McDonald’s has pulled the plug on an employee website after it was mocked by critics of the fast-food giant’s salary practices, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday. Dubbed “McResource” and managed by a subcontractor, the site aimed to give employees tips…
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An army tank shelled a funeral tent erected by the Southern Movement at a school in Yemen on Friday, killing 13 people including children, a medic and witnesses said. Tensions are running high in the formerly independent south, home to an increasingly…
MAROUA, 27 December 2013 (IRIN) – The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in…
A US district judge in New York ruled on Friday that controversial telephone surveillance by the National Security Agency was lawful and a vital component of the war on Al-Qaeda. The ruling from Judge William Pauley of the southern district court in…
The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed a daring December 20 raid on a military barracks in the restive northeast, in a video obtained by AFP Friday. The insurgents stormed the barracks in the town of Bama in a convoy…
India’s biggest Bitcoin trading platform said on its website Friday it had suspended operations after the central bank warned against the risks of using virtual money. BuySellBitCo.in closed its platform, citing an advisory by the Reserve Bank of India…
A Taliban suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed car next to a NATO military convoy in Kabul on Friday, killing three NATO personnel and injuring at least four civilian passers-by, officials said. The blast in the Afghan capital left the twisted…
Egyptian police said Friday a man died in clashes as tensions soared in Cairo following a bus bombing and further arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood after its listing as a terrorist group. Defiant student supporters of the Brotherhood protested…
Russia was Friday to bury Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the iconic AK-47 assault rifle that was the favoured weapon of guerrillas worldwide, at a newly-opened cemetery for national heroes. Kalashnikov, who died on Monday at the age of 94, was…
The two freed members of anti-Kremlin Russian punk group Pussy Riot arrived back in Moscow on Friday after reuniting in Siberia, ahead of holding their first news conference since their release earlier this week. Maria Alyokhina, 25, had already passed…
26 December 2013 – As efforts intensify to bring the Syrian sides to a negotiating table in Switzerland, United Nations…
26 December 2013 – The United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees today condemned Israel’s latest demolitions in the West Bank…
26 December 2013 – Independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced serious concern about recent lethal drone airstrikes, allegedly…
24 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced concern about the escalating violence in Israel, Gaza and the West…
24 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoy for Yemen have welcomed an agreement, reached yesterday through the…
23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that preparations for the long-awaited international conference aimed at achieving a…
The United States on Thursday reaffirmed its vow to cut aid to violence-wracked South Sudan if the government of President Salva Kiir is overthrown in a coup. Troops loyal to Kiir have been battling forces allied to former vice president Riek Machar…
The death toll from clashes in the Central African Republic’s capital has risen to at least 40, the Red Cross said Thursday, as French troops upped patrols in the city in a bid to stem the violence. “Around 40 bodies have been recovered for the moment…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Security Council to boost the capacity of the UN Mission in South…
Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in the country today…