BBC News UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has urged the Security Council to act immediately to ensure more humanitarian access in war-torn Syria. Calling for a resolution, she said it was...
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Business Day THREATENING: A man holds a knife, saying he is looking for Muslims to behead, in Bangui on Sunday. Picture: AFP Related articles Christians and Muslims in deadly CAR clashes ‘Fearful’ CAR rebels...
South China Morning Post The evacuation of civilians and delivery of aid to besieged rebel-held areas of Syria’s third city Homs resumed on Wednesday, as peace talks in Geneva struggled to make headway. Government and...
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Independent online (SA) Shanghai - A pair of daredevil climbers ascended to the top of the world's second tallest building in China's commercial hub Shanghai, posting a stomach-turning video which has received more than a million views. The duo, who identified themselves as...
Richmond Times Dispatch ATLANTA (AP) — Small armies of utility workers labored to turn the lights — and the heat — back on for hundreds of thousands of Southerners as a winter storm that left them without power threatened major cities further up the East Coast. The Deep...
San Francisco Chronicle LONDON (AP) — Scotland has been warned. If it votes to leave the United Kingdom later this year, then it walks away from the pound. That's the hard-line message presented Thursday by U.K. Treasury chief George Osborne, who ruled out a currency union...
Canberra Times Terrorist target: Investigators examine the police bus destroyed in yesterday's deadly attack in Karachi. Photo: AP Karachi: Twelve Pakistani police officers were killed when a bomb detonated near their bus, the latest in a series of near-daily...
Independent online (SA) Brussels - The European Union is ready to suspend most of its remaining sanctions against Zimbabwe but President Robert Mugabe and his wife will remain blacklisted, an EU diplomatic source said Wednesday. The EU “will...
Business Insider This exoplanet orbits the star Gliese 667 C, which belongs to a triple system. The six Earth-mass exoplanet circulates around its low-mass host star at a distance equal to only 1/20th of the Earth-Sun distance. PALO ALTO, Calif. — The first...
BBC News Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will present the government's 2014 programme on Wednesday as speculation mounts that he is to be replaced by party leader Matteo Renzi. The two men are holding face-to-face talks to discuss the political...
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