Beef exporter confidence returns in land of the holy cowWhen Hindu hardliner Narendra Modi attacked India's huge beef exports while campaigning to be premier, producers feared bad times ahead for the industry in the land where cows are sacred.
Uighur group says nearly 100 casualties in China clashA clash in Xinjiang, home to China's mostly Muslim Uighur minority, left nearly 100 people dead or wounded, an exile group said Wednesday after what authorities called a "terror attack" on a police station and township.
Abel Sanchez talks Golovkin-Cotto fightWBA and IBO title holder Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez hopes to organize a unification fight against WBC champion Miguel Cotto.
Strong quake hits Mexico, one deadA 6.3-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico, killing an elderly woman who fell as she fled her home and injuring another woman who evacuated from a hospital.
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Kerry heads to India to end relationship rutUS Secretary of State John Kerry forecast a transformation Wednesday in Washington's troubled relations with India as he headed to New Delhi for ice-breaking talks with new Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
30 July 2014
Cambodia court begins genocide trial of Khmer Rouge leadersCambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge court began a second trial of two former regime leaders on charges including genocide of Vietnamese people and ethnic Muslims, forced marriages and rape.
US and Europe hit Russia with toughest sanctions yetThe United States and Europe targeted Russia's key financial, arms and energy sectors Tuesday with tough new sanctions in response to Moscow's intervention in the Ukraine crisis.
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Twitter flies on surprisingly strong numbersTwitter shares shot higher by some 30 percent after its quarterly report showed surprisingly strong revenue and user growth, despite a widening loss.
Deadly Israeli shelling hits UN school as Hamas mulls truceAn Israeli shelling on a UN school in Gaza killed 20 people early Wednesday, medics said, as Palestinian factions were to head to Cairo to discuss a temporary humanitarian ceasefire.
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Europe launches last resupply ship to space stationAn Ariane 5 ES heavy rocket lifted off from South America late Tuesday bearing Europe's fifth and final robot supply ship for the International Space Station (ISS), mission control said.