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Defiant: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Reuters Over the past fortnight, drama, hype and apocalyptic scenarios dominated coverage of events in Ukraine in the West. The...
Al Jazeera
In 2011, the now three-years-old conflict in Syria began as a peaceful protest for human dignity and political reform. While citizens were inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia,...
Independent online (SA)
Pretoria - Murder-accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius was not to blame for the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and needs prayer, a pastor said on Friday. “Oscar did...

An elderly Chechen woman watches Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's national call-in TV show in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ignoring the toughest sanctions against Moscow since the end of the Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula as an "independent and sovereign country" on Monday, a bold challenge to...
photo: AP / Musa Sadulayev
HS2: Government scraps link from Brussels to northern England
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin axed the £700 million section after a report by new HS2 boss Sir David Higgins branded it a millstone around the project's neck. It should stop rows over one of the most bitterly disputed sections of the...
photo: WN / Marzena J.
UN: North Korea Is As Bad As The Nazis; 'No Excuse' For Refusing To Act
North Korea's regime has committed crimes as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a UN inquiry said on Monday. "Contending with the great scourges of Nazism,...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
President Barack Obama Meets With President Mahmoud Abbas
U.S. President Barack Obama has urged his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with Israel. The two leaders met at the White House Monday to discuss the stalled Middle East peace...
photo: US Government / Pete Souza
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.
(Open): Stocks on Wall Street rebounded in early trade as worries over the situation in Crimea eased. The rebound came despite the result of Sunday's...
photo: AP / Seth Wenig
This is the closest point most people will ever get to the Hollywood Sign. As signs indicate, public access from here to the sign is prohibited;
An earthquake shook Los Angeles area awake on Monday morning. The 4.4 magnitude quake near Westwood, Ca.,...
photo: Creative Commons
Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai
Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, who was imprisoned for more than two decades in China and spent his final years under house arrest, died on Sunday, a Roman Catholic organization based in the United States announced. He was 95. The Cardinal Kung...
photo: Flickr / mennyeiatjaro