Dawn TOKYO: Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record on Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre per hour mark, as Tokyo races to sell the...
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Al Jazeera The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen says operation "Decisive Storm" is over and they will start a new operation called "Restoration of Hope" in the fight against Houthi fighters that have seized...
Huffington Post The Mediterranean has become a vast forbidding moat -- a death trap -- that separates Fortress Europe from the millions of third world refugees on the other side. The images are appalling: a creaking,...
The Guardian A former SS guard expressed remorse for the role he played in the Holocaust when he went on trial charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews. ...
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BBC News 20 April 2015 From the section Middle East An Egyptian court is to deliver its first verdict in one of the trials of former President Mohammed Morsi. He was ousted by the military in July 2013 after mass protests against his rule, in a move which...
Canberra Times Uncertainty: Asylum seekers on Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie Bangkok: The United Nations agency responsible for refugees has washed its hands of Australia's controversial deal to send refugees from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia. A...
CNN (CNN)It's up there right now -- flying about 340 miles over the Earth and circling us every 97 minutes. It's a telescope -- in the sky. Just think about that for a bit. It's called the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope itself is not really much...
Al Jazeera A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union to finally meet demands...
The Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Shiite rebel leader in Yemen vowed to not surrender Sunday amid Saudi-led airstrikes in a rambling speech that rejected U.N. efforts to halt violence there, even as the political party of the country's former leader welcomed...
Huffington Post BERLIN, April 19 (Reuters) - A former intelligence officer for the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was the mastermind behind Islamic State's takeover of northern Syria, according to a report by Der Spiegel that is based on documents uncovered by...
The Independent A 'mysterious' disease has killed eighteen people during just a few days in a small town in Nigeria. The outbreak started in Ode-Irele in the south eastern part of the country, and has since spread rapidly in the Ondo state. The disease kills victims...
Al Jazeera Almost 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in northeast Nigeria between Boko Haram, military forces and civilian self-defence groups, according to a new report from UNICEF. More than 1.5 million people...
The Guardian Prime minister says on Andrew Marr Show that the prospect of a minority Labour administration propped up by the Scottish National party was frightening ...
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