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Blaze threatens historic wood village in Laerdal Norway

BBC Online :Scores of people have been evacuated from a heritage village in southern Norway as a raging fire threatens its unique wooden buildings....

US hails opposition move to attend peace talks

BBC Online :US Secretary of State John Kerry has welcomed a decision by Syria's main political opposition group to attend next week's peace talks...

18 killed in stampede in Mumbai

PTI, Mumbai :Eighteen people were killed, most of them due to suffocation, and 40 injured in a stampede when thousands of people gathered to...

China starts relaxing one-child policy

AFP, Beijing :China began to implement the loosening of its controversial one-child policy on Friday when a province announced it has made it legal...

Obama orders curbs on NSA spying

BBC Online :President Barack Obama has ordered curbs on the use of bulk data collected by US intelligence agencies, saying civil liberties must be...

Four killed in clashes across Egypt

Reuters, Cairo :At least four people were killed as clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and police flared up across Egypt on Friday, security sources...

Bushfire kills one

BBC Online :Bushfires in Australia's Victoria state have killed one person, as parts of the country face another day of soaring temperatures.A body was...

S Korea to boost security against North

Al-Jajeera.com :The South Korean president, Park Geun-Hye, has ordered "airtight security" against the North after a flurry of propaganda and mixed messages from Pyongyang...

Fresh anti-Muslim riot hits Myanmar: 8 killed

BBC Online :Activists in Burma say eight Rohingya Muslims were killed by police in fresh violence in Rakhine state.Details about the incident, which is...

Tragic, avoidable accident

BBC Online :A four-year-old US girl shot and killed her four-year-old cousin in what authorities have called a tragic and avoidable accident.The children were...

China, Japan engaged in a war of words

AP, Washington :China and Japan are engaged in a war of words that is lighting up editorial pages around the world as Beijing takes...

NSA runs global spying program

The Telegraph :The US National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on...

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