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CHICAGO: An apple a day doesn't necessarily keep the doctor away. That's according to proverb-busting research that found daily apple eaters had just as many doctor visits as those who ate fewer or no apples. The findings don't mean apples aren't good for you but they do underscore that it takes more than just one kind of food to make ... Read More »

SRINAGAR: Landslides buried at least 15 people in Indian Kashmir on Monday as hundreds fled their homes after heavy rain triggered flooding around the mountainous region. Police and witnesses said landslides had buried at least four houses in Chadoora, the worst hit area of the Himalayan region where hundreds were killed in devastating floods last September.   DESTRUCTIVE FLOW: A ... Read More »

TEHRAN: Two Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were killed by a US drone in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, Iranian state media said Monday, in a report that was denied by the Pentagon. The official IRNA news agency said the two had been posted to Iraq as advisers in the war against IS group and that they died in the drone strike ... Read More »

There are Iranian military officers and Hezbollah fighters on the ground aiding the Houthis in Yemen, according to a senior official in the Yemeni president’s office. The Houthis are also deliberately striking certain areas in the city and blaming it on the coalition forces to gain support and sympathy, said Mukhtar Al-Rihbi, press secretary for the Yemeni president.   Shiite ... Read More »

BEIJING: A court in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble” and growing a beard, a practice discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported Sunday. The court in the desert oasis city of Kashgar sentenced the 38-year-old Uighur to six years, while his wife was given a two-year sentence, according ... Read More »

LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labour Party has taken a four-point lead over Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives after the first TV encounter of an unusually close-fought national election, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. The poll is a morale boost for Labour and its leader Ed Miliband, and prompted party strategists to say it showed they could win an outright majority ... Read More »

CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor on Sunday named 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group’s leader and his deputy, as terrorists in the first implementation of an anti-terror law passed earlier this year. In a statement, chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat said the decision follows a February court ruling that convicted Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie; his deputy Khairat El-Shater; the head of ... Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple chief Tim Cook is joining Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other technology titans who have vowed to donate their wealth to charities, according to a report in Fortune magazine. "You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change," Cook was quoted as saying in a Fortune story focused on how he ... Read More »

MOGADISHU — Somali troops on Saturday took full control of a hotel that extremist gunmen stormed and occupied for more than 12 hours following a suicide bombing. At least 17 people died and dozens were wounded. The gunfire has stopped and security agents have accessed the whole building, said senior police officer Capt. Mohamed Hussein. He had earlier said the gunmen ... Read More »

DUESSELDORF, Germany — The co-pilot who investigators believe crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, worried “health problems” would dash his dreams and vowed one day to do something to “change the whole system”, an ex-girlfriend told a German newspaper. The 26-year-old woman, identified only as Maria W., recalled in an interview with the mass-circulation Bild ... Read More »

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he felt “shame” and “anger” at the international community’s failure to end the Syrian conflict. “I confess to you my anger and my shame. Anger at observing the Syrian government, extremist and terrorist groups and terrorists relentlessly destroy their country,” he said. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks ... Read More »

BAGHDAD: Retaking the city of Tikrit, where militants have rigged streets and buildings with explosives, will require “major sacrifices” on the part of Iraqi forces, a senior intelligence officer said Saturday. Iraqi forces and allied paramilitaries have been fighting to retake the city since March 2, but halted ground operations for more than a week in what officials described as ... Read More »

DHAKA: At least 10 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a stampede outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday, police and witnesses said. The stampede occurred on the banks of the Brahmaputra river during an annual Hindu festival. Police inspector Nasir Ahmed said seven women and three men had been TRAGEDY: A man and a women react ... Read More »

SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Yemen’s president has called Houthi rebels who forced him to flee the country “stooges of Iran,” directly blaming Iran for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender. Other leaders, including the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, obliquely referenced Iran earlier at the opening session of an Arab summit held in ... Read More »

TRIPOLI — Two Bangladeshi citizens, among a group of foreign workers taken hostage by Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) in an attack on a Libyan oilfield, have been released after more than two weeks, the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Foreigners have increasingly become targets in Libya’s turmoil, where two rival governments are battling for control and Islamist extremists have grown ... Read More »