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EU imposes Ukraine sanctions after deadly Kiev clashes
The European Union has decided to impose sanctions against officials in Ukraine who are responsible for the violence there, which escalated Thursday, ...UN chief wants more troops to end C. Africa bloodshed
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is asking the Security Council to quickly send at least 3,000 more troops to the Central African ...Deadly violence flares in Kyiv despite call for truce
Hours after a truce was declared between government forces and opposition protesters, fighting broke out once again Thursday morning in the streets ...North and South Korea hold first family reunion in three years
A group of elderly South Koreans met their North Korean family members for the first time since they were separated six decades ...Ukraine president, protest leaders agree to a truce
Ukraine\'s President Viktor Yanukovych says he has agreed a truce with opposition leaders, after at least 26 people died in clashes this ...Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion
Facebook Inc. (FB), the world\'s largest social network, agreed to acquire mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. for as much as $19 billion in ...US warns of shoe bomb threat to overseas flights
The U.S. government has warned airlines about a potential shoe bomb threat on international flights to the United States.Renewed Ukraine clashes as EU weighs sanctions
Clashes in Ukraine between police and anti-government activists killed at least 25 people and left hundreds injured in the bloodiest episode of ...Al Qaeda-linked group claims Beirut bombings
A Sunni militant group linked to al-Qaida says it carried out a double suicide bombing Wednesday in Lebanon\'s capital that killed at ...Indian state to release killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
The chief minister of an Indian state on Wednesday ordered the release of all seven people jailed for plotting the assassination of ...