(CNN)The cheering began well before the Japanese "god" reached home plate.It was the top of the third inning in the MLB regular-season opener between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome,

DEIR EZZOR, Syria: Warplanes flew near Baghouz in eastern Syria early on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, as the final remnants of the Daesh group held a narrow strip of land along the Euphrates

DUBAI: Two women have been appointed as the UAE’s first female judges, state news agency WAM reported.   The UAE’s President Khalifa Al-Nahyan issued the federal decree this week appointing Khadija Khamis Al-Malas as an

ISTANBUL: A moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Turkey’s western province of Denizli on Wednesday, damaging some buildings and knocking bricks and tiles to the ground in the rural area, according to witnesses, officials and

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said her country will mark one week on from last Friday's attack with a nationwide two-minute silence and a public broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer.

Authorities in Australia have begun evacuations for the 1,600 residents of Groote Eylandt, an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, as Tropical Cyclone Trevor approaches. The severe storm spent most of Wednesday crossing Cape

The most senior security and defence figure in Bangladesh has been accused of using military intelligence agents to abduct and interrogate people to settle a business dispute involving his wife. The allegations have been

Beirut, Lebanon - In January, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on a diplomatic mission to scuttle Syria's readmission to the Arab League. On Thursday, he is expected in Lebanon, where he is set

An Al Jazeera investigation has revealed new satellite images showing a secret prison built by the United Arab Emirates on the coast of Eritrea. There have been reports of prisoners from the war in

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