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BBC Online :Ukraine’s justice minister has warned anti-government protesters occupying her ministry she will call for a state of emergency if they do not leave.Olena Lukash told local media she would ask the National...
BBC Online :China’s Jade Rabbit Moon rover is in trouble after experiencing a “mechanical control abnormality”, state media report.The moon exploration vehicle ran into problems due to the moon’s “complicated lunar surface environment”, Xinhua...
BBC Online :Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk says protests will continue after he rejected President Viktor Yanukovych’s offer to appoint him as prime minister of the country.Mr Yatsenyuk said the opposition was generally ready...
BBC Online :Syrian government and opposition delegations are expected to discuss prisoner releases on their second day of face-to-face peace talks in Geneva.On Saturday the talks focused on safe routes for aid convoys into...
Reuters, Beijing :Chinese police shot dead six people during a “terrorist” attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang and six more died when explosives they were carrying detonated, state media said, as officials...
CNN :Xu Zhiyong, a high-profile Chinese activist accused of organizing protests against official corruption, has been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison, a Beijing court announced Sunday.The U.S. State Department immediately released...
BBC Online :Hundreds of children in England and Wales were detained under the Mental Health Act and locked in police cells because officers did not have anywhere else to take them, the BBC has...
BBC Online :Forecasters are warning of more heavy rain across parts of the UK, bringing further risk of flooding to some areas left struggling by recent storms.The Met Office has issued a yellow warning...
AP, Kabul :Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will not sign a security pact with the United States unless Washington and Pakistan launch a peace process with Taliban insurgents.Karzai has repeatedly refused to approve...
BBC Online :Rival political groups in Egypt are to mark the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising which ended in the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.Both supporters of the military-backed government and the Muslim...
PTI, Beijing :Chinese police have arrested over 800 people suspected of producing, selling and using illegal wiretapping and photography equipment to conduct surveillance.Through joint efforts by police from 14 provincial regions, 13 production facilities...
