Arab League to push UN on Palestinian state
Reuters, Cairo :Arab League foreign ministers endorsed on Saturday a draft resolution setting a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state and said they...
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Xi Jinping vows to protect territorial interests
AFP, Beijing :Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a key foreign policy speech that the rising Asian nation would protect its sovereign territory, the Xinhua...
Protests after Mubarak murder charges dropped
Agencies :Violence erupted in the Egyptian capital as security forces clashed with people protesting a decision to throw out charges against former President Hosni Mubarak...
Kabul police chief resigns after spate of attacks
Reuters, Kabul :The police chief of Afghanistan’s capital quit on Sunday, his spokesman said, following a third deadly Taliban attack in 10 days on foreign...
WHO reports sharp rise in Ebola deaths
AP, Dakar :New toll of 6,928 shows a leap of about 1,200 since Wednesday and appears to include previously unreported deathsThe death toll from the...
About 400 killed in Libya’s Benghazi fighting so far
Reuters, Benghazi :About 400 people have been killed in six weeks of heavy fighting between Libyan pro-government forces and Islamist groups in Libya’s second-largest city...
Myanmar’s Rohingya face hunger and death on brutal sea exodus
Agencies :Bibijan Rahimullah stepped aboard a small boat in Myanmar in October for what she was told would be a week-long journey to Malaysia to...
13,000 `slaves` working in UK
AP, London :Up to 13,000 people in Britain are victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation or other forms of modern slavery, a government report said on...
West struggles with Russia’s ‘ambiguous warfare’ tactics
Reuters, Washington :When Russians crossed the border to fight with rebels in eastern Ukraine earlier this year, Moscow said the soldiers had not been deployed...
Oppon vows to protect Rajapaksa against war crimes trial
AP, Colombo :Maithripala Sirisena, the joint opposition candidate for the January 8, 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential election, declared on Friday that if he was elected...
Mubarak cleared of murder charges
Reuters, Cairo :An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides on charges of ordering...
Rebels capture towns from Syrian govt
AP, Beirut :Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet south of the capital Damascus, capturing a string of towns...