Russia’s Alfa Bank first regional WC sponsor: FIFA
FIFA, which has struggled to find commercial partners since it was battered by a corruption…
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Russia uses Iran as base to bomb Syrian militants
Russia’s defence ministry says it has used a base in western Iran to carry out…
Malaysian oil tanker hijacked
An oil tanker carrying 900,000 liters of diesel has been hijacked and taken into Indonesian…
4 civilians killed in anti-India protests in Kashmir
Four people have been killed in troubled Indian-controlled Kashmir, and at least 15 more injured…
Yunus to bear Olympic torch
Nobel Peace Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus will bear the torch of the Rio Olympic Games…
Man tries to steal Olympic torch in Brazil
A man was wrestled to the ground and detained after he tried to steal the…
Myanmar monsoon floods kill eight, disrupt lives of 400,000
Floods caused by monsoon rains have killed at least eight people and disrupted the…
Search at NY JFK airport finds no signs of gunfire
A preliminary investigation at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport found no evidence of…
Bangladeshi Imam, associate shot dead in New York
A Bangladeshi cleric and an associate, also a Bangladeshi were fatally shot by a lone…
IS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan killed in US strike
The Islamic State group’s leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, was killed last month…