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Yemeni PM survives assassination attempt
Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has escaped an assassination attempt when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his motorcade in Sanaa, officials ...Great canyon discovered under Greenland Ice Sheet
Scientists have discovered a hidden canyon in Greenland that is 750 kilometers long and as deep as the Grand Canyon in the ...Obama says US should strike Syria, will seek congressional vote
President Barack Obama says he has decided that the United States should take military action against Syria in response to a deadly ...Indian teenager found guilty in Delhi gang-rape case
An Indian court found a teenager guilty on Saturday over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that ...John Kerry makes forceful case for US military intervention in Syria
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the United States will not wait for UN weapons inspectors to finish their ...Malaysia: Desperately needing a new national narrative
The ritualistic month long celebration of Merdeka (independence) activities have largely lost their meaning. Discussion about the roles that different groups played ...Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74
Irish writer and poet Seamus Heaney, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, died Friday at the age of ...North Korea withdraws invite for US envoy
The U.S. State Department says North Korea has rescinded its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to travel to Pyongyang to seek ...Saudi Arabia outlaws domestic abuse
Saudi Arabia has adopted a law that criminalises domestic violence, usually targeting women and children, in a decision hailed by activists.Rwanda accuses DR Congo of bombing its territory
Rwanda accused the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday of shelling Rwandan territory and killing a woman, saying such "provocation" could ...