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Jakarta attacks confirms regional fears over IS: analysts

Regional nations have been warning for months of the possibility of attack.

14 Jan 2016 4:37 PM IST

US man who sent selfie to cops to replace mugshot is arrested

US man who sent selfie to cops to replace mugshot is arrested

The police department has posted on its Facebook page a new mug shot of a smiling Pugh after his arrest in Florida.

14 Jan 2016 4:03 PM IST

Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri (Photo: AFP)

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri urges attacks over Saudi executions

In the message, Zawahiri called on supporters to attack 'the Crusader-Zionist coalition whenever possible'.

14 Jan 2016 3:46 PM IST

Pakistan court rejects plea to examine boat used by 26/11 attackers

Pakistan court rejects plea to examine boat used by 26/11 attackers

The court also summoned four witnesses for next hearing on January 20.

14 Jan 2016 3:28 PM IST

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French jets strike IS communications centre in Iraq: minister

IS fighters seized Raqa in Syria in early 2014 and declared it the capital of their so-called caliphate.

14 Jan 2016 3:13 PM IST

A loud explosion was heard near the United Nations office in central Jakarta.

Attack in downtown Jakarta ends, 5 assailants, 2 civilians dead

Indonesian police say the attackers may be linked to ISIS.

14 Jan 2016 2:55 PM IST

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Arabic gang-rape 'Taharrush' spreads to Europe

These attacks on women frequently go unpunished as it becomes difficult to trace those who carried out the assaults.

14 Jan 2016 2:45 PM IST

Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin with his Pakistani counterpart Maleeha Lodhi. (Photo: Twitter)

India's new UN envoy meets his Pakistani counterpart in New York

We had a very useful discussion, Pakistan's representative to the UN tweeted.

14 Jan 2016 2:34 PM IST

Balwinder Jit Singh continues to suffer from blurred vision and pain due to the attack (Photo: Sikh24.com)

Sikh bus driver ensured safety of passengers while being assaulted in...

A man called him a terrorist and thrashed the driver, causing his grave injuries.

14 Jan 2016 2:33 PM IST

The World Health Organization declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola. (Photo: WHO)

WHO declares world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak over as Liberia gets...

The Ebola epidemic ravaged west Africa for two years.

14 Jan 2016 2:29 PM IST

The Tongxu county government in Henan province said that a team was set up to investigate the blast. (Photo: Google Maps)

Blast in fireworks factory kills five in central Chinese town

China is less than a month away from New Year celebrations, when holiday revelers set off fireworks to ring in the new...

14 Jan 2016 1:14 PM IST

Islamic State fighters (Photo: AFP)

Jakarta blasts: timeline of Islamist attacks in Indonesia

Chief among them was Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical Islamist movement that carried out the bloody 2002 Bali bombings.

14 Jan 2016 12:57 PM IST