Syria conflict: Huge blast ‘destroys Aleppo hotel’
BBC Online :A large explosion in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has destroyed a hotel and several other buildings, state media and activists report.Rebel...
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Pro-Russia rebel vote to go ahead
BBC Online :Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have said they will not postpone a referendum on independence planned for Sunday.The decision comes one day after...
US FBI agent arrested with bullets at Pakistan airport
AFP, Karachi :An American FBI agent arrested in Pakistan for trying to board a plane while carrying pistol ammunition has been remanded in police custody...
China journalist Gao Yu detained in Tiananmen lead-up
BBC Online :Prominent journalist Gao Yu has been “criminally detained”, China has announced, as the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests nears.State news agency...
US concern over S China Sea ‘dangerous conduct’
BBC Online :The US has spoken out over “dangerous conduct and intimidation” in the South China Sea, after ships from Vietnam and China collided in...
Rahul battles for seat as election end nears
AFP, Amethi :Beleaguered Rahul Gandhi, battling to save India’s ruling Congress party in national elections, sought to win over sceptical voters in his constituency on...
Modi denied permission for rally in Varanasi
Zee Media Bureau, Varanasi :Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who was scheduled to hold two rallies here on Thursday, has been denied...
Court case filed against Priyanka
IANS, Patna :A court case was filed against Priyanka Gandhi Wednesday for her remarks on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, terming his speech in...
Syria rebels start evacuating Homs
BBC Online :The evacuation of rebels from their last stronghold in the Syrian city of Homs is under way, activists say.The first buses left the...
US joins hunt for abducted Nigerian schoolgirls
BBC Online :A team of US experts has been sent to Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by the Islamist...
Monica breaks silence about affair with Clinton
New York Times, Washington :Monica Lewinsky says she became reclusive during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president in 2008 for fear that she would be...
Sisi vows Muslim Brotherhood won’t exist
BBC Online :Egyptian presidential favourite and former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group “will not exist,” should he...