The Crimean parliament voted unanimously to join the Russian Federation and will hold a referendum on the issue March 16 in another escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has rejected the […]
PLATO, a space-based observatory designed to search for planets orbiting stars, is the European Space Agency’s newest mission. “Its discoveries will help to place our own Solar System’s architecture in the context of other planetary […]
A car bomb killed seven people in a terrorist attack near the gated entrance to a fortified international airport in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Feb. 13. Witnesses told the BBC that the seven victims […]
An abandoned ship reported to be carrying cannibal rats off the Newfoundland coast has likely sunk in the North Atlantic according to a statement by the Irish coastguard. A representative from Ireland’s Coast Guard (IRGC) […]
The United States has asked the government of South Sudan to release the final four detainees being held over allegations of an attempted coup in December. The release of the final detainees would help alleviate […]
Five policeman are dead after a daytime assault against a security checkpoint in south-central Egypt. Masked gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a group of officers as they passed by the checkpoint in the el-Wassta district […]
The government of South Sudan and representatives of rebel forces in the country signed a ceasefire agreement January 23rd in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The agreement stipulates fighting will end within 24 hours. Over the last […]
A 20-year-old woman from India’s West Bengal state is in critical condition after being gang raped by 13 men on orders from the village elders. The woman fell in love with a man from a […]
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to attend upcoming peace talks in Geneva according to a letter obtained by Al Jazeera from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem. The letter was sent to United […]
The Ugandan government has admitted that its military forces have been assisting South Sudanese forces in combat. President Yoweri Musevani said his nation’s forces have been fighting alongside the South Sudanese military to defeat rebel […]
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