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  • Ukraine fears 'Crimea scenario' in east

    Ukraine's acting president has pledged "anti-terrorist measures" after pro-Russian protesters declared the region of Donetsk an independent republic and clashes erupted in two other eastern cities. In a televised appeal on Monday, Oleksandr Turchynov said that the action in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk showed that Russia was "playing.. More

  • Egyptian tribal clash claims more lives

    Two people were killed when tribal clashes flared for a third day in the southern city of Aswan, Egyptian security sources said. At least 25 people have now been killed in the violence between members of the city's two big tribes, the Nubian and the Arab Beni Helal clans. Gunfights broke out outside the local hospital and morgue on Sunday near the.. More

  • Scores killed in violence across Syria

    At least 29 people were killed in the besieged Old City of Homs when a car bomb exploded, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. "The death toll is likely to rise because there are dozens of people missing and body parts in the area of the blast," the Britain-based group said on Sunday. State news agency SANA also.. More

  • Israeli warplanes attack sites in Gaza

    Israeli jets have attacked several sites in the Gaza Strip, sources on both sides said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave hit the Jewish state. Palestinian medical and security sources on Sunday said five sites in northern and southern Gaza were hit, including training camps for the Islamic Jihad and Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's.. More

  • France pulls out of Rwanda genocide ceremony

    France will not take part in the 20th anniversary commemorations of the Rwandan genocide after its president, Paul Kagame, accused Paris of "participating" in the 1994 mass killings. Kagame denounced the "direct role of Belgium and France in the political preparation for the genocide", in an interview with Jeune Afrique, a Paris.. More

  • Regime attacks in Syria kill 100 people, says opposition

    At least 100 people, including five children and five women, have been killed in air and ground operations across Syria carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, opposition activists have claimed. Forty four people were killed in the suburbs of Damascus, 25 in Idlib, 15 in Aleppo, four in Homs and another four in Daraa, three in Lattakia and.. More

  • Deadly explosions hit Cairo University

    A police brigadier-general has been killed and seven others were wounded in a series of explosions outside Cairo University in Giza governorate, according to state media. Officials said the first two bombs went off seconds apart on Wednesday, and that the explosive devices had been concealed in a tree between two security posts. A third explosion.. More

  • Soldier shoots several dead at US army base

    A shooting has left at least four people dead, including the gunman, and 16 injured at a US Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, the site of another mass shooting in 2009, the US military said. Fort Hood commander Lt Gen. Mark Milley told a news conference that the shooter was a serving soldier and that he had died on the scene from self-inflicted gunshot.. More

  • NATO suspends 'all military ties' with Russia

    NATO has said it will suspend "all practical civilian and military cooperation" with Russia because of Moscow's occupation and annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. The decision was taken on Tuesday by the military alliance's foreign ministers in Brussels who urged Russia in a statement "to take immediate steps ... to return to compliance.. More

  • Massive earthquake off Chile sparks tsunami

    A massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake and tsunami hit the northern coast of Chile, near the port of Iquique, and prompted a warning for the country's Pacific coast, Chilean officials have said. Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo said five people were confirmed dead and attributed the deaths to heart attacks or being crushed. The first waves hit the.. More

  • Regime attacks kill 10 in Syria, activists say

    At least 10 people were killed in air and ground operations carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's regime across Syria, opposition activists have claimed. Women and children were among many people wounded in the attack by regime helicopters, which bombed opposition-controlled areas in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to a statement.. More

  • French PM resigns after election losses

    French President Francois Hollande is set to appoint Interior Minister Manuel Valls as his new prime minister, following the resignation of Jean-Marc Ayrault, French media has reported. The resignation of Ayrault and his cabinet on Monday came a day after the ruling Socialist party lost more than 150 towns and cities to the main opposition and far-right.. More

  • Erdogan: poll win a blow to immoral politics

    Turkey's prime minister has declared victory in local elections that had become a referendum on his rule, calling the results a blow to the "immoral, aimless politics" of his rivals. Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned his rivals would "pay the price" for their loss as preliminary results on Sunday showed his Justice and Development party,.. More

  • Myanmar census begins despite calls to postpone it

    An army of 150,000 census-takers started to fan out across Myanmar on Sunday, despite calls from Human Rights groups to postpone the complex questionnaire, fearing it could further stoke ethnic tensions and violence in the region. The UN-backed project is threatening to reignite problems between Buddhists and Muslims, particularly in Rakhine State.. More

  • Egypt arrests Morsi aide daughter

    Egypt's security forces arrested the daughter of a former aide to ousted president Mohamed Morsi at her home in Cairo in the early hours of Sunday, a student group said Sunday. The pro-Morsi Students against the Coup group said in a statement that security forces arrested Karima al-Serafi - daughter of Ayman al-Serafi who served as Morsi's aide for.. More