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Two die as cargo plane skids off Hong Ko...

Two die as cargo plane skids off Hong Kong runway into sea

Two die as cargo plane skids off Hong Kong runway into sea ## Cargo Plane Incident at Hong Kong International Airport Claims Two Lives **Hong Kong –** A cargo aircraft arriving from Dubai went off the runway at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) early Monday morning, resulting in two... read more »

Kenya bids final farewell to Raila Oding...

Kenya bids final farewell to Raila Odinga

Kenya bids final farewell to Raila Odinga **Odinga Laid to Rest Amidst Tensions and National Mourning** KISUMU, Kenya – Kenya’s political landscape paused this week as the nation bid farewell to Raila Odinga, a towering figure in opposition politics for decades. The final rites, held in his... read more »

Bolivia: Centrist Paz wins presidency — ...

Bolivia: Centrist Paz wins presidency — preliminary results

Bolivia: Centrist Paz wins presidency — preliminary results ## Bolivia Elects Centrist Leader Amidst Economic Uncertainty **La Paz, Bolivia** – Bolivia has elected a centrist president in a landmark election that signals a potential shift in the nation’s economic trajectory. Preliminary... read more »

Brazil: Bus crash kills at least 17 peop...

Brazil: Bus crash kills at least 17 people

Brazil: Bus crash kills at least 17 people **Deadly Bus Accident Claims Lives in Southeastern Brazil** At least seventeen individuals have perished and an undetermined number sustained injuries following a single-vehicle bus accident in southeastern Brazil, authorities confirmed earlier today. The... read more »

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Bangladesh court convicts British reporter of contempt

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday (Dec 2) found an award-winning British journalist guilty of contempt for questioning the official death toll of three million in the country’s 1971... read more »

IS stones to death two alleged gay men in Syria

DAMASCUS: Islamic State (IS) militants stoned to death two young men in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour on charges of having... read more »

Militants kill four polio workers in Pakistan

At least four polio workers, including three women, were killed on Wednesday in an attack by militants in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan... read more »

Nepal bus crash death toll rises to 47 as more bodies f...

Emergency workers found three bodies immediately after the crash in mountainous Jajarkot district on Thursday, and pulled another 44 from the wreckage of the... read more »

Suicide attack toll at least 50: Afghan official

KABUL, Afghanistan: An Afghan official says the death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a volleyball tournament has risen to at least 50, with more than 60... read more »

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Iraq attacks and shelling kill 35

BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people today, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coalition after April elections.... read more »

Nine Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria

ABUJA: The Nigerian military Monday confirmed it killed nine Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Borno state. “Patrol troops have... read more »

Is Iran jailing Facebook users for anti-govt posts?

TEHRAN: An Iranian court has sentenced eight people to jail terms ranging from seven to 20 years for crimes including anti-regime propaganda posted on... read more »

Iran reports its first death from MERS virus

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s official news agency is reporting the Islamic Republic has suffered its first fatality from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus.... read more »

Egypt’s Sisi sweeps to victory in presidential vo...

CAIRO: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional... read more »

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Prachanda to visit India to meet ailing daughter

Prachanda loses key election in Kathmandu

Kathmandu – Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, former prime minister and chairman of the once-powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), has lost in the Himalayan nation’s... read more »

NC, UML lead in Nepal polls, Maoists lag far behind

NC, UML lead in Nepal polls, Maoists lag far behin...

Kathmandu – Initial results of Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly elections indicate that the country’s traditional political... read more »

Prachanda loses in Nepal Constituent Assembly election

Prachanda loses in Nepal Constituent Assembly election

The leader of Nepal’s Maoist party, who appears to have lost in this week’s national election, demanded on Thursday that the vote counting be stopped... read more »

No drone attacks during Taliban talks: US to Pakistan

No drone attacks during Taliban talks: US to Pakistan

Islamabad – The US has assured Pakistan it would not conduct any drone strikes during peace talks with the Taliban, Pakistan’s top security advisor... read more »

Nawaz Sharif names judges for Musharraf’s trial

Nawaz Sharif names judges for Musharraf's trial

Islamabad – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a panel of three judges for a special court for the trial of former president Pervez... read more »

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Snowden free to cooperate with Germany: Kremlin

Snowden free to cooperate with Germany: Kremlin

Moscow – Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is free to cooperate with Germany on reports of the alleged US tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone conversations, the... read more »

New Oz burqa law makes lifting veil for women’s identification by police mandatory

New Oz burqa law makes lifting veil for women’s id...

Sydney – A new law has been reportedly introduced by the West Australian state parliament that would require Muslim women to remove their burqa... read more »

‘Europe’s spies work together on mass surve...

'Europe's spies work together on mass surveillance'

London – Spy agencies across Western Europe are working together on mass surveillance of Internet and phone traffic comparable to programs run by their... read more »

Germany makes third gender official

Germany makes third gender official

London – Parents in Germany will now have the choice to leave out the gender of their new baby on the registration form owing to a brand new ruling in... read more »

Fatal shooting near Athens Golden Dawn office

Fatal shooting near Athens Golden Dawn office

At least two men have been shot dead in a drive-by shooting outside Greece’s Golden Dawn party office in Athens, police said. Two attackers on a... read more »

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Obama, Maliki discuss counter measures for `more active' al-Qaeda in Iraq

Obama, Maliki discuss counter measures for `more active’ al...

London – President Barack Obama has spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on his visit to Washington on counter measures for a “more active” al-Qaeda in the latter’s... read more »

When Bill Clinton called Obama `luckier than dog with two d***s`!

When Bill Clinton called Obama `luckier than dog w...

New York – Bill Clinton had reportedly joked about President Barack Obama that “he’s luckier than a dog with two d***s” to describe his... read more »

Delta and JetBlue become first US airlines to allow gad...

Delta and JetBlue become first US airlines to allow gadget-use in-flight

Washington – Delta and JetBlue are reportedly the first US airlines to allow electronic device use throughout the flight after the FAA passed the new... read more »

Obama’s balancing act in Iraq

Obama's balancing act in Iraq

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday received Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the White House, as the latter is seeking U.S. arms... read more »

Kerry admits some US surveillance operations go ‘...

Kerry admits some US surveillance operations go 'too far'

Washington – US Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that some US surveillance actions went “too far” after Washington came under... read more »

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Ukraine’s drone operators say they have to negotiate safe passage past friendly jamm...

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EU discusses ‘drone wall’ to protect airspace from Russian violations

Brussels – In a bold move to fortify its eastern flank, the European Union is discussing the deployment of a high-tech “drone wall” — a coordinated network of surveillance and... read more »

Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions, keeps Rafah crossing closed

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Israel confirms transfer of 4 more bodies from Gaza

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