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Facebook's Internet drone ready to fly later this year
Facebook it is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand access to the 10% of population offline
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Is Mullah Omar's death Afghan Taliban's loss and Islamic State's gain?
Observers say Mullah Omar's death will trigger a power struggle within the already fractious movement
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Chechen women posed as 'jihadi brides' to scam IS recruiters out of thousands of pounds
Despite receiving the money, the would be 'jihadi brides' never never showed up in Syria
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US to deliver eight F-16 aircraft to Egypt
The statement said Washington would deliver four more F-16s to Egypt this autumn
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CAIR to sue Florida gun shop over 'Muslim-free' policy
Shop owwer says he will “not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots”
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Boko Haram 'slits throats of 10 fishermen' near Lake Chad
Incident has been confirmed by local fisherman, Buhari Dan-Malam, who lives in Doron Baga
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Climate pressures lead to rise in 'new-age orphans' in India's delta
Dr Amitava Choudhury says number of children suffering from depression has increased dramatically
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Afghan Taliban, family officially confirm Mullah Omar's death
Mullah Akhtar Mansoor appointed new Afghan Taliban leader
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China steps up campaign to remove church crosses
Move comes after Wenzhou authorities last year demolished large Sanjiang Church
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Kuwait says uncovers Islamic State network
The network included five Kuwaitis
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Air India staff arrested over people smuggling operation
So far 28 women have been identified, most of whom police said were from areas of Nepal
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Syria Qaeda branch kidnaps 8 US-trained rebels: monitor
Britain-based monitor says group was returning from meeting in northern Aleppo province to their headquarters
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Second round of Pakistan-brokered peace talks postponed amid reports of Mullah Omar's death
Earlier, Taliban sources said group's leadership had arrived in Islamabad for talks
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Chinese potatoes to chip in as water shortages hit staple crops
The idea has taken on urgency as water problems threaten to undermine food security, vital for political legitimacy
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Thousands evacuated as cyclone set to hit Bangladesh
Local police chief Ataur Rahman says at least 150 houses of local fishermen were reportedly destroyed due to storm
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Blaming Pakistan for Gurdaspur attack 'unfortunate', says FO
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh earlier claimed attackers came from Pakistan, a claim rejected by Pakistan
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Taliban capture district in Afghanistan's Helmand province
Taliban has taken control of pockets of territory across the country since NATO withdrew most of its forces
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Bangladesh, India in historic land swap after 70 years
Residents of the islands can choose to live in India or Bangladesh and will be granted citizenship
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Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen: official
A vehicle carrying the Taliban was hit overnight as it travelled through Wadi Dikha in Abyan province
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Italian officials spark outrage after removing prayer mats from city hall
Members of the anti-immigrant party Northern League removed prayer mats ahead of a Muslim conference
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Investigators scramble to analyse wreckage for MH370 link
The discovery fuelled hopes across the globe that one of aviation history's greatest mysteries could be solved soon
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1993 'Mumbai' bomb plotter convict Yakub Memon hanged in India
Memon was the only one of 11 people convicted to have his death sentence upheld on appeal
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Mullah Omar: Taliban's mysterious one-eyed supremo
Even though he had not been seen in public since 2001, Omar remained a unifying figure for Taliban forces
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White House calls reports of Mullah Omar's death 'credible'
Spokesperson Eric Schultz refuses to comment on specific claims made by Afghanistan that Omar died in Pakistan
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India set to become world's most populous country by 2022: UN
Fast-growing Nigeria is on course to outstrip the US by about 2050 to become the third most populous country
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Gurdaspur attack exposes India's 'soft border', unprepared police
Hundreds of police soon had the men cornered in one building, but it took 12 hours to kill them, at the cost of 4 men
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UN urges Pakistan to stop executions
UN Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns says most of the executions in the coming days fall short of international norms
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Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 in a bid to revive growth
'Our vision was one platform, one store, and one experience that extends across the broadest range of devices'
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Saudi Arabia beheads three convicts for murder, drugs
107 is the total number of executions this year so far
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UAE Etisalat telecom's profit dives 40% in Q2
Etisalat's net profit in the first half of 2015 also dropped 20 per cent to $1.0 billion from $1.23 billion a year ago
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Clues in the ruins where Britain's empire was born
These are the earliest English leaders to be discovered in America, says Jamestown Rediscovery director
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'Strong evidence' of Israel war crimes on 'Black Friday': Amnesty
London-based rights group has called for those responsible for alleged offences to be prosecuted
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British-Pakistani man convicted of murdering mother-in-law in Lahore
Tariq Rana shot his mother-in-law at her Lahore home after his wife Ayesha Riaz left him
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Turkey launches heaviest air strikes yet on PKK, stoking Kurdish ire
PM Ahmet Davutoglu's office says strikes hit Kurdistan Workers Party targets including shelters, depots and caves
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Here are the world's most expensive cities to live in
Grand Cayman has been ranked as the world’s most expensive city, followed by Zurich and London
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India's top court dismisses last-ditch appeal of 1993 Mumbai bombings death-row convict
Three-judge panel rejects Yakub Memon's last-minute petition, clearing last judicial barrier to execute him
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Israel PM approves 300 settler homes in occupied West Bank
Settlements in the West Bank are viewed as major obstructions to peace negotiations with Palestinians
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Yemen to merge 'resistance' fighters with army
The decision is taken to reward them for their 'brave contribution to defending the homeland'
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Two Israelis charged in arson attack on Church of Loaves and Fishes
June 18 arson attack followed more than 40 suspected hate crimes committed against churches, mosques and monasteries
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Two men due in court for killing Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion
Hunter has been identified as Walter Palmer, dentist and experienced trophy hunter from Minnesota
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Fukushima operator sued over 102-year-old man's suicide
Deceased, Fumio Okubo was the oldest resident of Iitate village 40 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi plant
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Saudi policeman killed, 2 hurt in attack: ministry
Police say two suspects were arrested after patrol came under fire in al-Jesh village in Qatif district late Tuesday
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At least 26 dead in flash floods in western India
The Indian weather bureau forecast that heavy rain will continue to inundate Gujarat for another 48 hours
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One dead as 1,500 migrants try to storm Eurotunnel terminal again: French police
The latest fatality brings the number of migrants who died near the Channel Tunnel terminal site to nine since June
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France seeks to warm up Iran ties with Rouhani invite
The offer came in a letter delivered to Rouhani by French FM Laurent Fabius, who is in Tehran on a short trip
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No sci-fi joke: 'killer robots' strike fear into tech leaders
Scientists call for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control
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Iraqi militia leader says US not serious about fighting Islamic State
Qais al-Khazali says anti-IS campaign had failed because of US agenda to redraw map of Middle East along new borders
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Chinese airport closed after arson attack aboard plane
A witness told China Central Television that a man had set fire to a curtain and newspapers in the first class cabin
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For dating apps in Asia, love by numbers or chaperone
The Filipina entrepreneur created an app that discouraged users from meeting one-on-one and offered chaperone service
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India building collapse kills seven
Rescuers have been frantically searching for another three people believed trapped under rubble of building