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Israel responsible for Gaza shelter attacks: UN 28 Apr 2015 - 01:03 am

Palestinians carry a man who inhaled tear gas fired by Israeli troops in Hawara village near the West Bank city of Nablus, yesterday....

YEMEN PEACE DOVE WAR WORLD 28 Apr 2015 - 12:15 am

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GOOGLE SPIDER WEB INTERNE 28 Apr 2015 - 12:03 am

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Norway tests out 'animal rights cops'. 27 Apr 2015 - 09:18 pm

Oslo - Norwegian police is creating a unit to investigate cruelty to animals, the government said Monday, arguing that those who hurt animals...

Loretta Lynch sworn as top US law enforcement official. 27 Apr 2015 - 09:10 pm

Washington - President Barack Obama's choice for US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, was sworn in at her new job on Monday, becoming the...

Seven dead, others trapped in Saudi construction collapse: Media 27 Apr 2015 - 08:59 pm

Civil Defense personnel at the site of the a sprawling construction site where many steel support rods collapsed along with other parts of...

Defence launches bid to save Boston bomber from death. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:58 pm

Boston - Defence lawyers asked a jury Monday to sentence Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to life in America's "super-max" federal prison, portraying a...

Defeated Nigeria woman candidate vows to challenge loss in court. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:53 pm

Kano, Nigeria - Aisha Jummai Alhassan has lost her bid to become the first woman to be elected governor in a Nigerian state,...

UN sounds alarm over 'forgotten' CAfrica crisis. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:45 pm

Geneva - The United Nations warned Monday it had received only a fraction of the funds needed to address strife-torn Central African Republic's...

IS says two men stoned to death for adultery in Iraq. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:33 pm

Baghdad - The Islamic State jihadist group said it has stoned two men to death for adultery in the northern Iraqi province of...

Arab coalition vows two-pronged strategy over Yemen. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:28 pm

Sanaa - A coalition of Arab states vowed to coordinate political and military efforts to restore order in Yemen as Saudi-led warplanes Monday...

Erdogan raps new Turkish Cypriot leader. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:20 pm

Ankara - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became embroiled with a war of words with the newly elected leader of northern Cyprus on...

Ukraine seeks EU help as shelling blazes in east. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:19 pm

Kiev - European leaders on Monday resisted Ukraine's demands for peacekeepers to stabilise its war-torn east, as monitors reported a surge in shelling...

Berlin put on back foot by German spying reports. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:16 pm

Berlin - Long portrayed as a victim of snooping by allies, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government on Monday grappled with embarrassing reports of German...

Sudan's Bashir re-elected with 94 percent of vote. 27 Apr 2015 - 08:08 pm

Khartoum - Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir was elected to another five years in office, results showed Monday, despite international war crimes charges and...

Kerry unveils $10 million in Nepal quake aid. 27 Apr 2015 - 07:44 pm

New York - The United States is sending a total of $10 million in relief to help the victims of the Nepal earthquake,...

UN chief deplores return to Cold War mindset at NPT meeting. 27 Apr 2015 - 07:43 pm

United Nations, United States - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday implicitly criticized the United States and Russia for failing to advance nuclear...

Aid agencies prepare 'massive' operations in quake-hit Nepal. 27 Apr 2015 - 07:38 pm

Geneva - Humanitarian agencies said Monday they were preparing a large-scale aid operation to earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with more relief planes arriving in the...