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Syria conflict: Fresh fighting follows regime deaths

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

There have been clashes throughout the night in many parts of Syria, after the deaths on Wednesday of three top regime figures in a suspected

Mali Islamist rebels release European aid workers

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

Islamist rebels in Mali have released three European aid workers who were kidnapped from a refugee camp in western Algeria last October. The two Spanish

China strengthens Africa ties with $20 billion in loans

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

(Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday offered $20 billion in loans to African countries over the next three years, boosting a relationship that

Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s spy chief, dies in U.S., aide says

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

Earlier this year, Egypt’s central elections committee ruled that former Egyptian vice president would not be able to run in the presidential elections. Mubarak’s most

London 2012: Spelling error in torchbearer’s Olympic tattoo

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

A woman who got a new tattoo to celebrate her role in the Olympic torch relay was shocked to discover it had been spelt incorrectly.

Iceberg breaks off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier

YoopyaJul 19, 20120

The Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has calved an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan, scientists say. Images from a Nasa satellite show the island

Bomb kills powerful Assad kin; battle in Damascus

YoopyaJul 18, 20120

(Reuters) – A bomber killed three of Bashar al-Assad’s top military officials on Wednesday – including his powerful brother-in-law – in a devastating blow to

Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi ‘in hospital’

YoopyaJul 18, 20120

Ethiopia’s government has denied Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is critically ill but says he has been in hospital. “He is not in a critical state.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un named marshal

YoopyaJul 18, 20120

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been given the title of marshal, state media has announced. The move followed a high-level military reshuffle in which

Bomb kills Syrian ministers in blow to Assad

YoopyaJul 18, 20120

(Reuters) – Syria’s defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law were killed in a Damascus suicide bomb attack carried out by a bodyguard on Wednesday,