20 children dead from school meal in India: official
Twenty children have died after eating a free lunch at a primary school in eastern India, with initial tests showing the food may have contained poisonous chemicals.
Syria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN
Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria's war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
17 July 2013
UN envoy in Syria talks as child toll mounts
The UN's special envoy on children in war was in Syria for talks as concern mounted over the rising child death toll in the bloody two-year conflict.
16 July 2013
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DR Congo says 130 dead in clashes between army, rebels
Fighting between troops and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 130 people including 10 soldiers, the government said Monday, the deadliest clashes in months.
16 July 2013
Russia puts Putin's opponents on trial
As a judge prepares to give his verdict Thursday in the fraud trial of Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny, a growing number of President Vladimir Putin's opponents are facing trial and the prospect of long prison terms.
Egypt freezes assets of 14 top Islamists
Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists, as the US dispatched its first senior official to Cairo since president Mohamed Morsi's ouster.
British counter-terror police probe mosque 'nail-bomb'
British counter-terror police were on Friday investigating reports of an explosion outside a mosque in central England that witnesses said left nails scattered over the ground.
15 July 2013
Typhoon kills three, forces evacuation of 500,000 in China
Eastern China was battered Sunday by strong winds and torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which left three people dead and forced half a million people to evacuate their homes.
15 July 2013
Obama urges calm after racially-charged murder trial
President Barack Obama appealed to Americans for restraint Sunday amid anger from civil rights activists and public protests against the acquittal of a man who gunned down an unarmed black teenager.