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Published:Monday | February 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

KIEV:Ukraine's security agency yesterday warned of a heightened risk of terrorism, including from nearly three months of anti-government protests.

Published:Monday | February 10, 2014 | 12:00 AM

DENMARK:The Copenhagen Zoo killed Marius, its two-year-old giraffe, and fed its remains to lions yesterday, ignoring a petition signed by thousands of people and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal, officials said.The zoo...

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 5:35 PM

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and this year powerful GOP lawmakers in Georgia and Alabama are putting their weight behind bills.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:04 PM

Swiss public television SRF reported that some 50.3 percent of voters backed a proposal by the nationalist People's Party to introduce quotas for all types of immigrants - 49.7 percent voted against.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 10:54 AM

The change is one of President Barack Obama's first actions on immigration since he pledged during his State of the Union address last month to use more executive directives.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 10:52 AM

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the makeshift bombs were dropped on two rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Sunday.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Two trucks carrying food and medical supplies into rebel-held neighbourhoods in the central Syrian city of Homs turned back under heavy fire yesterday, leaving four paramedics wounded as a ceasefire broke down, Syrian officials said.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Plenty of athletes made clear before travelling to Sochi how unhappy they were about gay rights being curtailed in Russia, particularly with its law banning gay "propaganda". But now in Sochi, there has not been a squeak of public protest from the 2,870 Olympians - either at venues or at last Friday's opening ceremony.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The mob violence wracking Central African Republic imperils the future of the country's Muslims, with thousands having been slaughtered and many more fleeing the country.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The New York Times is reporting that a painful mosquito-borne virus common in Africa and Asia has advanced quickly throughout the eastern Caribbean in the past two months, raising the prospect that a once-distant illness will become entrenched throughout the region.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

A Canadian businessman who served two and a half years of a nine-year prison sentence in Cuba for corruption has abruptly returned to Canada.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Firefighters yesterday battled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah, South Carolina, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

In a historic judicial hearing that could further impact the deteriorated image of Spain's monarchy, Princess Cristina testified yesterday in a fraud and money laundering case in which she and her husband could eventually be charged.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan's war jumped by 34 per cent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands of roadside bombs, the United Nations said yesterday.

Published:Sunday | February 9, 2014 | 12:00 AM

When Miami's new art museum opened last December, namesake Jorge Pérez spoke easily about a once-taboo topic among Cuban-American power brokers: his desire to increase artistic exchanges with those on the communist island.

Published:Saturday | February 8, 2014 | 8:50 AM

Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings, in the worst unrest since the end of the 1992-95 war.

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 2:01 PM

A Ukrainian passenger on an Istanbul-bound flight Friday claimed there was a bomb on board and tried to hijack the plane to Sochi, Russia, where the Olympics are kicking off, an official said.

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 11:17 AM

General Mauricio Ricardo Zuniga and another officer have been relieved of their duties while a full investigation takes place.

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Large food companies are trying to head off state efforts to enact mandatory labelling of genetically modified ingredients by proposing new voluntary labels nationwide...

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama told a non-denominational gathering of political leaders yesterday that freedom of religion across the world is important to national security and is a central tenet of American diplomacy.Speaking at the annual...

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP):Europe is set to upgrade its ties with Cuba in a bid to broaden economic cooperation and demand more progress on respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, a senior European Union (EU) official said yesterday....

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

SOCHI, Russia (AP) :United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned attacks and discrimination against homosexuals yesterday, touching on the gay rights issue in Russia that has overshadowed preparations for...

Published:Friday | February 7, 2014 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP):North Korea threatened yesterday to cancel reunions of Korean War-divided families because of upcoming United States (US)-South Korean military drills and accused the US of raising tensions by flying nuclear-capable B-52 bombers...

Published:Thursday | February 6, 2014 | 3:07 PM

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged Senator Patrick Brazeau and ex-Senator Mac Harb with fraud, saying they claimed improper living and travel expenses.

Published:Thursday | February 6, 2014 | 12:00 AM

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