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Jean-Claude Juncker proposes further €1.8bn aid for Ukraine

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Thai assembly begins impeachment hearing...

Thai assembly begins impeachment hearing against former PM Yingluck

Thailand’s parliament began an impeachment hearing against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday that could lead to her being banned from politics for five years and stoke tension in the divided country. Yingluck, Thailand’s first woman prime minister, was removed from... read more »

Sri Lankan president concedes defeat aft...

Sri Lankan president concedes defeat after decade in power

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost his bid for a third term on Friday, ending a decade of rule that critics say had become increasingly authoritarian and marred by nepotism and corruption. As results rolled in overnight from Thursday’s election, it became clear that Rajapaksa had... read more »

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 »

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Pakistan formally begins high treason trial of Musharraf

Pakistan formally begins high treason trial of Musharraf

Islamabad – Pakistan Sunday announced to have formally started high treason proceedings against the former president Pervez Musharraf and will approach the country’! s top court to form a... read more »

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... read more »

13 killed in Iraq violence

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

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

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Islamic State leader urges attacks in Saudi Arabia

BEIRUT: Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks against the rulers of Saudi Arabia in a speech purported to be in his name on Thursday, saying his self-declared... read more »

Obama Meets Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi

President Barack Obama holds talks Friday with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as questions in the Southeast Asian nation mount over the direction and pace of democratic reforms... read more »

Kerry shows optimism on Israel-Palestinian peace talks

Kerry, Abbas to Discuss Easing Israeli-Palestinian Tensions

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the talks will likely focus on how to lower... read more »

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

Hastings (Sierra Leone): In a town called Hastings in western Sierra Leone a battle every bit as deadly as the Norman Conquest is being fought every day against the Ebola virus. The west African... read more »