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  • Suicide bomber strikes government bus in Afghanistan, 1 dead

    Suicide bomber strikes government bus in Afghanistan, 1 dead

    Date: 2015-05-04 07:38:07 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:2 - ID:2512241

    An Afghan official said Monday a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying government employees in Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding 13. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the minibus was carrying employees of the ....

  • Two gunmen shot dead at 'draw the prophet Muhammad' contest in Texas

    Two gunmen shot dead at 'draw the prophet Muhammad' contest in Texas

    Date: 2015-05-04 07:30:35 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:2512177

    Two gunmen have been killed and a security guard injured during what appeared to be an attack on a contest for cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Dallas suburb, ABC News reported. The gunmen drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center in ....

  • Duchess of Cambridge's second child will be a princess thanks to Queen

    Duchess of Cambridge's second child will be a princess thanks to Queen

    Date: 2015-05-03 11:25:31 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:28 - ID:2507517

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s daughter will be officially titled a princess thanks to an intervention by the Queen, the Independent reported on Sunday. The couple have taken their youngest child after Catherine gave birth following a ....

  • Russia did more for Crimea within one year than Ukraine since Soviet fall -- Crimean official

    Russia did more for Crimea within one year than Ukraine since Soviet fall -- Crimean official

    Date: 2015-05-03 10:24:44 GMT - Russia - International - SN:20 - ID:2506981

    Russia has done more for Crimean Tatars since the reunification than Ukraine has in over two decades while the peninsula was under its rule, Sputnik quoted Resit Kemal As, advisor of the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov as saying on ....

  • Nepal officials say death toll from earthquake has passed 7,000

    Nepal officials say death toll from earthquake has passed 7,000

    Date: 2015-05-03 10:17:57 GMT - Nepal - International - SN:7 - ID:2505909

    Nepal officials say death toll from earthquake has passed 7,000, ABC News reported on Sunday. The government and international disaster-relief teams worked to get aid to distant mountain villages. The World Health Organization said it has ....

  • 3 Turkish mayors decided not to welcome, attend programs of Erdoğan

    3 Turkish mayors decided not to welcome, attend programs of Erdoğan

    Date: 2015-05-03 08:35:45 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:10 - ID:2506017

    The pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) said mayors of Diyarbakır, Batman and Siirt decided not to welcome and attend programs of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan scheduled for Saturday in their cities, Today's Zaman reported on Sunday. In ....

  • Four Afghan soldiers, 45 militants killed in fresh military operation

    Four Afghan soldiers, 45 militants killed in fresh military operation

    Date: 2015-05-03 08:21:23 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:6 - ID:2505873

    Four Afghan soldiers and 45 militants have been killed in fresh military operations across the country, Khaama Press quoted General Zahir Azimi spokesman for the Ministry of Defense as saying in a statement issued on Sunday. General Zahir Azimi ....

  • N. Korea reveals new satellite control center

    N. Korea reveals new satellite control center

    Date: 2015-05-03 08:13:05 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:2505797

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a newly built satellite control and command center, saying his country will continue developing space technology despite international sanctions, Yonhap News reported on Sunday. "Peaceful space ....

  • President Ghani vows to make Afghanistan ‘graveyard of terror’

    President Ghani vows to make Afghanistan ‘graveyard of terror’

    Date: 2015-04-29 11:04:34 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:28 - ID:2481685

    Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said his government is determined to “make Afghanistan [a] graveyard of terror,” identifying terrorism as the major challenge facing the region. Ghani made the remarks on Tuesday in a speech to the ....

  • Nepal admits mistakes over earthquake response

    Nepal admits mistakes over earthquake response

    Date: 2015-04-29 08:42:02 GMT - Nepal - International - SN:12 - ID:2480221

    Anger has been growing in Nepal as officials admitted they were too slow responding to the earthquake which killed more than 5,000 people, Sky news reported. Survivors stranded in remote villages and towns continue to wait for aid and relief, ....

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