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Saudi Arabia dismissed its health minister on Monday just days after he visited a hospital at the centre of growing concerns about the kingdom’s handling of the MERS virus. Abdullah al-Rabiah was named adviser to King Abdullah and replaced by Labour…

China’s car market is just gearing up as the world’s largest, yet automakers are already eyeing the next big thing — the market for reselling them. Their eagerness to attract buyers in the world’s largest car market is on full display at the Beijing…

The Boston Marathon returns Monday amid major security after last year’s deadly bombings as a near record 35,660 runners get set to compete. One million people are expected to line the route in a show of defiance and to honor the victims and survivors…

US Vice President Joe Biden was to begin a two-day visit to Ukraine on Monday amid Russian “outrage” over a deadly weekend shootout in the rebel east that shattered a fragile Easter truce. Washington has warned Moscow that time is running out for the…

Distraught Nepalese guides and climbers cancelled expeditions on Mount Everest Monday after at least 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, as anger mounted at poor payments for sherpas who take huge risks on the world’s highest peak. Sherpas already grief…

Fresh clashes erupted in Venezuela’s capital, with hooded anti-government protesters hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police who returned fire with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon. Four people were reported injured in the unrest…

The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized last week with hundreds of children on board acted in a way “tantamount to murder,” President Park Guen-Hye said Monday, as four more crew members were arrested. Park’s denunciation, in which…

19 April 2014 – Syria has, as of 19 April, removed or destroyed in-country approximately 80 per cent of its…

17 April 2014 – On his first official visit to the Gaza Strip, the new head of the United Nations…

17 April 2014 – Regretting the abrupt halt in talks between the Syrian authorities and the negotiating committee representing civilians…

Palestinian negotiators have warned they may pass responsiblity for their territory back to occupying power Israel if peace talks remain stalled, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday. The official said the Palestinians told US peace envoy Martin…

Weekend drone strikes in Yemen killed more than 40 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including 30 on Sunday, days after the jihadist network’s Arabian Peninsula offshoot vowed to fight against Western “crusaders”. The United States is the only country that…

Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass on Sunday with a message of social solidarity as the world’s Orthodox marked a holiday marred by bitter divisions over Ukraine and clashes broke out in Jerusalem. Francis led the ceremony for the holiest day in the…

Three pro-Russian militants and one attacker were killed in a gunbattle near the volatile eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk early Sunday, a local leader told journalists. Vyatcheslav Ponomarev said the battle broke out at a barricade put up in a village…

Divers began retrieving bodies on Sunday from inside the submerged South Korean ferry that capsized four days ago with hundreds of children on board, as families angered by the pace of the rescue efforts scuffled with police. Coastguard officials said…

17 April 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said he was encouraged by the initial round of diplomatic…

16 April 2014 – The ongoing unrest in eastern Ukraine, if not addressed as a matter of priority, risks seriously…

16 April 2014 – Violence against women remains a pervasive challenge in the United Kingdom and a more comprehensive and…

15 April 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency applauded today the “significant efforts” made recently by the Bulgarian authorities…

15 April 2014 – While corruption and widespread inequality were among the root causes of the massive street protests that…