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Syrian tailor who newly arrived in Canada saves a bride’s wedding by fixing dress

Sep 30, 2016

It is the nightmare situation that no bride wants on her wedding day: as one of Jo Du's bridesmaids did up the zip on her dress, it broke.Jo didn't know it yet, but there was no need to panic.…

Van Gogh paintings stolen from Amsterdam museum found in Italy

Sep 30, 2016

Italian police have recovered two Van Gogh paintings stolen during a dramatic raid on an Amsterdam museum in 2002.The works were recovered from the Naples mafia, they said.The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam said the works were…

Europe’s Rosetta mission ends in comet crash-landing

Sep 30, 2016

Europe's Rosetta probe has ended its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy object's surface.Mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, was able to confirm the impact had occurred when radio contact to the ageing…

Amnesty International: Over 130 families trapped in Benghazi’s Ganfudah need immediate…

Sep 30, 2016

Over 130 families have been stranded and besieged in Ganfuda district in Benghazi, where they have to put up day after another with the airstrikes of Khalifa Haftar's Dignity Operation warplanes, and the warplanes of the foreign…

Russia says US is protecting jihadist Syrian rebels

Sep 30, 2016

The US is trying to spare a jihadist group in its attempts to unseat Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Russia's foreign minister has told the BBC.Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to separate the powerful Jabhat…

Jonathan Winer urges Sirte residents not to rush back to the city till demining works finish

Sep 29, 2016

The US special delegate to Libya Jonathan Winer urged Sirte dislocated citizens not to rush back into their houses in the city before demining works were completed.Winer tweeted on Thursday that war on IS has left Sirte…

The Philippines lifts ban on deployment of Filipinos to Libya

Sep 29, 2016

Now that security conditions have improved in Libya, the Philippines government has lifted a ban on deployment to Libya of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) with valid and existing contracts for jobs there.On recommendation of…

Russia defies US, says will continue bombing Syria’s Aleppo

Sep 29, 2016

Russia has said it will carry on bombing rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria, defying US demands to stop.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the Russian air force would continue its support of the Syrian armed…

Train crashes in New Jersey, US, over 100 injuries are reported

Sep 29, 2016

A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in the city of Hoboken, in the US state of New Jersey.The New Jersey emergency management system reports more than 100 people have been injured and others are trapped.Emergency…

Presidential Council deputy head says Libya excluded from OPEC deal

Sep 29, 2016

The Deputy Head of the Presidential Council of the UN-brokered Government of National Accord (GNA) Mousa Al-Koni, said OPEC meeting in Algeria, which aims at cutting off the output of oil in a bid to raise the oil prices in the…

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