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Protests erupt in Turkey as death toll at coal mine reaches 245
A violent protest erupted Wednesday in the Turkish city of Soma, where at least 238 coal miners have died after a mine ...Barack Obama meets Syrian opposition leader in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced the upcoming presidential election in Syria slated for June 3 as illegitimate, the White House stated ...South African judge orders Oscar Pistorius to undergo psychiatric tests
The judge in Oscar Pistorius\' murder trial ordered the athlete on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after a witness testified the ...Oscar-winning Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul dies at 36
Swedish film director Malik Bendjelloul, who directed the 2012 Oscar winning documentary Searching For Sugar Man, has died aged just 36. According ...Death toll from Turkish coal mine disaster rises to 238
At least 238 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in ...Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...French journalist killed in the Central African Republic
The French president\'s office said Tuesday the body of Camille Lepage was found by French peacekeepers in a vehicle they stopped that ...Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 28 people
A wave of car bombings in Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that ...US surveillance aircraft deployed to search for Nigerian girls taken by Boko Haram
The United States said it is flying "manned" missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government ...Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to six years in prison for bribery conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes in the Holyland ...