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ORLANDO / CAIRO / WASHINGTON: Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early Sunday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Terrified survivors – who moments before were laughing and …

Iraqi troops have managed to retake a village south of the Daesh-held city of Mosul as their liberation operations continue in the area. The Nineveh Operations Command said in a Sunday statement that government forces, equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, recaptured the village of Kharaib Jabr on the western …

SHANGHAI: An explosion injured three people and sparked a major security alert at the main international airport in China’s commercial hub of Shanghai on Sunday, according to the operator. The blast at Pudong Airport occurred near the check-in counter of Terminal Two, according to a statement on the operator’s official …

This is the horrifying moment a jihadist for the so-called Islamic State executed his own brother after he was accused of trying to defect the extremist group. The 15-minute footage shows a man named as Abu Abdallah carrying out the punishment. The terror group is said to be in the …

A number of people have been shot in an attack on a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police have confirmed, adding that a controlled explosion had been carried out at the venue. Shots were fired at the Pulse Club, an LGBT nightclub in the city, in the early hours of Sunday. …

DUBAI: Bahraini Shiite opposition activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who was released from jail this week on “humanitarian” grounds, announced Saturday that she has left the country. “It pains me to leave, but I leave carrying our cause on my back, and my love for my country in my chest,” Khawaja, who …

WASHINGTON DC: CIA chief John Brennan said Saturday that secret findings of a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks should not be taken as evidence of official Saudi complicity. A decision is expected soon on whether to release the classified 28-page section of the report by the House and …

BERLIN: Several thousand demonstrators formed a human chain along the perimeter of a US Air Force base in Germany on Saturday in protest against drone operations by the United States. The demonstration was organised by the alliance “Stop Ramstein – No Drone War”, which says the Ramstein base transmits information …