Tag: World news

Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested 13 men in connection with a gang rape of a woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man.

CARACAS, Venezuela— President Nicolas Maduro has a new villain as he campaigns to bring down Venezuela’s spiraling crime: TV soap operas.

Syria’s government and main political opposition have traded bitter accusations as a major peace conference begins in Switzerland.

Russian police in Sochi are hunting for a woman they fear may be planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack.

New Delhi – Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s unprecedented dharna in the heart of the capital came to an abrupt end tonight after two police officers were sent on leave under a neat compromise with the Centre over his demand…

A senior Italian cleric has been charged with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, police say.

The Thai government has imposed a 60-day state of emergency in the capital, Bangkok, and the surrounding provinces, from Wednesday, to cope with unrest.

Credit card details from almost half of all South Koreans have been stolen and sold to marketing firms. The data was stolen by a computer contractor working for a company called the Korea Credit Bureau that produces credit scores.

Iran has begun curbing uranium enrichment under a deal which will also see international sanctions eased, the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) says.

President Barack Obama has ordered curbs on the use of bulk data collected by US intelligence agencies, saying civil liberties must be respected.

At least 20 soldiers have been killed in north-western Pakistan in a bomb blast that struck an army convoy, sources in the security forces say. At least 24 others were injured in the explosion near the town of Bannu, with…

Scores of people have been evacuated from a heritage village in southern Norway as a raging fire threatens its unique wooden buildings. Flames spread rapidly after the fire began overnight in a house in Laerdalsoyri, a village of 1,150 people…

A nun who gave birth to a baby boy in the central Italian city of Rieti, said she had no idea she was pregnant, local media report. The 31-year-old was rushed to hospital with abdominal pains, which she thought were…

At least 18 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a stampede in India’s western city of Mumbai. Local officials say the incident happened when thousands of mourners gathered at the home of a Muslim spiritual leader…

Dhaka – Activists in Burma say eight Rohingya Muslims were killed by police in fresh violence in Rakhine state. Details about the incident, which is said to have taken place last week near the town of Maungdaw, vary widely, reports…

President Barack Obama is expected to order the National Security Agency (NSA) to stop storing data from Americans’ phones, after a series of leaks about intelligence operations.

The wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor has been found dead, following reports that he was having an affair, Indian media have said.

The global economy is at a “turning point”, the World Bank has said, as it forecasts stronger growth for 2014.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that half of Syria’s population, some 9.3 million people, now “urgently need humanitarian aid”.

More than 200 civilians in South Sudan have drowned in a Nile ferry accident while fleeing fighting in the town of Malakal, an army spokesman has said.

Protesters are blocking roads in parts of the Thai capital, Bangkok, in a bid to oust the government before snap elections on 2 February.

Speakers at the state memorial for Israel’s former PM Ariel Sharon have described him as an “indomitable” man devoted to the security of his people.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died aged 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke.

India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid has sought to downplay the row with Washington over an Indian diplomat who was arrested in the US.

KABUL – Afghanistan has enough evidence to try only 16 of 88 prisoners that the United States considers a threat to security and plans to free the remaining detainees, the president’s spokesman said on Thursday. The move will further strain…

India has asked the US to withdraw an official from its embassy in Delhi in a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.  Devyani Khobragade is flying home after she was ordered to leave the US…

Central Africa Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country. CAR’s entire transitional assembly is attending the meeting in Chad, organised by regional leaders. PM Nicolas Tiengaye has…

Bangkok – Thailand’s government should urgently send ethnic Rohingya children from Burma and their families to safe and open family shelters. New research documents abuses by Thai authorities, who should take action against camps in southern Thailand used for trafficking…

Australians have been urged to reconsider travel to Bangladesh in the wake of weekend elections in the South Asian country marred by violence. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade today raised its travel warning to “reconsider your need to…