Venezuelan woman dies hours after being gunned down
Mail Online :Slipping away by the second, she lies cradled in the arms of the motorbike rider who faces a desperate – and ultimately futile...
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Pak military airstrikes kill 15 militants
CNN :The Pakistani Army carried out airstrikes late Wednesday that targeted militant hideouts in the country’s volatile northwest, killing 15 people, the military said.“Foreign fighters”...
Obama criticizes Venezuelan govt for arresting protesters
Reuters, Mexico :US. President Barack Obama on Wednesday sharply criticized the Venezuelan government for arresting protesters and urged the government to focus on the “legitimate...
Al-Jazeera journalists to go on trial in Egypt
BBC Online :Twenty journalists, including four foreigners, are to go on trial in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. They face charges including aiding a terrorist organisation...
Deadly riot rocks Ukraine
AP, Ukraine :As thick black smoke rose from the barricades encircling the protest camp in central Kiev on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president blamed opposition leaders...
Wave of bomb blast kills 50 in Iraq
BBC Online :At least 49 people have been killed in a wave of car bombs in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Hilla, officials say.The...
Andhra CM resigns in protest over Telangana
BBC Online :The chief minister of India’s Andhra Pradesh state has resigned in protest against a bill in the parliament to create the new state...
Tamil Nadu to free convicts
BBC Online :The government in India’s Tamil Nadu state has decided to free seven people convicted of plotting the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.All...
‘Twin suicide attack’ in Beirut kills three
BBC Online :At least three people have been killed and dozens wounded in a twin bomb attack in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut,...
One dead at PNG asylum centre violence
AFP, Papua New Guinea :Manus Island is one of two remote Pacific camps used by Canberra in its punitive off-shore detention policy.One person was killed...
China rejects UN criticism in North Korea report
Reuters, Beijing :China rejected what it said was “unreasonable criticism” of Beijing in a new UN report on human rights abuses in North Korea, but...
Fighting ends S Sudan truce
Fighting has broken out in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, local officials say, the first major clashes since the government and rebels signed a ceasefire...