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Two Koreas exchange fire across border

Al-Jazeera.com :North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire across their heavily fortified land border, in the second such incident this month, the South's...

Power out, trees fall as hurricane hits Bermuda

AP, Bermuda :Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda's main hospital during an hours-long battering, but the tiny, wealthy British territory...

Nine shot dead in SW Pakistan

Al-Jazeera.com :A Pakistani police officer has said unknown gunmen have shot eight people dead and injured one in an insurgency-hit part of southwestern Pakistan.Senior...

Cautious optimism over Nigeria’s kidnapped girls

AP, Nigeria :There's no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about...

Violence flares again

The Guardian :Riot police clashed violently with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday as demonstrators reoccupied a camp mostly cleared the previous day,...

WHO faulted for Ebola response failures

Al-Jazeera.com :The World Health Organization bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report has revealed, as US President...

US photographer released

AFP, Hong Kong :An American photojournalist who was arrested in Hong Kong for standing on a car while covering clashes between pro-democracy protesters and...

Obama calls for end to Ebola ‘hysteria’

AFP, Washington :US President Barack Obama told Americans on Saturday not to "give in to hysteria or fear" over the deadly Ebola virus, calling...

TMC slams BJP’s U-turn on black money

IANS, Kolkata :West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress Saturday hit out at the Narendra Modi-led central government for its U-turn on the black money issue."The...

Peace hopes for Ukraine after Putin, Poroshenko meeting

Al-Jazeera.com :Ukraine and Russia have signalled there could be progress in settling a festering row over gas supplies after three meetings between the nations...

Jayalalithaa released from jail

PTI, Bangalore :Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who secured bail from the Supreme Court, was on Saturday released from the central jail...

Genocide trial begins for Khmer Rouge leaders

Agency :Hearings began on Friday into the most far-reaching charges, including genocide, against two former leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in what is likely...

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