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Ivory poaching could wipe out elephants and rhinos ‘by 2034’
Elephants and rhinos could be extinct within two decades, campaigners are warning ahead of marches across the world to call for greater protection for...
Fourth American contracts Ebola in Liberia; UN ramps up response
A US television network prepared Friday to evacuate a cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, as the UN’s pointman flew to Sierra Leone, calling the...
From hospital bed, father of Islamic State captive John Cantlie pleads for son’s life
The father of John Cantlie, a British photojournalist held by the Islamic State militant group, appealed for his release in a video issued Friday, saying...
Tears and prayers as some 2 million Muslims mark peak of hajj at Mt Arafat
Some 2 million Muslims from around the world gathered today at a desert hill near Mecca in Saudi Arabia in an act of faith and repentance during the climactic...
American journalist working in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola
Ashoka Mukpo, an American freelance cameraman working for NBC News is the fifth citizen of the United States and its first journalist known to have contracted...
Been a while coming: US lifts 40-year arms ban to boost Vietnam sea defense
In a decision likely to anger China, the US is partly lifting a 40-year ban on arms sales to former foe Vietnam to help boost defenses in the tense South...
Use of fake grass said to be sexist in World Cup spat
The push to get Canada to stage the Women’s World Cup on grass instead of artificial turf is now a legal matter, with American star Abby Wambach...
Turkish parliament votes approval of military action against Islamic State
Turkey’s parliament Thursday authorised military action in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State jihadist group, whose fighters have battled their...
Relevant, again: Radio Free Europe makes resurgence on front line over Ukraine
A quarter of a century after it helped topple totalitarian Communist regimes in eastern Europe, the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is duelling...
Thai Police: Burmese man confesses to murdering British couple on Koh Tao
A Burmese man has confessed to the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller in Thailand, police have said.
Revealed: The best place in the world to grow old (and the worst)
A global index reflecting economic security, health and other factors — and not deducting for cold winters — ranks Norway and Sweden with the highest...
Twin suicide bomber attacks in Kabul kill seven, wound 21
Afghan police say two suicide bombers in the capital have targeted two buses carrying Afghan army troops, killing seven and wounding 21 people.
Gunman in Brazil who strapped hostage in ‘explosive’ vest surrenders
A Brazilian hotel was evacuated in the capital of Brasilia on Monday after a man took hostage an employee who was held for hours before he was safely released...
Body of missing Arkansas real estate agent found in shallow grave
Police discovered the body of a missing Arkansas real estate agent in a shallow grave at a concrete company early Tuesday, and a man has been jailed on...
Garry Kasparov: Putin is a bigger threat to the West than the Islamic State
Arguably the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov is on a new mission.
Police defend tear gas use as Hong Kong protests grow occasionally violent
Police defended their use of tear gas and other methods to control the pro-democracy protests that have paralyzed Hong Kong’s financial district,...
That’s not my son: Beheading suspect’s mum makes video apology
The mother of a man suspected of beheading a colleague at a food-processing plant in Oklahoma has apologised in a video posted on Facebook.
Suicide bomb kills seven as Ghani sworn in as Afghan President
Afghanistan inaugurated its first new president in a decade this morning, swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing government - as a...
Obama: U.S. intelligence underestimated militants in Syria
President Barack Obama said in an interview airing Sunday that he agrees with intelligence leaders who believe the United States not only underestimated...
RAF jets poised to strike Jihadists in Iraq as Belgium and Denmark join fight
British jets armed with missiles are over northern Iraq on their maiden combat mission after taking off from a base in Cyprus.
RAF jets poised to strike jihadists in Iraq after British MPs back military action
British fighter jets could begin airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq as early as today after MPs overwhelmingly backed action.
251 victims of MH17 Ukraine crash identified
Forensic experts have identified 251 of the 298 passengers and crew killed on downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after 26 people were named this week.
70 killed as Taliban take control of Ghazni province in Afghanistan’s Kabul
Taliban fighters have seized control of a strategic district in the Afghan province of Ghazni, officials say.
300 rescued Syrian refugees persuaded to exit cruise ship in Cyprus
Police in Cyprus have finally manage to persuade nearly 300 migrants, thought to be Syrian refugees, to disembark from the cruise ship that had rescued...
States at U.N. say ready to help Libya combat Islamist militants
A group of mainly Western and Arab states have expressed readiness to help Libya’s government combat a growing presence of Islamic militant groups...
U.S.: ‘no evidence’ of Islamic State subway plots against West
US authorities said Thursday they had no knowledge of a plot by Islamic State radicals to attack subway systems in the United States and Paris, following...
FBI says it has ID on ‘Jihadi John’ of Islamic State’s beheading videos
The U.S. believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid...
Cruise ship rescues 345, believed Syrian refugees, stranded off Cyprus
A cruise ship rescued more than 300 people, apparently refugees who fled Syria, who were stranded Thursday aboard a small boat off Cyprus.
Female pilot, Maj. Mariam al-Mansouri, led UAE strikes against Islamic State
Major Mariam al-Mansouri, 35, the first female United Arab Emirates pilot of a fighter jet, has “led the squadron” of fighter jets that participated...
'It's isolation': Detained American describes life in N. Korea hard labour camp
Matthew Miller, the 24-year-old Bakersfield, California-native sentenced to six years of hard labour after being convicted of entering North Korea to commit...
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