Oregon stand-off: last four occupiers surrender after threats
Burns: The four holdouts in an armed protest at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon has surrendered, with the last occupier repeatedly threatening suicide during an intense phone call with mediators...
View ArticleDeath toll from war in Syria nearly half a million
Gaziantep: As waves of heavy Russian airstrikes edged closer to the Turkish border Thursday, a Syrian research group issued a report saying the effect of five years of war in Syria has been even more...
View ArticleCaptive who wouldn't leave Guantanamo has change of heart at door of...
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Detainee Mohammed Bwazir's fateful decision to stay in a cell at Guantanamo rather than start anew in Europe came down to a calm, 10-minute stand-off when the warden of the...
View ArticleRussia warns of 'world war', continues bombing Aleppo to support Assad
Munich: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the spectre of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground...
View ArticleNATO moves to squeeze Russia out, as risk of unintended war in Eastern Europe...
Budapest: A move to triple the number of NATO troops in Eastern Europe will aggravate an already paranoid Russia and, according to experts, raise the risk of accidental war. The dramatic escalation of...
View ArticleSouth Sudan's Salva Kiir restores rival Riek Machar whose ouster sparked war
The president of South Sudan appeared to take a major step Thursday toward ending a disastrous civil war that began more than two years ago in the young African nation, reappointing his political rival...
View ArticleVenezuela: three dead from Zika complications
What is the Zika virus, and why should Australia worry about it? Caracas: Venezuela has announced the first Zika-related deaths in...
View ArticleStunning Hawke's Bay sheep herding footage you have to see to believe
Captivating aerial footage of sheep being herded on a Hawke's Bay farm has attracted international attention. Photographer Tim Whittaker...
View ArticleSeveral dead as suspected Islamist militants attack United Nations base in Mali
Bamako: Suspected Islamist militants attacked a UN peacekeepers' base in the northern Mali town of Kidal on Friday, killing several people and wounding others, a spokesman for the separatist...
View ArticleComet lander Philae bid farewell
Frankfurt: European scientists have given up hope of restoring contact with space probe Philae, which successfully landed on a comet in a pinpoint operation only to lose power because its solar-driven...
View ArticleNews organizations standing up for the safety of media professionals (UNESCO...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) After a rich debate on media's role in securing safety of journalists and ending impunity among media leaders from 51...
View ArticleBritain's Independent will stop printing newspapers as it goes online-only
London: Britain's Independent is to disappear from news stands next month after its owner took the left-leaning title online only, one of the first national newspapers in the world to buckle under...
View ArticlePope Francis to meet Russian Orthodox Church's Patriarch Kirill, a millennium...
Havana: Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church meet in Havana on Friday, nearly 1000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome, for the first encounter in history between a Roman...
View ArticleJapanese lawmaker Kensuke Miyazaki, who sought paternity leave, to quit over...
A Japanese ruling party lawmaker who drew attention for seeking to take paternity leave said Friday he would resign over an extramarital affair. Kensuke Miyazaki, 35, bowed and apologised repeatedly at...
View ArticleMigrant crisis: Thousands of Iraqi refugees leave Finland opting to go home
Helsinki: Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily, citing family issues and disappointment with life...
View ArticleUS Congress passes tougher North Korea sanctions
Washington: The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Friday broadening sanctions to punish North Korea for its nuclear program, human rights record and cyber crimes, and...
View ArticleClooneys discuss refugee crisis with Angela Merkel
Berlin: George Clooney says the refugee crisis is bigger than the headline-grabbing exodus from Syria and Iraq, and he believes Americans "will do the right thing" by rejecting Donald Trump and calls...
View ArticleBrazil reports explosion of dengue, a bad omen for spread of Zika virus
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil has reported a nearly 50 per cent jump in cases of dengue fever reported over a three-week period in January, a worrying finding because the disease is carried by the same...
View ArticleUN peacekeepers killed in attack on base in northern Mali
Bamako: Five UN peacekeepers were killed when their base in northern Mali was hit by mortars, gunfire and a truck bomb on Friday, an attack that a local separatist group blamed on Islamist militants....
View ArticleIndonesia asks messaging apps to remove same-sex emojis in LGBT backlash
Jakarta: Insert scandalised face emoji – the Indonesian government has asked instant message apps to remove same-sex emojis "that could potentially cause public unrest" in the latest backlash against...
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