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  • 2 big objects found in AirAsia plane search

    2 big objects found in AirAsia plane search

    Date: 2015-01-03 07:27:22 GMT - Indonesia - International - SN:1 - ID:1663937

    Two "large objects" have been spotted in the Java Sea around 90ft (30m) underwater, Sky News said Saturday quoting the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago. Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's Search ....

  • Afghan president invites Pakistan for security talks

    Afghan president invites Pakistan for security talks

    Date: 2015-01-02 12:31:38 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:11 - ID:1661077

    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday suggested Pakistan-Afghanistan talks on security issues, media reported. Ghani invited Pakistani officials for talks on the issue in Kabul Jan 8, Geo TV reported. Earlier on Wednesday, Pakistani Prime ....

  • AirAsia Flight 8501: Ships search for fuselage in Java Sea

    AirAsia Flight 8501: Ships search for fuselage in Java Sea

    Date: 2015-01-02 12:30:36 GMT - Indonesia - International - SN:10 - ID:1661069

    More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to search for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the more than 145 people still missing since it crashed five days ago, The ABC News reported. Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia's ....

  • Netanyahu crushes Danon to retain Likud chairmanship

    Netanyahu crushes Danon to retain Likud chairmanship

    Date: 2015-01-01 09:08:22 GMT - Israel - International - SN:6 - ID:1654337

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won first slot in the Likud primary by an overwhelming margin, garnering 75 percent of the vote to assure his hold on the chairmanship of the ruling party, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Thursday ....

  • 35 killed, 48 injured in Shanghai stampede

    35 killed, 48 injured in Shanghai stampede

    Date: 2015-01-01 07:03:32 GMT - China - International - SN:3 - ID:1653685

    Thirty-five people died in a stampede during New Year's celebrations in Shanghai's historic waterfront area, FOX News quoted city officials as saying on Thursday. A Shanghai government statement said another 46 people were receiving hospital ....

  • Floods kill 21 in Malaysia

    Floods kill 21 in Malaysia

    Date: 2014-12-31 09:46:48 GMT - Malaysia - International - SN:19 - ID:1648081

    At least 21 people have been killed and eight others are missing after the worst flooding in decades across Malaysia's northeast, police said Wednesday (Dec 31), with almost a quarter of a million people displaced, Channel News Asia reported. The ....

  • Gunmen kill 3, injure 7 in Afghanisatn's Nangahar province

    Gunmen kill 3, injure 7 in Afghanisatn's Nangahar province

    Date: 2014-12-31 09:44:30 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:17 - ID:1648061

    An Afghan official says gunmen shot dead a policeman and two civilians after security forces stopped the car and motorcycle in which they were traveling, both of which were loaded with explosives, ABC News reported. Provincial police chief Gen. ....

  • US sends five prisoners to Kazakhstan

    US sends five prisoners to Kazakhstan

    Date: 2014-12-31 08:52:26 GMT - USA - International - SN:10 - ID:1647405

    The U.S. has sent five detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to Kazakhstan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The transfer of the prisoners, three Yemenis and two Tunisians, to the central Asian nation brings the number of detainees moved out of ....

  • Hong Kong culls chickens, suspends imports after H7 bird flu found

    Hong Kong culls chickens, suspends imports after H7 bird flu found

    Date: 2014-12-31 08:30:43 GMT - Hong Kong - International - SN:5 - ID:1647145

    Hong Kong began culling 15,000 chickens on Wednesday and suspended imports of live poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the H7 bird flu strain was discovered in a batch of live chickens from the southern province of Guangdong, ABC news ....

  • Merkel urges Germans to welcome refugees amid growing anti-Muslim movement

    Merkel urges Germans to welcome refugees amid growing anti-Muslim movement

    Date: 2014-12-31 08:29:26 GMT - Germany - International - SN:4 - ID:1647129

    Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grass-roots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe's biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. In an ....

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