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AP, Myanmar :Myanmar’s army shot dead a journalist who was detained while covering clashes between the army and ethnic rebels at the rugged border, saying he reached for a soldier’s gun during an attempted...
BBC online :Pakistani and Iranian forces have exchanged mortar fire along their porous border.Pakistani officials said Iran fired six mortar shells, which landed near the border town of Mashkail. Pakistan is then thought to...
Reuters, Ottawa :Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed to redouble the country’s fight against “terrorist organizations” abroad after a reported convert to Islam rampaged through parliament, shocking the usually tranquil capital city.Shortly after a...
BBC Online :President Barack Obama has expressed cautious optimism about the Ebola situation in the US, as new screening rules were introduced in the country.He said many relatives of the only known person to...
Reuters, Beirut :Air strikes by US-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
Al_jazeera.com :Iraqi Kurds have agreed to send fighters to help defend the northern Syrian city of Kobane from ISIL forces, after Turkey said it would allow them to cross Turkish territory.The parliament of Iraq’s...
Al-Jazeera.com :Clashes in Benghazi and a suicide attack at a security checkpoint east of the Libyan city have left at least 11 people dead, officials have said.The latest bloodshed brings the death toll to...
BBC Online :Dozens of women and girls from two villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa state have been abducted by suspected militants, residents say.The abductions have not been confirmed by the authorities, but residents say...
AFP, Brussels :Nato fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea after it breached Estonian airspace, the alliance said on Thursday in the latest of such incidents amid tensions with Moscow...
AP, Turkey :Hundreds of supporters chanting slogans turned out to accompany three Kurdish fighters – two men and a woman barely out of her teens – to their final resting place in a dusty...
Reuters, Pakistan :Eight Shi’ite members of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority were killed, and one wounded, on Thursday, after gunmen opened fire on a bus in the volatile province of Baluchistan, police said.No one immediately...
Agency :Officials said on Wednesday that a drug gang implicated in the disappearance of 43 students in a southern city essentially ran the town, paying the mayor hundreds of thousands of dollars a month...
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