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Clashes as masked men rush Hong Kong protest barricades
Dozens of masked men rushed barricades at Hong Kong\'s main pro-democracy site Monday, triggering clashes as demonstrators tried to push ...18 dead, 20 missing after boat sinks off Guinea
The death toll from an overcrowded wooden boat that sunk off the south coast of Guinea has risen to 18, ...Car bomber hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan, one civilian dead
A suicide car bomber rammed a NATO military convoy along a major road out of Afghanistan\'s capital Kabul early on ...Donors pledge $2.7 billion for Gaza reconstruction
Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key ...Liberia health workers to go on strike over Ebola danger pay
Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand ...Turkey says US can use air bases for IS fight
Turkey has granted the United States access to its air bases for the campaign against the Islamic State group, including ...Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as ...North Korea leader Kim is still in charge, has leg injury: source
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in firm control of his government but hurt his leg taking part in a military ...Again the Peace Prize Not for Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize is required by Alfred Nobel\'s will, ...Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in
Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town ...




