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Al-Jazeera.com :At least eight women have died and dozens of others are in critical condition after undergoing botched sterilisation surgery as part of a free government-run programme to help slow India’s population growth, officials...
BBC Online :The leaders of China and Japan have met for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute.Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe met...
AP, Iran :Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country has successfully tested its own version of a US-made drone based on one it captured in 2011.The report quotes General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head...
Al-Jazeera.com :Violent protests in northern Arab communities raged overnight Sunday, with masked rioters burning tires, and throwing stones and petrol bombs at security forces stationed in the towns of Turan, Shfaram and Fordis.Police said...
Reuters, Beirut :Gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, four of them Syrian and one Iranian, on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, a monitoring group said on Monday.The engineers were shot dead as they were...
Reuters, Kabul :Bombs exploded in three cities in Afghanistan on Monday killing at least 10 policemen, officials said, a day after a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself in Kabul’s police headquarters killing one person.The...
BBC Online :An informal vote on independence for Catalonia has shown more than 80% in favour, officials say.The non-binding vote went ahead after Spain’s constitutional court ruled out holding a formal referendum in the...
Reuters, Dubai :Iran, the United States and the European Union began an unscheduled second day of talks on Monday over disagreements blocking the resolution of a confrontation over Tehran’s nuclear program, US and Iranian...
BBC Online :Celebrations are being held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.Chancellor Angela Merkel is at a church service for victims of the communist East German...
BBC Online :High-level talks are taking place in Oman ahead of the 24 November deadline for a comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear programme.US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting his Iranian counterpart Mohammad...
Al Arabiya News :The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was “critically wounded” when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal...
NDTV, New Delhi :In a stern warning to Pakistan, India on Sunday said there cannot be a dialogue with Islamabad if ceasefire violations are repeated.“…If repeated ceasefire violations take place then environment for dialogue...