More Ukrainian soldiers killed; France, Germany press Putin
Reuters, Kiev :Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin...
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Iraq forces find 53 corpses
AFP, Iraq :Iraqi security forces found the bodies Wednesday of 53 men who had been bound and executed in a confessionally mixed province south of...
Amit Shah new BJP president
BBC Online :Amit Shah, a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been appointed the chief of India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He is...
Govt offices attacked in Afghanistan
Al-Jazeera.com :Suspected Taliban fighters, including a suicide bomber, have carried out a series of attacks in the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.Five attackers armed...
Israel, Hamas intensify attacks
BBC Online :Palestinian militants have fired more rockets at Israeli cities after Israel carried out dozens of air strikes on Gaza in the early hours...
Syrian oppon elects Hadi el-Bahra as new leader
AFP, Istanbul :The Syrian National Coalition, the main exiled opposition group seeking the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, on Wednesday elected Saudi-based Syrian opposition figure Hadi...
BJP MP claims Rs 50000 stolen, thief says he got Rs 1.14cr
indianexpress.com :Police in Patna on Tuesday arrested a man who had allegedly burgled the home of BJP MP Giriraj Singh a day earlier. But in...
Obama requests $3.7b to fix border crisis
BBC Online :President Barack Obama has asked Congress for $3.7bn (£2.2bn) in extra funding to tackle an immigration crisis at the southern border.More than 50,000...
Indonesians vote for new president
AP, Jakarta :After the most polarizing campaigning in Indonesia’s history, millions of people voted to elect a new president on Wednesday in a race too...
Defiant Abdullah claims victory
Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah has claimed victory in last month’s poll, despite results giving a lead to his rival, Ashraf Ghani.Addressing supporters in Kabul,...
Mortar bombs land in Saudi near Iraq border
Reuters, Riyadh :Three mortar bombs landed inside Saudi Arabia on Monday close to its northern border with Iraq, where Islamist militants have grabbed land in...
US, Israel playing ‘good cop, bad cop’: Khamenei
Reuters, Dubai :Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States and Israel were playing “good cop, bad cop” to intimidate his country into...