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India In Appeal To UN Court To Halt Execution of ‘spy’
India was to appeal to the UN's top court on Monday to order Pakistan to suspend its planned execution of an Indian...
Foreigners Barred From Singapore Gay-Pride Rally
Foreigners will be barred from attending Singapore's annual gay-pride rally, its organisers said, as the city-state...
Syrian Refugee Kids In Lebanon Act, Direct, ‘escape’
"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors...
EU Pushes Myanmar For Aid Access In Northern Rakhine
A senior European Union official has urged Myanmar to allow full aid access to the north of Rakhine state, where...
Australia Police Thought Dismembered Body ‘a Prank’
Police who found a dismembered body being cooked on a stovetop in an Australian apartment thought they had stumbled on...
Hong Kong ‘Snowden Refugees’ Face Deportation
A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the...
Ransomware Hits ‘hundreds of Thousands’ of China PCs
"Hundreds of thousands" of Chinese computers at nearly 30,000 institutions including government agencies have been hit...
Lyft, Waymo To Cooperate On Self-Driving Cars
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...
Malaysia Seizes Smuggled Tortoises Worth $300,000
Malaysian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises into the country from...
Yemen Declares State of Emergency Over Cholera Outbreak
Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency in the Yemeni capital,...
Ritchie Strikes Again As Ducks Even NHL West Conference Series
Nick Ritchie scored the eventual winning goal as the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Nashville Predators 5-3 on Sunday to...
Indonesians Arrested Over Sumatran Tiger Poaching
Indonesian authorities have arrested two men on suspicion of poaching Sumatran tigers and seized a skin and bones taken...
Lavezzi Denies Racism As ‘wacky’ Pose Causes Storm
Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi has issued an apology through his Chinese club after publicity photos that...
Free Incubators Save Lives of Indonesian Babies
Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from...
The New Miss USA Helps Regulate Nuclear Power Plants
The Miss USA pageant touted American diversity, and chose an African-American chemist with the Nuclear Regulatory...
17 Shot Dead In PNG Prison Breakout
Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, reports said on Monday,...
Ebola In DR Congo’s Isolated Far North A Logistical Challenge
An Ebola outbreak in a remote region in DR Congo's far north poses a logistical challenge for doctors and aid workers...
TPG Ups Bid For Australia’s Fairfax Media
A consortium led by private equity giant TPG Capital upped its offer for troubled Fairfax Media Monday and now wants to...
Iran Hardliners Turn To Reformist-Dominated Social Media
After a series of bruising electoral defeats, Iranian conservatives campaigning in this week's presidential poll have...