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Activists say more than 200 killed in gas attack near Damascus

YoopyaAug 21, 2013May 15, 20240

(Reuters) – Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of launching a nerve gas attack that killed at least 213 people on Wednesday, in what

At least 33 killed in series of Baghdad bombings: police

YoopyaAug 15, 2013May 15, 20240

(Reuters) – At least 33 Iraqis were killed and scores wounded on Thursday as a wave of bomb attacks hit the capital Baghdad, police sources

Japanese visits to shrine on war anniversary anger China

YoopyaAug 15, 2013May 15, 20240

(Reuters) – Japan’s prime minister sent an offering to a shrine for war dead on Thursday, the anniversary of Japan’s World War Two defeat, while

Indian sailors die after being trapped after explosion, fire on submarine

YoopyaAug 14, 2013May 2, 20240

(Reuters) – Eighteen Indian sailors were trapped and some were killed after an explosion and fire on a diesel-powered submarine berthed at a base in

Yemen’s al-Qaida leader vows to free prisoners

YoopyaAug 12, 2013May 26, 20240

CAIRO (AP) — The leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot vowed in a message posted Monday to free fellow militants from prisons and urged jailed

Volcano spews more hot ash, lava in east Indonesia

YoopyaAug 12, 2013May 26, 20240

MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — A volcano on a tiny Indonesian island is spewing more hot ash and lava after causing six deaths over the weekend.

Typhoon batters Philippines; 1 dead, 45 missing

YoopyaAug 12, 2013June 16, 20240

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon battered the northern Philippines on Monday, toppling power lines and dumping heavy rains across mountains, cities and food-growing

Pakistan accuses India of shelling, killing man

YoopyaAug 12, 2013June 16, 20240

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani military official has accused Indian troops of shelling Pakistani territory along the disputed Kashmir border and killing a civilian. The

HRW: Syrian missiles kill hundreds of civilians

YoopyaAug 5, 2013May 26, 20240

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels captured four Alawite villages on the country’s mountainous Mediterranean coast on Monday as they battled government troops in one of

Deaths from heavy rains up to 53 in Pakistan

YoopyaAug 5, 2013May 15, 20240

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in different parts of Pakistan have killed 53 people over the past three