Police clash in Venezuela with anti-govt protesters
BBC Online :Riot police in Venezuela have clashed with anti-government demonstrators who were protesting against the arrest of two opposition mayors.Hundreds of demonstrators in the...
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Two dead in Lebanon clashes
BBC Online :At least two people have been killed in continuing clashes between neighbouring communities in northern Lebanon linked to the conflict in Syria.The latest...
Turkey blocks Twitter days before vote
Reuters, Ankara :Turkey’s courts have blocked access to Twitter days before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal that has seen social...
Syrians, Russians, Afghans top asylum list: UN
AP, Geneva :Syria, Russia and Afghanistan have the largest numbers of people fleeing their homelands to seek asylum, and most are turning to Europe, the...
Ukraine plans to withdraw troops from Crimea
New York Times, Crimea :Bowing to the reality of the Russian military occupation of Crimea a day after Russia announced it was annexing the disputed...
Advani refuses to contest in Gujarat
BBC Online :Veteran Indian politician LK Advani has rejected his party’s proposal to contest the upcoming general election from the western state of Gujarat.The main...
Five adults convicted, two juveniles yet to be tried
TNN, Mumbai :Even as principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi convicted all the five accused in two separate gang rape cases that had occurred in...
US sanctions over Crimea unacceptable: Russia
Al-Jazeera.com :Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told US Secretary of State John Kerry that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute were “unacceptable” and threatened consequences,...
Protesters occupy Taiwan parliament
BBC Online :Hundreds of students and activists opposed to a trade deal with China have occupied Taiwan’s parliament and defied police efforts to evict them.The...
Thai radar tracked missing KL jet?
AP, Malaysia :New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner,...
World powers, Iran resume nuclear talks
Reuters, Vienna :World powers and Iran began the second day of talks in Vienna on Tehran’s contested nuclear programme on Wednesday, with Western and Iranian...
Two dead in Xinjiang violence
BBC Online :Police have shot dead an armed man who attacked a police officer in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese authorities say.The suspect...