Kurdish fighters killed in Syria buried
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...
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8 Pak Shi’ites killed in sectarian attack
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...
Mayor linked to students disapearance in Mexico
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...
Qadri supporters end Islamabad sit-in
Agency :While Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri called off his dharna after 69 days, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan announced on Tuesday to continue his party’s sit-in till the resignation of the...
3 year old Indian girl raped in school
BBC Online :Indian police are investigating the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl in her school in the city of Bangalore.The child returned from school on Tuesday and complained of pain that had been...
Cuban medics head for Liberia to fight Ebola
Al-Jazeera.com :Monrovia, Liberia – A Cuban medical team is set to arrive in Liberia to help tackle the spread of the Ebola virus, the foreign ministry has said in a statement.The ministry said a...
Protests at HK leader’s home after fruitless talks
Reuters, Hong Kong :About 200 Hong Kong protesters marched to the home of the city’s Beijing-backed leader on Wednesday to push their case for greater democracy a day after talks between student leaders and...
Watergate scandal disclosure dies
Al-jazeera.com :Ben Bradlee, who oversaw the Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal that brought down US president Richard Nixon, has died at the age of 93.Bradlee, who died of natural causes at his...
Hunt for 43 students highlights Mexico’s missing
AP, Mexico :Long before 43 teachers, college students disappeared in an attack by police, Maria Guadalupe Orozco’s son went missing in the same southern Mexico city of Iguala.Orozco says Mexican soldiers took Francis Garcia...
Black money issue: Don’t try to blackmail us, Congress warns govt
TNN, New Delhi :Congress on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on finance minister Arun Jaitley over his remarks that disclosure of names of those holding illicit foreign accounts will embarrass the opposition party and...
Ban Ki-moon to set up Gaza conflict inquiry
BBC Online :UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is setting up an inquiry into attacks on UN facilities during Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza.He said the independent investigation would look into most...
US weighs ‘Iraqi request for more advisers’
Al-Jazeera.com :Senior US officials have said they are considering an Iraqi request for more American military advisers to help Iraqi security forces in their campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...