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Kenya tells Somalia “put house in order” after mall attack

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s president told Somalia on Tuesday to “put their house in order,” in a sign of frustration at the festering instability in

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Ex-Indian minister Lalu Prasad convicted in corruption case

RANCHI: In a body blow to RJD before next year’s Lok Sabha polls, its president Lalu Prasad was on Monday convicted by a special CBI court here in the fodder

Over 70 missing as boats sink in China Sea

BEIJING: More than 70 people were missing after three fishing boats sank in a powerful typhoon in the South China Sea, Chinese state media said on Monday. “Three fishing boats

Jailed Pussy Riot member hospitalised

MOSCOW: A jailed member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot was hospitalised on September 27 after going on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions, her husband said, but her

President Barack Obama talks with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a phone call in the Oval Office on September 27, 2013 (THE WHITE HOUSE/AFP, Pete Souza)
Obama‚ Iran’s Rouhani hold historic phone call

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday, the highest-level contact between the two countries in three decades and a sign that

21 killed as bus falls in Himachal gorge

SHIMLA: All 21 people travelling by a private mini-bus were killed when it skidded off the road and rolled down more than a 500-foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur

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 to hit India’s financial capital.

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