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Tunisia launches nationwide manhunt for attack accomplices
The student who massacred holidaymakers on a Tunisian beach and at a swank resort hotel acted alone during the attack but had accomplices who supported...
Tunisia pledges tough security post-attack, as tourists flee
Tunisia’s prime minister announced on Saturday a string of new security measures including closing renegade mosques and calling up army reservists...
Thousands of tourists flee Tunisia terror attack as British death toll rises to 15
Thousands of UK holidaymakers are fleeing Tunisia in the aftermath of the beach resort massacre that left at least 15 British people dead. Foreign...
Thousands of tourists flee Tunisia as British death toll in terror attack rises
Thousands of UK holidaymakers are fleeing Tunisia in the aftermath of the beach resort massacre that left at least eight British people dead. Tour...
Burundi vice president flees,100 students seek refuge at U.S. embassy
Burundian students broke into the US embassy to escape police Thursday as one of the country’s vice presidents announced he had fled to Belgium,...
Calais chaos: French storm Channel Tunnel while migrants hide in lorries
Calais descended into chaos on Tuesday as the Channel Tunnel was shut and rail services cancelled after protesting French ferry workers got on to the tracks.
Rest of world chides U.S. on racism, determination to own guns
Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic black church in...
‘Too many times’: Obama makes gun control plea after church killings
Barack Obama has told Americans the time is approaching when they will have to face up to their country’s record on gun crime.
Record 60 million forced to flee war, violence: UN
The number of people forced to flee war, violence and persecution has soared to a record 60 million, half of them children, the United Nations said Thursday,...
Serbia PM ‘shocked’ by Hungary plan to build anti-migrant fence
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he was “surprised and shocked” by the Hungarian government’s plan to close the border with...
Mount Everest ‘moves 3cm south west’ after Nepal earthquake
Mount Everest has shifted three centimetres to the southwest because of the devastating Nepal earthquake, according to Chinese research.
Indonesia evacuates more villagers from volcano area
Authorities in western Indonesia have evacuated hundreds of villagers living near a volcano that is spewing hot ash down its slopes almost daily.
Facing ‘peacekeeper babies,’ UN now offers DNA testing
The U.N. peacekeepers arrive; months later, some leave infants behind. Now the United Nations has quietly started to offer DNA testing to help prove paternity...
Brit freed over nude photos on sacred peak happy to be heading home
A British woman - along with three other young tourists - are being deported from Malaysia this morning after being sentenced to three days in jail and...
Malaysia to deport four Westerners over nude photos on sacred peak
Four tourists who posed naked on a sacred mountain in Malaysia were handed prison sentences on Friday. Briton Eleanor Hawkins, Canadians Lindsey and...
Mount Kinabalu nudists jailed, fined and deported after pleading guilty
Four tourists who posed naked on a sacred mountain in Malaysia were handed prison sentences on Friday. Briton Eleanor Hawkins, Canadians Lindsey and...
Mount Kinabalu nudists jailed, fined and deported after pleading guilty
Four tourists who posed naked on a sacred mountain in Malaysia were handed prison sentences on Friday. Briton Eleanor Hawkins, Canadians Lindsey and...
Mt Kinabalu nudists plead guilty to ‘obscene acts’ and await sentencing
Four foreign tourists have pleaded guilty to posing naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain.
Mt Kinabalu nudists to be charged with indecent exposure
Four foreigners who posed naked on Mount Kinabalu will be charged in a Malaysian court today.
Egypt militants fire rockets toward airport used by U.N. peacekeepers
Sinai Province, Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate, fired rockets at the direction of an airport in the Sinai peninsula used by UN peacekeeping forces,...
UN presents Libyans with latest draft proposal for unity
The U.N. representative to Libya reconvened delegations from Libya’s rival governments on Monday to present the latest draft proposal for a unity...
Lost the plot? Woman banned from selling bits of the Sun takes ebay to court
A woman who was banned from selling plots on the Sun on eBay has won the right to take the auction site to court. Maria Duran has been claiming ownership...
Money laundering investigation stymied by China, Italy says
As Italy’s economy was heading off a cliff, police couldn’t help but notice that the country’s Chinese communities were booming.
U.N. appeals for $497m of aid for Iraq as humanitarian crisis worsens
The United Nations launched an appeal on Thursday for half a billion dollars in international aid to help tackle a worsening humanitarian crisis in Iraq...
Protests flare in Burundi as UN seeks end to violence
Protesters in Burundi clashed with police Tuesday just three days before parliamentary elections as the United Nations pushed for action to halt the violence...
Spanish tuna tradition, a Japanese gourmet delight
Spanish fishermen in the Strait of Gibraltar have kept alive a 3,000-year-old netting tradition that brings in tuna so tasty, buyers come for it all the...
New blow to Nkurunziza as Burundi election official flees
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza’s controversial bid to stand for a third term in office suffered a new blow today after it emerged a top a...
Doing nothing: U.N. hasn’t acted on child sex abuse claims
Former United Nations staffers are calling for an independent investigation into claims the international body covered up 2014 allegations made by several...
Halo goodbye? Ring around the sun leaves people fearing end of the world
Was it a UFO? A sign that the end is nigh? A rainbow-like halo surrounded the sun over Mexico City on Thursday, an optical phenomenon that triggered...
N Korea escapes slashed under Kim Jong-Un amid crackdown on defections
The number of people escaping from North Korea has halved since Kim Jong-Un came to power, amid a crackdown on defections. An increase in phone bugging...
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