Washington: As Russia goes ahead with its plan of military intervention in Ukraine, the top rich economies of the world comprising G8 nations, have condemned Moscow's act and boycotted the preparatory talks ahead of the G8 Summit in Sochi. The G8 ...
Berlin: The soccer World Cup taking place in Brazil this year indirectly prompted Benedict XVI to bring forward his resignation as pope by a year, his private secretary told a German newspaper on Friday. Archbishop Georg Gaenswein was asked whether ...
Mogadishu: Somalia's Shebab said it had carried out a car bombing that killed at least seven people in the capital Mogadishu Thursday, targeting security forces at a cafe close to the intelligence headquarters.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 19:00. Kiev: Ukraine's parliament on Thursday approved the nomination of pro-EU Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the crisis-hit country's new prime minister until presidential polls are held in May. Yatsenyuk was one of the ...
Jerusalem: Four Hezbollah activists have been killed and weapons destroyed in an Israeli airstrike near Lebanon-Syria border, according to a media report on Wednesday. The Israeli assault targeted two trucks, one containing missiles and the other missile ...
Brussels: NATO defence ministers will meet a delegation from Ukraine on Thursday to discuss the situation in the country after the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych, a NATO official said. Ukraine has longstanding ties with the military alliance under the ...
Kiev: Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov on Tuesday deferred till Thursday the vote on formation of a unity government, which was earlier scheduled for today. Ukraine needs a new unity government at the earliest which can steer the country till ...
London: Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110, her family announced Sunday. Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague in what is now the Czech ...
Kiev: A day after Viktor Yanukovych was removed, Ukraine Parliament on Sunday designated its speaker as the interim President, who set the Tuesday deadline for the formation of a fresh government. Speaker Oleksander Turchinov, who will now take ...
United Nations: In what might bring a much-awaited respite to the citizens of the war-stricken nation, the United Nations Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution on Syria demanding that “unhindered†humanitarian aid must be ...
Caracas: Opponents of Venezuela's leftist government prepared for a mass protest rally in Caracas Saturday, a day after President Nicolas Maduro issued a surprise call for direct talks with the United States.
Dubai: The world's largest bloc of Islamic countries agreed on Thursday to send a high-level fact-finding mission to the Central African Republic and to appoint a special representative to coordinate efforts with the African Union and the United Nations.
Hyderabad: Distressed over not getting married, a man kidnapped and murdered three children of his relatives in Andhra Pradesh, police said. The charred bodies of three girls aged between four and nine years were found Thursday morning on the outskirts ...
New York: Social media giant Facebook will acquire mobile messaging company WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars in a cash and stock deal, the largest acquisition by the Mark Zuckerberg-led firm so far that will give it a stronghold in the market for messaging.
Cairo: The Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has warned tourists to leave Egypt "before it's too late" and threatened to attack anyone who stays in the country after a deadline of February 20.
Paris: France plans to increase the number of troops it has deployed in the Central African Republic, a French source said on Friday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity following a meeting on the matter at the Elysee presidential palace, did not ...
Beijing: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday urged that any moves by Beijing to establish a new air defence identification zone be "done in an open, transparent way". "We urged our friends in China to adhere to the highest standards of notice, ...
Beijing: China's moon rover Yutu is awake after its troubled dormancy but experts are still trying to find out the cause of its abnormality, a spokesman for the country's lunar probe programme said Thursday. "Yutu has come back to life," Xinhua quoted ...
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