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Japan to give US$15 mn to fight terror in Mideast, Africa
February 15, 2015
Japan to give US$15 mn to fight terror in Mideast, Africa
Japan, reeling from the murder of two nationals by Islamic State extremists, will offer an extra US$15 million in aid…
Friends remember Arizona aid worker who died in Islamic State captivity
February 15, 2015
Friends remember Arizona aid worker who died in Islamic State captivity
Friends and colleagues of Kayla Mueller, the aid worker who died while a captive of militants of the Islamic State…
Guns fall silent in Ukraine’s Donetsk as Poroshenko orders ceasefire
February 15, 2015
Guns fall silent in Ukraine’s Donetsk as Poroshenko orders ceasefire
Shelling stopped abruptly at midnight on Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk after President Petro Poroshenko ordered government…
Obama condemns ‘brutal’ murders of three Muslim students in North Carolina
February 14, 2015
Obama condemns ‘brutal’ murders of three Muslim students in North Carolina
US President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina this week…
Canadian police say Valentine’s Day mass shooting plot foiled
February 14, 2015
Canadian police say Valentine’s Day mass shooting plot foiled
Canadian police said on Friday they foiled a plot in which at least two people allegedly planned to commit a…
Yemen clashes kill 26 as embassy closures continue
February 14, 2015
Yemen clashes kill 26 as embassy closures continue
Clashes between Shi'ite Houthi militiamen and Sunni tribesmen fighting alongside Al Qaeda militants killed 26 people in Yemen, local officials…
Protests set to mark four years after Bahrain uprising
February 14, 2015
Protests set to mark four years after Bahrain uprising
Bahrain's opposition has called for protests on Saturday's fourth anniversary of an uprising that deeply divided the key US ally…
Saudi Arabia, West evacuate embassy staff from Yemen due to security fears
February 13, 2015
Saudi Arabia, West evacuate embassy staff from Yemen due to security fears
Saudi Arabia has evacuated diplomatic staff from Yemen following a Shi'ite Muslim Houthi militia's seizure of power there, joining Western…
UN envoy: Assad ‘part of the solution’ in Syria
February 13, 2015
UN envoy: Assad ‘part of the solution’ in Syria
Any peaceful solution to the fighting in Syria must involve President Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan…
Spokesman: Greece will do ‘whatever it can’ to reach deal with EU
February 13, 2015
Spokesman: Greece will do ‘whatever it can’ to reach deal with EU
Greece will make every effort to reach an agreement with its euro zone partners at Monday's meeting of euro zone finance…