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Car bomb kills 37 at Yemen police academ...

Car bomb kills 37 at Yemen police academy

SANAA: A car bomb tore through dozens of Yemenis lined up at a police academy in Sanaa Wednesday, leaving 37 dead in the latest attack to highlight the country’s growing instability. Police said another 66 people were wounded in what it described as a “terrorist bombing” targeting... read more »

Canada vows to accept 13,000 more refuge...

Canada vows to accept 13,000 more refugees from Syria and Iraq

anada is opening its doors wider for refugees fleeing a Middle East civil war and the Islamic State’s reign of terror, announcing it will accept another 10,000 Syrians over three years and 3,000 more Iraqis in 2015. Ottawa is expecting private organizations, such as church groups, to shoulder the... read more »

Uganda army confirms rebel LRA commander...

Uganda army confirms rebel LRA commander in custody

Uganda confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. forces in Central African Republic were holding Dominic Ongwen, a child recruit to the Lord’s Resistance Army who became a top commander of the rebel group and is wanted by the International Criminal Court. The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday a... read more »

Merkel extremely dismayed over Schumacher's fall
Pro-Russia group says it hacked Merkel w...

Pro-Russia group says it hacked Merkel website

A WEBSITE affiliated with pro-Russia hackers took responsibility for an online attack that brought down key German government websites, including that of Chancellor Angela Merkel, for several hours. The attack came the same day that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk arrived in the German... read more »

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Iran rejects Saudi Arabia, Qatar's call to join n-talks

Uranium enrichment inalienable right: Iran

Tehran – Iran’s uranium enrichment activities is an inalienable right endorsed by the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of which the Islamic republic is a signatory country, Iranian... read more »

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

13 killed in Iraq violence

Baghdad – As many as 13 people were killed and 48 suffered injuries in different incidents of shootings and bombings in Iraq Sunday. At least... read more »

Khaleda Zia’s son acquitted of money laundering

Tarique Rahman

Dhaka – A Bangladeshi court here Sunday acquitted former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s elde! st son Tarique Rahman of money laundering charge while... read more »

Slower growth, more poverty feared in Philippines after...

Slower growth, more poverty feared in Philippines after super-typhoon

MANILA – Due to the vast devastation and huge loss of lives wrought by super-typhoon Haiyan (locally named Yolanda) that slammed the Central Philippines... read more »

Easing one-child policy no big deal: Chinese official

Easing one-child policy no big deal: Chinese official

Beijing – A senior official from China’s family planning authority said Saturday that easing the one-child policy will n! ot put much pressure on... read more »

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Imran Khan dares Pakistan government to arrest him

Islamabad: Pakistan`s Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party chairman Imran Khan has refused to seek bail after being charged with attacks on the parliament and PTV buildings in Islamabad, media... read more »

In Hastings, 63 people cured of deadly Ebola

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Flaunting an AK-47 in Jammu & Kashmir is not ‘shocking’: It’s a sta...

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Kerry to meet Abbas as new Israeli settlements fan tensions

JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry is set for talks on Thursday (Nov 13) with the Palestinian leader on easing regional tensions, after Israel approved new settler homes in east... read more »

No Agreement in Iran, U.S. Talks

MUSCAT, Oman—Two days of exhaustive negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in the Persian Gulf nation of Oman resulted in no significant... read more »