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First bodies of Germanwings victims arrive home in Germany

First bodies of Germanwings victims arrive home in Germany

The bodies of 44 Germans killed in the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in March have arrived home. After more than two months, families can start burying their loved ones. June 10 2015, 03:04 2 209 views

Jewish woman aged 102 receives PhD denied by the Nazis

Jewish woman aged 102 receives PhD denied by the Nazis

A beaming Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport accepted her doctorate to loud applause at the University of Hamburg on Tuesday, almost eight decades after the Nazis forced her to abandon her studies. June 10 2015, 03:01 2 073 views

Fuel depot blazes in Ukraine, three firemen missing

Fuel depot blazes in Ukraine, three firemen missing

Emergency services struggled to prevent the spread of a deadly fuel depot fire outside Kiev on Tuesday and three firemen were reported missing after the blaze triggered a powerful explosion. June 9 2015, 17:40 2 376 views

Killer Pistorius may be free in weeks

Killer Pistorius may be free in weeks

A parole board is set to recommend that the disgraced athlete Oscar Pistorius, convicted in the killing of his girlfriend, be released from prison in August, South Africa's Department of Correctional Services told CNN on Monday. June 9 2015, 16:03 2 311 views

Turkey enters new and uncertain political era as AKP loses majority

Turkey enters new and uncertain political era as AKP loses majority

The vote was seen by many as a referendum on whether to give Erdogan more presidential powers. But with just under 41 percent of the vote, down from 49 percent in 2011, the result was a major blow. June 9 2015, 10:05 2 263 views

British airlines 'face multiple toxic air claims'

British airlines 'face multiple toxic air claims'

Seventeen former and serving cabin crew are planning legal action against British airlines saying they have been poisoned by contaminated cabin air. June 8 2015, 16:59 2 214 views

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia

Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine. June 8 2015, 12:04 2 106 views

South Korea reports jump in MERS infections, sixth patient dies

South Korea reports jump in MERS infections, sixth patient dies

South Korea reported a jump in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Monday while an 80-year-old man became the sixth fatality from the outbreak in the country and other Asian nations began taking preventive measures against the disease. June 8 2015, 10:15 2 114 views

Millions of US government workers hit by data breach

Millions of US government workers hit by data breach

Chinese hackers are suspected of carrying out a "massive breach" affecting the data of millions of US government workers, officials said. June 5 2015, 10:11 1 743 views

Ex-FIFA official: ‘I agreed to accept bribes for 1998, 2010 World Cups’

Ex-FIFA official: ‘I agreed to accept bribes for 1998, 2010 World Cups’

A former senior FIFA official, Chuck Blazer, claimed he and others took bribes in exchange for supporting World Cup candidate countries in 1998 and 2010, an unsealed paper says. South Africa has denied paying any bribes. French reaction is pending. June 4 2015, 17:14 2 435 views

Wikileaks releases ‘largest’ trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal

Wikileaks releases ‘largest’ trove of docs exposing secret TiSA trade deal

WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and 23 WTO members. NGO Global Justice Now called the leak “a dark day for democracy." June 4 2015, 13:04 2 229 views

Dozens die in air strikes on ISIL in Iraq's Hawijah

Dozens die in air strikes on ISIL in Iraq's Hawijah

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in air strikes targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Hawijah in Iraq, reports say. June 3 2015, 23:04 2 776 views

Turkish electoral candidates include more Armenians

Turkish electoral candidates include more Armenians

Many more Armenians used to live in Turkey, for centuries. Before 1915, according to varying estimates, there were 1.3-2 million. Today this minority — one of Turkey's largest — numbers between 40,000 and 70,000 people. Then, targeted taxes and obstacles to advancement in public sector jobs led Armenians to become increasingly discreet as a community. June 3 2015, 16:51 2 150 views

Russian Investigators Release Name of Key Witness in MH17 Crash in Ukraine

Russian Investigators Release Name of Key Witness in MH17 Crash in Ukraine

The Russian Investigation Committee released the name of the key witness to the Malaysian Airlines flight that had been downed over eastern Ukraine last year, Russian Investigation Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Wednesday. June 3 2015, 16:43 2 468 views

Ukraine plans to seize Russian foreign property to compensate for ‘lost’ Crimea

Ukraine plans to seize Russian foreign property to compensate for ‘lost’ Crimea

Kiev will nationalize Russian overseas property as compensation for the losses over Crimea's reunification with Russia, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Justice Natalia Sevostyanova said. The decision is now up to the European Court of Human Rights. June 3 2015, 12:13 2 574 views

Blatter resigns as FIFA president amid reports FBI is set to investigate his role in scandal

Blatter resigns as FIFA president amid reports FBI is set to investigate his role in scandal

Just days after winning a fifth term as FIFA president, Sepp Blatter has shocked the world of football by announcing he will step down. June 3 2015, 10:09 2 223 views

South Korea reports first two deaths from MERS respiratory illness

South Korea reports first two deaths from MERS respiratory illness

South Korea on Tuesday reported its first two deaths from an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that has infected 25 people in two weeks, as public alarm grew and officials scrambled to contain the outbreak. June 2 2015, 17:26 2 086 views

Fugitive Georgian ex-president nominated as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region

Fugitive Georgian ex-president nominated as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region

The Ukrainian cabinet of ministers has nominated the former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, who has been placed on an international wanted list in his own country, as the governor of Ukraine's coastal Odessa region. June 2 2015, 11:57 2 254 views

Collier family seeks 7 years for Tsarnaev friend

Collier family seeks 7 years for Tsarnaev friend

The family of slain MIT police officer Sean Collier has asked a federal judge to sentence a college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to seven years in prison, saying the friend could have prevented Collier's death had he turned Tsarnaev in. June 2 2015, 11:52 2 545 views

Chinese ship capsizes on Yangtze with hundreds missing

Chinese ship capsizes on Yangtze with hundreds missing

Five people are dead and hundreds are missing after a ship carrying more than 450 people capsized on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. June 2 2015, 10:42 6 211 views

US:intelligence services powers of phone tapping expired

US:intelligence services powers of phone tapping expired

On Monday night, June 1 at the US intelligence expired authority to listen to and record telephone conversations of suspected terrorists after the Senate failed to agree on the extension of the key provisions of the so-called "Patriot Act", which would allow US intelligence agencies to continue surveillance of suspects terrorism. June 1 2015, 12:20 2 033 views

Netanyahu says committed to Palestinian state

Netanyahu says committed to Palestinian state

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he was committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, calling on the Palestinian leadership to return to negotiations unconditionally. June 1 2015, 10:17 2 018 views

Putin classifies number of dead in peacetime military operations

Putin classifies number of dead in peacetime military operations

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make losses of Russian troops in peacetime a secret, ABC News reports. May 28 2015, 15:42 3 010 views

Kyrgyzstan ascends EEU, Kazakh-Kyrgyz border to open in Fall

Kyrgyzstan ascends EEU, Kazakh-Kyrgyz border to open in Fall

Kyrgyzstan joined the Eurasian Economic Union on May 8 in spite of the fears that the accession could be delayed until the end of May because of fundamental differences between Kyrgyzstan's national interests and EEU regulations, Tengrinews reports. May 26 2015, 11:31 2 789 views

Fuel shortage threatens to shut down services in oil-rich Nigeria

Fuel shortage threatens to shut down services in oil-rich Nigeria

Nigeria's leading cell phone provider says it urgently needs diesel to prevent shutting down services across Africa's biggest oil producer, wate.com reports. May 25 2015, 10:27 3 355 views