Urumqi for corruption.

A medical rights group says Israeli authorities are force-treating Palestinian hunger striker, Muhammad al-Qiq.

The top US and Russian diplomats will attempt to strike a deal over who should be allowed to sit at the negotiating table in the Geneva talks.

Nearly 300 cities in China failed to meet standards for air quality last year, a study says.

Israel is reportedly due to grab hundreds of acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank.

At least three people are killed in a fresh US assassination drone strike in Afghanistan’s province of Nangarhar.

Two explosions heard following an attack by gunmen on a university in northwestern Pakistan, which has left 21 people dead.

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a 27-point lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, a new poll shows.

A 31-year-old Yemeni man pleads guilty in a US court to plotting to kill American nationals abroad by working with al-Qaeda terrorist militants.

During his last year in the White House, US president Barack Obama feels “freer to criticize Israel.”

Amnesty International accuses Iraq’s Kurdish forces of intentionally destroying Arab villages under their control in the country’s north.

A film claiming to portray the “secret lives” of Saudi Arabia's royal family has reached the production stage.

Some animals of a zoo in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri are starving in horrendous conditions.

The US witnessed a surge in violent crimes such as murder, robbery, and rape in its large cities during 2015 the FBI says.

A Bahraini court has sentenced a teenage boy to 130 years in prison and stripped him of his nationality.

The Pentagon is considering demoting former CIA director David Petraeus for leaking classified information while still serving in uniform.