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Up to 70 feared trapped in Mumbai building collapse

MUMBAI: A five-storey residential block collapsed in Mumbai at daybreak on Friday leaving up to 70 people feared trapped inside, in the latest building disaster

U.N. panel blames mankind more clearly for warming

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Top climate scientists blamed mankind more clearly than ever as the main cause of global warming in a report on Friday meant to guide governments in dealing

An advertisement for the 15th Asian Games towers over workers in Doha on November 28, 2006 (AFP Photo/Goh Chai Hin) AFP

Nepal recalls envoy after she called Qatar ‘open jail’

Kathmandu (AFP) – Nepal on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Qatar after she compared the Middle Eastern emirate to an “open jail” for thousands of Nepali migrants who face abuse

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L), Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (center L), European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton (center L) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) are seated during a meeting of the foreign ministers representing the permanent five member countries of the United Nations Security Council, including Germany, at UN Headquarters in New York September 26, 2013. Iran's new government began its first talks on its nuclear program with the United States and five other world powers on Thursday, with the Iranian foreign minister taking a seat next to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a rare high-level contact between the two long-estranged nations. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

U.S., Iran voice optimism and caution after rare encounter

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran and the United States held their highest-level substantive talks in a generation on Thursday, saying the tone was positive but sounding cautious about resolving the

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media after a meeting of the foreign ministers representing the permanent five member countries of the United Nations Security Council, including Germany, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

U.S., Russia agree on Syria U.N. chemical arms measure

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia agreed on Thursday on a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would demand Syria give up

Militant group attacks Kenyan border town

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities say militants from the same extremist group that took over a Nairobi mall have attacked a security post near the Somali border, killing two

Six killed in militant attack in Indian Kashmir

Reuters/Reuters – An injured policeman is rushed to a hospital for treatment, in Jammu September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Six people were killed in a raid on

Iran says it wants to resolve nuclear row within months

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran’s new government, stepping up a campaign to project a more moderate image abroad, said on Wednesday it wants to jump-start talks with world powers to

Mary Italo, center, grieves with other relatives for her son Thomas Abayo Italo, 33, who was killed in the Westgate Mall attack, as they wait to receive his body at the mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Thomas was an accountant and the breadwinner of the family who helped look after Mary who is sick, according to relatives. Kenyan authorities prepared for the gruesome task of recovering dozens more victims than initially feared after the country's president declared an end Tuesday to the four-day siege of the Nairobi mall by al-Qaida-linked terrorists. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis

Kenya launches probe as Shabaab leader confirms mall attack

NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) – U.S., British and Israeli agencies are helping Kenya investigate an attack claimed by Somali Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at least 72 people

An injured woman (C) is helped out of the Westgate Shopping Centre where gunmen went on a shooting spree, in Nairobi September 21, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola

Kenya says all hostages freed in al Shabaab mall siege

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya said its security forces had taken control of the Nairobi shopping mall where Islamist fighters killed at least 62 people, and that police were doing a