Ukraine orders Crimea troop withdrawal
BBC Online :Ukraine’s interim President Olexander Turchynov says he has ordered the withdrawal of armed forces from Crimea.The decision was taken because of Russian threats...
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Thai protesters back to streets
Reuters, Bangkok :Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand resumed street protests on Monday after lying low for weeks, piling pressure on increasingly beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra,...
20 Yemeni troops killed
BBC Online :Twenty Yemeni soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military checkpoint in eastern Yemen, reports say.Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency says...
Toll rises to 8 in US landslide
Reuters, Olympia :The death toll rose to eight and 18 people were missing on Sunday after a landslide in Washington state that buried homes and...
Australia PM hopeful after China spots possible Malaysia plane debris
Reuters, Perth/Canberra :Australia’s prime minister said on Sunday there was “increasing hope” of a breakthrough in the hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner carrying 239...
Russia faces ‘isolation’ over Ukraine: Hague
BBC Online :William Hague has warned Russia that it faces long-term “isolation and stagnation” over the crisis in Ukraine.The foreign secretary said it was time...
Turkish FM Simsek defends Twitter ban
BBC Online :Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has defended his government’s ban on Twitter, accusing the website of failing to comply with court orders. Simsek told...
Three killed by a landslide in US state of Washington
BBC Online :At least three people have been killed and several badly injured in a huge landslide in a rural area of the north-western American...
Violence in Beirut among Syria rivals
BBC Online :Fresh clashes have erupted in Lebanon’s capital Beirut among supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Lebanese troops were deployed after a number...
Huge Madrid protest turns violent
BBC Online :Violence has broken out at the end of an anti-austerity protest attended by tens of thousands of people in the Spanish capital Madrid.Dozens...
Thai ‘red shirts’ take up fight to defend PM
Reuters, Bangkok :Supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra say they will take to the streets as moves to impeach her gather pace, raising the...