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Afghanistan, U.S. reach draft security agreement

YoopyaNov 21, 2013March 6, 20240

(Reuters) – The United States and Afghanistan reached a draft agreement on Wednesday laying out the terms under which U.S. troops may stay beyond 2014, one day

Gold bars worth $1.1m found in plane toilet in India

YoopyaNov 20, 2013January 31, 20240

A stash of 24 gold bars worth more than $1.1m has been discovered in the toilet compartment of a commercial plane in eastern India. Cleaners

Mumbai police look to Bollywood for image makeover

YoopyaNov 19, 2013February 3, 20240

Mumbai’s police department has deployed an unusual strategy to revamp its sagging reputation and to counter criticism that it hasn’t done a good job at

Two blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 18

YoopyaNov 19, 2013February 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday killing 18 people and damaging buildings around the embassy compound,

Philippines to split up typhoon relief zone country by country

YoopyaNov 19, 2013February 14, 20240

(Reuters) – The Philippines will divide up the typhoon-ravaged central Visayas between countries to maximize relief efforts, a senior officer said, as President Benigno Aquino

Syria rebel chieftain killed; Assad forces bomb besieged town

YoopyaNov 18, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad’s forces fired rocket and artillery barrages on a besieged mountain town near Lebanon on Monday in a push to capture

Assad gaining ground in Syrian civil war

YoopyaNov 16, 2013February 14, 20240

BEIRUT (AP) — Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have firmly seized the momentum in the country’s civil war in recent weeks, capturing one

Easing of China policy may not result in baby boom

YoopyaNov 16, 2013March 3, 20240

BEIJING (AP) — Don’t expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country’s controversial one-child policy in three decades.

Attacks against Shiites in Iraq kill at least 41

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide attacker and twin bomb blasts on Thursday targeted Shiites marking a somber religious ritual in Iraq, killing at least 41

Typhoon-struck Philippine city begins mass burial

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Workers in this typhoon-shattered city buried scores of unidentified bodies in a hillside mass burial Thursday as desperately needed aid began