Kerry, departing India, unhurt in motorcade shunt:US
Reuters, Ahmedabad :U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was unhurt on Monday in a minor accident involving his motorcade as it headed to the airport...
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Veteran Algerian militant hails Paris killings
Reuters, Dubai :Veteran Algerian militant and former al Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar praised a deadly assault on a French satirical newspaper and urged Muslims in...
Nigerian archbishop accuses West
BBC Online :The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, in central Nigeria, has accused the West of ignoring the threat of the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram.Ignatius...
India rebels held over Assam violence
BBC Online :Security forces in India’s north-eastern Assam state say they have arrested 39 separatist rebels in connection with last month’s attacks which killed more...
Pupils return to schools 28 days after Taliban massacre
BBC online :Pupils and teachers have returned for the first time to the school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar where more than 150 people...
Grabar-Kitarovic elected Croatia’s first woman president
BBC Online :Opposition challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has become the first female president of Croatia, winning by the narrowest of margins.She secured 50.5% of the vote...
Iran eclipses US as Iraq’s ally in fight against militants
AP, Baghdad :In the eyes of most Iraqis, their country’s best ally in the war against the Islamic State group is not the United States...
700,000 take to streets
AFP, Paris :More than 700,000 people on Saturday took to streets across France in tribute to the 17 people killed in three days of violence...
Hamas condemns Charlie Hebdo attack
AF, Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) : :Palestinian Islamist group Hamas condemned Saturday the killing of 12 people in an attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s...
Strong signals detected in AirAsia black box hunt
Agencies, Jakarta :Searchers today received signals believed to be emanating from the black box recorders of ill-fated AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea...
IS kills 26 in surprise attack on Iraqi Kurdish forces
AFP, Iraq :Militants from the Islamic State jihadist group launched a surprise attack on Kurdish forces in the Gwer area of north Iraq, killing 26,...
N Korea hints at nuclear test moratorium
AP, Seoul :North Korea has told the United States that it is willing to impose a temporary moratorium on its nuclear tests if Washington scraps...