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1 killed, 13 injured in Malaysian night ...

1 killed, 13 injured in Malaysian night club blast

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysian police say one person died and 13 others injured when a hand grenade blew up om Thursday outside a night club at a popular tourist belt in the country’s largest city Kuala Lumpur. A senior police official, who declined to be named as he isn’t authorized... read more »

ISIS attacks Kobani; 21 dead in Turkey a...

ISIS attacks Kobani; 21 dead in Turkey as Kurds rise

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Islamic State (ISIS) fighters launched a renewed assault on the Syrian city of Kobani on Wednesday night, and at least 21 people were killed in riots in neighbouring Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin. Heavily outgunned... read more »

Iraq conflict: Australian Super Hornet d...

Iraq conflict: Australian Super Hornet drops two bombs on Islamic State tar...

Two bombs were dropped from an F/A-18F Super Hornet onto what Defence described as an “ISIL facility”. A Defence statement said all aircraft left the target area safely and returned to base. Pilots of the Super Hornet jet fighters had aborted one of their previous air strikes because of... read more »

At least 20 killed in suicide bombing in...

At least 20 killed in suicide bombing in Yemeni capital

At least 20 people were killed this morning in a suicide attack apparently targeting a Shi’ite Muslim Houthi checkpoint in the centre of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said. One witness counted at least 20 bodies after the bombing in Tahrir Square in central Sanaa, which is under... read more »

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Strong quake hits remote area in southwest Iran

TEHRAN, Iran — A strong, magnitude 6.1 earthquake jolted a sparsely populated mountainous province near Iran’s border with Iraq on Monday, Iranian state television reported. There were... read more »

Tear Gas and Flares: Ferguson Erupts Again as Night Falls

FERGUSON, Mo. — Chaos erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, Sunday night as the city prepared for a state-imposed curfew almost a week after the police-involved killing of Michael Brown, an... read more »

Crisis talks on Ukraine prove difficult but ‘some progress’ made, says German ...

Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin Sunday were “difficult” but made “some progress”, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting with his... read more »

Barack Obama signed bipartisan budget deal and defence authorisation bill

Obama plans return to WH for Iraq, Ferguson meetings

President Obama’s somewhat mysterious return to the White House from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation starts late Sunday night. The president is scheduled to have meetings at the... read more »

Obama: Air strikes on Iraq dam ‘to protect US interestsR...

US air strikes in support of Iraqi forces’ efforts to retake the country’s largest dam are aimed at protecting US interests there, President Obama says. The failure of Mosul dam may put... read more »