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Some Very Rich Person Buys Plane Seats For Their Falcons

A Reddit user has posted a photo of a Saudi Arabian prince buying seats for his 80 falcons in an air...

Jan 31, 2017 06:49 PM EST

International Association of Athletics Federations president Lord Coe will investigate claims of bribery in 2017 World Championships bidding

Lord Coe has promised to investigate fresh claims of bribery over the bidding for the 2017 World Cha...

Jan 19, 2016 02:31 AM EST

Texas student arrested over clock seeks $15 million

The family of a Texas Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock that was mistaken for a...

Nov 23, 2015 09:28 PM EST

Qatar says Putin's Syria plan ignores root cause of crisis

Qatar's foreign minister said on Monday there was general international agreement with Russia on its...

Sep 29, 2015 07:00 AM EDT

In rich Gulf Arab states, some feel shamed by refugee response

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaiti...

Sep 07, 2015 02:23 AM EDT

PM Modi visits UAE labour camp, underscores concern over worker welfare

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited a labour camp in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to highlight New De...

Aug 16, 2015 06:04 PM EDT

Senior Pakistan cleric offers to help Taliban heal leadership rift

A senior Pakistani cleric widely known as the "Father of the Taliban" offered on Thursday to mediate...

Aug 06, 2015 10:25 PM EDT

Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split

At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named as the Islamist mili...

Aug 01, 2015 06:38 AM EDT

Bahrain says foils arms smuggling bid, recalls Iran envoy

Bahrain said on Saturday it had foiled an arms smuggling plot by two Bahrainis with ties to Iran and...

Jul 26, 2015 05:36 AM EDT

Tennessee rampage suspect went to Qatar in 2014: sources

The man suspected of killing five members of the U.S. military in Tennessee last week was in Qatar a...

Jul 20, 2015 06:36 PM EDT

Putin's confrontation with West 'artificial': dissident Khodorkovsky

Russian President Vladimir Putin's confrontation with the West is "artificial" and aimed at protecti...

Jun 18, 2015 06:57 AM EDT

Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions

FIFA's embattled president, Sepp Blatter, and his second-in-command have hired high-powered lawyers ...

Jun 18, 2015 06:43 AM EDT

Swiss AG says FIFA bid investigation substantial and complex

The Swiss attorney general said on Wednesday his office has seized around nine terabytes of data as ...

Jun 17, 2015 05:43 AM EDT

Russia, Qatar might lose their World Cups: paper

Russia and Qatar could be stripped of their World Cup hosting rights if evidence emerges of bribery ...

Jun 08, 2015 08:12 AM EDT

FBI extends FIFA scrutiny to World Cup host bids of Russia, Qatar

The FBI's investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how soccer's governin...

Jun 05, 2015 09:23 AM EDT

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