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Nepal captain, players arrested over match fixing
A Nepal police official says the captain of the national football team and other team members have been arrested on charges relating ...Britain refuses to grant Assange safe passage for medical check
Britain has refused Ecuador\'s request to give Julian Assange safe passage for a medical checkup after he had a sharp pain in ...Heavy air pollution in 80% of Chinese cities: Greenpeace
Pollution in nearly 80 percent of Chinese cities surveyed by Greenpeace "greatly exceeded" national standards over the first nine months of this ...South Sudan civil war worsening: aid agencies
War in South Sudan is worsening despite a faltering peace deal, with thousands of women and girls raped, killed or abducted in ...Mideast violence spikes despite new Israeli measures
Israel has struggled to curb a spate of violence that has raised fears of a full-blown uprising, with more knife attacks shaking ...Turkey seeks EU cash, visas, for help on refugee crisis
Turkey demanded on Thursday that the European Union start easing restrictions on Turks traveling to the EU next year if it wants ...Obama again delays troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
Reversing policy on Afghanistan, President Barack Obama announced on Thursday he will prolong the 14-year-old U.S. military engagement there, effectively handing off ...Hillary Clinton fends off rivals in first Democratic debate
Hillary Clinton emerged unscathed rom the Democratic Party\'s first debate for the 2016 presidential campaign, cutting a calm and confident figure as ...Turkey suspends Ankara police, intelligence, security chiefs after bombing
Turkey\'s interior ministry said it had removed the police, intelligence and security chiefs of Ankara from their posts in an effort to ...Police raid Save the Children offices in Nauru
The offices of Save the Children workers helping asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru have been raided by police, the aid ...




