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...
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Burkina Faso crisis Army divided over ruler
BBC Online :A split has emerged within Burkina Faso’s armed forces over who is leading the country following the resignation of President Blaise Compaore after...
Suicide bomber kills 9 Afghan police
AP, Kabul :An Afghan official says at least nine members of the country’s security forces have been killed in a suicide attack in eastern Logar...
Hundreds of Libyans flee Benghazi
Al-jazeera.com :Hundreds of families have fled their homes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi as street fighting raged between rival armed groups in the...
Canada stops visa for Ebola-hit countries
Al-jazeera.com :Canada has suspended visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with “widespread transmission” of the Ebola virus, becoming the second nation after Australia...
Third victim of US school shooting dies
AFP, Washington :A 14-year-old US girl has died after being critically injured when a fellow high school student went on a shooting rampage last week,...
Israel reopens al-Aqsa: Muslims over 50 allowed
Reuters, Jerusalem :Muslim men over 50 prayed at the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday amid intense security, a day after Israel closed...
Four dead after plane crashes at Kansas airport
Reuters :Four people were killed, including the pilot, and five injured when a small airplane crashed into a building at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas,...
Myanmar leaders in rare roundtable talks
BBC Online :Myanmar’s president is holding rare roundtable talks with the opposition, military and ethnic groups, as the US called for “credible” polls next year.The...
Kurd’s battle for Kobani
Reuters, Iraq :Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was-until recently-an obscure Syrian...
Charity MSF warns US on quarantine
BBC Online :The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has warned some mandatory US state Ebola quarantine measures are having a “chilling effect” on its work.The...
Lava flow weakens
CNN, Hawaii :The lava flow has slowed, if not stalled altogether.Still, authorities warned Thursday that the threat to eastern Hawaii residents-much like the oozing, simmering,...