Mass clean-up after China blasts trigger cyanide fears
Al Jazeera News, Tianjin :Rescue personnel battled to clean up hundreds of tons of cyanide at the site of huge explosions in northern China on...
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N Korea retaliates against South with loudspeaker propaganda
Reuters, Seoul :North Korea on Monday resumed a campaign of loudspeakers blasting propaganda across its border with South Korea, days after the South took a...
Poland`s new president to push for NATO troops on first trip – source
Reuters, WARSAW :Poland’s new President Andrzej Duda will visit Estonia next week to launch a campaign to push NATO to deploy more troops in the...
Justice Khawaja takes oath as 23rd CJP for 23 days
Dawn.com, Islamabad :Justice Jawwad S Khawaja took oath as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) on Monday, succeeding Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk.President Mamnoon Hussain...
Egypt`s Sisi approves anti-terrorism law creating special courts
Reuters, Cairo :Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and protects its enforcers in the face of a...
Civilians killed as fighting flares in eastern Ukraine
Reuters, Kiev :Fighting flared between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in two separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight with several civilians killed by shelling,...
`Hundreds of tonnes` of cyanide at China blasts site
AFP, Tianjin :Hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port of...
China`s air kills 4,000 people a day
Agencies, Beijing :About 1.6 million people die in China every year because of air pollution, but new – and newly enforced – policies are working...
Sri Lanka goes to general election today
AFP, Colombo :Sri Lanka deployed thousands of police on Sunday in stepped up security on the eve of a general election after the campaign was...
Hillary hits back at Jeb Bush on Iraq and Islamic State
Reuters, Des Moines :Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday hit back at comments from Republican Jeb Bush that President Barack Obama’s policies on...
8 dead as India, Pakistan trade fire in Kashmir
AP, Srinagar :Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy gunfire and mortar rounds for a seventh day Sunday along the highly militarized line of control dividing...
Iraq`s PM orders commanders to face trial over Ramadi withdrawal
AFP, Baghdad :Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi approved an investigative commission’s recommendation that commanders face military justice and probable trial for withdrawing from Ramadi without...