Israeli army kills four Palestinians
AP, West Bank :Israeli troops killed four Palestinians in an early morning raid that was followed by a clash with angry protesters in a West...
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Crimea celebrates
BBC Online :Thousands of people celebrated in the Crimean capital of Simferopol after the region broke away from Ukraine and was formally accepted into the...
Bus, oil tanker collision kills 35 in SW Pakistan
Dawn.com, Balochistan :A collision between two passenger buses and a petrol tanker killed 35 people in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, with many of...
Thousands in Algeria call for poll boycott
Al-jazeera.com :Algerian opposition parties have rallied several thousand supporters to call for a boycott of next month’s election and to reject President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s run...
Ukraine’s navy at end of rope in Crimea
AFP, Sevastopol :The tugboats came in the evening, carrying three dozen Russian sailors and pro-Russian militiamen who climbed aboard the Ternopil and told the crew...
No sign of missing jet flew thru its airspace
Reuters, Kuala Lumpur :India has told Malaysia it has found no evidence that a missing Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 people on board flew through...
Xi Jinping starts first Europe tour as Ukraine crisis deepens
AFP, Hague :China’s President Xi Jinping touches down in the Netherlands on Saturday for his first-ever Europe tour, with the continent in a diplomatic frenzy...
9 killed as Taliban attack Kabul hotel
Reuters, Kabul :Taliban gunmen killed nine people, including four foreigners, in an attack on a luxury hotel used by UN staff and prominent Afghan politicians...
US court orders Sonia to provide copy of her passport
TNN, Jalandhar :A US court has ordered Congress president Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport by April 7 to establish that she...
EU signs association deal with Ukraine
BBC Online :EU leaders have signed an agreement on closer relations with Ukraine, in a show of support following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.The EU signed...
US, EU sanctions target Putin allies
AP, Washington :President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and a major Russian bank that provides...
Advani agrees to contest in Gujarat
BBC Online :Veteran Indian politician LK Advani has agreed to contest the upcoming general election from the western state of Gujarat after initially rejecting the...