Castro offers to cooperate with US on Ebola
Al-Jazeera.com :Fidel Castro says Cuba is ready to cooperate with the United States in the battle against Ebola.The 88-year-old former leader of Cuba wrote in...
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Two Koreas exchange fire across border
Al-Jazeera.com :North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire across their heavily fortified land border, in the second such incident this month, the South’s Yonhap...
Power out, trees fall as hurricane hits Bermuda
AP, Bermuda :Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda’s main hospital during an hours-long battering, but the tiny, wealthy British territory suffered...
Nine shot dead in SW Pakistan
Al-Jazeera.com :A Pakistani police officer has said unknown gunmen have shot eight people dead and injured one in an insurgency-hit part of southwestern Pakistan.Senior police...
Cautious optimism over Nigeria’s kidnapped girls
AP, Nigeria :There’s no dancing in the streets, but people in the hometown of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls are cautiously optimistic about news...
TMC slams BJP’s U-turn on black money
IANS, Kolkata :West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress Saturday hit out at the Narendra Modi-led central government for its U-turn on the black money issue.“The BJP...
Peace hopes for Ukraine after Putin, Poroshenko meeting
Al-Jazeera.com :Ukraine and Russia have signalled there could be progress in settling a festering row over gas supplies after three meetings between the nations in...
Jayalalithaa released from jail
PTI, Bangalore :Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who secured bail from the Supreme Court, was on Saturday released from the central jail after...
Genocide trial begins for Khmer Rouge leaders
Agency :Hearings began on Friday into the most far-reaching charges, including genocide, against two former leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge in what is likely to...
Maharashtra, Haryana elections result today
PTI, New Delhi :Counting of votes for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, seen as the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
Violence flares again
The Guardian :Riot police clashed violently with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday as demonstrators reoccupied a camp mostly cleared the previous day, leading...
WHO faulted for Ebola response failures
Al-Jazeera.com :The World Health Organization bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report has revealed, as US President Barack...