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Bashar al-Assads cousin Wassim sentenced...

Bashar al-Assads cousin Wassim sentenced to death in Syria

Bashar al-Assads cousin Wassim sentenced to death in Syria **Syrian Court Delivers Death Sentence to Assad Family Member for Grave Offenses** A significant judicial development has unfolded in Syria, with a court handing down a death sentence to Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of President Bashar... read more »

Girl, 14, arrested after 'opening f...

Girl, 14, arrested after 'opening fire and shooting teen boy' at ...

Girl, 14, arrested after 'opening fire and shooting teen boy' at school in Sweden **Teenage Boy Critically Injured in Södertälje School Shooting; 14-Year-Old Girl Detained** **SÖDERTÄLJE, Sweden** – A serious incident of violence has shaken the community of Södertälje, Sweden,... read more »

Video purports to show teens on 'la...

Video purports to show teens on 'last spin' before dying in wrong...

Video purports to show teens on 'last spin' before dying in wrong-way M9 crash **Tragic M9 Collision Claims Lives of Five Young Men; Online Videos Emerge** A devastating wrong-way collision on the M9 motorway in Ireland has resulted in the tragic deaths of five teenage boys. The incident,... read more »

Russia sends warship armed with hyperson...

Russia sends warship armed with hypersonic missiles towards NATO island aft...

Russia sends warship armed with hypersonic missiles towards NATO island after threat to UK **Russian Naval Deployment Signals Heightened Tensions Near NATO Territory** A significant Russian naval deployment, featuring a warship equipped with advanced hypersonic missile capabilities, has been... read more »

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Asia

US trains Iraqis for house-to-house battle against IS

TAJI BASE, Iraq: A team of camouflage-clad Iraqi soldiers lines up near the door of a one-storey house north of Baghdad with rifles ready, preparing to enter and search it. For now, there are no... read more »

Car bomb kills 37 at Yemen police academy

SANAA: A car bomb tore through dozens of Yemenis lined up at a police academy in Sanaa Wednesday, leaving 37 dead in the latest attack to highlight... read more »

Live: Sri Lanka votes in tightest election in decades

Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a tightly fought presidential election, with incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse seeking a record third term in office amid a... read more »

Syria conflict: 76,000 die in deadliest year – ac...

The year 2014 was the deadliest year yet in Syria’s four-year conflict, with over 76,000 killed, activists say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human... read more »

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa regime losing its grip

Manmohan Singh’s letter to me does not address Tamil issue: President Rajapaksa

Delhi: Casino mogul James Packer must wish he could vote in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections next Thursday. Not only is the main challenger Maithripala... read more »

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Middle East

John Kerry lands in Baghdad to press Iraqi leaders as insurgency ...

BAGHDAD: US secretary of state John Kerry landed in Baghdad on Monday to press Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to form a more inclusive government in response to a Sunni insurgency that has swept much... read more »

Israel kills Palestinian teen in escalating West B...

HEBRON, West Bank: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday and arrested 25 people, pursuing a weeklong... read more »

Militants launch attack on north Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say militants have launched an attack on a Sunni-dominated city north of Baghdad, killing seven members of the security forces and... read more »

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... 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 successfully... read more »

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South Asia

Afghanistan grand assembly opens to discuss pact with US

Afghanistan grand assembly opens to discuss pact with US

Kabul – Afghanistan’s traditional Loya Jirga or grand assembly of tribal chieftains, notable people and government functionaries opened here Thursday to discuss the security pact known as... read more »

Six killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Six killed in US drone strike in Pakistan

Islamabad – At least six people were killed when US drones fired missiles at! a seminary in Pakistan’s northwest Hangu district Thursday... read more »

Prachanda loses key election in Kathmandu

Prachanda to visit India to meet ailing daughter

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

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

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

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

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Europe

Berlin summons British ambassador over spying report

Berlin summons British ambassador over spying report

Berlin – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Tuesday summoned the British ambassador over claims of spying by the British embassy here. German officials told ambassador Simon McDonald... read more »

UK cabinet banned from using iPads in `sensitive` meetings over `bugging` fears

UK cabinet banned from using iPads in `sensitive` ...

London – British cabinet ministers have reportedly been banned from using iPads during top government meetings over fears that Chinese,... read more »

Five arrested over French journalists’ slayings i...

Five arrested over French journalists' slayings in Mali

Bamako – Police have arrested five people in northern Mali for the murder of two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, France’s... read more »

UK to scrap `paid-visa` rule for `high-risk` Indians

UK to scrap `paid-visa` rule for `high-risk` Indians

Tokyo – The UK is reportedly planning to scrap the recommendation of demanding cash bond of 4,800 dollars from visitors belonging to six ‘high-risk’... read more »

World War II bomb defused in German city

World War II bomb defused in German city

Berlin – Bomb experts defused a 1,800-kg bomb from World War II Sunday in the western German city of Dortmund after officials evacuated 20,000... read more »

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North America

Obama calls Netanyahu amidst report of Iranian deal

Obama calls Netanyahu amidst report of Iranian deal

Washington – US President Barack Obama reached out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and updated him about the ongoing negotiations between world powers and Iran over its nuclear... read more »

US can access Britons' personal data under secret deal

Snowden leaks have helped Britain’s enemies:...

London – The intelligence leaks from US analyst Edward Snowden have left Britain’s enemies “rubbing their hands with glee”,... read more »

Obama says sorry to Americans dropped by insurers

Obama says sorry to Americans dropped by insurers

Washington – President Barack Obama has for the first time offered an apology to Americans who are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they... read more »

Modest relief for Iran if it halts activity: Obama

Modest relief for Iran if it halts activity: Obama

Washington – President Barack Obama has said that if Iran halts advances and reverses parts of its nuclear program, the United States would offer... read more »

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins re-e...

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins re-election

Washington – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie won re-election by a crushing margin on Tuesday, a victory seen boosting his widely expected presidential... read more »

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Air defence zone remarks: China refutes Japanese PM

Japanese minister visits shrine to war dead, angering China, South Korea

Japanese minister visits shrine to war dead, angering China, South Korea **Japanese Defense Minister’s Shrine Visit Sparks Regional Tensions** Tokyo, Japan – A recent visit by... read more »

Aftermath of deadly Indonesia earthquake

Aftermath of deadly Indonesia earthquake ## Devastating Quake Rocks Indonesian Archipelago, Claims Numerous Lives **Flores Island, Indonesia –** A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck... read more »

Modi threatens to target intellectual Naxals in Independence Day speech

Modi threatens to target intellectual Naxals in Independence Day speech **Prime Minister Modi Signals Renewed Focus on Ideological Roots of Insurgency** **New Delhi, India – August 15,... read more »

Is China seeking to copy Irans Strait of Hormuz blockade around Taiwan?

Is China seeking to copy Irans Strait of Hormuz blockade around Taiwan? ### Taiwan’s Defense Posture Under Scrutiny Amid Evolving Geopolitical Threats **Taipei, Taiwan –** Taiwan,... read more »

Afghan refugees face an uncertain future as Europe shifts to the ...

Afghan refugees face an uncertain future as Europe shifts to the right **Shifting European Sands: Afghan Asylum Seekers Navigate a Precarious Present** The dramatic collapse of the Afghan government... read more »

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