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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan freed after kidnap
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released hours after being seized by militiamen, the government says.Malawi president dissolves cabinet in response to graft scandal
Malawi President Joyce Banda dissolved the cabinet on Thursday after police arrested several junior officials in her government in recent weeks on ...42 executed in Iraq over terror charges
Iraq has hanged 42 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related charges, including a woman, the Justice Ministry said Thursday, in Baghdad\'s latest use of ...Pakistan rearrests ex-president Musharraf over Red Mosque deaths
Pakistani police have re-arrested former president Pervez Musharraf over the raid of an Islamabad mosque in 2007.Obama nominates Janet Yellen as Fed chief
US President Barack Obama has officially nominated Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank.3 US scientists win 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry
Three U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for pioneering work on computer programs that simulate complex chemical processes ...EU announces 30 million to help refugees in Italy
The head of the European Commission announced Wednesday during a visit to Lampedusa that Italy would receive an additional 30 million euros ...Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 10
As many as 10 people are dead after a fire at a garment factory on Tuesday evening in the Bangladeshi town of ...China seeks to soothe sea rifts at Asia summit
Asian leaders met against a backdrop of divisive territorial disputes and flagging free trade efforts Wednesday, with China flexing more diplomatic muscle ...Lebanon slams Syria for cross-border raid
Lebanon\'s President Michel Sleiman on Tuesday criticised Syria for a cross-border raid that he said targeted an ambulance in the east of ...




