Ban Ki-moon to set up Gaza conflict inquiry
BBC Online :UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is setting up an inquiry into attacks on UN facilities during Israel’s recent offensive in...
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US weighs ‘Iraqi request for more advisers’
Al-Jazeera.com :Senior US officials have said they are considering an Iraqi request for more American military advisers to help Iraqi security forces in their campaign...
African nations get key supplies
BBC Online :Vital supplies and resources to tackle Ebola are beginning to arrive in the three worst-hit West African countries, Ghana’s President John Mahama has...
Fresh fighting in Syrian town Kobane
BBC Online :Fierce fighting has erupted in the north of the Syrian town of Kobane, after two days of relative calm.The clashes began when Islamic...
Al Qaeda kills 33 in Yemen
Reuters, Sanaa :At least 33 people were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attacks in central Yemen, tribal sources and medics said on Monday,...
Former Aussie PM dies
BBC Online :Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has died at the age of 98.He was credited with transforming Australian society in the 1970s after...
Pak Taliban sacks its spokesman
BBC Online :Pakistan Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid has been sacked after pledging allegiance to Islamic State (IS).The militants said he had been replaced but did...
Army accused of using cluster bombs
BBC Online :A leading human rights group says it has strong evidence Ukraine attacked populated areas of Donetsk with cluster bombs, banned by many other...
HK protesters to attend crunch talks
Al-Jazeera.com :Senior Hong Kong government officials will meet student leaders for the first time in an attempt to defuse more than three weeks of protests...
China executed 2,400 people in 2013: AI
Al-Jazeera.com :The world’s top executioner China put 2,400 people to death last year, a US-based rights group said, shedding rare light on a statistic Beijing...
Flights cancelled at Heathrow airport due to storm
AFP, London :Around one in 10 flights may be cancelled at Britain’s biggest airport Heathrow on Tuesday due to stormy weather, an airport spokesman said.The...
I was suicidal as Clinton scandal went viral: Monica
Agency :Monica Lewinsky said she was one of the first victims of cyber-bullying, becoming “Patient Zero” after falling in love with Bill Clinton, as the...