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UNHCR launches humanitarian aid programme in Iraq

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 22:39

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday launched a major humanitarian aid scheme for Iraq`s nearly half a million internally displaced people.

Famed Iranian poet Behbahani dies at 87: Report

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 22:12

Famed Iranian poet Simin Behbahani, who wrote of the joys of love, demanded equal rights for women and spoke out about the challenges facing those living in her homeland, died on Tuesday at the age of 87.

Ukrainian troops inch closer to rebel city Donetsk

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 22:03

Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said.

New Yorker arrested for mowing down Sikh man

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 21:20

A 55-year-old man has been arrested here on charges that he called a Sikh man a "terrorist" and mowing him down with his pick-up truck, in an apparent hate crime.

Man arrested over Afghan Sikh stowaway`s death in UK

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 21:16

A 34-year-old man was arrested today on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of one of 35 Afghan Sikh stowaways found inside a shipping container at a dockyard in Britain.

British police arrest suspect over migrant container death

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 21:15

British police arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of an Afghan Sikh immigrant whose body was found in a shipping container.

Relatives of Pope Francis killed in car crash in Argentina

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 21:17

Three relatives of Pope Francis were killed in a car crash while a fourth one is stated to be in a critical condition in Argentina.

Muslim intellectuals slam ISIS brutality in Iraq

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 21:11

Signed by more than 80 Muslim intellectuals, activists and religious leaders, the statement also condemns Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of the Muslim world for claiming that he was acting in the name of Islam.

Ukraine crisis: Petro Posroshenko to meet Vladimir Putin in Minsk

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 20:52

The Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko will be meeting his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on August 26 in Minsk and are expected to discuss the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine.

Islamic State menace: `No` from one Iraq villager triggered mass killing of Yazidis

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 19:32

When Islamic State militants stormed into a northern Iraqi village and ordered everyone to convert to Islam or die only one person refused. But that did not satisfy the Sunni insurgents who are even more hardline than al Qaeda.