Taiwan prison siege ends in suicides of hostage-takers
BBC Online :Six inmates who seized weapons and took staff hostage at a jail in Kaohsiung, Taiwan have killed themselves after a 14-hour stand-off, say...
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Kejriwal meets Modi after win
BBC Online :Indian anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his landslide victory in the Delhi state elections.The chief minister-designate has...
UAE warplanes back in action against IS militants
AFP, Dubai : The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday launched air strikes from Jordan against the Islamic State group as an important Arab ally in the...
Palestinian to forge deeper ties with Sweden
Reuters , Stockholm :The Palestinians will open an embassy in Stockholm today night, cementing closer ties just months after Sweden became the first western European...
Ukraine peace summit overshadowed by fighting
Reuters, Donetsk :The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine were due to attend a peace summit on Wednesday, but Ukraine’s pro-Moscow separatists diminished the...
Buddhists protest voting rights for Rohingya
AP, Yangon :Hundreds of people demonstrated in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, on Wednesday to protest a government decision to allow people without full citizenship, including...
Taiwan indicts 119 over anti-China protests
AP, Beijing :Prosecutors in Taiwan’s capital have indicted 119 people over the occupation of the legislature and cabinet offices in a protest against a proposed...
Xi to make first state visit to US in Sept
AP, Beijing :China’s leader Xi Jinping will make his first state visit as president to the United States in September, Chinese official media reported Wednesday,...
Russia, Egypt vow to fight against terrorism
Reuters, Cairo :United by a deep hostility towards Islamist terrorists, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Russia’s Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that they were...
US media sees Modi ‘brought down to earth’
IANS, Washington :While US officials refrained from comment on Aam Aadmi Party’s massive victory in Delhi elections, the New York Times saw “a defeat for...
EU delays new sanctions against Russia Obama to send his new war powers request to Congress
AFP, Kiev :Europe on Monday postponed sanctions against Moscow ahead of a Ukraine peace summit as US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Syria informed about US-led strikes on IS: Assad
AFP, Beirut :Damascus receives “information” about air strikes by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an...