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Obama to detail plans on Ebola offensive in West Africa
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country’s involvement in mitigating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa,...
Residents emerge in shell-shocked Ukrainian city
Despite repeated violations of the cease-fire and tough talk on all sides, the peace deal has allowed for a return to some kind of normalcy for cities...
North Korea sentences American to 6 years in labour camp
North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced Matthew Miller, a U.S. citizen, to six years of hard labour for entering the country illegally and...
North Korea holds trial of American Matthew Miller
North Korea held a trial Sunday morning for American Matthew Miller, who was detained in April for violating his tourist status when he entered the country.
Despite focus on IS militants, al-Qaida’s Syrian cell too alarms U.S.
While the Islamic State group is getting the most attention now, another band of extremists in Syria — a mix of hardened jihadis from Afghanistan, Yemen,...
Obama condemns ‘barbaric’ beheading of David Haines by IS
President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned as a “barbaric murder” the slaying of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State extremists.
Pope urges world to shed apathy towards ‘piecemeal WWIII’
Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a “piecemeal” Third World War, condemning the...
Snowden didn’t raise concerns internally: NSA
The National Security Agency has been unable to find any evidence that Edward Snowden raised his concerns about its sweeping surveillance programmes internally...
Pakistan army arrests 10 militants linked to shooting of Malala Yousafzai
Pakistan’s army says it has arrested 10 militants suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who won world...
Australia raises terror threat to ‘high’ over fears of domestic IS support
The Australian government has raised the country’s terror threat level from “medium” to “high” for the first time since the...
Guilty: Pistorius faces jail as he’s convicted of culpable homicide
Oscar Pistorius is facing jail after being convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Kerry pledges $500m of aid to countries affected by Syria civil war
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday nearly $500 million (£307.5 million) in humanitarian aid for people and countries hit by Syria’s...
Syrian rebels free 45 abducted Fijian peacekeepers, UN confirms
Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels on Thursday released all 45 Fijian peacekeepers they had held captive for two weeks, the United Nations said, bringing an...
Obama pledges to ‘degrade and destroy’ Islamic State using air power
President Barack Obama vowed to strike the Islamic State (also known as ISIL and ISIS) in Syria and to expand operations in Iraq, seizing command of an...
Ticking bomb: World Bank warns of critical job shortage by 2030
The world is facing a global jobs crisis that is hurting the chances of reigniting economic growth and there is no magic bullet to solve the problem, the...
Shot down: ‘Numerous high-energy objects’ caused MH17 to crash
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is “consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated...
Three Italian nuns killed in ‘botched robbery’ in Burundi convent
Three Italian nuns were murdered in their convent over the weekend in Kamenge, north of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, a priest in the African state...
Iran’s supreme leader recovering in hospital after prostate surgery
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is recovering in hospital after having prostate surgery, state media has said.
Obama to reveal IS strategy: ‘This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war’
U.S. President Barack Obama says the threat posed by the Islamic militant group in Iraq and Syria is “serious,” but the administration’s...
10 people killed as elevator plunges 32 floors in Istanbul
An elevator has plunged 32 storeys at a construction site in Istanbul, killing 10 people.
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, U.S. now must make it work
U.S. President Barack Obama has embarked on building what is basically the third major U.S.-backed international coalition of the past 23 years to take...
Bureaucratic bungle forces plane carrying 100 Americans to land in Iran
A chartered aircraft carrying about 100 Americans from the U.S. airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, has landed safely in Dubai after being diverted to Iran...
Ukraine ceasefire with Russian rebels takes hold; Obama says he’s skeptical
A cease-fire began Friday night in eastern Ukraine after the president’s representative signed a deal with Russian-backed separatists in an effort...
29 Bosnian miners saved after quake; 5 feared lost 500 metres below ground
Exhausted, dusty but happy to be alive, 29 miners were pulled out one by one Friday from a trouble-plagued coal mine that collapsed a day earlier in central...
On heels of NATO, ‘core coalition’ against Islamic State takes shape
The U.S. is forming a “core coalition” to battle Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, top American officials have said.
One in 10 girls sexually abused, says U.N. report
About 120 million girls worldwide - slightly more than one in 10 - have been forced to have sex by the age of 20.
NATO to sanction Russia as Ukraine heads into peace talks
NATO leaders are expected to announce a raft of fresh sanctions against Russia on Friday over its actions in Ukraine, although hopes remain that a ceasefire...
Dalai Lama cancels Nobel summit trip after South Africa denies visa
The Dalai Lama has cancelled a trip to South Africa for a summit of Nobel Peace laureates, an aide said Thursday, reporting that Pretoria had denied him...
As its summit begins, NATO bluntly accuses Russia of attacking Ukraine
NATO’s top official bluntly accused Moscow today of attacking Ukraine as allied leaders began a summit set to support Kiev and buttress defences...
27,000 pro-IS twitter accounts set up in aftermath of beheading
A Sky News investigation has found that almost 30,000 Twitter accounts have been set up by Islamic State (IS) sympathisers since the social network site...
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