EU set to slap new sanctions on Russia
BBC Online :EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to consider fresh sanctions against Russia following accusations that its troops are fighting inside Ukraine.Russia denies...
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Mayawati re-elected BSP president
IANS, Lucknow :Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati was on Saturday unanimously re-elected Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president at the two-day national executive meeting of...
Myanmar ‘loses ten million people’ in census
Al-jazeera.com :Myanmar has discovered it has only 51 million people – far less than the previously estimated 60 million, according to preliminary results of the...
Cameron in talks on anti-terror plans
BBC Online :David Cameron and Nick Clegg will hold talks over the weekend to try to reach agreement on new measures to tackle the threat...
No question of alliance with Mamata: CPM
PTI :The Left parties, including major partner CPI(M), on Saturday ruled out the possibility of joining hands with Trinamool Congress to counter BJP, a day...
Rescuers free trapped Nicaraguan miners
BBC Online :Most of 24 trapped Nicaraguan gold miners have been freed after a mine collapse, officials said.The miners were slightly dehydrated but otherwise in...
Saudi King warns of terrorism threat to US, Europe
Reuters, Doha :Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said terrorism would soon spread to Europe and the United States unless it is quickly dealt with in the...
Over 3m have fled Syria:UN
BBC Online :More than three million Syrians are now registered as refugees and the desperate crisis is only getting worse, the UN’s refugee agency says.The...
Ukraine PM to seek NATO membership
BBC Online :Ukraine’s prime minister has said he will ask parliament to put the country on a path towards Nato membership.Arseny Yatsenyuk said the government...
Obama asks for options to address IS threat
Reuters, Washington :President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he has not yet developed a broad strategy for confronting Islamic State in an acknowledgement that...
Syrian militants detain 43 UN peacekeepers: 81 trapped
Reuters, United Nations :Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 UN peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region,...