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Rebel forces unravel in east Ukraine
DONETSK: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have suffered dramatic setbacks after top military chiefs quit and Kiev´s forces pummelled their…
India shamed by rape cases: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that a spate of rape cases had shamed India as he urged parents to…
Iraq’s Maliki concedes defeat, backs PM designate
Nuri al-Maliki was due to drop his bid to remain Iraq's prime minister in a joint televised appearance with his…
N.Korea fires rockets as Pope Francis’ arrives in S.Korea on first Asia trip
SEOUL: North Korea fired three short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Thursday, just as Pope Francis arrived…
Austin Hospital mistakenly tells doctors 200 patients have died
MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised "unreservedly" Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling…
Azzam al-Ahmed: New Gaza truce for five days
A new ceasefire in Gaza will last five days, said senior Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed on Wednesday, after he and…
72 hour Gaza truce close to ending
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo will readdress the issue of a ceasefire and Israel´s Gaza blockade today as the clock ticks down to…
Iranian Stanford professor first woman to win top maths prize
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, the mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize. The…
Bangladesh arrests ferry owner over ferry sinking disaster
Bangladesh said earlier today that it has arrested the owner of a heavily overloaded river boat that sank last week.…