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UN council condemns 'heinous' Japanese hostage murder The UN Security Council condemned the "heinous and cowardly" murder of a Japanese journalist, after Islamic State militants claimed his beheading.

02 February 2015

1979 New York child murder trial gets under way A mentally unstable man accused of killing a six-year-old boy in one of America's most famous missing child cases went on trial, 36 years after the crime.

31 January 2015

Twelve people, including seven civilians, killed in east Ukraine: officials Twelve people, including seven civilians, were killed in the past 24 hours in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine.

30 January 2015

Extradite or prosecute: Deputy Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan on Ablyazov's case Deputy Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan speaks about the possibilities of prosecuting fugitive Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov in accordance with the international law.

29 January 2015

Amal Clooney in court to condemn Armenia genocide-denier A long-running battle over one man's denial of the Armenian genocide returned to the European Court of Human Rights.

29 January 2015

Mexico 'certain' that missing students dead: minister Authorities in Mexico can now say with "legal certainty" that the 43 students who went missing in September were murdered by hitmen working for a drug gang.

28 January 2015

Taylor Swift shakes off hacking on social media Taylor Swift scoffed at a hacker who took over her social media accounts and threatened to release nude pictures, with the pop star saying none existed.

28 January 2015

Anti-Semitic acts in France doubled in 2014: Jewish group The number of anti-Semitic acts doubled in France during 2014, with acts involving physical violence leading the increase.

27 January 2015

Attack on Ukraine's Mariupol targeted civilians: UN A rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol that killed 30 people at the weekend deliberately targeted civilians and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

27 January 2015

WikiLeaks accuses Google of handing over emails to US Whistleblowing site WikiLeaks accused Google of handing over the emails and electronic data of its senior staff to the US authorities.

27 January 2015

US spies link Litvinenko killing to Kremlin: report US spies intercepted communications between the chief suspects in the murder case of Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko.

24 January 2015

Australia urges Indonesia to grant mercy to two drug smugglers on death row Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Indonesia to show mercy to two Australian drug convicts facing execution after their final appeals for clemency failed.

23 January 2015

UN Security Council condemns Ukraine trolleybus attack The UN Security Council, including Russia, strongly condemned the "reprehensible" shelling of a trolleybus in east Ukraine.

23 January 2015

Bus shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk kills 13: official Shelling hit a trolleybus in war-torn east Ukraine's Donetsk and killed at least 13 people, hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a ceasefire.

22 January 2015

Baby in Armenia family massacre blamed on Russian soldier dies A six-month-old Armenian baby boy, the sole survivor from a family of seven apparently gunned down by a deserting Russian soldier, died from his injuries.

20 January 2015

Internet fuels Charlie Hebdo conspiracy theories Could the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack have been a secret service operation, or perhaps an anti-Muslim plot?

19 January 2015

Twitter hackers announce 'World War III' Hackers took over Twitter accounts of the New York Post and United Press International, writing bogus messages.

17 January 2015

French court's decision on Ablyazov's extradition expected in 2015 The final decision on the extradition of fugitive billionaire from Kazakhstan Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia will be ready this year.

15 January 2015

UN Security Council condemns Ukraine bus attack The UN Security Council strongly condemned on Tuesday a rocket attack on a bus in east Ukraine that left 11 civilians dead.

14 January 2015

25,000 attend German anti-Islam march, but counter-protests bigger A record 25,000 people joined an anti-Islamic march in Germany, claiming their stance was vindicated by last week's Paris jihadist attacks.

13 January 2015

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