Politics
Obama proposes to end NSA phone record snooping
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection and storage of phone records by the National Security ...Egypt sentences 529 Muslim Brotherhood members to death
An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder, a defence lawyer said, in ...G7 leaders to hold crisis talks on Ukraine during nuclear summit
U.S. President Barack Obama and other leaders of G7 industrialized nations are set to hold emergency talks Monday in The Hague to ...NATO fears Russian troop build-up along border with Ukraine
Russia may be poised to invade another pro-Russian region in another country, NATO warned Sunday. Russia is reportedly eyeing Transnistria, a pro-Moscow ...Shots fired as troops enter Ukrainian base Belbek in Crimea
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armored vehicles, automatic fire and stun grenades on Saturday, injuring ...Russia backs OSCE monitors in non-Crimea Ukraine
Russia on Saturday expressed hopes for the success of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, while stressing the observers were excluded from ...Thai constitutional court declares Feb general election invalid
Thailand\'s Constitutional Court on Friday annulled the February 2 general election for failing to hold nationwide voting in every constituency on the ...Putin formally gets Crimea; Ukraine, EU sign deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law the treaty formally making Crimea part of the Russian Federation, after it was approved ...Turkey blocks access to Twitter website
Turkey blocks access to Twitter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to block Twitter because the site refuses to adhere to ...Obama imposes new sanctions, warns Russia against further escalation
The US has announced sanctions on 20 more senior Russian individuals over Moscow\'s takeover of Crimea and also singled out a bank ...