BBC Online :Thousands of people celebrated in the Crimean capital of Simferopol after the region broke away from Ukraine and was formally accepted into...
Dawn.com, Balochistan :A collision between two passenger buses and a petrol tanker killed 35 people in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, with many...
Al-jazeera.com :Algerian opposition parties have rallied several thousand supporters to call for a boycott of next month's election and to reject President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's...
BBC Online :EU leaders have signed an agreement on closer relations with Ukraine, in a show of support following Russia's annexation of Crimea.The EU...
AP, Washington :President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle and a major Russian bank that...
BBC Online :Veteran Indian politician LK Advani has agreed to contest the upcoming general election from the western state of Gujarat after initially rejecting...
BBC Online :Riot police in Venezuela have clashed with anti-government demonstrators who were protesting against the arrest of two opposition mayors.Hundreds of demonstrators in...
BBC Online :At least two people have been killed in continuing clashes between neighbouring communities in northern Lebanon linked to the conflict in Syria.The...
Reuters, Ankara :Turkey's courts have blocked access to Twitter days before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal that has seen...