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Macau,
JAPAN’s trade and justice ministers both resign after accusations they misused campaign funds in the biggest setback so far for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative administration. BANGLADESH Two passenger buses collided
A report by Ukraine’s parliament revealed yesterday that more than 300 soldiers were killed during a weeks-long battle that marked a crushing setback in the military campaign to root out
A suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 17 worshippers and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said. The attack comes a day after a suicide bombing
The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola-free after the disease killed seven people in Africa’s most populous country. “The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated,” Rui Vaz, WHO’s country representative for
The U.S. military dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to the besieged Syrian town of Kobani, as Turkey said it would allow Kurdish fighters from neighboring Iraq to come to
The unnamed Washington postal worker is being treated for inhalation anthrax but doctors expect him to make a full recovery. This is the ninth confirmed case of anthrax in the United
September brought more record heat globally, and U.S. meteorologists say Earth is now on pace to tie for the hottest year ever recorded. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced
The novel ‘O meu irmão’ (My Brother), by Afonso Reis Cabral, is the winner of this year’s LeYa Prize for Literature, worth €100,000, the publisher of the same name announced
The heavens were hosting an event over the weekend that occurs once in a million years or so. A comet as hefty as a small mountain passed mind-bogglingly close to
CHINA A bear in central China has bitten off the arm of a 9-year-old boy who tried to feed it through its cage, state media and a doctor said yesterday.
Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the
The city was brought to a standstill as protesters built barricades across roads to prevent buses carrying recruits to the Army’s conscription centre. Police reinforcements came in from San Francisco as
An Irish cinema may have just bought the world’s most expensive hot dog for an unfairly fired worker. Ireland’s employment appeals court on Thursday ordered Dublin’s Cineworld to pay Carl
U.S. health officials will issue stricter Ebola guidelines to protect the nation’s medical workers after two caregivers were infected in Dallas while treating a patient who later died from the
The takeover bid launched by Portuguese insurance company Fidelidade (owned by the Chinese firm Fosun) to buy out health company Espírito Santo Saúde (ESS) managed to snap up 96 pct
NORTH KOREA has circulated a draft U.N. resolution praising its own human rights record in a rare effort to counter the international community’s growing condemnation of the way it treats
A Syrian Kurdish official called on the international community yesterday to allow weapons into the border town of Kobani, saying the town is still in danger from Islamic State militants. Idriss Nassan, deputy head
Oscar Pistorius must “pay for what he’s done” and his apology to the family of the girlfriend he killed was not sincere, a cousin of Reeva Steenkamp testified yesterday. Kim Martin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is mounting a diplomatic blitz on the sidelines of a summit of European and Asian leaders that opened yesterday in a bid to escape the worst
The epicentre of the quake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale, is thought to have been Loma Prieta, 10 miles north of Santa Cruz on the San Andreas fault.
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