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Europe’s main stock markets rose on Friday, with London making gains as strong retail sales data offset a profit warning from Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies gained 0.25 percent to stand at 6,832.75 points in…

A British diplomat has fallen to his death from the top floor of a Romanian hotel, in what media said on Friday was an apparent suicide. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed the man was a member of the diplomatic staff at its embassy in Romania but did…

The document collection leaked by Edward Snowden continues to bear fruit; a collaborative investigation between The Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News has revealed that the U.S. government’s National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting millions…

OTTAWA, Canada, January 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:“The conclusion…

A Pew Research Center study release on Thursday showed that US readers reach for ink-and-paper books despite the rising popularity of tablets and digital works. While the portion of people who read e-books grew in the past year, most adults in the United…

BERLIN, Germany — On Facebook, lying is an unfriending offense. Geopolitics may be slightly more complicated. So after the news that the United States is backtracking on a promise not to spy on its ally by the National Security Agency (NSA), will…

The US military has suspended 34 officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles for cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force leaders said Wednesday. The scandal at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana marked the latest in a series of damaging revelations…

Rare video footage of Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, reading two self-written poems under house arrest was posted online Wednesday. Chinese authorities have not charged Liu Xia with any crime but have restricted her…

Queen Elizabeth II was presented jewels, fine wine and a London travel card during royal engagements last year, a list revealed on Wednesday. The Oyster card was presented to the monarch when she marked the 150th anniversary of London Underground by…

13 January 2014 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today denounced the murder…

JERUSALEM — Spoiled by sunshine for about 520 days a year, Jerusalemites are strangely phobic about cloudy weather, as if a grey day could infect them with Nordic melancholy. Sunday was one such day: the streets empty, the air quiet and chill. So…

The United States on Monday criticized Nigeria for approving a law that punishes same-sex marriage with prison, saying the move would curtail basic human rights. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States was “deeply concerned” by Nigeria’…

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday promised tax breaks worth millions of pounds to local councils who encourage shale gas development, declaring the country was going “all out for shale”. Cameron announced that local authorities in England…

A Pakistani schoolboy who sacrificed his own life to save hundreds of his classmates by tackling a suicide bomber will have his school and a stadium named after him, officials said Monday. Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-year-old from the mainly Shiite Ibrahimzai…

A Saudi court has sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman, state media reported. The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who…

12 January 2014 – United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos sounded the alarm today on behalf of more than…

11 January 2014 – Saddened by the death of Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…

Iran said on Sunday that an accord it struck with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of sanctions will take effect from January 20. The United States confirmed the news although President Barack Obama warned of…

A Texas hunting club auctioned off a permit to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia, raising $350,000 towards conservation efforts for the animal, but not without controversy. The Dallas Safari Club, which on Saturday said all money would be given to…

JERUSALEM — Dissonance. That is the word chosen by David Landau, the Israeli author and journalist, when asked to describe the essence of Ariel Sharon. “The dissonance between what people expected and what they got from him,” Landau said. The final…