Migrants boat sinks near Turkey: 24 killed
BBC Online :At least 24 people have been killed and scores are missing after a boat said to be carrying migrants sank off the north...
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India, Pakistan suspend border ceremony
BBC Online :India and Pakistan have suspended a daily military ceremony at their only land border crossing at Wagah, after dozens were killed in a...
Opposition protests army takeover
BBC Online :Opposition parties and civic groups in Burkina Faso have called a mass rally for Sunday in protest at the army takeover after the...
Opposition protests army takeover
BBC Online :Opposition parties and civic groups in Burkina Faso have called a mass rally for Sunday in protest at the army takeover after the...
14 killed as bus rolls down in gorge in Himachal Pradesh
IndiaToday.in New Delhi :People gather near the passenger bus that rolled down into a deep gorge near Himgiri, 90km from Chamba, on Saturday. Photo: PTI...
Five suspected militants killed in Bara Agency clash
DWN.com :PESHAWAR: At least five militants were killed and six others injured late on Saturday in a clash between security forces and militants in the...
Chinese Army incrusion into Indian waters at Pangong
ZEE News Leh/New Delhi :Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently made a two-pronged simultaneous incursion by sending its troops into Indian waters in the Pangong...
Obama urges Michigan voters to cast ballots for democrats
AP, Detroit :Yelling out a populist theme until his voice turned hoarse, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Michigan voters in the midterm campaign’s final...
British man held over HK murders
BBC Online :A 29-year-old British man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of two women in Hong Kong.Police found the victims...
Syria escalates barrel bomb attacks as world attention shifts
AFP, Beirut :With global attention focused on the fight against jihadists, Syria’s regime has in recent weeks stepped up its use of deadly barrel bomb...
Iraqi Kurdish enter Kobane to fight ISIS
AP, Turkey :Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to battle Islamic State group militants in the Syrian border town of Kobani, just hours after they arrived...
UN bill urges Myanmar to drop identity plan
Al-jazeera.com :A new UN draft resolution takes aim at Myanmar’s aggressive campaign to have its Rohingya Muslims identify as a term they reject, urging “access...