N Koreans vote in rubber-stamp elections
BBC Online :North Koreans have been voting in a five-yearly election to approve members of the rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly.Each of the 687...
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Suicide bomber kills 32 in Iraqi city of Hilla
Reuters, Hilla :A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives killed at least 32 people and wounded 147 on Sunday in the southern Iraqi...
Raj Thackeray to back Modi
TNN, Mumbai :In a significant political move, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday announced candidates for the Lok Sabha polls and also declared his party’s...
KSA, Qatar in ‘war on Iraq’: Maliki
AFP, Baghdad :Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supporting militant groups in Iraq and have effectively declared war on the country, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said...
Venezuela opposition holds anti-Maduro rally
BBC Online :Thousands of Venezuelan students and opposition supporters have joined an anti-government rally in the capital, Caracas.The government deployed hundreds of government security forces...
Clashes in northwest Yemen leave 30 dead
Reuters, Sanaa :At least 30 people were killed over two days of clashes between Shi’ite Muslim insurgents and Sunni Salafi tribesmen in Yemen’s northwestern al-Jawf...
Russia calls for OSCE probe into Kiev sniper deaths
AFP, Moscow :Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called for an OSCE investigation into who was behind the deaths of dozens of people in...
Obama worst US president: Bobby Jindal
PTI, Washington :Preparing ground for his potential presidential run in 2016, Indian-American Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has slammed Barack Obama as the worst president in...
Russia says sanctions will ‘boomerang’
Reuters, Moscow :Russia said any US sanctions imposed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine will boomerang back on the United States and that Crimea...
When a snake eat a crocodile?
Agency :Onlookers at a lake in Queensland watched an olive python kill and swallow a 1m (3.2ft) crocodile. What happens next, asks Tom Geoghegan.Pythons in...
Iran, world powers hold ‘substantive, useful’ nuclear talks
Reuters, Vienna :Iran and six world powers held “substantive and useful” expert-level talks over Tehran’s nuclear program this week, they said on Friday, ahead of...
KSA declares Brotherhood a ‘terrorist group’
BBC Online :Saudi Arabia has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.An interior ministry statement also classified two jihadist groups fighting with the Syrian...