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Philippine police smash online child ``sextortion`` ring

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 16:08

Philippine police on Friday arrested eight people suspected of running an online sexual extortion racket involving children and preying on Asians, seizing laptops and other equipment.

Iraq promised to free Saddam Hussein`s defence minister: Report

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 15:30

Iraq`s government promised to release from prison one of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein`s defence ministers, the outgoing deputy prime minister said in comments published on Friday.

Moscow defies Kiev, orders aid convoy onto Ukrainian soil

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 15:27

Russia ordered a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine on Friday apparently without Kiev`s permission, raising the danger of direct confrontation with the Ukrainian military which is fighting pro-Russian rebels.

Backers of Yemen rebels gather in Sanaa amid crisis talks

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 15:25

Thousands of supporters of Shiite rebels pressing the government to step down gathered in the Yemeni capital Friday as a presidential team was in the northern Huthi stronghold for crisis talks.

70 IS jihadists killed in Syria clashes: Monitor

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 15:23

At least 70 Islamic State jihadist fighters have been killed in 48 hours of clashes with Syrian army troops in the northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group said Friday.

German cop in dock over cannibalism website killing

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 14:46

The trial of a German police officer accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists starts on Friday in the eastern city of Dresden.

Some South Korean ferry mourners tire of the politics of closure

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 14:42

A man whose 17-year-old child was killed in the April sinking of a South Korean ferry, the country`s worst maritime accident in decades, said he is ready to move on, tired of the political wrangling and mud-slinging four months after disaster struck.

Quake hits northern Greece; no damage, injuries

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 14:39

Seismologists say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 has struck the northern Greek region of Halkidiki, rattling the area but causing no damage or injuries.

Singapore, Australia to boost intelligence sharing on jihadis

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 14:32

Australia and Singapore vowed Friday to enhance intelligence sharing in the face of growing fears about the threat posed by jihadist citizens returning home after fighting in Syria and Iraq.

After Mosul dam, Kurds launch attack to retake Jalawla from IS

Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 15:34

Iraq`s Kurdish peshmerga forces on Friday launched an operation to retake the flashpoint town of Jalawla from Islamic State jihadist fighters, Kurdish officials said.