Monday, 09 December 2013
 




2013-12-08
VOA News Thousands of Ukrainians are flocking to the center of the capital city of Kyiv for what opposition leaders expect to be the largest anti-government demonstration since mass protests started...
2013-12-08
VOA News Thailand's prime minister says she is willing to hold a referendum to end the political crisis paralyzing the country and will resign if the vote goes against her. However, Prime Minister...
2013-12-08
AP Democrat leader and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks along with his party members during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's main...
2013-12-08
Dharamsala - The Dalai Lama, who has twice since 2009 been denied a visa for South Africa, is not planning to attend his fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela's funeral, his spokesman said on Sunday....
2013-12-08
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra proposed a referendum on her future on Sunday and promised to resign if that was what the people wanted, as anti-government protesters...
2013-12-07
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan official says several people have been killed and injured in fighting between rival ethnic groups in the country’s north. Marsabit county governor Ukur Yatani...
2013-12-07
The Associated Press BALI (AP)—A deal to boost global trade has been approved by the World Trade Organization’s 159 member economies for the first time in nearly two decades, keeping alive the...
2013-12-07
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel landed in Afghanistan Saturday for a surprise visit with the troops. Despite the fact that the U.S. and Afghanistan are at odds over a security agreement that allows...
2013-12-07
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stepped foot into the no-man's land between North and South Korea on Saturday, peering out at the furtive nation hours...
2013-12-07
North Korea said he had been released on humanitarian grounds and because he had admitted to his wrongdoing and apologised. US tourist Merrill Newman arrives at Beijing airport on December 7, 2013...
2013-12-07
MANAMA, BahrainDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel is opening the door for the U.S. to sell missile defense and other weapons systems to a group of U.S.-friendly Gulf nations. The move is intended to...
2013-12-07
WASHINGTON — A surprisingly robust gain in new jobs last month helped drop the unemployment rate to a five-year low, fueling optimism about the nation's economic recovery and raising the...
2013-12-07
See Also WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has approved the sale of more than 15,000 Raytheon Co anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia under two separate deals valued at...
2013-12-07
There are fresh reports of violence in the Central African Republic, as the death toll from two days of fighting has risen to nearly 300 people. Joanna Mariner works for Amnesty International in the...
2013-12-06
By Denise ChowPublished December 06, 2013Space.com An artist's conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star. The star still harbors a debris disk, remnant material from star...
2013-12-06
The UN General Assembly has elected Jordan to the Security Council to replace Saudi Arabia, which had rejected the seat in an unprecedented act to protest the council's failure to end the Syrian and...
2013-12-06
(Adds more Carney comments) WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel to South Africa next week to participate in memorial events for Nelson Mandela, the former South African...
2013-12-06
KIEV - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich met Russia's Vladimir Putin on Friday to lay the grounds for a new “strategic partnership” to shore up Ukraine's creaking economy in defiance...
2013-12-06
COSTA DO SAUIPE: Brazil will host the greatest ever World Cup football finals next June and July, President Dilma Rousseff said as Friday's draw ceremony got under way. "This will be the Cup of...
2013-12-06
The drone that spied on bin Laden and on Iran's nukes was just the start. Meet its bigger, higher-flying, stealthier cousin, the Northrop Grumman RQ-180. It's probably been flying for a few years now,...
2013-12-06
ATHENS, GreeceRiot police fired small amounts of tear gas Friday during a march of more than 1,500 high school students to mark the fifth anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager....
2013-12-06
6 December 2013, 12:38 Mandela: The World Celebrates The Life Of Icon Tweet The life of Nelson Mandela is being celebrated across the world, as tributes pour in to the iconic anti-apartheid leader....
2013-12-06
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has said it was behind an attack on Yemen's defence ministry on Thursday that left 52 people dead. The group's media arm, al-Malahim, said the...
2013-12-05
Pope Francis has set up a committee to fight child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and give pastoral care to victims, following a recommendation from a council of cardinals he has asked to advise...
2013-12-05
Heavy fighting is reported in the capital of the Central African Republic, as the U.N. prepares to authorize deployment of more troops to the troubled country. The initial accounts from Bangui said at...