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…
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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…
13 April 2014 – In the wake of the violent clashes that have swept eastern Ukraine over the past 24…
The newspaper’s edition was set, ready to print, when the assailants came at 2 o’clock in the morning, Molotov cocktails in hand. “We heard someone beating violently against our windows. They ripped off the shutters and broke the glass. Then they took…
Japan broke ground Saturday on a coastal surveillance unit near a string of islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute with China, a report said. Radar equipment will be installed on Yonaguni island to monitor ships and aircraft in the East…
Curious where in the US no one lives? Here are some maps on just that: As the creator over at mapsbynik writes: A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists…
Two people were killed Saturday when their car exploded in a Shiite village in Bahrain, the interior ministry said, although it was unclear whether the vehicle itself had been targeted. A third person was wounded in the blast and taken to hospital as…
Four French journalists taken hostage in Syria last year were freed on Saturday after a 10-month ordeal in the world’s most dangerous country for the media. French President Francois Hollande announced the release of Edouard Elias, Didier Francois,…