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Al-Jazeera.com :Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has warned the US against being overly optimistic about Myanmar’s chances of progress, saying political reforms in her country have stalled.The Myanmar opposition leader’s warning on Wednesday...
BBC Online :Protesters in Hong Kong have scuffled with police in the first increase in tensions for more than a fortnight.The clashes took place in the Mong Kong area after dozens of people wearing...
BBC Online :The new Nato Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, has arrived in Afghanistan for his first trip to the country since taking office last month.The former Norwegian prime minister visited a training centre for Afghan...
AFP, Tel Aviv :The Israeli military displayed “shocking disregard” for civilian lives in Gaza during its devastating 50-day war on militants in the Palestinian territory, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday.Israel rejected the...
BBC Online :About 36 pilot whales that had become stranded in the Eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand have died.Two whale pods beached themselves in the Ohiwa harbour on the north-east coast on...
BBC Online :The presidents of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal are to visit Burkina Faso to press the military for a speedy handover of power to a civilian ruler.The African Union (AU) says the army...
Al-Jazeera.com :Israeli police have clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound after a far-right Jewish group announced plans to visit the site despite weeks of soaring tensions.The planned visit by the...
PTI, London :Global rights watchdog Amnesty International has asked Pakistan to bring those responsible for the killing of a Christian couple, accused of blasphemy, to justice.“Those responsible must be brought to justice and the...
Reuters, Istanbul :Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused Syrian forces of committing massacres in and around Aleppo and said Turkey would face a major new refugee crisis if Syria’s second city were to...
Reuters, New Delhi :India’s navy withdrew two warships from the eastern port of Kolkata on Tuesday after intelligence agencies warned of an attack on the port and the city, police and navy officers said.The...
BBC Online :At least nine people have died in two separate gun battles in Saudi Arabia.In the first incident on Monday, masked gunmen killed at least five people in the town of Dalwah, a...
Al-Jazeera.com :The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has continued to gain ground in northern Iraq despite weeks of US-led air strikes, and is now moving closer to the Iraq-Kurdish city of...