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US fast food giant McDonald’s said on Friday it was temporarily shutting its three stores in Crimea following the Ukrainian peninsula’s annexation by Russia. McDonald’s said in a statement posted on its Ukrainian website that the decision was taken “…

Europe’s main stock markets pushed higher on Friday as jobs data showed the recovery in the US economy is back in form after catching a winter cold. London’s FTSE 100 index climbed 0.56 percent compared with Thursday’s closing value to stand at 6,686…

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Friday on the central bank to cut interest rates in order to stimulate the economy as political instability saps momentum. “The central bank should hold an extraordinary meeting to cut (rates) … just as…

British businessman Shrien Dewani will arrive in Cape Town next week to stand trial on charges that he arranged the murder of his 28-year-old Swedish bride, it was announced on Friday. “After a successful extradition process, Mr Dewani is expected to…

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants riding in a convoy of vehicles attacked an army post in Hadramawt province in southeast Yemen on Friday, killing eight soldiers and wounding 11, a military source said. “The attackers approached the position on board several…

An Indian judge on Friday ordered three men to hang after they were convicted of two gang-rapes, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year. The sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai…

Michael Schumacher has “moments of consciousness and awakening”, his spokeswoman said Friday, in a sign of progress months after the Formula One legend suffered devastating brain injuries in a ski accident. Doctors put Schumacher in a medically induced…

3 April 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he is encouraged by the technical and security preparations and broad…

2 April 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the commitment by small islands in the Pacific to…

2 April 2014 – A senior United Nations official today urged Afghans to use this Saturday’s presidential and provincial council…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations humanitarian wing is warning that life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable…

3 April 2014 – Now in its fourth year, the Syrian conflict hit yet another bleak milestone today, as the…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations confirmed today that Palestinian Authority officials have presented letters for accession to 15…

31 March 2014 – A group of eight United Nations human rights independent experts today urged the Egyptian authorities to…

28 March 2014 – A senior United Nations official expressed deep concern today about the ongoing displacement of Palestinians in…

Venezuelan riot police fired water cannons and tear gas Thursday at stone-throwing student protesters in the capital Caracas, leaving at least seven injured. Demonstrators had initially been riled by armed vigilantes they link to the government after…

The United States said Thursday it has voiced concern to Iran on its potential selection of a UN ambassador with alleged links to the 1979 seizure of the US embassy. Iran has not announced a nominee to be its ambassador in the United Nations. But a…

Colombia’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital for a lung infection Thursday, his son and officials said. The health ministry said the 87-year-old author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has…

David Letterman, a pillar of American late-night TV talk shows, announced Thursday that he’ll be stepping down as host of “Late Night” on CBS next year after a 22-year run. “We don’t have the timetable for this precisely down,” said Letterman, 66,…

American senior citizens are gradually finding their way to the Internet, but lagging the overall population in online usage, a survey showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center report showed that 59 percent of US adults age 65 or older use the Internet…