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Security High As Pakistan Launches First Census In 19 Years
Pakistan on Wednesday launched its first census in nearly two decades, with security high as thousands of enumerators...
Curbing Pollution Can Prevent 3 Mn Chinese Deaths A Year
China can avoid three million premature deaths each year if it slashes a type of fine particle air pollution to UN...
Erdogan Slams Dutch Over Srebrenica
Turkey's war of words with the Netherlands has worsened after the Turkish president accused the Dutch of carrying out a...
Chad’s Faki Assumes African Union Leadership, Pledges Reform
Chad's former foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat assumed office as head of the African Union Commission on Tuesday,...
EU Unveils Syria Reconstruction Plan
The EU unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to support the reconstruction of war-torn Syria, calling it a "dividend" to...
DR Congo Unrest ‘may Delay’ Voter Registration
Rising unrest in central Democratic Republic of Congo threatens to derail voter registration ahead of a high-stakes...
Moscow Apparently Has Forces At Base In Egypt
Moscow has apparently deployed military forces to a base in western Egypt, a US official said Tuesday, a sign Russia...
Yemeni Women Rally Against War Outside UN Offices
Dozens of women staged a sit-in outside UN offices in Yemen's capital Tuesday demanding an end to the country's war...
700 Dead As Malaria ‘epidemic’ Hits Burundi
About 700 people have died from malaria in Burundi so far this year, the health minister said, with the authorities...
Exclusive: Russia Appears To Deploy Forces In Egypt, Eyes On Libya Role
Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent...
U.S. Carrier Joins South Korea Drills, North Korea Warns of ‘merciless’ Strikes
As the USS Carl Vinson plowed through seas off South Korea on Tuesday, rival North Korea warned the United States of...
Syria Regime Bombed Damascus Water Source
The Syrian government intentionally bombed the Ain al-Fijeh spring in December, leaving more than five million people...
Libya Strongman Launches Assault On Oil Terminals
Troops commanded by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on Tuesday to seize two of the...
Libya Strongman Launches Offensive On Oil Terminals
Troops commanded by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an assault on Tuesday to seize two of the...
New Round of Syria Peace Talks Opens Without Rebels
A third round of Russian-backed talks on the Syrian war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana on Tuesday without armed...
Syria Has Become ‘torture Chamber’
The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a "tidal wave of bloodshed" over more than six years of war in Syria had...
Two United Nations Workers Kidnapped In Democratic Republic of Congo
Two United Nations workers from peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been kidnapped by...
Emma Watson Is Belle of the Ball In ‘Beauty and the Beast’
It is a tale as old as time (or one dating back to the 1990s, at least): Disney dusts off an animated classic, adds...
Exploit Full Potential of Agric Sector
A former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, says Africa must fully exploit the potential of the...