Three bomb blasts in eastern Myanmar, one dead: police
Three bombs exploded in eastern Myanmar leaving one person dead, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of explosions that the United States denounced as "acts of terror".
17 October 2013
Search for bodies after deadly Laos plane crash
Rescuers searched for bodies Thursday after a Lao Airlines plane carrying dozens of people, about half of them foreigners, crashed in the Mekong River with everybody on board believed dead.
17 October 2013
Senior Dutch diplomat beaten up in Russia: official
A senior Dutch diplomat at the Netherlands embassy in Moscow was beaten up at his home in the Russian capital by unknown individuals who scrawled the letters "LGBT" on a mirror.
MSF denounces 'unprecedented' violence in C. Africa
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday denounced the "unprecedented" violence in the Central African Republic, urging all sides to respect civilian safety and calling for urgent international aid.
16 October 2013
Search for Philippine quake survivors as death toll hits 107
Rescue workers raced Wednesday to reach isolated communities on a popular Philippine tourist island that was devastated by a huge earthquake, as aftershocks tormented survivors and the death toll climbed to 107.
16 October 2013
Bomb kills 12 as war-related deaths near 500,000 in Iraq
A bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers at a Sunni mosque in Iraq, killing 12 people as a study put the death toll in the war-torn country at nearly half a million since the US-led 2003 invasion.
16 October 2013
Mass evacuations in Vietnam for typhoon Nari
Vietnam is evacuating tens of thousands of people in the path of Typhoon Nari, state media said Monday, after the powerful storm left 13 dead in the Philippines.
15 October 2013
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Kazakhstan Foreign Affairs delegation robbed in RSAOn Wednesday evening a group of armed people blocked the delegation's cars on their way for the international airport of Johannesburg to Pretoria, and then robbed them.
14 October 2013
380 arrested in Moscow race riotMoscow police arrested more than 380 people Sunday during a race riot in which nationalists outraged by a murder blamed on a migrant smashed shop windows and assaulted security guards.
Gunmen kidnap Red Cross workers in war-ravaged SyriaGunmen have abducted seven International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent staff in Idlib province, one of the main theatres of Syria's brutal war..
14 October 2013
Outrage in India as temple stampede toll rises to 109The death toll from a stampede among Hindu pilgrims in India rose to 109 Monday as outrage mounted over safety at the festival which was also the scene of a similar tragedy seven years ago.
UN helicopter fired on in DR CongoRebels fired on a UN helicopter Friday in a new incident highlighting tinderbox tensions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Execution drugs spark controversy as supplies dwindleThe US is turning to new drugs for lethal injections as supplies of the current standard dwindle, sparking lawsuits from death row prisoners that the changes will cause undue suffering.