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03 Aug 2015 - 0 - 5540
New Delhi (dpa) - More than 100 people have been killed, most of them in India's eastern states, during heavy rains and floods over the past week, officials said Monday. More than 4 million people in 10,000 villages were affected in the states of West Bengal, Orissa and Manipur after cyclone Komen struck the region on Thursday. Forty-eight people were killed in the worst-hit Bengal region, where 214,000 people had taken shelter in rel
29 Jul 2015 - 0 - 6712
MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police gunned down one of the country's most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 followers in a mysterious pre-dawn shootout Wednesday, killing a man believed to behind the slaughter of hundreds of the nation's minority Shiites. Malik Ishaq, who directed the operations of the Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, was so feared in Pakistan that frightened judges hid their
29 Jul 2015 - 0 - 5814
Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Sacked Malaysian deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Wednesday appealed for unity among his supporters. "I advise my supporters to put priority on party and country and not do something that will cause a split," Muhyiddin said in a press conference at his residence a day after he was fired by Prime Minister Najib Razak. Muhyiddin, who was Najib's deputy since 2009, was removed from office for publi
29 Jul 2015 - 0 - 5708
Dhaka (dpa) - A Bangladeshi opposition leader saw his death sentence upheld Wednesday for crimes against humanity during the war of independence with Pakistan in 1971. Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was acquitted of one charge, but the Supreme Court upheld the rest of the convictions. Bangladesh's International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced Salahuddin to death in 2013 for murder and genocide i
17 Jul 2015 - 0 - 6384
Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel fought Friday against a possible rebellion in her government's ranks over a new bailout for Athens, warning of a catastrophe for cash-strapped Greece if a new aid deal is not struck. Greece could be gripped by "chaos and violence," Merkel told parliament as she urged German lawmakers to back the opening of talks with Athens on a new 86-billion-euro (94-billion-dollar) lifeline for
17 Jul 2015 - 0 - 6250
China on Thursday urged Tokyo to avoid "crippling regional peace and security", after the lower house of Japan's parliament passed bills that could see Japanese troops fight abroad for the first time since World War II. "It is fully justified to ask if Japan is going to give up its exclusively defence-oriented policy", China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. "We solemnly urge t
17 Jul 2015 - 0 - 6158
South Korea on Friday invited a North Korean vice defence minister to attend an international security conference in September in Seoul, despite cross-border military tensions, officials said. The invitation was sent by South Korea's vice defence minister Baek Seung-Joo to his North Korean counterpart through a military hotline, the South's defence ministry said. The annual conference was launched in 2012 to enhance regional and g
17 Jul 2015 - 0 - 5629
The nuclear deal that will lift tough sanctions on Iran is mobilizing Saudi Arabia to turn the tide against its regional rival in Yemen and Syria before it makes an economic recovery, military officials and analysts say. According to the sources, the military component of the Saudi offensive will include the use of special forces on the ground in Yemen, and a potentially widened use of Saudi and allied Sunni air power in Syria.
24 Jun 2015 - 0 - 7883
At least 18 people are dead after ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday. The attack occurred on Monday in a district of the southern city of Kashgar, where tensions between Muslim Uighurs that call the region home and the majority Han Chinese have led to bloodshed in recent years. Suspects killed several police officers with
24 Jun 2015 - 0 - 6729
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents. The revelations were first reported in French daily Liberation and on news website Mediapart, which said the NSA spied on the presidents during a period of at least 2006 until May 2012, the month
02 Jun 2015 - 0 - 12667
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 jail break. The judge said the case was postponed to June 16.
02 Jun 2015 - 0 - 7289
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will back Syria's President Bashar al-Assad until the end, Iranian news agencies quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying, signaling undimmed support for Tehran's Arab ally following major gains by armed opposition factions in recent weeks. Syria's military is under some of the toughest pressure it has faced in the four-year conflict. Last month, Islamic State forces seized control of the ancient city of P
02 Jun 2015 - 0 - 6931
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has accused the Syrian military of carrying out air strikes to help Islamic State fighters advance around the northern city of Aleppo, messages posted on the U.S. Embassy Syria official Twitter feed said. Islamic State fighters pushed back rival insurgents north of Aleppo on Sunday near the Turkish border, threatening their supply route to the city, fighters and a group monitoring the war said. Fighter
02 Jun 2015 - 0 - 6517
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze River in what was likely China's worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years. Divers and other rescue workers desperately tried to reach five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the Eastern Star, a fraction of the 458 people state m
17 May 2015 - 0 - 19132
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced the country's first freely elected leader, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death over a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that eventually brought him to power. The ruling applies to another 120 people, and is the latest in a series of mass death sentences handed down since the military overthrew Morsi nearly two years ago. The sentence will likely further polarize Egy
17 May 2015 - 0 - 7050
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza on Sunday made his first official appearance since an attempted coup against him this week, AFP reporters said. The president smiled and appeared relaxed as he greeted the press at the presidential palace in Bujumbura. He made only a brief statement to journalists with no mention of the country's political crisis. Nkurunziza spoke only about reported threats from Somalia's Al-Qaeda-
17 May 2015 - 0 - 6910
The UN envoy to Yemen called for the extension of a five-day pause in a Saudi-led air war which was due to end later Sunday expressing hope it could become permanent. "I call on all parties to renew their commitment to this truce for five more days at least," Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told a meeting on Yemen in the Saudi capital. "This humanitarian truce should turn into a permanent ceasefire,&quo
17 May 2015 - 0 - 7139
A US special forces raid in eastern Syria killed 32 members of the Islamic State jihadist group, including four leaders, a monitoring group said Sunday. "The US operation killed 32 members of IS, among them four officials, including IS oil chief Abu Sayyaf, the deputy IS defence minister, and an IS communications official," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. US officials have
17 Apr 2015 - 0 - 29949
Islamic State militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained "very, very dangerous". The insurgents suffered a major defeat this month when Iraqi troops and Shi'ite paramilitaries routed them from the city of Tikrit, but are now striking back at Baiji refinery
05 Apr 2015 - 0 - 18666
Kenya has begun three days of mourning following the massacre of over 100 students by militant group al-Shabab. Easter ceremonies will be held to remember the 148 victims of the attack on Garissa University, and flags are expected to fly at half-mast. President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to respond to the attack "in the severest ways possible". Sunni Islam's most respected seat of learning, Cairo's al-Azhar Un
05 Apr 2015 - 0 - 9840
UNITED NATIONS/ADEN (Reuters) - Russia and the Red Cross appealed on Saturday for a military pause in Yemen to allow urgent humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation of civilians after 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes and fighting in which hundreds of people have died. Russia distributed a draft resolution at the United Nations pressing for suspensions of the air strikes to allow evacuation of foreign civilians and diplomats, and demanding ra
05 Apr 2015 - 0 - 9521
DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - All United Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iran's nuclear program will be lifted immediately if a final deal is agreed, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday, stressing the benefits to Iran of this week's negotiations. After leading Iranian negotiators to a preliminary deal with world powers in Switzerland, Zarif must now convince a domestic audience that the talks are heading t
05 Apr 2015 - 0 - 9673
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Almost all Shi'ite paramilitaries had left Tikrit on Saturday after locals complained that some fighters had spent several days looting the Sunni city after helping retake it from Islamic State. "Most of the (paramilitaries) were removed from the city," said Ahmed al-Kraim, the head of the council of Tikrit and its province Salahuddin. The rampage of theft and burning began on Wednesday, within hours of the
24 Mar 2015 - 0 - 16574
BEIJING (Reuters) - China executed three accused separatists on Tuesday for their role in an attack that killed 31 people at a train station in the southwest last year, a court said. The government has said the attack, in the southwestern city of Kunming, was carried out by knife-wielding separatists from the far western region of Xinjiang, which is strategically located on the borders of Central Asia. The three men who we
24 Mar 2015 - 0 - 7618
YANGON (Reuters) – - A senior member of Myanmar's government has said members of the U.S.-based Carter Center and the European Union will be invited to monitor a general election later this year, the first time in at least 65 years that the country will call in Western poll observers. "We'll allow the Carter foundation and EU to observe the upcoming general election independently to ensure the election takes p
24 Mar 2015 - 0 - 7855
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The people of Syria feel "increasingly abandoned by the world" as global attention focuses on Islamic State militants, while violence and government bureaucracy hinder attempts to deliver aid to 12 million people, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. In his 13th monthly report to the United Nations Security Council on Syria, Ban said a lack of accountability during the four-year civil war h
19 Mar 2015 - 0 - 9874
Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and drew an immediate rebuke from the White House.
18 Mar 2015 - 0 - 10059
Damascus (AFP) - Syria's military shot down a US drone over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said on Tuesday. The US military confirmed that it had lost communication with an unarmed Predator drone over northwest Syria on Tuesday and was looking into the claims it was brought down. If confirmed, it would be the first time that Syrian forces have attacked a US aircraft since the coal
18 Mar 2015 - 0 - 8406
London (AFP) - Nigeria has begun the "final onslaught" against Boko Haram, the country's national security spokesman said on Tuesday, after the militants were ousted from the strategic town of Bama. On a visit to London, Mike Omeri told AFP that "significant strategic military successes and gains" had been made against the Islamists in recent weeks. "Bama (the second biggest town in Borno state) was retaken yest
16 Mar 2015 - 0 - 10200
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Close to a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil on Sunday to protest a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption - and to call for the impeachment of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff. The protests in the continent-sized country come as Brazil struggles to overcome economic and political malaise and pick up the pieces of a boom that crumbled about the time Rousseff took office in
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